Bolivia stamps

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Scott: #274-8P

Scott: #279-80O

Issued: XX.10.1942

First School Philatelic Exposition

Inside #274-80: Bolivia #1O

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Inside #274-80: Bolivia #C82O

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Scott: #515-17P, #C295-7P

Issued: 23.12.1968

Centenary of Bolivian Stamps

Inside #515: Private Issue of 1863

Inside #C295-7: Bolivia #1O

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On February 21, 1863 president de Acha issued a decree to reorganize the postal service. Stamps were to be introduced, but in this case the postal service would be auctioned to the highest bidding private company. Justiniano Garcia won the bidding at the minimum 17,000 pesos. A contract was signed on March 18, 1863 and service was to begin on June 1, 1863.

Senor Garcia prepared for the printing of his stamps, as instructed by the contract. However, political intrigues caused the contract to be suspended as of April 29, 1863 until the national assembly had ruled in the matter. This never happened. This means that the contract was effectively cancelled, only 42 days after it was signed. Unfortunately, Senor Garcia had already printed some of his stamps. They were never issued, but a few exist with cancels. These cancels are forgeries or were applied by favor. Very few covers with Garcia's stamps exist, but all of them are suspect - no known cover with these stamps is known to be genuinely and postally used.

On March 12, 1867 a new president, Mariano Melgarejo, decreed that the government would issue stamps. A local printer, Ramon Estruch, was commissioned to prepare the printing plates. He engraved five plates in soft copper, including a plate for a 500 centavos stamp that was never issued.

The soft copper plate wore out quickly. However, the 5 centavos was the only value printed in large quantity, and therefore had to be re-engraved four times and retouched six times…..

http://www.firstissues.org/ficc/details/bolivia_1.shtml

Scott: Both souvenir sheets don’t have Scott catalogue No.

just footnote after #517 & #C297 containing 3 impert stamps similar to #515-17 & #C295-7.

Michel, Block 24 and 25

According to the catalog, only 5000 of each were issued.

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Scott: #549O

Issued: 26.8.1972

EXFILBRA

Inside #549: Pseudo Stamp

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Mi Bl. #40-2O, #44-6O

Issued: ??.??.1974

Orchids UPU

Inside Mi Bl. #40-2 & #44-6 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

(Thanks to Lou for the scan)

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Mi Bl. #43 &#47O

Issued: 9.12.1974 / ??.??.1974

Bolivian Coat of Arms

Overprinted Olympics Insbruck-76

Inside Mi Bl. #43 &#47 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Scott: #561O

Issued: 9.10.1974

PRENFIL-UPU, EXPO-UPU

Inside #561: Pseudo Stamp

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Mi Bl. #48P & #52O

Issued: 9.12.1974

Gen Sucre, by I Wallpher, PRENFIL-UPU -74, EXPO-UPU

Inside Mi Bl. #48 & #52 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #49O

Issued: ??.3.1975

Lions club

Inside Mi Bl. #49 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Scott: #564O

Issued: 1.3.1975

Espana '75

Inside #564: Pseudo Stamp

Mi Bl. #50O & #54O

Inside Mi Bl. #50 & #54 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #51O & #55O

Issued: ??.??.1975

First meeting of Postal Ministers UPU -74, EXPO-UPU

Inside Mi Bl. #51 & #55 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #56-7O

Issued: 4.8.1975

Innsbruck 76 / Interphil 76

Inside Mi Bl. #56-7 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #58-9O

Issued: ??.??.1975

Concorde, Zeppelin / Wien 75 (Hugo Banzer Suarez)

Inside Mi Bl. #58-9 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #60-1O

Issued: 7.11.1975 / ??.??.1975

Apollo / Hafnia 76 (Anderes de Santa Cruz)

Inside Mi Bl. #60-1 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #62-3O

Issued: ??.??.1975

Montreal 76 / EXFILMO-75 (Antonio Jose de Sucre)

Inside Mi Bl. #62-3 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Scott: #576O

Issued: 01.12.1975

EXFIVIA

Inside #576: Bolivia #155O

Inside #576: Bolivia #521O

Inside #576: Bolivia #534O

Inside #576: Bolivia #C240O

Scott: #576aO (Mi Bl. #64)

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Mi Bl. #67-69O

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert for the scans

Issued: ??.??.1976

US bicentenary

Inside Mi Bl. #67-69 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #70-73O

Issued: 20.12.1976

Brother Vicente Bernedode Potosi, missionary (Bolivia #585)

Nobel prize / Montreal 76 / Viking, Apollo-Soyuz / Alexander Granam Bell

Inside Mi Bl. #70-73 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

Inside Mi l. #73 (In Margin): U. N. #42P (Burundi, Comoro IS.)

