el salvador philatelist xi, number 3... · 2015. 5. 25. · collectors club of chicago considered...

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E L S A L V A D O R P H I L A T E L I S T

YearXI,Number3 January‐March2015

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Dear Colleagues,

As we have been announcing in the last few issues, a dream that started more than 40 years ago by some ACES members has finally seen the light: The Prestamp Period of El Salvador (1525‐1866), the first book devoted to the postal history of the country.

We are more than happy and thankful that the Collectors Club of Chicago considered the manuscript worthy enough for publication as part of their highly recognized book series. Thanks to this support the work is now available

to all interested collectors through their website address or specialized philatelic literature dealers.

Although this volume covers “only” the Prestamp period, it is a significant milestone in the overall Handbook Project. We are already working on the volumes about the 19th Century issues and we expect to have them ready sometime in 2017.

In this issue we also present a topic seldom covered in Salvadorian philatelic literature: The 1934 Interior Air Mail,

the only time an airmail service had to be established within the country. We hope you will find it interesting.

As usual, we invite you to share with these pages your interests, collaborations and items from your collections!

Cordially,

Guillermo F Gallegos

Year XI, Number 3

January – March 2014

Director’sColumnInside this issue:

Dustjacket cover of The Prestamp Period of El Salvador (1525‐1866), first book about Salvadorian Postal History published by the Collectors Club of Chicago, 2015.

El Salvador Philatelist is the on‐line, quarterly journal of AFISAL. Requests for reprinting articles can be sent to [email protected]

The Prestamp Period of El Salvador (1525‐1866) 3 Participation at ExpoAfe 150 & NY 2016 8 1934 Interior Air Mail 10 Show‐n‐Tell 21 Adlets 22 Member Services 23

OntheCover

Board of Directors

President: Santiago Yudice Vice‐president: Carlos Quintanilla Secretary: José Luis Alonzo Treasurer: Manuel Menjivar First Vocal: Iván Zelaya Second Vocal: Guillermo F Gallegos Third Vocal: Robinson Cruz Honorary Presidents: Ramon de Clairmont Dueñas Pierre Cahen Jose Luis Cabrera Honorary Member: Joseph D Hahn

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THEPRESTAMPPERIODOFELSALVADOR( – )Guillermo F. Gallegos

The El Salvador Philatelic Association is rather proud to announce that, after a wait of almost 40 years, the first postal history book about El Salvador has been published by the Collectors Club of Chicago as The Prestamp Period of El Salvador (1525‐1867).

The Prestamp Period of El Salvador spans the years

between the 1520s and 1867, when the first postage stamps were issued. It is the longest period in the postal history of the country, and it is deeply intertwined with the postal history of its sister countries in Central America, as El Salvador was part first of the Kingdom of Guatemala

and then of the Central American Federation until its break‐up in 1839.

Accordingly, this handbook covers the development of the postal service and the introduction of prestamp markings throughout four distinct chronological eras: The Early Colonial Period (1500s‐1763), The

Dustjacket of The Prestamp Period of El Salvador (1525‐1866). Design has the map of El Salvador, prepared by Maximilian von Sonnenstern in 1859, along with significant Salvadorian prestamp items. On the front, cover front pasted to sack fabric, sent during the Colonial Period from San Salvador to Gracias (c1800). On the back, letter sent during the Colonial Period from San Salvador to Lima via Panama (1820), letter sent from San Miguel to Tegucigalpa during the Mexican Annexation (1822), letter sent during the Federation Period from Sonsonate to Denmark (1838), letter sent during the Republican Period from San Miguel to New York via Nicaragua (1856).

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Bourbon Reforms (1764‐1821), The Federation Period (1821‐1839) and the Republican Period (1839‐1866).

For each of these eras, The Prestamp Period of El Salvador provides a historical background and coverage of the developments in the postal service such as regulations, establishment of post offices, routes, rates and introduction of postal markings. It aids in the collecting of these markings by listing all those known for the country alongside illustrations of their use per era and an indication of their relative rarity.

This handbook is the result of several years of research, both at primary and secondary sources, and of the notable contributions of several individuals dispersed around the world and devoted to Salvadorian philately.

Its price is $80.00 plus $5.00 for Media mail in the U.S. ($25.00 for flat

international priority mail for outside the U.S.).

