Saturday, May 26, 2007

Kisses from Eastern Island

A couple of friends took some holidays and went to the Pacific ocean, with a quick stop at the Easter Island, Chilean possession. From there, they sent me a postcard on May 9th that arrives today.

Famous Eastern Island's statues : the moai (postcard by Chilean society Hispapel).


Stamps on the postcard (my friends know me :)

390 pesos ($) is the price for a letter less than 20 grams from Chile to Europe. The stock of stamps is going away slowly : 2001 and 2002 are the years of issue of these two items. On 6 May 2001 began this 100 peses "colocolo" to warn about the extinction of this species, designed here by Hector Carrasco. Roberto Sepulveda B. expressed one of the country's tradition with this 290 peso stamp issued 16 September 2002. They both are printed in offset by la Casa de Moneda de Chile.ar la Casa de Moneda de Chile.

The cancellation is quite big (cica 3.7 cm in diameter) and blue, ink color that begins to be very common on letter : I already knew the examples of Argentina and France. It wears the name of the Chilean post : "Empresa de correos de Chile", like the two stamps.

To go further :
* Correos Chile web site with an interesting philatelic part : each stamp has a little entry since the latter 1990's.

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