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I collect Paraguay only to 1969, as "Wallpaper" stamps" take over and are quite unattractive after 1969.
Apart from the very early stamps pre 1879 stamps which are quite pricey, most Paraguay stamps are reasonable in price.
The problem I run into are many: Spotty availability of Paraguay stamps. (how often have you seen them in SOR?) Inability to buy stamps that are not sold as part of a complete set. And the notorious minimum priced stamps listed in Scott that NEVER sell anywhere!
In the 1960s many of the Air Mail stamps are listed as part of the ordinary stamp sets, just footnoted in Scott as being Air Mail. These are invariably priced at about 10 times the listed price of the preceding regular stamps in the set, and also seldom sold individually, or even just as an Air Mail set.
My Paraguay collection frustrates me, because most pages hold one vacant slot, usually not an expensive stamp, but I cannot find it!
How many collectors of Paraguay are there here? and any interested in giving advice, or trading for those pesky voids?
What is your experience with collecting Paraguay?
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I collect Paraguay, though it is the Latin American country I've made the least progress on so far (under 15% complete), so I probably can't be of much help. Starting in about the mid-1990s Paraguay seems to have given up on its enormous yearly outputs of often ugly direct-to-CTO type sets and I find their recent output interesting. I have noticed it seems very hard to find stamps that fill holes in my pre-1950 collections.
I do recall seeing a post on a stamp forum recently where someone had bought a copy of either 316 or 317 (cat. value 0.80 mint) that they had been looking for for 50 years! I notice that sort of thing for a lot of LA countries but Paraguay seems notorious for its unavailable low-catalog value stamps as you mentioned.
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I found some nice Paraguay.
Sorry "ralph" they're going to "rolf".
(No disrespect, just a pre-arrangement).
Dave.
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A couple of years ago I took an interest in Paraguay as one of the Latin American countries. As you say, little catalogue value, and less availability. Certainly over here in UK they're hard to find, esp used (which is how I prefer stamps to be). The stamps from the 1930s are interesting. I got some of those ships that patrolled the river, but only mint. And I'd like to get the Chaco war set.
The countries I really liked are Brazil and Uruguay - that weather-beaten gaucho who appeared on a definitive in 1895, a time when here it was unthinkable to show anyone other that the monarch! And of course the Tihuanaca set of Bolivia - designed in about 1925 and not issued till 1960.
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Strider, I got interested in Latin America after many trips there (where I did not seek stamps (except one trip to Argentina, as it was before I added it to my collecting interests) and finally realizing it could be a new area of collecting with mostly minimum priced stamps to get a good start. Of course, as you get deeper into it, you realize it is a challenge, especially for some areas, like Paraguay, or even Argentina departmental stamps, but to me it was a lot more interesting that "East Europe", an area I decided not to collect after all the output that came out in the 50s and after.
Paraguay is definitely the more challenging one, because of lack of widespread availability. I cap my collection at the end of 1060s because of all the "wall paper stamps" that become dominant...more so than many other countries, but I do the same when it occurs elsewhere. Like most new countries, I pick up an cheap album (sparsely filled), either Minkus or Scott due to availability in the US and build from there, and Approvals has been a great too to fill up the album... up to a point.
Paraguay is also frustrating because they issued imperforated and perforated souvenir sheets after each set beginning in the sixties, and that requires a lot more ressources than just collecting the stamps.
I am going to issue a few Approval Books on Latin America in the near future and get rid of my duplicates.
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I started to collect Latin America relatively recently, and I must say that I get very frustrated with Paraguay.
I collect Paraguay only to 1969, as "Wallpaper" stamps" take over and are quite unattractive after 1969.
Apart from the very early stamps pre 1879 stamps which are quite pricey, most Paraguay stamps are reasonable in price.
The problem I run into are many: Spotty availability of Paraguay stamps. (how often have you seen them in SOR?) Inability to buy stamps that are not sold as part of a complete set. And the notorious minimum priced stamps listed in Scott that NEVER sell anywhere!
In the 1960s many of the Air Mail stamps are listed as part of the ordinary stamp sets, just footnoted in Scott as being Air Mail. These are invariably priced at about 10 times the listed price of the preceding regular stamps in the set, and also seldom sold individually, or even just as an Air Mail set.
My Paraguay collection frustrates me, because most pages hold one vacant slot, usually not an expensive stamp, but I cannot find it!
How many collectors of Paraguay are there here? and any interested in giving advice, or trading for those pesky voids?
What is your experience with collecting Paraguay?
rrr...
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I collect Paraguay, though it is the Latin American country I've made the least progress on so far (under 15% complete), so I probably can't be of much help. Starting in about the mid-1990s Paraguay seems to have given up on its enormous yearly outputs of often ugly direct-to-CTO type sets and I find their recent output interesting. I have noticed it seems very hard to find stamps that fill holes in my pre-1950 collections.
I do recall seeing a post on a stamp forum recently where someone had bought a copy of either 316 or 317 (cat. value 0.80 mint) that they had been looking for for 50 years! I notice that sort of thing for a lot of LA countries but Paraguay seems notorious for its unavailable low-catalog value stamps as you mentioned.
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I found some nice Paraguay.
Sorry "ralph" they're going to "rolf".
(No disrespect, just a pre-arrangement).
Dave.
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re: Any Paraguay Collectors?
A couple of years ago I took an interest in Paraguay as one of the Latin American countries. As you say, little catalogue value, and less availability. Certainly over here in UK they're hard to find, esp used (which is how I prefer stamps to be). The stamps from the 1930s are interesting. I got some of those ships that patrolled the river, but only mint. And I'd like to get the Chaco war set.
The countries I really liked are Brazil and Uruguay - that weather-beaten gaucho who appeared on a definitive in 1895, a time when here it was unthinkable to show anyone other that the monarch! And of course the Tihuanaca set of Bolivia - designed in about 1925 and not issued till 1960.
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Strider, I got interested in Latin America after many trips there (where I did not seek stamps (except one trip to Argentina, as it was before I added it to my collecting interests) and finally realizing it could be a new area of collecting with mostly minimum priced stamps to get a good start. Of course, as you get deeper into it, you realize it is a challenge, especially for some areas, like Paraguay, or even Argentina departmental stamps, but to me it was a lot more interesting that "East Europe", an area I decided not to collect after all the output that came out in the 50s and after.
Paraguay is definitely the more challenging one, because of lack of widespread availability. I cap my collection at the end of 1060s because of all the "wall paper stamps" that become dominant...more so than many other countries, but I do the same when it occurs elsewhere. Like most new countries, I pick up an cheap album (sparsely filled), either Minkus or Scott due to availability in the US and build from there, and Approvals has been a great too to fill up the album... up to a point.
Paraguay is also frustrating because they issued imperforated and perforated souvenir sheets after each set beginning in the sixties, and that requires a lot more ressources than just collecting the stamps.
I am going to issue a few Approval Books on Latin America in the near future and get rid of my duplicates.
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