Orders can be placed through http://www.collectorsclubchicago.org/el‐salvador.php using PayPal or if ordering by mail, make check payable to the Collectors Club of Chicago and mail to: Bob Glass, c/o Collectors Club of Chicago, P.O. Box 3996, Oak Park, IL 60303‐3996.

We are sure you will find this book informative and an interesting addition to the philatelic literature of an area that has been neglected for far too long.

Acknowledgments (book excerpt) It is said that writing a book is never an individual task, a phrase which precisely describes the working process of this one. It would have been impossible even to start thinking about this venture without the notable contributions of several individuals. The appreciation and thanks of the authors go to several philatelists and individuals (listed in alphabetical order) that significantly contributed to this work by graciously allowing their collections to be scanned and registered or by providing information about the postal system and history of the period: Edgardo Alegria, Luís Alemany, Jose Luis Alonzo, Ernesto Arosemena, Nasry Bendeck†, Jose Luis Cabrera, Pierre Cahen, Carlos Cañas Dinarte, David Chiong, Juan Santiago Diaz, Richard Drews, Jaime Esteba, Robert Fisher, Cecile Gruson†, Jackelyn Lopez, Jose Manuel Lopez Bernal, Abraham Luspo†, Manuel Menjivar, Brian Moorhouse, Jose Panades,

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Michael Peter, Harald Poech, Carlos Quintanilla, Ricardo Recinos, Norman Ross, Steve Ross†, Jesus Sitja, Jose de Jesus Soltero, Giana Wayman, Santiago Yudice and Ivan Zelaya. We thank you for your great generosity in sharing your knowledge and collections! Our special gratitude to Dr. James Mazepa, a major supporter of this work and author of the Foreword, and to Leo John Harris, Yamil Kouri and Thomas Lera, who reviewed the manuscript and made several important suggestions to improve it. Our earnest recognition to the Collectors Club of Chicago, its President, Charles E. Cwiakala, and the members of the Publications Committee, Leonard H. Hartmann and James E. Lee, which made possible this publication. We would also like to thank Leonard Piszkiewicz, for his enormous patience in correcting and formatting the manuscript to have a clear and well‐designed final version.

Book Promotion

In the following months, both the Collectors Club of Chicago and AFISAL will participate with the book in several philatelic exhibitions, including NAPEX (National Philatelic Exhibitions of Washington, June), StampShow (largest philatelic exhibition in the USA, August), ExpoAfe 150 (continental exhibition to be held in Ecuador under FIAF auspices, September‐October) and other exhibitions that we will inform you of as our participation is confirmed.

Book copies will also be available in several important philatelic libraries like the Library of the National Postal Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington), the American Philatelic Research Library (part of the American Philatelic Society in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania), the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library (Denver, Colorado), the Northern Philatelic Library (St. Paul, Minnesota), and the libraries of the Royal Philatelic Society in London, the Collectors Club New York, the Royal Hispanic Academy of Philately in Madrid and the Philatelic Foundation New York among others. The book is as well in the holdings of the Library of Congress in Washington DC, and we will donate some copies to Salvadorian institutions like the General Archive and the National Library.

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The Prestamp Period of El Salvador (1525‐1866) ‐ Table Of Contents Foreword vii Publisher’s Preface ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Preliminary Notes xvii Chapter 1: The Early Colonial Period (1500s – 1763) 1 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Spanish Colonial Mail: The Early Years (1500s) 5 1.3 The Mail Service in 16th Century El Salvador 10 1.4 The Correo Mayor in the Kingdom of Guatemala (1602‐1768) 20 1.5 Routes 25 1.6 Rates 31 Chapter 2: The Bourbon Reforms (1764 – 1821) 39 2.1 The Bourbon Reforms of the Mail System 41 2.2 Rates for Maritime Mail 53 2.3 The Postal System in the Kingdom of Guatemala during the late Colonial Period 59 2.4 Routes in the Kingdom of Guatemala (1768‐1821) 70 2.5 Rates in the Kingdom of Guatemala (1768‐1821) 79 2.6 “Fernando VII” Proclamation Markings 88 2.7 The Mail Service in Colonial El Salvador 93 2.8 Colonial Postal Markings of El Salvador 102 Chapter 3: The Federation Period (1821 – 1839) 129 3.1 Historical Context: From the Colony to the Federation 131 3.2 The Federal Postal System in the 1820s 137 3.3 Political turbulence and the end of the Federation (1826‐1839) 146 3.4 The Postal Service in the 1830s 148 3.5 Routes during the Mexican Annexation and the Federation 151 3.6 Rates during the Federation 156 3.7 The Mail System in Federal El Salvador 157 3.8 Federation Postal Markings of El Salvador 158 3.9 Official Postal Markings 168

