24-572: Primitives may refer to: Primitive (philately) , crudely designed early postage stamps Arts [ edit ] Primitive decorating , American art style The Primitives , 1980s English alternative rock band The Primitives, alternative country band, precursor to Uncle Tupelo The Primitives, parody band formed in 1964 with Lou Reed and John Cale The Primitives, 1960s British band, active in Italy 1965–1970, led by Mal Ryder The Primitives ,
48-646: A 1962 British film directed by Alfred Travers The Primitives , a 1966 novelette by Frank Herbert Artists of the early International Gothic period of art, in particular: Early Renaissance painting Early Netherlandish painting Primitives (album) by Bayonne Computing [ edit ] Cryptographic primitives , low-level cryptographic algorithms frequently used to build computer security systems Primitives (computer graphics) , basic graphic elements such as lines or curves, used to create computer images See also [ edit ] Primitive (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
72-524: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Primitive (philately) In philately , primitives , also called natives , are postage stamps that were crudely designed and printed as compared with the sophisticated productions of industrialized countries such as the United Kingdom or the United States . A number of such stamps were produced in
96-449: Is well-designed, with mining tools, the “Tierra del Fuego” label, and a partially hidden letter “P” for Julius Popper . Portraying historical political and military figures like José de San Martín , Guillermo Brown and (during the early 1950s) deceased First Lady Eva Perón , Argentine postage issues remained little changed in their conservative, generally Art Nouveau aspect for much of the twentieth century. Between October 1935 and
120-539: The Argentine Confederation and nationally by the new Republic's National Postal Service in 1862. Due to the continuing civil wars, a number of provinces and territories, particularly in the then-remote far north and far south , continued to issue their own postage brands and stamps for some time, afterwards; some of these issues have since become collectors' items. After independence, the postal service remained much as it had been under Spanish rule. Following
144-478: The Treaty of Pilar in 1821 the new government placed the postal service under a commission, appointed Manuel Joaquín de Albarracín as commissioner, hired Marcos Prudant as Postmaster General and provided him with an assistant. The first new edict established the postal uniform of a jacket with yellow buttons and a stiff collar. Boots were to be black, and the employee should wear a metal escutcheon on his hat displaying
168-435: The civil war , the postal service was only minorly inconvenienced and Luca remained at his post until 1858 when he resigned because of his age and health. It was under Luca that detailed regulations were developed; concessions, vehicles, routes, and frequencies set. Gervasio Posadas managed the post from 1858 to 1874; he introduced revised rates, post office mailboxes, established the stamp program, and in 1860 he inaugurated
192-411: The classic stamp period in remote or undeveloped locales such as Mauritius . Due to their charm and sometimes rarity, primitives are among the most popular stamps with stamp collectors . Several well known primitives copied the designs of standard postage stamps of major countries. For example, the early stamps of Mauritius were crude, locally produced copies of the then current postage stamps of
216-451: The first issue of stamps from France , which depicted the profile head of Ceres , the Roman goddess of agriculture. They were individually engraved by hand, so that each die is noticeably different, and were printed in small sheets. All stamps were printed on brightly colored paper. The first stamp, issued in 1856, bore the denomination of one real in the lower panel. In 1860, the denomination
240-627: The Corrientes stamps, has explained the origin of the issue as follows: In 1856 there was an extreme shortage in paper or coins under 8 Reales. At the same time, the Corrientes Assembly authorized stamps for pre-paid postal use. The State Printing Bureau decided to print stamps to serve both for postal use and for small change. The director of the State Printing Bureau, Paul Emile Coni, supposedly could not locate anyone capable of cutting
264-549: The Independence period. The stamps do not identify these heroes of independence, so they would have meant little to anyone who was not familiar with Argentine history. Bushnell has analyzed the “próceres” appearing on these stamps, and concludes that they were primarily of the “liberal” current in Argentine political history, reflecting the principal trend after the fall of the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1852. The dominant figure
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#1732851645681288-545: The United Kingdom. Similarly, the stamps of Corrientes , a province in northern Argentina, were inept imitations of earlier stamps of France, depicting the agricultural goddess Ceres . Other primitives are of their own unique design. Other primitives include the following: This philatelic article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Postage stamps and postal history of Argentina#Corrientes Argentine postage stamps were first issued in 1858 by
