Container Inventory

The John M. Taylor Collection

Volume 1: Included in this 48 page album are El Salvador Stamps issued from 1867 – 1896:

1867 Issue

  • Issue both mint and used with proofs
  • Plate proof of the ½ Real on India on light card overprinted “PROOF” (This was not done in El Salvador but by the American Bank Note Company)
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Only known sheet of the 4 Reales value (Taylor collection)
  • All four values mint including both shades (printings) of the ½ Real & 4 Real (The two different printings can be distinguished by the gum. It is heavy yellow on the first printing and thin, white on the second)
  • All four values shown used although the “negative star” cancel on the ½ Real was not in use during the period of validity of this issue. It first came into use with the 1874 issue. The FRANCO in box cancel is genuine with serifed letters and the box has the longer corner lines
  • Proofs cut from the American Bank Note Company sheets in several of the 100 colors known. What appears to be an albino proof may just be a very faded one of a faint color
  • Sheets of all four values, second printing, the 4 Reales believed to be unique
  • A variety of cancels some not from the period, including counterfeit cancels

1874 Issue

  • 1867 Issue overprinted “Contro Sello” with 2 types shown
  • The top 4 stamps are Type II (the second most common) The other are too unclear to make a determination although one of them appears to be a Type 3
  • Second page, top row are all Type 3, second row are all Type 3, third row is Type 3, and the fourth row except for the 2 Real, which is a Type 2, are all too smudged to identify

1879 Issue

  • Mint and used with varieties including 1881 redrawn issues of the 1 centavo (1c) and 2c and the special 1889 printing of the 1c
  • Block of 1c showing inverted “V” for “A” in two positions and 15 varieties
  • Group of contemporary cancels on the 1c value. Also, a mint copy of the 1c 1889 printing
  • Cover going from San Salvador to Berlin, Germany with 1c and 10c stamps. The 10c stamp has the “Para” marking
  • Both varieties “with dashes” and “without dashes” on right of the 2c value
  • A group of 5c values with contemporary cancels including a NYFM cancel
  • Group of 10c and 20c values including a mint 20c, and telegraph stamps
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1c and 10c (with “Para” marking) used on July 31, 1882 to Berlin, Germany. The 11c paid the10c per 15 grams letter rate plus 1c for mail sent via Panama. (Taylor collection)

1887-1889 Issues

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Registered, AR cover of 16 April 1889 to Guayaquil Ecuador. The AR is confirmed by the remains of the AR form on the back. (Taylor collection)
  • Issues including 5c roulette on cover
  • Two blocks of 12 of the rouletted issue
  • Group of 3c and 10c including large block of the 3c
  • Several used copies including one with the ‘donut” cancel used in San Salvador after the fire in the Post Office
  • Group of unissued American Bank Note Company issues
  • Block of 9 of the issued 1c with bar and several used copies
  • Block of 25 with pair showing both types of the 1c on 3c provisional

The 1889 Issues

  • Examples of double surcharge and 1889 handstamps in violet & black, scarce 1c on 3c double surcharge, and a examples of genuine and counterfeit overprints

1890 Seebeck Issue

  • Plate proofs as well as the issued stamps
  • The cancelled copies probably show favor cancels some may be legitimate
  • Several varieties such as imperforate horizontally, imperforate between, etc.

1891 Seebeck Issue

  • Plate proofs as well as the issued stamps
  • Provisional issues, both printed and handstamped

1892 Seebeck Issue

  • Plate proofs as well as the issued stamps
  • Copy of the 1892 10c postal stationery with a 1c adhesive
  • Group of Provisional Issues:
    • 1c on 5c in black reading up
    • 1c on 5c in red reading up and down
    • 1c on 20c with inverted “V”
    • Block of 12 of the 1c on 25c in yellow
    • Block of four of the 1c on 25c in yellow
    • Copy of the 1c on 25c in both blue and black (rare)

1893 Seebeck Issue

  • Plate proofs as well as the issued stamps including examples of trial color proofs
  • “Specimen” overprint on the 2 Pesos value
  • Several copies of the provisional issue

1894 Seebeck Issue

  • Plate proofs as well as the issued stamps including plate proofs on india paper
  • Examples of imperforate between varieties
  • Block of 6 of the 1c provisional
  • Two covers to Austria, a scarce destination

1895 Seebeck Issue

  • Examples of the so-called First Issue including the un-overprinted reprints
  • Two examples of the wrong color overprints
  • Examples of the so-called Second Issue including some cancelled
  • Block of 12 of the 1c on 12c provisional and a block of 12 of the 1c on 24c provisional

1896 Seebeck Issue

  • Group of stamps including both the original shade (violet) and reprint shade (bright ultramarine), and a 2c reprint with watermark