Chapter 4: The Republican Period (1839 – 1866) 173 4.1 Republican El Salvador – Historical Background 175 4.2 Maritime Mail in Central America during the Mid‐19th Century (1840s‐1860s) – Historical Background 178 4.3 The Salvadorian Mail Service in the Republican Period 184

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4.4 Routes and postal relationships with other nations during the Republic 192 4.5 Rates during the Republic 211 4.6 Republican Postal Markings of El Salvador 215 4.7 Official Postal Markings 238 Appendix 1: Prestamp Postal Markings List (1780 – 1866) 250 Appendix 2: Prestamp Counterfeits 264 Appendix 3: Glossary of Spanish Terms 265 Bibliography: List of Consulted Sources 268 Index 287

El Salvador, truly one of the last frontiers in philately. Where can you find such an impressive array of complex issues still waiting for new discoveries to be made? Whatever your interest, El Salvador has it all. Let us help you build your collection!

Left: Chapter 3, Page 170. Right: Chapter 4, Page 199.

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AFISALPARTICIPATIONATEXPOAFE &WORLDSTAMPSHOWNY Guillermo F. Gallegos

To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the first stamp issue of Ecuador and its 80th anniversary, the Asociación Filatélica Ecuatoriana is organizing EXPOAFE 150, a continental philatelic exhibition under FIAF auspices, to be held in Quito from September 29 to October 2nd, 2015.

AFISAL is one of the 20 FIAF members that has confirmed its participation in ExpoAfe 150, appointing Guillermo F. Gallegos as the Commissioner for El Salvador.

The exhibition will be under the General Regulations of the F.I.P. for Exhibitions (GREX) and

the Evaluation of Competitive Exhibits at F.I.P. Exhibitions (GREV). It will have the following competitive classes:

a. Honor b. Traditional

Philately c. Postal History d. Postal Stationery e. Aerophilately &

Astrophilately f. Thematic Philately g. Open Class h. Maximaphily i. Revenue j. One Frame k. Youth l. Literature

More information is available at http://expoafe150.blogspot.mx/.

AFISAL will also participate in the NY 2016 World Stamp Show. This is the largest stamp show held in the United States, and it is organized once every decade. New York City has been selected for the 2016 edition, an International Philatelic Exhibition sponsored by the American Philatelic Society, under the Patronage of the FIP and FIAF. World Stamp Show will be held from May 26 to June 4, 2016 at the Javitts Center.

More information about World Stamp Show NY 2016 is available at http://www.ny2016.org/ .

ExpoAfe 150 Exhibition General Information

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Although El Salvador is not a FIP member, it can participate in this exhibition as it is a FIAF member and the exhibition is in America. Guillermo F. Gallegos will be also the AFISAL Commissioner for World Stamp Show NY 2016.

The following regulations shall be generally applicable to New York 2016:

The General Regulations of the FIP for Exhibitions (GREX).

The General Regulations of the FIP for Evaluation of Competitive Exhibits (GREV).

The Special Regulations for Evaluation of Exhibits for Competitive Classes (SREV s).

Individual Regulations of New York 2016 (IREX)

The Competitive Classes at World Stamp Show NY 2016 are the following:

Traditional Philately

Postal History Postal Stationery Aerophilately Thematic Philately Maximaphily Philatelic Literature Youth Philately Revenue Astrophilately Open Philately Modern Philately. One Frame exhibits

are part of every competitive class and discipline except Literature.

For additional information about El Salvador’s participation at both events, you can contact Guillermo F. Gallegos ([email protected]).

