TYPE IIA 1898 Postmaster's Provisional
Inscribed "REPA. FILIPA. / CORREOS

Ca 1898: ADDRESSED TO MALOLOS
Possibly to Aguinaldo's aide de camp.

EXTREMELY SCARCE

One of the five I have documented to exist (two in site Archives and one in Lange's Aguinalo collection). The other two that I know of in Manila and one in Spain. More often the Provisional stamp mistaken as an official seal to which not much attention is given. Very little is known on the Postmaster's Provisionals. The only way that it can get the attention it deserve and probably will result in more reports of its existence is to have it listed in Scott like those of the U.S. Provisionals....aql

 
05.15.2008