Coat of Arms (Colombia 1864)

01 September (Colombia ) within release 1864 Definitives: Arms of Colombia goes into circulation Stamp Coat of Arms face value 1 Colombian peso

Stamp Coat of Arms in catalogues
Michel:	Mi: CO 26
Stamp Number:	Sn: CO 34
Yvert et Tellier:	Yt: CO 27
Stanley Gibbons:	Sg: CO 30
Leo Temprano:	Lt: CO 27

Stamp is square format.

Two different types exists. Lithographed on thin, white wove paper. The shield, and the arms on it, are exactly the same as in the genuine stamps of the 1863 issue; and, as before, there are two distinct thin parallel lines separating the top compartment of the shield from the second, and two similar ones separating the second from the third. What seemed like a single leaf at the bottom of the lefthand branch in the 1863 issue is now evidently double ; i.e., one leaf laid over another, and partly covering it. The dark outline of that part of the front leaf which overlaps the other is scalloped, and shows four scallops or waves, whilst the leaf behind it has no dark outline, and the edge visible has only one faint indentation in it. This latter leaf almost touches the corner of the frame beside the "E" of "E.U. DE.."; and the corresponding leaf of the righthand branch almost touches the corner of the frame between "E" and "S" of NACIONALES, but is not quite so close. The bottom end of the left-hand branch crosses under the other, and points towards the ornament outside the right-hand bottom corner of the frame ; and the bottom end of the right-hand branch crosses over, and points more towards the bottom of the stamp ; i.e., at the figure or figures of value. All the outer leaves of the left-hand branch almost or quite touch the frame, and the outer leaves of the right-hand branch are very close to the frame also. There is, as in the 1863 issue, an eight-pointed asterisk at the top of the frame, which is equally distant from the "A" of COLOMBIA and the "C" of CORREOS. The "E" and "S" of NACIONALES are not joined together, and the "S" is level with the "E" of "E.U.", on the opposite side of the frame. There is a small oblong mark in each of the seas of the isthmus to represent ships.

Also in the issue 1864 Definitives: Arms of Colombia:

• Stamp - Coats of Arms face value 5;
• Stamp - Coat of Arms face value 1;