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Auction 66
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Welcome!
Thank you visiting the International Society of
Guatemala Collectors web site. The ISGC is a non-profit
organization and APS affiliate founded in 1948; membership in the
Society is open to anyone interested in stamps and postal history of
colonial and modern Guatemala and adjacent regions of Central America.
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Exhibits
Exhibits now available for viewing: The
Quetzal Airmails (Jaime Marckwordt), A selection of
Guatemalan
Postmarks, 1871-1902 (Cécile Gruson), and Collecting
Guatemala (David Jickling, coordinator). Also available:
PDF
file of the Perforation Gauge Presentation from Washington 2006.
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News and Events
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Dealer
member Brian Moorhouse informed the editor that following
three lots from his November 12, 2011 Auction were lost in
transit to buyers:
#233
1871 first issue 1c ochre with 2 imperf marginal
blocksx4 both printed both sides, one with reverse
impression upright and the other with the reverse impression
inverted. Odd small fault SG £720+)
#239
1883 cover to London with small quetzal 10c with fine
CORREOS DE GUATEMALA alongside. Arrival b/stamp
#241
1884 cover to London with pair small quetzal 5c with
IZABAL alongside. Livingstone transit b/stamp
Please
contact Brian by email at mail@guatemalastamps.com
if you see these items offered for sale elsewhere.
Place the word quetzal
in the subject line of the email to ensure that your email
gets through the spam filter.
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IN MEMORIAM
DAVID JICKLING
1927 - 2011
The officers and many members of ISGC were sad to hear a few years ago that Alzheimer’s prevented David to continue his long career participating in the activities of ISGC. During his career as development officer for USAID David was stationed in several Latin American countries, among them in Guatemala in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He then started collecting Guatemalan stamps and bought part of a ruined house in Antigua, which he rehabilitated without altering its colonial style. He joined the ISGC in 1975. After retiring, he would spend the winter months in Antigua and devoted a lot of time to philately: he was the driving force to update previous publications of the society with Guatemala Philately, 1971-1990 issues and special studies (1991) and The postage stamps of GUATEMALA:
sus emisiones postales 1871-1999 (2000). He was president of the ISGC in the 1990s and
strove to achieve more and better contacts with the members of Asociacion Filatélica de Guatemala. He specialized in the 1902 Waterlow issues and modern philately. May he rest in peace.
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The El
Quetzal Scanning Project has been completed!
El Quetzal is
the official journal of The International Society of
Guatemala Collectors. The
entire run of this publication from its first issue in 1949
through the final issue of 2006 has been scanned and published on
a DVD in PDF format.
It is our hope that this project will make the
knowledge accumulated and published by the former and
current members of our Society available to a wide audience
of current and future philatelists interested in learning
about and researching the fascinating world of Guatemalan
philately. This publication received a Vermeil award
for Handbooks and Special Studies in the Literature
Division at StampShow 2008 in Hartford, Connecticut.
The DVD price
is $35 for members and
$45 for non-members, postpaid.
Ordering
options:
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E-mail
your order request to: treasurer@guatemalastamps.com.
Place the word quetzal
in the subject line of the email to ensure that your email
gets through the spam filter. |
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Order
by regular mail by filling out and sending this Mail
Order Form with your check to Robert Lebow, address
given below. |
Robert Lebow, Treasurer, ISGC, 1322 East Brooklake, Houston,
TX 77077-3204
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PSG 2008 Now
Available An
updated version of The Postage Stamps of Guatemala, sus
Emisiones Postales, 1871 - 2007, is now
available.
C. Gruson/D.
Jickling, editors, ISBN 1-880721-06-6, retail $29.00,
members $24.00, postpaid Media Mail to USA addresses.
A comprehensive
listing of all stamp issuances & varieties. Bilingual
English-Spanish.
Ordering
options:
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E-mail
your order request to: treasurer@guatemalastamps.com.
Place the word quetzal
in the subject line of the email to ensure that your email
gets through the spam filter. |
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Order
by regular mail by filling out and sending this Mail
Order Form with your check to Robert Lebow, address
given below. |
With postage
outside the USA being very variable depending on destination
and type of shipment desired (priority or economy), please
inquire about additional mailing costs to other countries
before sending your prepaid order to the ISGC treasurer:
Robert Lebow, Treasurer, ISGC, 1322 East Brooklake, Houston,
TX 77077-3204
PDF
file of corrections to Scott Numbers in PSG 2008
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at Stamp Shows
EXPOFILGUA
2002
Joint
Meeting of I.S.G.C and A.F.G in Antigua,
March 2005
ISGC 2005
Meeting at APS StampShow in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Pictures!
The St.
Louis Stamp
Expo 2006
Mae Vignola Award at WESTPEX 2006
Washington 2006 ISGC
Show Activities Pictures
WESTPEX 2007
EXPOFILGUA 2007
StampShow,
Hartford, CT 2008 Pictures
SESCAL 2008 Pictures
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New
and Forthcoming Issues
New issue subscription service www.GuyShaw.com
2006
New Issues
2007 New
Issues
2008 New
Issues
2009 New
Issues
2010 New
Issues
2011 New
and Forthcoming
Issues
Images of New Issues are now available, beginning with
2006. Our thanks to Licda.
Ziomara de Leon de Ramirez and the Philatelic Dept. of the Postal
Service of Guatemala for the images.
Archived
New Issue Announcements from 2005 and earlier may be found here. |
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Guatemala
Has Inaugurated a Philatelic Museum!
