Dr.
James C. Perry has recorded the quantity issued of the CUSTOMS stamps
which appeared on April 18, 1902, as follows: [134]
|
Denominations
and colors
|
Quantity
|
| 20
Cents, Blue |
25,000
|
| 30
Cents, Yellow Green |
50,000
|
| 2
Dollars, Carmine |
10,000
|
No
information has been obtained as to the quantity of CUSTOMS stamps
issued subsequent to April 18, 1902, and prior to October
1, 1917.
In
1939 the present Director of the Bureatu of Printing,
Mr. Pablo Lucas, very kindly produced from his files
all the work-orders for the printing of customs stamps which
he could find. The Bureau of Printing had
recently moved to new quarters and adequate storage facilities for
their records were not available in the new building at the time
of removal. Hence, the resurrecting of those old
records required considerable search. No work-orders
dated prior to 1920 were found and not all of those issued
subsequent to 1920 could be found. Fortunately
all stamps of the 1917-26 issue from one peso upward were serially
numbered, and all denominations of the two subsequent
issues have been serially numbered. Each work-order specified
both the series letter and the serial numbers
of the stamps to be printed. Hence,
in most cases, even though one or more work-orders were missing,
it was possible to determine the total
number of stamps of each denomination printed.
Since the denominations from 1 centavo to 50 centavos
of the 1917-26 issue not serially numbered it was not
possible to determine the quantity of these denominations printed.
There follows a list of the quantities printed, in so far as it has
been possible to determine them, of the issues
of 1917-26 and 1927-29. The issue of 1930-32 is
still current. Hence final figures for this
issue cannot yet ba given.
|
1917
- 1926 Issue of Customs Documentary Stamps
|
| 1c.
-- Total quantity unknown; last 5,000 printed in March, 1925 |
| 2c.
-- Total quantity unknown; last 5,000 printed in March, 1925 |
| 5c.
-- Total quantity unknown |
| 10c.
-- Total quantity unknown |
| 20c.
-- Total quantity unknown |
| 1p
-- 1,300,000. Thirteen printings of 100,000 each; last printing, May 1926. |
| 2p.
-- 400,000. Two printings of 50,000 each for each four series, A to D;
last printing Series D, May 1926 |
| 5p.
-- 150,000. Four printings, 25,000 each, Series A; one printing; 50,000
Series B, in January 1925 |
| 10p.
-- 100,000. Number of printigs unknown; Series A, 15,001 to 20,000, Sept.
1920; Series A, 60,001 to 100,00. Jan. 1925. |
| 20p.
-- 30,000 (?). Series A, 10,001 to 20,000, Sept 1920; Series A, 20,001
to 30,000 (?), probably in 1925, since No. 20,507 was cancelled in 1925. |
| 50p.
-- 6,000. Probably six printings of 1,000 each; A-3,001 to A-4,000, Sept
1920; A-5,001 to A-6000, Jan. 1925. |
| 100p.
-- 2,000 (?) Total probably not more than 2,000; highest serial number
seen is A-1,315. |
| 200p.
-- 1,500. Three printings of 500 each, Series A; last printing of 500 in
Sept. 1920; still current in 1940. |
| 500p.
-- 600. All Series A; 200 in 1917; 200 in Sept. 1920 and 200 in January
1925. |
|
1927
- 1929 Issue of Customs Documentary Stamps
|
| 1c.
-- 10,000 (?). Probably two printings of 5,000 each; highest serial number
seen is A-8,726. |
| 2c.
-- 10,000. Two printings of 5,000 each; the last in July, 1930. |
| 5c.
-- 10,000. One printing in May 1929. |
| 10c.
-- 10,000. One printing in June 1927. |
| 20c.
-- 10,000 (?). the highest serial number seen is 7,065. |
| 50c.
-- 200,000. Two printings of 100,000 each; last printing Series B-1 to
100,000 in 1929. |
| 1p.
-- 500,000. Five printings of 100,000 each; Series A-1 to 100,000 in May
1927; Series E-1 to 100,000 in March 1929. |
| 2p.
-- 200,000. Two printings of 100,000 each. First printing, Series A-1 to
100,000, May 1927; Second printing, Series B-1 to 100,000 date unknown;
49,638 is the highest number seen of Series B. |
| 5p.
-- 25,000 (?) Probably one printing; highest serial number seen is A-16,425. |
| 10p.
-- 50,000. One printing in May 1928. |
| 50p.
-- 2,000. One printing in September 1927. |
| 100p.
-- 1,000 (?). Probably not more than 1,000; highest serial number seen
is 881; only two specimens seen (Cacho has No. 998). |
| 500p.
-- 200. One printing in January 1929; only three specimens seen. |
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