3c INTERNATIONAL CARD
3c Turquoise blue postal card, lithographed on white card stock by Waterlow & Sons, London, 
measuring 140 mm x 90 mm. Quantity: 200,000 in one printing.

With small “Guatemala” circular handstamp (specimen) in violet.
Handstamp used on stationery and stamps sent as specimens 
to the U.P.U. in Berne, Switzerland.

MAZATENANGO  to HAMBURG                     1891, JANUARY 3
With large violet numeral “20” cancel matched with MAZATENANGO 
postmark on the side. 

SCARCE NUMERAL “20” CANCEL THAT HAS 
ALWAYS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO ESQUIPULAS

JUTIAPA to MAURITIUS                                          1891, JUNE 26
Dateline on verso plus boxed CARRIER / 7 3 SP / 91 ‘envelope’ 
and MAURITIUS / A SP 7 arrival postmark. 

RARE DESTINATION FOR GUATEMALAN MAIL
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SENAHU to NICARAGUA                                         1891, MAY 18
With sender’s cachet,  addressed to the “Wounta Plantation / 
North Coast  of Nicaragua.” CORINTO and GRANADA 
transit cds on front, dated  May 28 and 29 respectively.

UNUSUAL
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COBAN to VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA         1891, OCTOBER 20
Front with CORREOS LIVINGSTON / NOV 4 1891 duplex overstruck 
with  NEW ORLEANS, LA / REC’D. / NOV 9 transit.
NAGASAKI / JAPAN / 19 DEC arrival and 28 DEC dispatch cds 
on the side. Received in Russia 22 DEC.

UNCOMMON DESTINATION FOR GUATEMALAN MAIL