Post by mourningdoves on Oct 14, 2019 18:59:38 GMT -5
Not much time for stamps today, but I started on Honduras. I hadn't looked at my Honduras album in a while, but now that I'm Varioizing what's there, I find that I had more stamps from there than I remembered.
And some of them are pretty cool. Here are two stamps from a series issued in 1913-14.
The 2c value has a portrait of Terencio Sierra; on your right is Manuel Bonilla. All eleven stamps in the series have one portrait or the other.
Sierra was the President of Honduras from 1899 to 1903. His term ended on February 1, 1903, but he refused to relinquish office to the winner of the election, who happened to be Manuel Bonilla. And Bonilla happened to be a general in the army, so in April he and some of his supporters staged a coup, after which he finally assumed the office that was rightfully his. So I think it's odd at best that this series of stamps is divvied up between them. I don't know the rationale.
These are far from the most attractive early Honduran stamps. There were several Seebeck issues in the late 1800s, which were of course useless, but they were artistic as all get-out. Later on, American Bank Note printed a number of stamps for Honduras, and some other nice ones don't have a printer's imprint. I'll post a few as I go along. The biggest problem I'm having is that it's as hard to find out anything about Honduran history as it was for Costa Rica. I'm relying on one monograph I found and some brief but well-meaning Wikipedia pages.
Inspired in part by a recent thread that guyana1230 started, I'm making a catalog of Nigerian stamps and will start my tags in a few days. Which won't take too much; the Nigerians never got involved in the issue-a-stamp-every-20-minutes craze, so their entire output might fit into a 1" binder. Nigeria is another place - like Honduras and Costa Rica - that got trapped into an album I don't like any more, so I'm looking forward to a long-overdue visit.
And some of them are pretty cool. Here are two stamps from a series issued in 1913-14.
The 2c value has a portrait of Terencio Sierra; on your right is Manuel Bonilla. All eleven stamps in the series have one portrait or the other.
Sierra was the President of Honduras from 1899 to 1903. His term ended on February 1, 1903, but he refused to relinquish office to the winner of the election, who happened to be Manuel Bonilla. And Bonilla happened to be a general in the army, so in April he and some of his supporters staged a coup, after which he finally assumed the office that was rightfully his. So I think it's odd at best that this series of stamps is divvied up between them. I don't know the rationale.
These are far from the most attractive early Honduran stamps. There were several Seebeck issues in the late 1800s, which were of course useless, but they were artistic as all get-out. Later on, American Bank Note printed a number of stamps for Honduras, and some other nice ones don't have a printer's imprint. I'll post a few as I go along. The biggest problem I'm having is that it's as hard to find out anything about Honduran history as it was for Costa Rica. I'm relying on one monograph I found and some brief but well-meaning Wikipedia pages.
Inspired in part by a recent thread that guyana1230 started, I'm making a catalog of Nigerian stamps and will start my tags in a few days. Which won't take too much; the Nigerians never got involved in the issue-a-stamp-every-20-minutes craze, so their entire output might fit into a 1" binder. Nigeria is another place - like Honduras and Costa Rica - that got trapped into an album I don't like any more, so I'm looking forward to a long-overdue visit.