Inside Mi Bl. #73 (In Margin): U.N. Offices in Geneva #40P

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Mi Bl. #74-7O

Issued: 20.10.1977

8^th Bolivian Games EXFIVIA 75 - EXFIVIA-77

Inside Mi Bl. #74-7 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #78O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno for the scan

Issued: 01.06.1978

75th Anniversary of First Nobel Prize Award

Inside Mi Bl #78 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

Inside Mi Bl #78 (In Margin): Bolivia #576O

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Mi Bl. #79O

Issued: ??.??.1978

World Cup Football

Inside Mi Bl #79 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

Inside Mi Bl #79 (In Margin): Bolivia #581O

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Mi Bl. #80O

(Thanks to Zhang for the scan)

Issued: ??.??.1978

Elisabeth

Inside Mi Bl #80 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

Inside Mi Bl #80 (In Margin): Bolivia #???O

Inside Mi Bl #80 (In Margin): Bolivia #???O

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Mi Bl. #81O

Issued: 6.1.1978

Lindbergh, World Soccer Cup Argentina-78

Inside Mi Bl. #81 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

Inside Mi Bl. #81 (In Margin): Bolivia #583O

Inside Mi Bl. #81 (In Margin): Bolivia #C1-9O

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Scott: #641P

Issued: 30.3.1979

PHILASERDICA '79

Inside #641: Bulgaria #1O

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Mi Bl. #82O

Issued: ??.??.1979

75^th Anniversary of Civil Aviation

Inside Mi Bl. #82: Bolivia # C334O

Inside Mi Bl. #82: Bolivia #C8O

Inside Mi Bl. #82: Bolivia #C335O

Inside Mi Bl. #82: Bolivia #C241O

Inside Mi Bl. #82: Bolivia #C333O

Inside Mi Bl. #82: Bolivia #581O

Inside Mi Bl. #82: Bolivia #C26O

Inside Mi Bl. #82: Bolivia #C12O

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Mi Bl. #83O

Issued: ??.??.1979

Espana ‘82

Inside Mi Bl. #83: Bolivia #C248O

Inside Mi Bl. #83: Argentina #1147P

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Mi Bl. #90P

Issued: 27.3.1979

Southern Cross Sports Games

Inside Mi Bl. #90 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

Inside Mi Bl. #90 (In Margin): Bolivia #640P?

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Mi Bl. #91O

Issued: ??.??.1980

Olympic winter games

Inside Mi Bl. #91 (In Margin): Bolivia #C320O

Inside Mi Bl. #91 (In Margin): Bolivia #575O

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Scott: #651O

Issued: 23.1.1980

EXFILMAR

Inside #651: Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #94P

Mi Bl. #95O

Issued: ??.??.1980

Sir Rowland Hill

Inside Mi Bl. #94 (In Margin): Bolivia #C11O

Inside Mi Bl. #94 (In Margin): Bolivia # C12O

Inside Mi Bl. #94 (In Margin): Bolivia # C17O

Inside Mi Bl. #94 (In Margin): Bolivia #C4O

Inside Mi Bl. #94 (In Margin): Bolivia #C295P

Inside Mi Bl. #94-5 (In Margin): G.B. #1

Inside Mi Bl. #95 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

Inside Mi Bl. #95 (In Margin): Bolivia #14O

Thanks to Lou

Inside Mi Bl. #95 (In Margin): Bolivia #C296O

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Mi Bl. #96O

Issued: 28.04.1980

1980 for World Soccer Cup Publicity

Inside Mi Bl. #96 (In Margin): Argentina #1192O

Inside Mi Bl. #96 (In Margin): Bolivia #C248O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Mi Bl. #99O

Issued: 13.10.1980

1980 for World Soccer Cup Publicity

Inside Mi Bl. #99 (In Margin): Argentina #1193O

Inside Mi Bl. #99 (In Margin): Bolivia #C247O

Inside Mi Bl. #99 (In Margin): Bolivia #469O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Mi Bl #100-1O

