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Gruss type, three color views, "Recuerdos del Ecuador", postally used in 1897. Stamp removed, however arrival postmark indicates the year . WSAECU1 150.00   Gruss type, three color view, "Guayaquil - Ecuador", postally used from Ecuador 28-Dic-1900, destination Peru. Very rare color litho. WSAECU2
   		600.00  
               
"South America Calling" - "HCJB" - "Quito - Ecuador, La voz de loa Andes". Very nice
Tematic Radio subject. Postally used from Ecuador 1934 to Baltimore. Veru unual item. WSAECU3 		75.00   Glossy real photo showing two ladies with an interesting manuscript message: "The people here shown will tell you all about it if they haven't already done so. Guayaquil scene, James Edwin Chapman". Postally used from Ecuador Sept-12-1905 sent to Conn through New York with arrival cd Oct-4-1905. Both arrival postmarks on the same date, New Haven 9:30 pm. Interesting to see what the sender meant with this message. WSAECU4 350.00  
               
b/w litho - El Malecon - Guayaquil. Postally used from Guayaquil Oct-17-1911 to Santiago Chile. WSAECU5 50.00   b/w litho - Guayaquil - Vista parcial del Malecon. Postally used from Ecuador 2-9-1916 sent to Sweden. Nice view of River Boat. WSAECU6 75.00  
               
b/w litho - Calle del Comercio - Tumaco. Postally used from Ecuador Feb-2-1907 sent to NY. Aux hand stamp "Missent to Cincinnati, Ohio".          Arrival Angelica cd. Nice franking, revenue
stamp surcharged for postage. WSAECU7		 125.00   b/w litho - Muelle de Duran - Guayaquil. Postally used from Ecuador April-20-1905 sent to England. WSAECU8 50.00 sold
               
Presidentes del Ecuador. Illustrating all 17 presidents of Ecuador. Postally used from Ecuador c1910. Historical Presidential illustration. WSAECU9 500.00   Glossy real photo - "Calle Liberdad - Guayaquil Ecuador, 39". Postally used from Cristobal C.Z. Paquebot
Jul-13-1926. Very nice ship usage. WSAECUA10		 200.00  
               
Glossy real photo - Natives. Postally used from Ecuador Oct-7-1908 sent to New York.
Fancy cancels.  WSAECUA11		 150.00   b/w litho - Puente del Socavon - Ambato. Postally used from Guayaquil 16-12-1905 sent to Argentina.
WSAECU12		    
               
Glossy real photo - Guayago. Postally used from Guayago MAr-14-1952 sent to Germany. WSAECU14 75.00   Real photo postcard with interesting message. "Cold feet in quits, but not mine!". Postally used from Ecuador
Aug-12-1947 sent  to Washington D.C. WSAECU13		 50.00  
b/w ppc - Postally used from Quito Jul-18-1953 sent to Ohio. Very beautiful rare cancel usage
"Linea Equinoccial". WSAECU15		 400.00   Real glossy photo - La Rotonola. Postally used from Guayaquil 1937 sent to NYC. Nicely franked.
WSAECU16		 50.00  
               
Real glossy photo - El Chimborazo 6310 mtrs Ecuador. Postally used from Ecuador
January 1939 sent to NJ. Beautifully franked. WSAECU17		 125.00   b/w litho - Ferrocarril del Sur. Estacion de Tambillo - Ecuador. Publisher Talleres Garicos de Jose D. Lajo, Quito. c1910. WSAECU18 75.00  
               
Color litho - Bird emblem by E. Sarasti, 1910. Postally used from Ecuador Sept-3-1910 sent to NY with arrical cd of sept-20-1910. Auxiliary
hand stamps "2 cents",  "Collect Postage" franked with additional 2c postage dues. Such cards are very difficult to find postally used. WSAECU19		 150.00   Real glossu photo - Parte Norte. G quil, Ecuador. Postally used from Ecuador 6-2-1942 franked with strip of four
5c Aereo + 5c Adicional + 5c. Very interesting usage of three different 5c issues. Sent to Canada.
WSAECU20		 100.00  
               
b/w litho - Guayaquil - Vista de una parte. Postally used from Ecuador Dec-9-1901
sent to Elco with arrival cd. WSAEC21		 150.00          
               
Galapagos Islands description & item number € r/s Galapagos Islands



One of a kind real glossy photo. Sullivan's Bay, James Island, Galapagos. Postally used from Pago Pago Samoa June 1st 1935 sent to Boston Mass. manuscript message: "Pago Pago Samoa, 8000 miles of pleasant sailing. How would you like to join us? I need a crew! Strout - Aukland N.Z." The postcard was posted just about 100 years exact to the date when Charles Darwin arrived in Galapagos 1835, and 400 years exact when it was first discovered in 1535.  Because there was no post offices on Galapagos, the sender sent it from the nearest island. It would be interesting to find out who the person in the postcard is. Possibly an ecologist or geologist. The sender was probably part of an expedition team traveling the seas. An extremely rare picture postcard from a part of the world just discovered. WGAL1 .  

Santiago, often called James, is the Galapagos fourth biggest island, with an area 226 square miles. It is more elongated than some of the other islands, about 22 miles in a northeast-southwest direction and 14.5 miles wide. The highest point is 2,974 feet. It is also called San Salvador or Chavez sure to confuse an unsuspecting tourist! The English named it James after King James II. The Ecuadorians called it Santiago (from Spanish for Saint James) in 1832 after their official independence from Spain.
 
 
1835 - Charles Darwin in Galapagos - On September 15, 1835, Captain Robert Fitz Roy arrive to the Galapagos on the "Beagle" as part of a trip around the world with the young naturalist Charles Darwin. They first visited Chatham Island (San Cristobal), and later Charles Island (Floreana). They sailed between Narborough and disembarked on Santiago. While the officials on board the Beagle drew a map of the islands, Charles Darwin studied and collected samples of the flora and fauna. His observation of the diversity of species on the islands would be the basis for the later elaboration of the Theory of Evolution. The Galapagos would be seen from under a different light, a virtual laboratory of evolution.
 
1936 - The First Airplanes - William Robinson lived on his yacht in Tagus Cove, studying the flora and fauna of the islands, when he suffered a serious attack of appendicitis and his situation quickly became desperate. Luckily, the tuna clipper the "Santa Cruz" was nearby and contacted the Marines based in the Panama Canal by radio. Once permission was granted, two hydroplanes took off for the islands, followed by the destroyer "Hale". They arrived on time to save his life, and flights to the islands were installed. The first airplane flight, which carried mail from the Canal Zone to the Galapagos, took place on February 6, 1936. A commemorative stamp was created. The first commercial flights arrived on January 3, 1959, with the LIA airlines and later with TAME Ecuador’s airline (June 6, 1963), and once again, booklets of commemorative stamps were created. TAME still has flights to the Galapagos.

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