312-715: The cost of postage from the scattered mining camps of Tierra del Fuego to the closest points of the Argentine or Chilean postal system in Sandy Point ( Punta Arenas ), on the Strait of Magellan, or Ushuaia on the Beagle Channel. The Popper locals were not recognized by the central government in Argentina or Chile, which required that their own stamps be added once letters from the Popper mining camps entered their postal system. The stamp itself
336-475: The first telegraph service. The first period in the political history of Argentine postage stamps is the so-called “Classical” one between the first stamps (1856) and the first commemorative ones (1892). The earliest Argentine stamps were issued by the separate provinces of Corrientes (1856–1880) and Córdoba (1859–1862), and the State of Buenos Aires (1858–59). The mere existence of these provincial stamps reflects
360-699: The letters RA-for 'Republica Argentina' inside a circle, with rays surrounding the circle, while the unwatermarked papers vary in color and thickness. In 1946, President Juan Perón nationalized the British-owned postal and telegraph services (many of their quintessentially British red mail drop boxes can still be seen in Buenos Aires, today). His Ministry of Public Services created what would later become EnCoTel (the "National Postal and Telegraph Entity") and, until its dissolution in 1997, this authority issued all Argentine postage stamps. Argentine postage has, since
384-427: The mid-1950s Argentina produced stamps known as the "Patriots and Natural resources issue". The low values illustrate major Argentinian patriots, such as former President Bernardino Rivadavia and the high value denominations show a selection of the country's natural resources that were the major contributors to the Argentine economy during the period. The series was printed on several papers; watermarked paper have
408-641: The need for the stamps was urgent. Stich observed that "with each re-telling" of this story, "more fiction seems to replace the original facts." The first stamp of Argentina as a nation was a rather crude lithographed seal of the Confederation (Scott #1 to 4) in 1858, followed in 1862 by the seal of the Argentine Republic (Scott #5 to 7). From 1864 to the first commemorative in 1892 a total of 24 different designs were issued. The majority of these stamp designs were small portraits of famous men, principally of
432-478: The new county's coat of arms. The edict further decreed that each post rider was to have a horn which should blown 800 m ( 1 ⁄ 2 mi) or so (ten cuadra) before arriving at the town center, and again just before departure. In 1826 Juan Manuel de Luca was appointed Postmaster General by the Rivadavia government , under the oversight of an enlarged commission. Despite the demise of that government, and
456-780: The original facility's 1881 opening, been printed at the National Mint. One of the largest in the world, it also prints stamps and currency for a number of smaller Latin American nations, such as Bolivia, as well as other financial instruments. The conclusion of Argentina's last military regime in 1983 brought with it, among other things, a radical departure in the design of both currency and stamps. Argentine stamps have since been much more varied in style and theme, depicting zoological and phytological diagrams, art of various movements, photographic scenes of daily life and more unconventional subject matter. A number of stamps were issued to celebrate
480-522: The reality that Argentina was hardly a single organized country in that period, but rather a loose federation of some very independent provinces. Early stamps of Buenos Aires were forged by Oswald Schroeder and a paper by Edward Denny Bacon on the subject appeared in The London Philatelist . Corrientes , a province in north-east Argentina, issued postage stamps from 1856 to 1878. The stamps were printed by typography and were crude copies of
504-417: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Primitives . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Primitives&oldid=1223017736 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732851645681528-482: The stamp dies. At that time, a baker’s delivery boy, Matias Pipet, who had served as an apprentice to an engraver in Italy before arriving in Corrientes, said he could undertake the task. Coni, for reasons unknown, selected the French Ceres stamp as the design and the boy prepared the designs. The dies produced were "so extremely crude" that Coni was afraid to use them, but he eventually decided that he had no choice as
552-424: Was marked out by pen and the stamp was revalued at 3 centavos. Beginning in 1860, the value panel was erased and six more stamps were issued in two, three and (briefly) five centavos denominations, distinguished only by the color of the paper used. As locally produced "primitives", the early Corrientes stamps have long been prized by collectors. After 1880, stamps of Argentina were used. Louis Stich, an expert on
576-504: Was one of the major figures of Argentine liberalism, Bernardino Rivadavia (Scott #61). One locally used postage stamp from this period bears mentioning because it shows Argentina's lack of national consolidation in the nineteenth century, especially in the distant reaches of the territory: the Tierra del Fuego local stamps. These were issued by a Rumanian mining engineer named Julius Popper , who in 1891 prepared his own postage stamps to cover
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