Joseph Hackmey documents in his collection “Chile - ‘Colon’ issues 1853 - 1867” the various issues, printings and colours of the first printings in 1853 until the last printings of 1867 from badly worn and thoroughly cleaned steel plates. Joseph Hackmey has probably succeeded, as never before in history, in bringing together all the great rarities of Chile in one collection. In addition to the classic rarities the postal history part of the collection with covers, postage rates and rare destinations is of paramount importance. Most of the rarities of Chilean philately, from the collections of Col. Green, Joaquin Galvez, Alfred Caspary, Welczek, R.A.G. Lee, du Pont, Norman Hubbard and Gerhard blank are now to be found in the Joseph Hackmey collection.
188 pages, of which 160 are full-colour plates showing pages from the collection, hardbound with dust jacket, bilingual in English and German