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Country: Colombia

Series: 1870-1877 Definitives: Coats of Arms

Watermark: No Watermark

Format: Stamp

Emission: Definitive

Perforation: Imperforate

Printing: Lithography

Currency: $ - Colombian peso

Face Value: 5

Name: Coat of Arms

Colors: Black

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Coat of Arms

Catalog codes:: ColnectScrp
Issued on:: 1870
Paper:: green surface, chalky (glossy)
Score:: 91% Accuracy: Low
Description:: Original plate.
Counterfeits exist.

Lithographed in black, on soft, rather thin,white wove paper, coloured on the surface only of a yellowish-green, and highly glazed. The principal test for the genuine is in the condor, which has hardly any beak at all. The two green bands hanging from the beak to the top of the shield are very distinct, and
can be seen at a glance. The scroll upon which the condor stands contains the motto, " LIBERTAD,ORDEN" and the latter word can be read with tolerable ease, though the other is very ditficult to decipher. The ships above and below the isthmus are almost
exactly alike, and the upper one does not touch the cap of Liberty in the compartment above it. The bottom of the shield ends in a blunt or rounded point. There are nine five-pointed stars above the condor, generally more or less blotched (especially more), and the
two lower ones on the left side of the stamp almost touch the wing of the condor. Part of the shading on each of the lower flags is dotted ; this is more conspicuous on the left-hand flag than on the right-hand one. The upper spear-head on the right-hand side does
not project across the tip of the condor's wing ; and the lower spearhead on the same side does not touch the scroll-work to the right of
it. The tassel hanging down from the lower left-hand spear-head ends in a very distinct black knob or ball, just before the first E of the inscription EE.UU. DE COLOMBIA; the letters "E.E" are at some distance from the outline of the flags ; the second O of Colombia is exactly like the first O ; and the long tassel hanging down from one of the right-hand spear-heads joins the upper stop of the colon after COLOMBIA. The two stops of the said colon have green centres. The bottom stroke of the l of NACIONALES is very short, but not
ridiculously so. The C of CINCO is as large as the other letters of that word, and a little curl of the scroll-work above it breaks into the outline of the said C about the shoulder. There are small black dots almost all the way round the outline of the frame, along
the centre of each of the curved bands or scrolls, just above CORREOS and NACIONALES, and just below CINCO and PESOS.
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Coat of Arms

Catalog codes:: Mi:CO 52II, Sn:CO 78, Lt:CO 67, Yt:Unlisted
Issued on:: 1877
Size:: 26 x 31 mm
Paper:: light green
Score:: 92% Accuracy: Low
Description:: CopyWrong
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