Issued: XX.XX.1980

Olympic Games

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Mi Bl #102-3O

Issued: XX.XX.1980

Olympic winter games

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Mi Bl #104-5O

Issued: XX.XX.1980

50^th Anniversary of Zeppelin flight

Inside Mi Bl #104-5: Bolivia #581O

Inside Mi Bl #104: Bolivia #C12O

Inside Mi Bl #104: Bolivia #C26O

Inside Mi Bl #105: Bolivia #C1O

Inside Mi Bl #105: Bolivia #C2O

Inside Mi Bl #105: Bolivia #C9O

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Mi Bl. #106-7O

Issued: 13.04.1981

Mi Bl. #106: Mi Bl. #48 - Overprinted

Mi Bl. #107: Mi Bl. #51 – Overprinted

Thanks to Lou for the scans

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Mi Bl. #108-9O

Issued: ??.??.1981

Mi Bl. #108: Mi Bl. #90 - Overprinted 10th anniversary of the Philatelic Center of Santa Cruz

Mi Bl. #109: Mi Bl. #90 - Overprinted 10th anniversary of the Philatelic Federation of the Bolivia

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Scott: #681O

Issued: 31.8.1982

10th Anniversary, Bolivian Philatelic Federation

Inside #681: Bolivia #576O

Inside #681: Bolivia #614O

Inside #681: Bolivia #651O

Inside #681: Bolivia #642O

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To check Mi Bl. #110 - 115

1981 Mi Bl. #113 inside in Surcharge Austria Sc #40

(Thanks to Komlóssy Zoltán)

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Mi Bl. #116O

Issued: ??.??.1982

EXFILMO-75 (Antonio Jose de Sucre) - overprinted PHILEXFRANCE-82

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Mi Bl. #119P

(Thanks to Lou Guadagno)

Issued: ??.??.1982

???

Inside Mi Bl. #119: Bolivia #C320O

Inside Mi Bl. #119 (In Margin): Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #122-3O

Issued: ??.??.198?

???

Inside Mi Bl. #122: Bolivia #C320O

Inside Mi Bl. #123: Bolivia #657O

(Thanks to Zhang for the scan)

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Mi Bl. #130O

(Thanks to Zhang for the scan)

Issued: ??.??.198?

???

Inside Mi Bl. #130: Bolivia #651O

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Mi Bl. #134O

Issued: ??.??.1983

???

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Mi Bl. #135O

Issued: ??.??.1983

???

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Mi Bl. #???O

Is there original sheet that was overprinted?

Mi Bl. #151O

Issued: 18.04.1986

75^th Anniversary of the Scouting in America

#??? Overprinted "The XVI Scout jamboree to be held in Australia in 1987-88"

Inside #683b (In Margin): Bolivia #582O

Inside #683b (In Margin): U.S. #1145P

Inside #683b (In Margin): U.S. #1167P

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Scott: #694O

Issued: 1.3.1984

MLADOST- Overprint on #641

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Mi Bl. #136O

Issued: ??.??.1984

???

Inside Mi Bl #136: Bolivia #690O

Thanks to Lou for the scan

Inside Mi Bl #136: Bolivia #C154O

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Mi Bl. #138O

Issued: 20.06.1984

19th U.P.U. Congress, Hamburg

Inside Mi Bl #138: Bolivia #656

Inside Mi Bl #138: Bolivia prepared for use, but unissued 50c Guaqui-La Paz Railroad stamp (1915)

Lou wrote: one of a set of 9 unauthorized engraved stamps produced in Belgium, and rejected by the Bolivian post. The stamps are just noted in Scott's and Gibbons, but are still being offered frequently on line.

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Mi Bl #146O

Issued: 3.12.1985

Halley Comet

Inside Mi Bl #146: Bolivia #690O

Thanks to Lou for the scan

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Mi Bl #152O

Issued: 12.5.1986

Halley Comet

Inside Mi Bl #152: Bolivia #???O

Inside Mi Bl #152: Bolivia #???O

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Mi Bl #153O

Issued: 12.5.1986

500th Anniversary, Discovery of America (in 1992)

Inside Mi Bl #152: Bolivia #374O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #734P

Issued: 28.11.1986

15^th Anniversary, Bolivian Philatelic Federation

Inside #734: Bolivia #19O

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Mi Bl. #165O

Issued: ??.??.1987

???

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Mi Bl. #167O

Issued: ??.??.1987

???

