1929-30 1c-10c on 5c Canal Zone Postage Due,Gaillard Cut CZ, (4)
# CZJ21-24 - 1929-30 1c-10c on 5c Canal Zone Postage Due - Gaillard Cut CZ, (4)
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CZJ21-24 - 1929-30 1c-10c on 5c Canal Zone Postage Due - Gaillard Cut CZ, (4)
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Canal Zone Postage Due Set |
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| An engineering phenomenon and a bygone philatelic era are chronicled on mint Panama Canal Zone stamps. Now you can get a complete set of 1929-30 Canal Zone Postage Due stamps and save off Mystic’s regular retail price! | |
| Before postage meters, clerks used Postage Due stamps to indicate insufficient postage. 1929-30 Postage Due set was created by overprinting CZ #107, which depicts Gaillard Cut – the largest canyon created by man. | |
| The Gaillard Cut was named after Major David DuBose Gaillard. Gaillard was in charge of the Central Division, which included all of Gatun Lake and the Culebra Cut. Gaillard died of a brain tumor shortly before the Canal was completed, and Culebra Cut was officially changed to Gaillard Cut in his honor. | |
| Canal Zone Stamps Chronicle America’s Rise as a World Power | |
| If you’ve never collected Canal Zone stamps before, now’s the time to start. These intriguing stamps are historic links to our nation’s past. With Mystic as your collecting partner, it’s easy to own stamps documenting this remarkable American engineering feat! | |
| With military assistance from the United States, Panama declared its independence from Columbia on November 3, 1903. The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was negotiated, than ratified in Panama on December 2, 1903. The United States followed suit on February 23, 1904, clearing the way for a long-anticipated canal project across the Panama isthmus. | |
| Almost immediately, administrators began preparations for the tremendous influx of people who would eventually assemble to work on the project. Faced with the knowledge that most of the work force would be imported to the region from America and Caribbean countries, authorities quickly established a postal service to serve their needs as well as those of the Canal Commission. | |
| On June 24, 1904, postal service was established as part of the U.S. Department of Revenue under the supervision of the Treasurer of the Canal Zone, Paymaster E.C. Tobey. On this day, post offices were opened in Ancon, Cristóbal, Gatun, Culebra, and Balboa. Railroad station agents operated as postmasters. | |
| A small supply of 2¢, 5¢, and 10¢ Panama stamps were overprinted “Canal Zone.” Only ordinary mail was handled by the Canal Zone postal system. Mail destined for Central and South America and the West Indies was turned over to the Panama postal service to be forwarded, while mail sent to the United States and its territories and possessions were sent to the U.S. aboard vessels departing for New York. | |
| Overprinted Panama stamps were in use for less than a month. On July 18, 1904, they were replaced by U.S. postage stamps overprinted “Canal Zone.” | |
| In December of 1904, Secretary of War William Taft ordered the overprinted U.S. stamps to be withdrawn, and replaced them with overprinted Panama stamps. Taft’s executive order was reversed in 1924, when overprinted U.S. stamps were placed in use again. |
Canal Zone Postage Due Set |
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| An engineering phenomenon and a bygone philatelic era are chronicled on mint Panama Canal Zone stamps. Now you can get a complete set of 1929-30 Canal Zone Postage Due stamps and save off Mystic’s regular retail price! | |
| Before postage meters, clerks used Postage Due stamps to indicate insufficient postage. 1929-30 Postage Due set was created by overprinting CZ #107, which depicts Gaillard Cut – the largest canyon created by man. | |
| The Gaillard Cut was named after Major David DuBose Gaillard. Gaillard was in charge of the Central Division, which included all of Gatun Lake and the Culebra Cut. Gaillard died of a brain tumor shortly before the Canal was completed, and Culebra Cut was officially changed to Gaillard Cut in his honor. | |
| Canal Zone Stamps Chronicle America’s Rise as a World Power | |
| If you’ve never collected Canal Zone stamps before, now’s the time to start. These intriguing stamps are historic links to our nation’s past. With Mystic as your collecting partner, it’s easy to own stamps documenting this remarkable American engineering feat! | |
| With military assistance from the United States, Panama declared its independence from Columbia on November 3, 1903. The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was negotiated, than ratified in Panama on December 2, 1903. The United States followed suit on February 23, 1904, clearing the way for a long-anticipated canal project across the Panama isthmus. | |
| Almost immediately, administrators began preparations for the tremendous influx of people who would eventually assemble to work on the project. Faced with the knowledge that most of the work force would be imported to the region from America and Caribbean countries, authorities quickly established a postal service to serve their needs as well as those of the Canal Commission. | |
| On June 24, 1904, postal service was established as part of the U.S. Department of Revenue under the supervision of the Treasurer of the Canal Zone, Paymaster E.C. Tobey. On this day, post offices were opened in Ancon, Cristóbal, Gatun, Culebra, and Balboa. Railroad station agents operated as postmasters. | |
| A small supply of 2¢, 5¢, and 10¢ Panama stamps were overprinted “Canal Zone.” Only ordinary mail was handled by the Canal Zone postal system. Mail destined for Central and South America and the West Indies was turned over to the Panama postal service to be forwarded, while mail sent to the United States and its territories and possessions were sent to the U.S. aboard vessels departing for New York. | |
| Overprinted Panama stamps were in use for less than a month. On July 18, 1904, they were replaced by U.S. postage stamps overprinted “Canal Zone.” | |
| In December of 1904, Secretary of War William Taft ordered the overprinted U.S. stamps to be withdrawn, and replaced them with overprinted Panama stamps. Taft’s executive order was reversed in 1924, when overprinted U.S. stamps were placed in use again. |