World Stamp Show NY 2016 Logo

World Stamp Show NY 2016 Stamps

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INTERIORAIRMAILCarlos Quintanilla

Top: Photo of overflown river, Sonsonate. Bottom: Destruction caused by the hurricane

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One of the least known postal history aspects in El Salvador is the emergency airmail service that was briefly implemented in the summer of 1934 as a result of a catastrophic hurricane that severely damaged the communication network in the country. We are aware of a couple of articles about it published by Rafael Alexander in The American Philatelist and El Salvador Filatélico during the 1940s, another by Robert Fisher in El Faro on the August 1978 issue, and an unpublished text by Salvador Cañas done in

the 1980s. Therefore, we believe it is important to provide another view to this interesting topic after more than 30 years.

The hurricane struck the country on June 6 and 7, 1934, destroying all means of communication between the major cities and isolating San Salvador. Bridges and roads were obliterated and telegraph communication was cut.

As a result of the destruction, the Government decided to implement an emergency airmail service between the cities in an attempt of

maintaining the communications while the traditional network was repaired.

The airmail service was initially done with Army Planes, from June 12 to 26. In the following days, TACA (Compañía de Transportes Aéreos Centro Americanos), the civilian airline also offered the service until it was stopped on July 23 when normal communications were restored.

The emergency airmail service was created with the following communication to the

Interior Air Mail carried by Army planes from Sonsonate to San Salvador, sent on 15 June 1934 and received the following day. Note that the rate is without the airmail surtax.

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departmental postal administrators (Ed. Note: Translation taken from Robert Fisher’s article):

“BULLETIN No. 20.

San Salvador, 11 June 1934.

Mr. Postal Administrator:

Due to the magnitude of the disaster caused by the strong winds of the long storm which lashed the country, especially on the 6th and 7th of this month, with towns being isolated from one another, it is essential to overcome communication difficulties. For this reason, the President of the Republic and the high officials of the Government have adopted emergency measures in the face of the current situation.

One of the most important measures taken is the implementation of a bi‐weekly mail service by military airplanes. The planes will pass over your city at 8am on Tuesdays and Saturdays for the purpose of delivering and

picking up mail destined to and from your department. For that purpose, and in order that this measure produces the desired effect, you will work with the Political Governor of the Department to assure that correspondence from the towns in the department arrive by means of government or municipal foot couriers, which will be paid with funds generated by the respective local correspondence. With this mail, together with the one coming from your city, you will prepare the outlying postal dispatches so you can hand it over immediately upon the arrival of the planes. These planes, as mentioned, will deliver the mail destined for your department and receive what you hand over.

To carry this out, you are to proceed in perfect harmony with the Governor, who has also received similar instructions from his superiors, so that the mail plane can descend in the area marked by a white

flag and the operation of collecting the mail pouch can be carried out. You have to provide whatever service is needed in relation to this matter.

This arrangement will begin on the 12th of this month and continue until rescinded. You must take all necessary measures so that the administrators in agreement with the mayors proceed together with the necessary activities for sending the mail and giving it priority. Mail had to be received in advance, and couriers should wait for the correspondence that you will give them for delivery to their respective towns.

I expect you will support the measures being carried out in this situation.

Jesus Somoza, (General Director of Posts)

Eulalio Martínez P. (Secretary)”

The flights from San Salvador started on June 12. In some towns that did not have landing fields

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or suitable areas for use by the airplanes, the mail to be delivered was dropped close to the designated area. For mail to be picked up, poles with ropes were set up. The mail pouch was tied to the rope and the planes swooped down and pick up the pouch with a hook.

As this service caused an expense that had not been considered in the Government budget, a surtax for it was decreed on June 13 and published on the Diario Oficial of

June 14 (Ed. Note: Translation taken from Robert Fisher’s article):

“Executive Power

Interior Ministry

The Executive Power of the Republic of El Salvador,

Considering: That the establishment of an interior mail service for emergencies requires extraordinary, essential and unforeseen expenses, and that it is fair for the public to share with the

State the support for such services.

Therefore, in use of the constitutional powers and at the request of the General Direction of Posts,

Decrees:

Article 1. The establishment of an interior mail service during emergencies with a surtax of fifteen cents of a Colon (¢0.15) for each letter or registered article up to a weight of 20 grams or less, and ten cents of a Colon

Interior Air Mail carried by Army planes from Usulutan to San Salvador, sent on 14 June 1934 and received on June 19. Also sent without the airmail surtax to the standard rate.

