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Navarra Writing today on the first English postage stamp, the truth, no big deal and is very important, as what had to write about it, almost certainly is all written and already discovered, and especially by major scholars and collectors, but as I collect postal history of Navarra and also circulated that the demarcation postal stamp (of course), then I will speak a bit of it too well.



Seal Type

was created in accordance with Royal Decree which set of postage stamps for postage and certified mail, dated October 24, 1849, being used in the period from 1 January 1850 December 31 of that year.

Description: crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, facing right, within a rectangle. Color printing on white paper, four-pointed star on the angles, legend outside border; value above, below 1850, a post-Franco side-6 rooms, all in white, black printing.

6 / 4 black .- All the hallmarks of this type in their plates I and II present, as the engraving of it, a little thickening or clearly visible black spot on the inside of the right frame and symmetrically placed between the upper right and rosette "F" of Franco. The rightward shift of the rosette lower left, some say as another secret mark, we have seen in fake stamp collectors, so it is not clear mark of authenticity.



Therefore, on January 1, 1850 appeared and was used for the first time in Spain the postage stamp for postage of correspondence, beginning this time the "English Philately."

Seal dates from 1842, called by collectors "Baeza", is also the first dater, the first unified Spain postmark. Created by Circular of the General Post Office May 15, 1842, signed by the holder D. Juan Baeza (hence his nickname), was used as the first English postmark, from January 1, 1850, until the first decade following March, when it was replaced by the so-called "Spider."



couple (double size) in a letter postmarked in Malaga
Baeza February 11, 1850, in a letter to Burgos.

The rarity of these stamps after spending 160 years is increasing due to the shortage, and the centering and perfection of them, knowing that circulated the figure of 6.20 million.



Letter circulated, postmarked Baeza on labels from
Pamplona Tudela, on January 20, 1850. (Author's Collection)

The paper on which was printed the seal was not always the same. The first broadcasts were in medium and heavy paper or white. The yellow paper is doubtful was employed at the time, and current issues, with the role of color, is most likely to have acquired by age, as happens in many papers now time that we have more or less yellow by the action of time. Then, in subsequent impressions, we used a much finer paper, so it is rare to fine paper on the plate I and weird too thick paper on plate II.



Letter circulated, postmarked Baeza on labels from
Pamplona to Madrid on March 1, 1850. Type I, position 22.
(Collection Editor)

The rubber on these stamps, in the opinion for some, it was white, hard thing to prove, but at present, and due to aging that has experienced the same, is presented in very few cases of new with the original rubber stamps that are known, yellow or brown , cracked and sometimes intense spots of oxidation that even trace the underside of the seal.

Legend, or rather the story, not content (or rather "angry"), the Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who were inflicting harsh treatment, and Real Egregia daubing their figure (breast) with the postmarked of seals by the dater "Baeza", immediately ordered (hence its use only for three months scarce as postmark) the change of it with a new one, do not sully her image as and save a little more respect to the portrait of HM on stamps.

seems that the Directorate General of Posts was also objected because, besides being misused by employees, the black background of the stamps did not favor too much the perception of the dates due to the pale colors of the inks used. DG could have solved by changing the color of ink, but it had not satisfied the desire of His Majesty

Therefore, the blacksmith of Madrid don Tomás de Miguel, was responsible for the preparation of a new override, who presented three models. The chosen was that known as "Spider" (named for its four arches and four circles joined arrows or feet.) The first batch was of 600 copies, use starting from 24, 25 or February 26, 1850, reception in the Administration as to where they were sent. As far as Pamplona not come until after March 1, at least, because at that time was still putting the Baeza as postmark. (See letter dated three).



Fragment Escrow, to block the 6 / 4 6 stamps, postmarks
spider Baeza Pamplona dater November 30, 1850.



Letter circulated, postmarked "Spider" on the date-stamp and Baeza, from Caparroso Tudela, on June 10, 1850. Type II, position 20. (Author's Collection)

course, I will not talk about the reconstruction plate, stone touches, print defects, color variations, occlusions, pairs, blocks of four blocks, because there are already specialists collectors, books, catalogs and auctions.



Letter circulated, postmarked "Spider" on the label and date-Baeza, from Pamplona Tudela, on July 18, 1850. (Author's Collection)



Charter circulated, postmarked "Spider" on the date-stamp and Baeza, from Tudela to Pamplona on December 24, 1850. (Author's Collection)

Errors postmark date-Baeza cartridge



Charter circulated, postmarked Baeza on labels from
Pamplona to Bilbao, on January 02, 1850.
Error in the day, since it must have been January 20, 1850.



Letter circulated, postmarked Baeza on labels from
Pamplona Vitoria, January 3, 1850.
Error in the day, since it must have been January 30, 1850.

Bibliography:

Antonio Fernández Duro, "Historical and Descriptive Review of the Postage stamps of Spain Antonio de Guezala
:" 6 Quarter of 1850 "Dr. A.
Nicolau Tort "Collector's Guide stamps of Spain" Volume I
Dr. Luis Blas: "Expert Guide on stamps of Spain (1850-1900)
Fusté Gabriel and Susana Guix Fusté Aquilué: Trademark Catalog 1850-1869 Postcards from Spain "
Juan de Linares:" Introduction to the Study of the First Official Postmark "
Antonio Valdés González-Roldán:" Study of the Use of Dater-Baeza, "
Francisco Graus: "False Reference Manual of Spain." Maria Marin Luis Royo
: "The Mail on Navarre, postmarks on letters Navarra outputs.
Afinsa Auctions Auction: "First English Postmark"-First Postage Stamp of Spain-
(Ex collections Perpiñá Sebrié Antonio and Enrique Magriñá Mir)
Soler and Llach Auction: "The Six Black Quarter of 1850" (Collection Sergi Domenech)

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