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Mexican Postage Stamps

Mexican stamps are an anomaly in the philatelic world, their prices are far below those of comparable rarity in other countries. Some of the earliest Mexican stamps were poorly printed, but later examples are as beautiful and varied as any in the world. The complexity of overprints and paper types makes collecting Mexican stamps particularly challenging and interesting.

There are several ways to categorize Mexican stamps, but no universally agreed upon scheme. We use our own groups here, they are somewhat arbitrary, but serve to break this huge subject down into more managable chronological periods.

Early 1856-1867
These include the first postage stamps issued in Mexico, including the first Hidalgo stamps which show him 3/4 forward, Maximillian stamps and the first Eagle stamps.

Classic 1868-83
These include the full-face Hidalgo stamps, and later Hidalgo in profile view, and for foreign mail there were Benito Juarez stamps, and small Numeral stamps.

Old Stamps 1884-1909
Old stamps include the Hildalgo profile bust, Large Numeral stamps, Mule stamps and the later Eagle stamps.

Civil War 1910-1921
Although the Mexican Civil War was officially over ca. 1917 the country remained in a disturbed condition through the 1920s. There were a wide variety of stamps issued, and many different overprints during this period. Two-color printing began to be used on stamps at this time.

Airmail Period 1922-1947
Of course there was still surface mail and non-airmail stamps during this period too, but the real revolution in mail delivery was the introduction of airmail.

Our last three periods, Early Modern, Late Modern, and New are arbitrary, and simply used to break up the vast diversity of modern Mexican stamps into smaller groups.

Early Modern 1948-1974

Late Modern 1975-1999

New 2000+