Yes they ARE
Leon-Sauce Railroad Issue
Thank you very much and have a happy Eastern week end !
There are five stamps to this issue. You are missing the 15c violet.
The SG numbers are 745-8 and values for mint are £25 GBP each (2007 edition)
Scott numbers are C73-6 and are valued at $20 USD each (2008 edition)
Kim
The Scott 2017 Catalog still values all of the stamps at $20.00 each mint.
Many thanks and have a happy Eastern week end !
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 27.1032—
" .... A detachment of seventy Nicaraguan National Guardsmen,
officered by eight United States Marines,
drove off with heavy casualties an insurgent band
which attacked a troop train near Santa Lucia yesterday.
The crews of two work trains,
on the point of being executed by their rebel captors,
were rescued. ¶ In an hour’s heavy fighting,
twenty-two rebels and three National Guardsmen
were killed and three Guardsmen were wounded.
The number of insurgent wounded is reported
to have been large. ¶
The Guard detachment had been dispatched
over the new railroad from Leon to El Sauce
to clear the surrounding country of guerrila (guerrilla)
bands in preparation for the formal opening of the line
by President Moncada at the end of this month.
The train was halted near Santa Lucia by irregulars
led by the chieftains Umanzor and Benavides. ¶
The Guardsmen went immediately into action,
directed by their commander,
First Lieutenant Lewis B. Puller, U. S. M. C.,
a Virginian and holder of the Navy Cross.
His aides were National Guard Lieutenants Lee, Stevens,
Snyder, Bunn, Pulver, Hays and Lynch,
all marines who have won their spurs in the fighting
with Nicaraguan insurgents in the past four and one-half years. ¶
The Guardsmen captured fifty-two pack animals
and a quantity of rifles, ammunition and supplies. ¶
While the fighting was going on at Santa Lucia,
a National Guard patrol led by native officers
drove off another rebel group which was harassing work
on the railway near El Sauce...."
And Chesty is familiar to many of us especially veterans
Hello ! Please, could you confirm me that these stamps
are NICARAGUA Airmail N°C73/76 from 1932 ?
Many thanks
re: Airmail Nicaragua
Yes they ARE
Leon-Sauce Railroad Issue
re: Airmail Nicaragua
Thank you very much and have a happy Eastern week end !
re: Airmail Nicaragua
There are five stamps to this issue. You are missing the 15c violet.
The SG numbers are 745-8 and values for mint are £25 GBP each (2007 edition)
Scott numbers are C73-6 and are valued at $20 USD each (2008 edition)
Kim
re: Airmail Nicaragua
The Scott 2017 Catalog still values all of the stamps at $20.00 each mint.
re: Airmail Nicaragua
Many thanks and have a happy Eastern week end !
re: Airmail Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 27.1032—
" .... A detachment of seventy Nicaraguan National Guardsmen,
officered by eight United States Marines,
drove off with heavy casualties an insurgent band
which attacked a troop train near Santa Lucia yesterday.
The crews of two work trains,
on the point of being executed by their rebel captors,
were rescued. ¶ In an hour’s heavy fighting,
twenty-two rebels and three National Guardsmen
were killed and three Guardsmen were wounded.
The number of insurgent wounded is reported
to have been large. ¶
The Guard detachment had been dispatched
over the new railroad from Leon to El Sauce
to clear the surrounding country of guerrila (guerrilla)
bands in preparation for the formal opening of the line
by President Moncada at the end of this month.
The train was halted near Santa Lucia by irregulars
led by the chieftains Umanzor and Benavides. ¶
The Guardsmen went immediately into action,
directed by their commander,
First Lieutenant Lewis B. Puller, U. S. M. C.,
a Virginian and holder of the Navy Cross.
His aides were National Guard Lieutenants Lee, Stevens,
Snyder, Bunn, Pulver, Hays and Lynch,
all marines who have won their spurs in the fighting
with Nicaraguan insurgents in the past four and one-half years. ¶
The Guardsmen captured fifty-two pack animals
and a quantity of rifles, ammunition and supplies. ¶
While the fighting was going on at Santa Lucia,
a National Guard patrol led by native officers
drove off another rebel group which was harassing work
on the railway near El Sauce...."
And Chesty is familiar to many of us especially veterans