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(¢0.10) for each postal card.

Article 2. The surtax referred to in the preceding article will be paid during the emergency period with current postage stamps. These stamps, placed on the correspondence, will be cancelled by a special rubber or metal cancel reading Correo Aéreo Interior, República de El Salvador, Centro América (Interior Air Mail, Republic of El Salvador, Central America).

Article 3. The present Decree will take effect on the day of its publication in the Diario Oficial (Official Gazette).

National Palace, San Salvador, the thirteenth day of June, 1934.

Maximiliano H. Martínez Constitutional President “

José Tomás Calderón Minister of Government

During that time, the rate for interior mail was 8 cents and 5 cents for postal cards. The surtax was added to these standard rates with current postage stamps. Covers are known from the first days of the service (before the 19th) where the surtax was still not charged because the decree was being distributed in the administrations.

All stamps were usually cancelled with the office markings and the special cancel was applied separately on the face of the cover, either in blue or purple. Official mail was treated the same way, but it did not have postage stamps.

To comply with this decree, the Correo Aereo Interior cancel was done in a hurry. As a result it is somewhat blurry in some

of the covers known. Not all letters had this cancel during the first few days of the service, but by the 19th it was being strictly applied.

Another communication confirming the creation of this emergency service was sent by the General Director of Posts, Jesus Somoza, to Rafael Alexander, a well‐known Salvadorian collector, on 22 June 1934.

On June 21st, the Postal Service published in the Diario Oficial a summary of the state of the service two weeks after the hurricane:

“Postal Bulletin

The General Direction of the Postal Service announces to the public that the following postal communications have been reestablished on a normal basis:

Santa Ana: Daily dispatches on the truck of the newspaper La Prensa, which is carrying free of cost the correspondence between the two cities.

Interior Air Mail cancel.

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Mail can also be sent through The Salvador Railway Company Limited, from this city (San Salvador) to Sitio del Niño, and then, using foot couriers, to Agua Caliente, where a truck of that company receives it. Towns on the Santa Ana Department have foot couriers that the Mayors will send for the service with the Department capital.

Mail for Sonsonate, Ahuachapan, Chalchuapa, Metapan and other towns in Western El Salvador has to be sent to Santa Ana, from where it will be forwarded through the couriers assigned by the respective authorities.

The International Railroad has restarted its service from Santa Ana to the Station of La Virgen, with two trips per week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, departing from Santa Ana in the morning and returning in the afternoon.

Port of La Libertad: Foot couriers dispatched by the Agencia Salvadoreña

(Salvadorian Agency, a postal contractor) transport once a day the local correspondence between San Salvador and the port, stopping at Santa Tecla, Zaragoza, La Ceiba and Nuevo Cuscatlan.

Chalatenango: The transport to that city, El Guayabal, Suchitoto, towns of that department and Ocotepeque and Guarita in Honduras, is done through Julio Cesar Vega, a postal contractor. Mail can be forwarded by automobile up to Suchitoto, from where it has to be taken by foot couriers to Chalatenango and the other destinations because of the destruction of the bridges.

Cojutepeque: Mail to this city is carried free of charge by the cars of Cesar L. Lambert’s company. The cars stop at the towns of Soyapango, Ilopango, San Martín, Santa Cruz Michapa, and other intermediate towns. They also take up to Cojutepeque mail for San Rafael Cedros, Ilobasco, Sensuntepeque and other

towns in the Cabañas Department.

San Vicente, Zacatecoluca, Usulután, San Miguel, Gotera and la Unión: There is only air communication with these departments and their capitals. The planes pass leaving the mail at the designated places and pick up mail at some department capitals.

For better results, it has been ordered that the Postal Administrators of Usulutan, Gotera and La Union send their mail using foot couriers to San Miguel, which has a landing field, thus facilitating the forwarding of airmail to the central office.

There is also foot courier service for Zacatecoluca, passing through San Marcos, Santo Tomás, Olocuilta and Cuyultitán three times per week.

There is a great on going activity to repair the damaged roads and we hope that very soon all ordinary transportation will go back to normal.

