TYPE IIB 1898 Postmaster's Provisional
Inscribed "REPA. FILIPA. / CORREOS / PROVISIONAL
In manuscript on Rectangular Base


Ca 1898: ADDRESSED TO SRA. DA CONCEPCION LEYBA, BINONDO, MANILA

EXTREMELY RARE

This as only the second time that I have seen the Type IIB "PROVISIONAL". Not knowing what it was then I traded one in not so good condition to Mr. Philip Liao in the mid-1980's, a noted Manila coin collector. Several years later while in the process of preparing the Aguinaldo collection of Fritz-Walter Lange I went back to Mr. Liao to try to get back the cover. Unfortunately I was told that it was among other pieces he traded for a few coins to another local collector. I have long considered Lange's Aguinaldo collection as an outstanding one but the above type was not in his collection. He had the TypeIIA but on a document...aql

 
05.15.2008