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Mi Bl #178O

Issued: XX.XX.1989

World Cup Italy 1990

Inside Mi Bl #178: Bolivia #739O

(Thanks to Zhang for the scan)

Inside Mi Bl #178: Bolivia #723O

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Mi Bl #182O

Issued: 7.12.1989

500^th Anniversary, Post

Inside Mi Bl #???: Bolivia #731O

Inside Mi Bl #??? (In Margin): G.B. #1

http://www.kosel.com/

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Mi Bl #183O

Issued: XX.XX.1989

20^th Anniversary, Apoollo XI Landing on the Moon

Inside Mi Bl #183: Bolivia #742O

(Thanks to J. van Lin for the scan)

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Scott: #800O

Issued: 13.5.1990

150th Anniversary, Penny Black

Inside #800: Bolivia #1O

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Inside #800: G.B. #1

Visit: The Penny Black Plate project http://www.arcieriminerva.it/SOS/homeSOS.htm

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Scott: #???O

Issued: ??.??.1991

700th Anniversary of Switzerland

Inside #???: Switzerland #3L1O

Inside #???: Bolivia #C320O

http://www.artonstamps.org/Art-Gallery/Coach/coaches.htm

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Scott: #831P

Issued: 21.8.1991

20^th Anniversary, Bolivian Philatelic Federation

Inside #831: Bolivia #690O

Inside #831: Bolivia #741O

Inside #831: Bolivia #750O

Inside #831: Bolivia #816O

Thanks to Lou for the scans

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Scott: #870P

Issued: 31.5.1993

150th Anniversary, First Brazilian Stamp

Inside #870: Bolivia #C240O

Inside #870: Brazil #3O

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Scott: #918P

Issued: 9.10.1994

Centenary of Bolivian Federation

Inside #918: Bolivia #46O

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Mi Bl #???O

Issued: XX.XX.1994

Franciscaner

Inside #????: TBI

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Mi Bl #216O

Issued: XX.XX.1995

Franciscaner

Inside Mi Bl #216: TBI

Inside Mi Bl #216: TBI

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Mi Bl #217O

Issued: XX.XX.1995

Olympic Games

Inside Mi Bl #217: TBI

Inside Mi Bl #217: TBI

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Mi Bl #218O

Issued: XX.XX.1995

Death Centenary of Louis Pasteur

Inside Mi Bl #218: Bolivia #890O

Inside Mi Bl #218: Bolivia type A304 (Pic of #789)

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Scott: #1028O (Mi #1367)

Issued: 9.7.1998

UPAEP America

Inside #1028: Stamps on Envelope

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Scott: #1049O (Mi #1388)

Issued: 12.11.1998

25th Anniversary, Bolivian Philatelic Federation

Inside #1049: Bolivia #????O (1998)

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Scott: #1128-32O

Issued: 12.6.2001

Definitive, Postal Services

Inside #1128: Stamps on envelope

Inside #1129 & #1131: Bolivia #1079O

Inside #1129: Bolivia #1090O

Inside #1129: Bolivia #1089O

Inside #1129: Bolivia #1010O

(Thanks to Attilio Papio for the scan)

Inside #1129: Bolivia #1023O

Inside #1129: Bolivia #1012O

(Thanks to Attilio Papio for the scan)

Inside #1131: Bolivia #1070O

Inside #1131: Bolivia #1088O

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Scott: #1222O

Issued: 6.1.2004

25^th Anniversary, PONTIFICATION POPE JOHN PAUL II

Inside #1222: Bolivia #???O

Inside #1222: Bolivia #???O (2001)

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Scott: #1254a-fO

Issued: 9.10.2005

Stamp Day

Inside #1254a: Bolivian 1r Private Issue of 1863

Inside #1254a: Bolivian 2r Private Issue of 1863

Inside #1254b: Bolivia #C7O

Inside #1254c: Brazil #1O

Inside #1254c: G.B. #1

Inside #1254d: Bolivia #3O

Inside #1254d: Bolivia #1O

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Inside #1254e: Bolivia #C25O

Inside #1254f: Bolivia #740O

Martin Hirschbühl wrote: During these rainy days, I found some time for description of my SoS-album. Here is a somehow mysterious case:

The middle SoS describes the 5 Bolivares-stamp of 1924 as showing a Junker-plane.

My MICHEL names it as being a Morane-Saulnier. After a brief research, I tend to believe them (compare yourself)

in addition, that SoS shows this 5 Bolivares-stamp as being imperforated.

My MICHEL mention the 1 and 2 Bolivares value as existing also imperforated, but NOT the 5 Bolivares (only perforated)

The question is: who is right in this case?

Lou responded: You neglected to note the most grievous error of them all on this sheetlet. The designer(?), instead of showing a real "PENNY Black 1er. SELLO POSTAL DEL MUNDO 1840", chose to use a poor quality, PERFORATIONS ADDED knock-off, of the artist recreation from the Great Britain Stamp World 1990  s/s with the non existent check letters S-W  (technically, not a Penny Black either)! I hate this "thing" so much, I've never been able to come up with a label to describe it! 

In my opinion, the worst designer error of them all, how can anyone who knows anything about stamps, not know what a Penny Black looks like, and with all the great scans available online, not use a real one?

