Michel Postal Stationery of the World Collection
Volume 118 – Salvador – 64 pages of stamped envelopes mint and used from 1887 – 1898, including provisional and overprinted envelopes
- 1879 Formula card essays
but no cards were issued at that time. This may be an essay for such a card. (Michel collection)
- 1881-1882 Postal Card essay
- An 1889 5c envelope with a counterfeit “1889” handstamp
- A rare usage - 1890 20c registered postal stationery envelope with 5c and 10c adhesives from San Salvador to Guayaquil, Ecuador
- An 1893 5c on blue envelope with a 5c adhesive marked “TARDE” going to Lemy-Kemp in New York with a NYFM “12”
- An 1894 2c provisional envelope with a San Salvador “star in circle” cancel and the San Salvador “Servicio Urbano” octagon cancel of December 9, 1894 paying the local drop letter rate
were from 1907. This obviously dated from a later period. Status unknown. (Michel collection)
- An Escalon envelope from 1910 with an inverted “5” punched over red stars
- A fair number of postally used envelopes and postal cards including an 1894 card used on January 1, 1894 with a new year greeting and a philatelically inspired 1896 12c envelope used on January 1, 1896 to San Salvador from Chilamatal
Volume 119 – Salvador and Samoa – 14 pages of stamped envelopes mint and used from 1899 - 1912, 14 pages of wrappers from 1890 - 1897, 4 pages of postal reply cards, 1 page of Memorandum Postal sheets, 26 pages of postal cards from 1883 - 1904 with the only known essay of the 3c 1892 postal card, 1 page of UPU cards and 1 page of Official cards printed by the Hamilton Bank Note Company. The last 10 pages are items from Samoa.
- A supposed 5c 1907 Formula card used on December 30, 1909 to Hussman stamp company in St. Louis, MO with a message offering the 1909 Independence Issue stamps at $50 gold per 100. (Maybe counterfeit overprints)
- Scarce usage of an 1897 revalued envelope (13c on 15c) revalued again in 1912 by overprinting with two large “5”s
