El Salvador Question......

[kacyds]

Was trying to identify this stamp and was looking in the airmail section of El Salvador, but was coming up empty handed.  Since it has Aereo printed on the stamp, it must be an airmail stamp.   I could never located it in the airmail section, so I decided to look else where.



I finally did locate it as a Scott# 1054.  Also Scott noted, Nos. 1053-1055 are airmail.  

[kacyds]

My questions are 1) Why didnt Scott listed it as a "C" number stamp for airmails??? and 2) Has anyone ever seen this before???

[stampdays]

Jan 19, 2014 21:02:04 GMT -5 kacyds said:

My questions are 1) Why didnt Scott listed it as a "C" number stamp for airmails??? and 2) Has anyone ever seen this before???

Amos Press (Scott) does that often on Central American, African & Asian issues. Nicaragua, Eq. Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, etc., is especially fraught with them. Seems that it is the countries that mass produced stamps that will/have never seen a post office or a letter.

You can just about bet that if a country is heavy in CTO issues (except for the European eastern block ones) then you might find some listed that way.

That said, I think that Scott is too lazy to put the time in to do it correctly. 1774739874

[kacyds]

Thanks for the information Stampdays!!!!

[Butterfly]

Yet another place to find unlisted stamps:

In my Scott 1982 catalogue many fairly recent stamps are also listed in the back in the "For the Record" section.
I presume the newer catalogues also have this section.

[kacyds]

Thanks Butterflies. My catalog is a 2008. I will look into that.

[Gordon Lee]

Greetings Fellow SB Boarders
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In all fairness to the Scott publication, there are many, many contributors to the entries of these stamps. The editor(s) rely heavily on the expertise on these contributors. One cannot expect the editors to actually have hand-on examination of each and every stamp issued during a publication time span. They, both Scott editors and contributors, also rely on the stamp country of issuing authority's description and intended usage. Of course, real major errors of numbering are corrected.
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Respectfully,

Gordon Lee

[khj]

In my Scott 1982 catalogue many fairly recent stamps are also listed in the back in the "For the Record" section.
I presume the newer catalogues also have this section.

Scott discontinued the "For the Record" section in the 1990s -- unfortunately.

They did, however, update and move a few of the listings (not all) into the specific countries. They didn't do that for the Trucial States, though.  Unless you have an older Scott catalog, most of the "For the Record" listings for the Trucial States are gone.  For those, we have to go to other sources such as Michel or Minkus for more detailed listings.

[stampdays]

Jan 20, 2014 14:24:34 GMT -5 Gordon Lee said:

Greetings Fellow SB Boarders
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In all fairness to the Scott publication, there are many, many contributors to the entries of these stamps. The editor(s) rely heavily on the expertise on these contributors. One cannot expect the editors to actually have hand-on examination of each and every stamp issued during a publication time span. They, both Scott editors and contributors, also rely on the stamp country of issuing authority's description and intended usage. Of course, real major errors of numbering are corrected.
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Respectfully,

Gordon Lee

I am a stickler for uniformity so I may have been a little quick in my assessment of Scott. They do a good job 95% of the time. I just think that if they had a collector on their staff, then they could up that percentage,

It is the editors and proofreaders job to ensure consistency and it appears that this has been lax on occasion.

The inclusion of airmail stamps in the regular section is but one example.

Another is how they assign numbers to sheet stamps: On the Greetings sheet, they give a # to each stamp and XXXXa for the whole sheet, but on many others, they give the # to the sheet and show the stamps with letters a-t (or whatever) for the stamps. 

I understand the first as a sheet of 50 stamps would be difficult to assign letters, so why did they change horses in mid-stream?

Another pet peeve of mine is that the values are often shown only for a set, not for the individual stamps within that set.

It seems that the dealers from which they get their info only sell by the set. Most collectors know that this is not the way that stamps are not usually obtained in the real world.

In my opinion, they do not know the hobby and they do not (or did not) have a training program in place. As their staff changed, the new guy did the best that he could.

In retrospect, it would be large job to go back and correct things, but it would make more sense to do so than to leave them as they are now. They have but one job: to produce a world class stamp catalog, so why not do it right!

 

[Gordon Lee]

Greetings Mr. stampdays
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I agree with everything you stated in your post -- exactly.
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Respectfully,

Gordon Lee