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Expreso Colombiano Ribon e Hijos

The 5th. issue was a provisional issue since the postage rates apparently have been increased. The set contains 4 stamps, only three are shown so far.., the other value from this set is the 5 centavos on 30 centavos. These stamps have been created by overprinting the stamps of the 4th. issue as shown above.

5 centavos on 12 centavos	5 centavos on 18 centavos	5 centavos on 24 centavos

Some notes to the catalogue listing in Hurts catalogue for these issues:
Hurt puts the first at 1928 but even this particular stamp or rather Hurt #2) is held by a Hamburg collector clearly cancelled August 6. 1927. The point is, though, that Hurt #1-2 were preceded by at least two other sets which were included on cover among 150 Express Company covers offered as a collection by Jal Franks Ltd. in April 1966.

In this second issue Hurt #3 is badly out of place since all the rest are multiples of 6c. - naturally, one would expect a definitive 5c. to follow a provisional 5c - but the date for Hurt #4-8 is much too late. Stamps with a clear postmark of 1928 and 1929 exisits.

The (Hurt’s) second set 80 were printed by the Government printing works Bogota.

Hurt ignores a last set, a much better production then any before. Printed by the State Printing Works, Berlin, Germany. So far as I know, it was never used. The images of that set are here...

The low values, 5 to 50 centavos. (Temprano No. 16, 17, 18, 20)

The higher values, 1 to 10 Pesos, Temprano No. 21-25)

The 20 centavos Registration stamp (Temprano No. 19)

To be continued...

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