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According to reliable sources, the road to the Port of La Libertad could be ready by next week. Likewise, the Salvadorian Railroad will be ready on Friday 22nd, when the ordinary service will restart, with the exception of the route to Sonsonate and Acajutla.

Provisional Airmail Service: Besides the service being given by the Army planes, the company TACA has obtained the authorization of the War Ministry to transport passengers to the department capitals. On Friday 15, it started its

service on a provisional basis, and transports free of charge the correspondence; for the time being only to San Miguel while landing fields are reestablished in the other cities.”

This bulletin confirms that the TACA service started on the 15th to San Miguel, instead of on the 26th as it was traditionally believed.

With the infrastructure repairs on going and the TACA service established, the Postal Service issued the following instruction on June 23 (Ed Note: Robert Fisher translation):

“Airmail Service carried by Army aircraft is suspended as of today. Mail to the Departments of Usulutan, San Miguel, Morazan and La Union will be dispatched daily by a TACA plane, including registered mail deposited by 4:30pm.”

According to the Government records, military planes carried mail on June 12, 16, 19, 23 and 26. Meanwhile, TACA made daily dispatches to the four Eastern departments from June 15 to July 23.

Interior Air Mail carried by Army planes from La Union to San Salvador, sent on 15 June 1934 and received on June 19. Also sent without the airmail surtax to the standard rate.

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By the end of July, railway service has been reestablished up to La Union, completing the major infrastructure repairs. Because of this, the Government decided on July 18th to suspend the Interior Air Mail Service as of July 23rd:

“From the 23rd of this month (June), mail will be accepted from this capital to Cutuco (a port in the department of La Union), as the IRCA (International Railways of Central America) railway service

has restarted according to its regular itinerary. Therefore, the ordinary rate will apply for mail to the Eastern departments.”

A few months later, on 6 September 1934, the Government released the number of postal items carried both by Army planes and TACA. The details are in the table on the following page. As it will be seen, the total number of postal items carried through the Interior Mail Service was 31,262. The records show

that TACA carried correspondence from more departments to San Salvador than the four mentioned on the decrees. No explanation is known.

Despite the relative high number of Interior Air Mail covers, very few are known in collections. It could be that most of them remain to be properly classified, or they are simply very rare. In either case, they represent a fascinating glimpse of the ability to maintain the postal service even under

Interior Air Mail carried by Army planes from San Salvador to Sonsonate and then to Acajutla via foot couriers, sent on 15 June 1934 and received on June 19. Also sent without the airmail

surtax to the standard rate.

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dire circumstances, and the only examples of a service that has not been attempted again in the country.

Department San Salvador to Departments Departments to San Salvador Army TACA Army TACA Ordinary Official Ordinary Official Ordinary Official Ordinary OfficialAhuachapan 385 (11) 28 (2) 90 107 Cabañas 171 (9) 35 (10) Cuscatlan 167 (9) 41 (5) 136 12 228 35Chalatenango 183 (9) 24 (1) 89 52 40 16La Paz 358 (11) 29 (2) 442 89 La Union 158 (8) 38 (6) 545 (21) 951 (50) 393 578 429 289Morazan 96 (6) 37 (4) 476 (17) 783 (30) 241 259 294 593San Miguel 778 (32) 542 (81) 1248 (62) 1846 (87) 1670 449 2349 828San Vicente 667 (26) 93 (10) 691 272 643 239Santa Ana 655 (12) 99 (14) 131 68 243 111Sonsonate 194 (9) 66 (6) 344 66 795 119Usulutan 679 (33) 167 (22) 1187 (159) 1595 (254) 553 325 1103 412TOTAL 4491 (175) 1199 (163) 3456 (259) 5175 (421) 4480 2277 6124 2642

Figures in parenthesis correspond to Registered items where available (no records where kept of registered mail from the departments to San Salvador). Figures in italics are for departments not covered by TACA according to official records.

Interior Air Mail possibly carried by TACA on June 26 1934, from San Salvador to San Miguel. Rate of 1 Colon and 18 centavos could be philatelic.

