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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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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.
As 2008 is the 60th Anniversary of
ISGC, the board has decided to offer the EQ DVD disk
with a special membership package until the end of 2008.
During this time, the DVD will be available for $40
(post paid), and this price will include a membership to
ISGC, which normally costs $18 in the US, Mexico, and
Canada, $15 in Guatemala, and $22 in other countries.
Members who want the DVD should take advantage of
this special to renew their membership for 2008.
The DVD is available for $20 through 2008 to lifetime
members, and to those who have already paid their 2008 dues.
Those not wanting the DVD may join or renew as usual.
After 2008, the DVD price will be $35 for members and
$45 for non-members, with the memberships available
separately at their usual cost.
New
members should include a membership
application with their order.
To order, fill out the order
form, and send with your check to:
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
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AUCTION
#65
The previous auction, with lots in two locations, was difficult to
finalize, as unforeseen problems arose.
We thank Mike Barie for the help he gave Carlos Rivera to
get started, despite worsening health problems.
Carlos Rivera is now Auction Manager on his own and invites
consignments for the next auction until June 30, 2008.
Mail to and from Guatemala is quite reliable these days with no losses
reported so you are kindly requested to send consignments to the
following address:
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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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
Pictures
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New
and Forthcoming Issues
2006 7
New Issues
2007 New
Issues
2008 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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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 for the current year 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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PSG Errata List
Since the publication of The
Postage Stamps of Guatemala, 1871-1999 (PSG), a few errors
have been found, mostly relating to the proper listing of Scott
Catalogue numbers in relation to the ISGC numbers. The errata
list to date (June 2004) is listed here, and will be
included with future sales of the book. Please report any
further additions or corrections to Cécile Gruson.
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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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Archived
News and Events & Archived
New
Issue Announcements |
El Quetzal - #334 May 2008
Contents
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The
second part of the Memoirs of E.O. Crosby and additional
information on third class post offices provide the postal history
part of this number.
Interesting back of book subjects illustrate a variety and
some unusual uses of the postal tax issues. A change in Librarian
coincided with the presentation of the 2008 edition of The
Postage Stamps Stamps of Guatemala, updated to the end of
2007. New issues continue as a regular feature.
Concordance of all
Newsletter and EQ issues in PDF format.
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