September 14, 1999
(from an e-mail by Heidi Snell)

Old Issue

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Old Issue

There is finally a new issue of Galapagos Stamps by the Ecuadorian Postal Service. The official release was September 3, 1999 in Puerto Ayora, Galapagos. There was an official ceremony with representatives from Correos del Ecuador, Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos National Park personnel as well as the mayor. Heide Snell created  all of the new stamps using photographic themes. Heidi gave a computer graphics presentation of stamps previously with a Galapagos theme as well as the new stamps. The old issues were paintings and values of 100 Sucres (about 9/10 of a US cent in today's valuations!)

The complete set is 20 stamps which (as Heidi reports) is the largest series they have ever printed at once! Heidi also says that there are first day covers available and they have 5 of the 7,000 sucre stamps on them costing about $5.00 US apiece. It is possible that they will be available for sale at the Research Station kiosk along with some of the designs on t-shirts and other stuff the Station sells to help raise funds for their operating costs and programs.