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I have brought these prices up to date and added currency selection.   I have recently had to add a couple to Hiscocks' list. I have used RH numbers (Revised Hiscocks) for them to avoid confusion. CheckList         Setup

 

According to Bill Glover, in 1888, La Société Française de Télégraphes Sous-Marin had Cables laid by CS Roddam from: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Willemstad, Curacao 453 nm. Willemstad - La Guaira, Venezuela 161 nm.

I like to provide a map of the telegraph lines within each country, but this is proving difficult for Venezuela. Apparently the first telegraph line was between Caracas and the port at La Guaira (with a British Post Office) in 1856.
Apart from that I have found little. Normally telegraphy goes hand in hand with the railways, they needed each other. However, the railways didn't get started in Venezuela until 1877.
That was between the port of Tucacas, Falcón and the copper mining district of Aroa, a distance of about 145km, and a some way west of Caracas.
An 8km stretch was built between Maiquetía, La Guaira and Macuto on Venezuela's north coast in 1884 and a line from Caracas to Valencia (179km) was started in 1888 and completed (at great expense) in 1894.
La Guaira and Valencia can be seen on cancels below. Is that all there was?  At some point in time, radio-telegraphy would have come into use. Can anyone help with this ?

 

Venezuela.

1896 White wove paper. No watermark. Perf. 12
All denominations show marked variations of shade.

	Hisc. Type. Description Mint Used H1 1 25c bright green 10.00 5.00 H2 1 50c pale bluish grey 15.00 5.00 H3 1 75c reddish violet 10.00 6.00 H4 1 1B orange-yellow 20.00 6.00 H5 1 2B blue 30.00 10.00 H6 1 3B rose 40.00 20.00

H5 on piece cancelled in Valencia	H6 with monogram type cancel	Essay of H1 ?
Images courtesy of Rolf Lamprecht.

 

This first set was catalogued much higher than the later stamps.
Whereas the later stamps were rarely on the market and catalogued low. I have adjusted accordingly.

 

1924 Printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd on white wove paper. No watermark. Perf. 12½

Type 2  -  H7	Type 2  -  H8	Type 2  -  H9

 

Type 2  -  H9 proof in violet	Type 2  -  H10	Type 2  -  H11

Type 2  -  images courtesy of Rolf Lamprecht.

Hisc.	Type.	Description	Mint	Used
H7	2	5c brown-violet	50.00	30.00
H8	2	10c green	60.00	40.00
H9	2	25c rose-carmine	70.00	50.00
H10	2	50c blue	80.00	60.00
H11	2	1B grey-black	120.00	80.00

 

1932 Printed by Waterlow and Sons? White wove paper entirely covered with blue security pattern (Winchester Security Paper).
No watermark. Perf. 12 x 12½
These are rare. I have never seen a used example, but Yvert et Tellier happily price them (and the previous issue)
with used prices lower than the first issue, despite not being able to provide an image !

Type 3, Specimen of H15 in red with light blue security underprint courtesy of Rolf Lamprecht with details of security background shown below. This is not the Winchester Security Paper. It repeats the words "DIRECCION GENERAL".

Type 3, H16 in black with deep blue security underprint courtesy of Rolf Lamprecht with details of Winchester Security Paper background shown below. This is clearly a different type. I do not know if it was just on the high values, or perhaps on all values, but at a later time.

This 1932 Air Post Stamp shows the Winchester Security Paper Logo. Perhaps it is no surprise that subsequent issues didn't use it. Image courtesy of treasurings-jewelry (click for listing).

 

Hisc.	Type.	Description	Mint	Used
H12	3	5c brown	80.00	70.00
H13	3	10c green	80.00	70.00
H14	3	25c carmine	90.00	80.00
H15	3	50c ultramarine	100.00	90.00
H16	3	1B black	120.00	110.00
H17	3	2B olive-green	150.00	140.00

Hiscocks added the following note:

Note. The above stamps are difficult to illustrate clearly because of the security pattern.                 The basic design is very similar to the 1940 issue below.

 

1940 Printed by American Bank Note Co. Similar to above, headed "E.E. U.U. DE VENEZUELA". Security pattern in pale blue.
No watermark. Perf. 12

Type 4, H18 and H19 - courtesy of Rolf Lamprecht. I can see the security background as shown below on the 5c, but not on the 10c used 3 January 1949.
The high values of 1 Bolivar and above have a slightly different design, like the negative of the low values, and with the values drawn like the previous set.

Security detail from the specimen block shown below.
'EEUU' means United States.

RH #.	Hisc.	Type.	Description	Mint	Used
RH18	H18	4	5c brown	50.00	40.00
RH19	H19	4	10c green	50.00	40.00
RH20	H20	4	25c red	75.00	65.00
RH21	H21	4	50c blue	100.00	70.00
RH22	H22	4	1B blue-black	90.00	80.00
RH23	H23	4	2B olive-green	100.00	90.00
RH24	H24	4	3B orange	120.00	100.00
RH25	-	4	5B dark violet	150.00	125.00
RH26	H25	4	10B orange-red	180.00	150.00
RH27	-	4	20B blue	200.00	180.00

 

H21 proof (part of larger piece) courtesy of Rolf Lamprecht		Block of 4 specimens of H22.

 

H18 to H20 Specimens courtesy of François Deschamps.

H21 to H24 Specimens courtesy of François Deschamps.

RH25 to RH27 Specimens courtesy of François Deschamps.

 

Hiscocks added the following note:

Note. Nos. 18, 19, 20, 22 and 23 were surcharged for postal use in 1951 (SG 886-890),                 but were not known to be used telegraphically so overprinted.

 

Here are some postally overprinted examples that at least illustrate some of the colours:

1951 5c on 5c, 10c on 10c, 20c on 1b, 25c on 25c and 30c on 2b		1952 National Objectives Exposition. 5c on 25c and 10c on 1b	1952 20c on 25c, 30c on 2b, 40c on 1b and 50c on 3b

Images courtesy of Rolf Lamprecht.
The 50c blue and 10b yellow-orange do not seem to have been overprinted.