REGULAR POST CARD
1c Red brown Locomotive Regular Post Card with “J. RUFINO BARRIOS” inscribed on it.
Lithographed on white card stock by the American Bank Note Co., 
measuring 137 mm x 89 mm. Quantity: 100,000 in one printing.

No record can be found on when the cards were delivered and when put on sale.
Earliest reported usage, April 18, 1895 and the latest is March 18, 1903.
The cards exist with 2 centavos in stamps added for foreign use.

GUATEMALA CITY CIRCULATING              1899, JANUARY 1
With New Year greetings in fancy “POSTA LOCAL / Enero 1o de 1899” New Year
postmark. Name of sender privately printed on verso.

ANAJACHEL to SAN LUCAS TOLIMAN     1900, JANAURY 21
1c Locomotive with added 1895 1c on 5c and 1900 1c on 10c 
for 3c proper Domestic Card Rate. Arrival cds of ENE 22 on the side.

RARE ORIGINATION PREDATING THE EARLIEST RECORDED USE
IN THE HANDBOOK OF THE 1900 1c on 10c SURCHARGED ISSUE

ESCUINTLA to GUATEMALA CITY           1898, JANUARY 12
1c Card with unframed “T” in red and manuscript “2c” postage due 
on the side for the required 3c Domestic  Card Rate.

Apparently the standard penalty fee of 2c, which is equal to the 
short postage was never collected.

QUEZALTENANGO CIRCULATING                      1900, JULY 23
Proper use of Interior Card.

Left Card:
Verso with privately printed view in blue of a street scene.