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Interior Air Mail possibly carried by TACA planes from Usulutan to San Salvador, sent on 25 June 1934. Date of receipt is not legible. Charged with 8c ordinary rate plus 15c

surtax (courtesy Bob Fisher)

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Cover sent on July 2 from San Salvador to Santa Ana. According to official decrees, by that date there was no Interior Air Mail between the cities, but the records show

correspondence carried by TACA. Charged with 8c ordinary rate plus 15c surtax (courtesy Bob Fisher)

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SHOW‐N‐TELLThis section presents an illustration of an interesting item from the collection of one of our member or collaborators.

Parte de Correos (mail notification) from Tejutla to Comayagua, April 1855. Onlyknown use of the Tejutla marking; illustrated on page 237 of The Prestamp Period

of El Salvador (1525‐1866).

(Dr. James Mazepa Collection)

We would appreciate if you could send your comments, suggestions, and contributions for El Salvador Philatelist to our e‐mail address: sfes‐[email protected] or [email protected]

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ADLETSOur adlet service allows members to publish their philatelic interests on each ‘El Salvador Philatelist’ so they can buy, sell, or exchange with other collectors. Every member is eligible to place one adlet in the journal. In order to send us the adlet you want published, please send us an email to [email protected].

Looking for El Salvador stamps Scott #'s: 57, 229, 247, 252, 257, 293, 558, C31, O223, O224, O226, 1 of (O227, O228, O230, O231), O355. If you have any of these, please e‐mail price to [email protected] ‐‐ will respond promptly.

Wanted: Errors, proofs, oddities of El Salvador. If you have any of these for sale or exchange, please send an e‐mail to: [email protected] .

Looking for Scott #’s: 25E, 190, 191A, 211, 212A, 225, 227, 230B, 232, 237H, 240A, 297 y 311B; Officials O66, O67 y O68/O72. All of them either mint or used. Please contact at [email protected] .

Wijesena, a lawyer from Sri Lanka & a keen philatelist, interested in contacts with fellow collectors from El Salvador and other Latin countries for the exchange of stamps, fdcs, s/s, m/s, etc. Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Essays, Color Trials, Proofs, Freaks, Fakes, Oddities. Your offers most welcomed to Pierre Cahen: [email protected] or POB 483 San Salvador, El Salvador.

Interested in trading revenue stamps of El Salvador. Bryon Batjiaka, e‐mail: [email protected]

Interested in covers with Cierre Oficial or Servicio de Valores Declarados / Cierre Oficial labels. Please send a scan and asking price. If you have covers like this, but are not interested in selling, I would be interested in 300dpi scans for my files. Michael Peter, email: [email protected]

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MEMBERSSERVICES AFISAL regularly meets every Saturday at 3PM (local time) in the premises of the National Museum of Anthropology (MUNA) in San Salvador. The meetings are characterized by the

informal exchange of material and information between the members. MUNA is located at Avenida Revolución, Col. San Benito, in front of the Centro Internacional de

Ferias y Convenciones (CIFCO). It is the largest museum in El Salvador, with an extensive collection of Pre‐Columbian artifacts and ethnographic material.

New Issues Service

Collectors interested in having all recent issues of El Salvador can subscribe to our New Issues Service. The general conditions are as follows:

a. The Society will provide the members subscribed to the "New Issues Service" all the stamps issued by El Salvador from the date of the subscription onwards until the collector requests the end of the service or leaves the Society.

b. The stamps will be sold at face value + 10% commission to the Society in order to cover administrative costs.

c. Shipping costs will be based on current postal rates to the country of residence of the

collector. In order to save on shipping costs, the new issues will be sent every three months in a single package.

d. In order to subscribe to the New Issues Service, members will have to send US$30 in cash or check from US or Salvadorian banks made payable to Pierre Cahen (checks from other countries are not accepted), along with the new issue service agreement filled out and signed ( New Issues Service.doc or New Issues Service.pdf ) to the following address:

Pierre Cahen Vipsal 1342 POB 02‐5364 Miami Florida 33102 USA

The payment is a deposit in the Society which is debited every time a new issue is purchased or sent to the collector. Every member will receive a statement of his deposit along with each New Issues package. When the deposit reaches a level of US$5 or less, the Society will request a further advance to increase the deposit.

e. Members may cancel the New Issues Services by sending a letter or an e‐mail to [email protected] at least a month in advance from the date they wish to end the service.

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