Lou added: I got so into that horrible PB mock-up, that I forgot to comment on Martin's query re the Bolivia imperf airmail stamp.

If you note the SoS, it is a black monotone, and not the dark violet/black bi color of the normal C7 perforated stamp. Perkins Bacon & Co, the printers of the Bolivia airmail issue, were famous for producing proofs and trade samples of their products; I could not find one in my searches, but in my data base, I listed the SoS as "C7 imperf monotone proof" which describes it better. 

Martin Hirschbühl wrote: knock me down, but I would say, that it is NOT in black monotone, but the dark violet/black color of the normal C7 perforated stamp (compare yourself).

 Bolivia C7 greyscale Bolivia C7 imperf proof

Lou responded: Back in 2005, when I got the actual sheetlet I spent some time staring at this C7 SoS.  Sometimes I saw two colors and sometimes only black, so I originally described it in my database as "C7 imperf proof" and then changed it at a later date. For the hell of it, I just took a scan of the darkest C7 I could find on line, and converted it to greyscale (couldn't get pure black/white--anyone know how?) and trimmed the perfs off of both, to see what they looked like, see attached. Comparing the two next to each other, which I can't figure out how to copy for you, there seems to be a slight color depth difference between the frame the and vignette in the colored scan, and since it can only be a proof, and not an unlisted error or variety, let's go with the original safer description: "C7 imperf proof".

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Scott: #1267O

Issued: 24.07.2006

Stamp Day

Inside #1267c: Bolivia #189O

Inside #1267c: Honduras #C1052iO

Inside #1267e: Bolivia #1247O

Inside #1267e: Island #990aO

Inside #1267f: Bolivia #C240O

Inside #1267f: Dominican Rep. #1308aO

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Scott: #1310-4O

Issued: 18.4.2007

50th Anniversary Central Philately of Cochabamba

Inside #1310:

	Bolivia #1079		Bolivia #1079		Bolivia #1079
	Bolivia #800		Bolivia #800
	Bolivia #C240		Bolivia #1137
	Bolivia #516		Bolivia #1121		Bolivia #659		Bolivia #C240

Inside #1311: Bolivia #C270O

Inside #1312: Bolivia #901BP

Inside #1312:

Bolivia #1017	Bolivia #1018	Bolivia #1035	Bolivia #741
Bolivia #933
Bolivia #758
Bolivia #993
Bolivia #983	Bolivia #1011

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #1369O

Issued: 15.01.2008

Bolivia World Post Day

Inside #1369: Bolivia #????O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #1392O

Issued: 1.5.2009

Map of Bolivia

Inside #1392: Stamps on Envelopes

#1392 paid an additional postage fee for mail that was to be handled by private postal services in Bolivia

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Scott: #1421P

Issued: 15.03.2010

80th Anniversary First Aeropostale Flight from the Pyrenees to the Andes

Inside #1421: Bolivia #199O

Inside #1421: Bolivia #200O

Thanks to Prof. Plinio Richelmi and to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #????O

Issued: 18.10.2017

150th Anniversary First official Bolivian stamp

Inside #????: Bolivia #1O

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Scott: #????P

Issued: 18.10.2017

150th Anniversary First official Bolivian stamp

Inside #????: Bolivia #1134

Inside #????: Bolivia #1315

Inside #????: Bolivia #1010

Inside #????: Bolivia #936

Inside #????: Bolivia #118

Inside #????: Bolivia #562

Inside #????: Bolivia TBI

Inside #????: Bolivia #947a

Inside #????: Bolivia #1247

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Bolivia #1

Bolivia #19

Bolivia #46 for Cuba

Bolivia #C1-9

Bolivia #C26 for Paraguay

Bolivia #118

Bolivia #C82

Bolivia #155

Scott: #279-80O

Bolivia #C240

Bolivia #469

Bolivia #521

Bolivia #534

Scott: #549O

Mi Bl. #40-2O, #44-6O

Mi Bl. #43 &#47

Scott: #561

Bolivia #562

Mi Bl. #52O

Mi Bl. #49O

Scott: #564O

Mi Bl. #50O & #54O

Scott: #576O

Scott: #576aO (Mi Bl. #64)

Bolivia #581

Bolivia #583

Mi Bl. #78O

Mi Bl. #79O

To complete

Bolivia #690

Bolivia #741

Bolivia #750

Bolivia #816

Bolivia #936

Bolivia #1010

Bolivia #1134

Bolivia #1315

Bolivia #947a

Bolivia #1247

Scott: #????O