Colombia Panama Philatelic
Featured Exhibit

9/17/06 SCADTA flew a series of experimental flights until September 1921 when a regular schedule was adopted. All of the major catalogs fail to recognize that the first of the provisional surcharges was May 2, 1921, not the fall of 1921. While the letter rate for its first flight was 50 centavos, it was reduced to 30 centavos. The surcharge was applied to the 50 centavo stamps when the office ran out of the needed stamps that day.

4/24/06 Paid At Colon Crowned Circle, Colon  entire to Cartagena, entered the mails with British Post Office dated  "A/Colon/AP/22/68". A rare crowned circle "Paid At Colon", Great Britain manuscript "2/8" double rate and large Colombia rate stamped "9", received by addressee May 11. Very fine strike.

1/11/06 In 1865 Colombia issued the first of its unique cubiertas that were used to send within the country aper money, bonds, letters of credit, etc with a weight of no more than 20 grams. Shwn here is one of two recorded 50¢ cubiertas of 1865 on cover. The one here was sent from Bogota - Socorro, October 3, 1865. The 30 centavo stamps of the 1865 issue paid for the excess weight at a rate of 10¢ for each 15 grams.

3/25/05 January 1, 1923 SCADTA introduced 30 and 50 centavo postal stationery envelopes to facilitate mail from Germany that was to be flown within Colombia. Mail was inserted in these large envelopes and flown to the appropriate destination upon arrival in Barranquilla. Here is shown one of two recorded complete covers of the 50 centavo value (that paid up to 40g) with additonal franking of consulart overprints and German postage. It was mailed August 25, 1923 from Hamburg.

1/10/04 1903 First Panama Overprint.  5c tied CDS on commercial cover (Isaac Brandon & Bros) sent from Panama to Colon on 28 of November of 1903, only 25 days after Independence Day.  Local usage is very unusual for this issue.  Many of the local usages of this issue are philatelic.

9/23/03 1818: Colonial Mail, Panama was part of New Granada, Red Straigh Line h.s. on folded letter to Jose Antonio Errea, Lima (Peru) m.s. "4" rate, FINE strike, January (Enero) 12, 1818.  There are 13 known PANAMA frankings before 1818, 1777 being the oldest known, the others are 1785, 1792, 1798, 1800, 1807, 1808, 1808, 1809, 1811, 1813, 1816, 1816, 1818, 1820, 1820 and 1820 these are the only PANAMA recorded to date, for the Colonial Mail period.

9/22/03 From COLOMBIA 1907.  Letter from Venadillo to Pocri, Panama
This is a very unusual cover.  It is the earliest recorded cover from Vanadillo, a small village in the Departmant of Tolima located between Ambalema and the Departmental capital Ibague, which was still served by a departmental postal route in 1907.  There are two villages name Pocri in Panama, one near Aguadulce and the other near Las Tablas.  The transit mark shows this was sent to the village near Aguadulce.  This is the only recorded incoming cover to the village thru 1979.

9/21/03 1811: Colonial Mail, Panama was part of New Granada, Red Straigh Line h.s. on folded letter to Lima (Peru) m.s. "4 1/2" rate, FINE strike, June 19, 1811, delivered by "Paquebot Carmen".  There are 9 known PANAMA frankings before 1811, 1777 being the oldest known, the others are 1785, 1792, 1798, 1800, 1807, 1808, 1808, 1809, 1811, 1813, 1816, 1816, 1818, 1820, 1820 and 1820 these are the only PANAMA recorded to date, for the Colonial Mail period.