标题：西班牙古典邮票(1854-1859)

 作者：邮展办

THE EXHIBIT:

This exhibit of imperforate classic stamps of Spain includes all the issues from January 1, 1854 to December 31, 1859. It could be considered to be divided into two major parts:

-Stamps with the Spanish Coat of arms, issued on January 1, 1854 (coloured paper) and again on November 1 of the same year (fine white paper).

-Stamps of Elisabeth II issued on April 1, 1855 (paper with bow water-mark), the same stamps and face values on January 1, 1856 (paper with crossed lines water-mark) and finally the same stamps and face values on April 11, 1856 (white paper without a water-mark).

The catalogues usually consider the Elisabeth II issues to be three different ones because of the distinct paper and light variety in some colours. The three types of paper are used for sheets of 170 stamps until 1856, and from 1857 in sheets of 200 stamps, although in 1858 the sheets were only of 100 stamps. Of the two first papers there are no complete sheets left, and there are serious doubts about the existence of any sheet of 170 stamps on white paper without the water-mark. There are however sheets of 100 and 200 stamps with good margins.

This issue is therefore one of the longest lasting, nearly five years, and here it lies its philatelic interest. This leads to a development of a great variety of postmarks on these stamps, not only because many of those already in operation were on them (spider, grill, date-stamp and many other prephilatelic postmarks) but also because between 1855 and 1859 new postmarks appeared such as the 1857 date-stamp and the 1858 cart-wheel.

展品介绍：

这部邮集的主题是西班牙的无齿孔古典邮票，它涵盖了从1854年1月1日至1859年12月31日发行的所有邮票。该邮集主要可以分成如下

两大部分：

—带有西班牙纹章的邮票，发行于1854年1月1日（彩纸）及同年11月1日再次发行的该邮票（优质白纸）；

—1855年4月1日发行的伊丽莎白二世邮票（带有凹形水印），1856年1月1日发行的同种邮票（带有交叉线水印），最后还有1856年4月11日发行的同种邮票（白纸无水印）。

由于纸张的不同和一些小的颜色变异，邮票目录一般将伊丽莎白二世邮票分为三组。用于三种不同纸张的该票中,1856年以前印制的整版邮票为170枚,自1857年开始整版邮票为200枚, 1858年起整版邮票仅为100枚。前两种纸张的邮票没有整版邮票留存下来，而170枚的白纸无水印整版邮票是否有存世也遭到严重的质疑。庆幸的是尚有边纸完好的100枚和200枚的整版邮票存世。

该票是当时使用时间最长的一种邮票,前后用了近5年，而这正是其集邮价值的所在。因此邮票上出现大量而多种多样的邮戳，这不仅包括许多已经在使用的邮戳（比如：蜘蛛，凹凸网纹形状的戳，日戳以及许多其它邮戳）,还有在1855年到1859年之间出现的一些新型邮戳，比如1857年的日戳和1858年的车轮戳。