On January 13, 2006, a small philatelic museum was inaugurated at the
main post office in Guatemala. It is certainly worth visiting when you go to the
philatelic department for new issues. The address of the office is 7a. Avenida 11-12 zone 1. |
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| PRESENTATIONS ON STAMP COLLECTING
As
announced at our meetings in Washington, promotion of philately in
Guatemala through the I.S.G.C. is taking new forms. For the past year, in collaboration with the A.F.G., there
have been quarterly lectures introducing stamp collecting at the Walt
Whitman
Library of the educative and cultural center Guatemalan-American
Institute (IGA). Last September 22, it was Carlos Rivera’s
turn to talk about choosing what types of collections can be
envisaged. The next activities will be:
On
November 15 at 6.30 pm,
interactive lectures on Philately
in the World, Philately
in Guatemala and How to
organize and mount a collection for exhibition will be
directed respectively by Lic. Estuardo Soto, (A.F.G.), Jorge E.
Baca, (I.S.G.C.) and Carlos E. Rivera Grajeda, member of both
societies.
A
stamp exposition
will be inaugurated in the lobby of the institute after the
lectures: it will remain open to the general public from November 15 to 24. Pictures here.
In
view of the success of the 2006 program, a new season of lectures
is planned beginning in March 2007.
I.S.G.C.
ACTIVITIES AT THE GUATEMALAN-AMERICAN INSTITUTE (IGA)
The
address of the Walt Whitman Library is Ruta 1, 4-05, Zone 4 in
Guatemala City. |
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"The postal markings of GUATEMALA,
sus marcas postales”, Parts I & II by Cécile Gruson
Parts I & II This now completed and updated comprehensive listing of the
postal marking of Guatemala from 1768 to the present day is now
available. This
bilingual handbook is in loose leaf format housed in a three-ring
binder. The types of
postmarks listed and illustrated in previous ISGC publications and
El Quetzal have been
revised and completed systematically, and as complete as possible
a listing of 20th c. markings attempted. This
publication was awarded a gold award + special prize at EXPOFILGUA
(Guatemala, May 3-6, 2007).
Price postpaid in the USA, Parts I & II: members
$50.00
retail $68.00
Part II
Comprising the six chapters left out of the original publication
for further study and the additions and corrections to the initial
publication. Buy this separately if you already have Part I.
Price postpaid in the USA, Part II: members
$10.00
retail $13.00
With postage outside the USA being very variable depending on
destination and type of shipment desired (priority or economy),
please inquire on the additional mailing costs to other countries
before sending your prepaid order to the ISGC treasurer: Robert
Lebow
Read the press release.
An order form is also available at the ISGC
Store. |
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Asociacion
Filatelica de Guatemala
on the Web Our
Guatemalan philatelic friends have a Yahoo Groups
site: http://mx.groups.yahoo.com/group/ASFILGUA/
Their
webmaster is Gunter Pilz (e-mail: gp@intelnett.com)
The AFG’s e-mail address is
ASFILGUA@yahoogrupos.com.mx
EXPOFILGUA
2007
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of its foundation, Asociación
Filatélica de Guatemala
organized a national level
competitive exposition with the above name.
It took place from May 3 to 6, 2007 at Palacio de
Correos, the main central post office which those who traveled to
Guatemala in 1998 visited. The
building has been extensively restored since.
Click
here for
pictures.
Carlos Rivera G. : e-mail: grajedac@intelnet.gt
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ISGC
MAIL AUCTION
#66
for
members only
Auction
closed January
24, 2010
Auction
#66 Realizations
Note:
The original email address listed on the printed auction
sheet was incorrect. Please use grajedac@intelnet.net.gt.
Auction@guatemalastamps.com
will also work, with the word "quetzal" in the subject line.
Auction
Manager: Carlos
Rivera G., c/o Jorge Baca, Apartado postal 1757, 01901
Guatemala.
If you contact Carlos via his website address Auction@guatemalastamps.com place “quetzal” on the subject line to make sure your message gets past
the spam filter.
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Archived
News and Events & Archived
New
Issue Announcements |
El Quetzal - Recent and Upcoming Issues
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#348
November 2011
Apart
from the usual new issue and postmark additions features, the
issue included more on Guatemalan perforations, the post office of
Seritquiché, a new variety of 537, a philatelic curiosity, yellow
fever problems in Guatemala and New Orleans in 1906, the
fraudulently used star duplex of San Cristobal Cucho and an
earlier Mazatenango use of U-3 meter.
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347 August 2011
The
centenary of UPAEP was an occasion to illustrate some of the
Guatemalan common theme stamps. Another issue celebrated the 75th
anniversary of Hemetoteca: it was accompanied by the biography of
Lic. Clemente Marroquin Rojas.
A second cover with a bisected 1 peso Indian woman has
appeared and comforts the fact that they are faked. The transport
of mail across the Isthmus of Panama, a list of Guatemalan papers
and periodicals, postal stationery with printed texts and
Tipografia perforation gauges complete the issue.
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346 May 2011
A
tribute to the beloved designer Arnoldo Chavarry marks the 40
years since he passed and further illustrates the 40 years he
worked at Tipografia Nacional, the history of which is also
included.
Die proofs of 1953 and specimen sheetlets of 1921 document
the way stamps were prepared. Progress deciphering hieroglyphs
shows a title error on a 1938 stamp. A project cover log was also
among the standard features.
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345 February 2011
The
250th anniversary of the Basilica of Esquipulas was an
occasion to publish its history. The “CHY” article of this
issue is about Bartolomé de Las Casas.
Travel in the first half of thr 20th c. is
illustrated both by Saravia’s airplane raid from Mexico and a
missioner’s overland travel in 1921. A postmark find for the
office of Pantaleon and the history of the Belize claim issue
round out this number.
Concordance of all
Newsletter and EQ issues in PDF format.
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