Columbia, Certificate of Contents

kacyds Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Did you hear the joke about the unstamped letter? You wouldn't get it. Posts: 16,132 Location (Country): United States	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 11:29:18 GMT -5 Craig, Bee, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kacyds on Sept 2, 2014 11:29:18 GMT -5 Not quite sure what this are, but most of them have the flap of an envelope on the back of them. Im guessing it was pasted to the back of a cover to have proof of what was inside.....

kacyds Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Did you hear the joke about the unstamped letter? You wouldn't get it. Posts: 16,132 Location (Country): United States	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 11:29:39 GMT -5 Craig, Bee, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kacyds on Sept 2, 2014 11:29:39 GMT -5

kacyds Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Did you hear the joke about the unstamped letter? You wouldn't get it. Posts: 16,132 Location (Country): United States	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 11:29:47 GMT -5 Craig, Bee, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kacyds on Sept 2, 2014 11:29:47 GMT -5

kacyds Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Did you hear the joke about the unstamped letter? You wouldn't get it. Posts: 16,132 Location (Country): United States	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 11:30:04 GMT -5 Craig likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kacyds on Sept 2, 2014 11:30:04 GMT -5

kacyds Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Did you hear the joke about the unstamped letter? You wouldn't get it. Posts: 16,132 Location (Country): United States	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 11:30:39 GMT -5 Craig likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kacyds on Sept 2, 2014 11:30:39 GMT -5

kacyds Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Did you hear the joke about the unstamped letter? You wouldn't get it. Posts: 16,132 Location (Country): United States	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 11:31:27 GMT -5 Craig likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kacyds on Sept 2, 2014 11:31:27 GMT -5

kacyds Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Did you hear the joke about the unstamped letter? You wouldn't get it. Posts: 16,132 Location (Country): United States	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 11:32:52 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kacyds on Sept 2, 2014 11:32:52 GMT -5 Hopefully someone will be able to shed some light on these..... Maybe khj will know something.

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Check out this site. Everything you want to know about these labels is on the site.

www.enterospostales.es/valores-declarados-de-Colombia

If you don't read Spanish (I don't), use the wonderful "translate" button in the Google Toolbar.

In a nutshell, these were labels placed on the outside of envelopes or parcels certifying the value of what was inside, e.g. "certification containing". or "value declared".

By placing this certificate on the back of the envelope it indicated that inside was a sum of money or something of value, and ensured that it reached the recipient. The operation was simple, not overly expensive and safe at a time.

These are some very nice examples, thank you for sharing.

Michael

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kacyds Administrator Stamp Bears Supporter Did you hear the joke about the unstamped letter? You wouldn't get it. Posts: 16,132 Location (Country): United States	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 12:04:10 GMT -5 dcstamps likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by kacyds on Sept 2, 2014 12:04:10 GMT -5 Thanks dcstamps, that site is awesome, with a lot of great information.

dcstamps Linking Member Posts: 911 Location (Country): Florida, USA (where it is always summertime)	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 12:13:01 GMT -5 kacyds, khj, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by dcstamps on Sept 2, 2014 12:13:01 GMT -5 Thanks By the way, I have one of these as well from the Department of Tolima, but it is not used:
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Craig Gone But Not Forgotten Is your leg wet? Yikes! Sorry 'bout that ... Posts: 6,627 Location (Country): USA	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 2, 2014 17:28:12 GMT -5 kacyds likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Craig on Sept 2, 2014 17:28:12 GMT -5 Very excellent thread! I love this kind of stuff.

darkormex Stamp Bears Posting Dedicated Guru Posts: 5,729 Location (Country): United States of America	Columbia, Certificate of Contents Sept 28, 2014 7:41:29 GMT -5 via mobile kacyds likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by darkormex on Sept 28, 2014 7:41:29 GMT -5 Love the link and personally if I had them I would mount them right along with my stamps...
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