Volume 2: Included in this 41 page album are El Salvador Stamps issued from 1896 – 1911:

1896 Seebeck Issue (continued)

  • Group of the pictorial issue (so-called Second and Third printings) including some of the thick paper reprints, examples of imperforate, imperf between, etc. varieties
  • Inverted overprint on the 15c on 24c provisional issue

1897 Seebeck Issue

  • Examples of stamps including thick paper reprints
  • Examples of the 13c provisional issues (These are all original printings and can be used to distinguish originals from reprints)

Greater Republic of Central America Issue

  • Examples of originals and reprints

1898 Seebeck Issue

  • Examples of originals and reprints (thick paper only), mint and used

1899 Transito Territorial Issue

  • Examples of stamps, all with black overprint, but no varieties other than overprint reading down

1899 Provisional Issue (1898 issue with wheel overprint)

  • Examples of stamps (no 20c) including cancelled copies

1899 Seebeck Issue

  • Examples of stamps both without wheel overprint (never issued) and with wheel overprint (including the scarce 24c value), also, the 1c and 5c with wheel in blue,  cancelled stamps including a scarce “San Francisco (de Gotera)”
  • Several examples of the “1900” handstamp overprint but no copies of the printed “1900”

1900 Provisional Issue (on issue of 1898)

Without wheel

  • A few examples including the 2c on 12c, double overprint, both inverted (August printing)

With wheel

  • Several examples including the 5c on 12c, overprint sideways reading down (September printing), 1c on 2c (February printing), 2c on 13c (February printing), another 2c on 13c with “eentavo” variety (February printing), 3c on 12c (February printing), 3c on 12c, inverted overprint (February printing)

1900 Provisional Issue (on issue of 1899)

Without wheel

  • Two copies of 1c on 13c (February printing), 1c on 2c (February printing), 2c on 13c (February printing), 2c on 13c with “eentavo” variety (February printing), 3c on 12c (February printing), 3c on 13c, inverted overprint (February printing)

With wheel

  • 1c on 2c (February printing), 1c on 13c (February printing), 3c on 12c, inverted overprint (February printing), 5c on 24c (February printing), 5c on 26c (February printing)

1900 Lithograph Issues

  • Handstamped Small Shield
    • Group of stamps, mint and used
    • Block of 9 of the 50c with center stamp missing overprint
  • Handstamped Large Shield
    • Group of stamps but no 10c
  • Typographed Shield
    • Group of stamps, mint and used
    • 13c and 26c with shield inverted
    • 1c with double shield overprint

1905-06 Provisional Issues

  • Examples of stamps from the 1899 and 1903 issues all with relatively common overprints
  • Copy of the “1 1 / 1 centavo 1” (Scott #312) with the surcharge inverted and one with the surcharge double, one inverted
  • 5c on 12c in red with double surcharge
  • The four “5’s” on 12c blue surcharge with additional “5” at lower left
  • 1c (Scott type “m”) with double surcharge

1906 Escalon Issue

  • Examples of stamps including the 1c on thin paper
  • Examples of the so-called 1907 provisional issue - the Escalon postal stationery issue punched with numerals (write up says they are proofs, which they are not)
  • Block of the 5c showing the double transfer on position #2 and the vignette printed upside-down on the selvedge (rare)

1907 National Palace Issue

  • Examples of stamps, mint and used, 1c with shield inverted; 3c with shield inverted
  • Examples of the 1906 Escalon issue with shield overprints
  • 1908 provisional with double disks; inverted surcharge; and double surcharge, one inverted

1910 – 1911 Issues

  • Examples of stamps, mint and used

Volume 3: Included in this 45 page album are regular issues from 1912 – 1929, postage dues, officials, parcel post, and Registration and Acknowledgement of Receipt stamps

  • Regular issues 1912 – 1929 mint and used, with and without overprints
  • Postage dues from 1895 to 1910, imperforates, reprints, gutter pair of J17 and J18 (1c and 2c) this appears to be from the plate containing all eight values not the plate of just the 1c and 2c values, different watermarks and overprints
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With “+013”
Probably a sheet number control
  • 1910 issue with honeycomb watermark and control number “+013” on back of stamp
  • 1896 Officials with mint block of 9 of the first issue, which exists only as a reprint, 2c, double overprint (of which it is claimed only 100 printed), watermarked 117 (Liberty Cap), unwatermarked, handstamps and reprints examples of the bogus “De Oficio” handstamps, most of which are counterfeits
  • 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900 Officials including some punched with 12 small holes; group of the “De Oficio” handstamps, most of which are counterfeits
  • 1903 - 1927 Official issues with overprints, reprints, and different color surcharges; a couple of 1911 Officials in pairs, imperforate between
  • 1895 Parcel Post stamps
  • 1897 Registration and Acknowledgement of Receipt stamps