Correos has once again made a mistake on a stamp. The Crown corporation has once again demonstrated a complete lack of care and professionalism in publishing a print run of the series. Discoverers of Oceania: that of the Burgos Toribio Alonso de Salazarwho calls Toribio Asensio de Salazar.
Correos dedicates a series of commemorative stamps to Spanish discoverers, the latter to those who have reached the unknown Oceania in the 26th century. But in issuing the latter, it made an error that was curious to say the least for a public company of its size. He renamed Toribio Alonso de Salazar, one of the discoverers of Cape Horn, who participated in the expedition of Garcia Jofre de Loaysathe call in this damn worldfor the drama-filled epic journey that it turned out to be.
It’s very good that @Mail dedicate stamps to the Spanish captains who discovered Oceania, but if in doing so they get the name wrong, they are doing a disservice.
Let’s hope they correct that of Toribio ALONSO de Salazar, successor of Elcano in the Loaysa expedition. pic.twitter.com/NCKtLSgGSn– RutaElcano (@Ruta_Elcano) November 22, 2024
This is not the first time Correos has made a similar mistake. In 2018 he presented in León a stamp dedicated to the Castilian province in which, by mistake, the Burgos Cathedral appeared. On this occasion, the president of the state company at the time, Javier Cuestapresent at the presentation event, apologized, even if he did not realize it at first.
The aforementioned stamp, which was exhibited in the plenary room of the old León City Hall, in the Plaza de San Marcelo, was part of the series “12 months, 12 stamps, 12 provinces”.
Who was Salazar’s Toribio Alonso
Toribio Alonso de Salazar was one of the inhabitants of Burgos who participated in the expedition of Garcia Jofre of Loaysa. When organizing the second trip to the Spice Island, Loaysa and Juan Sebastian Elcanothis time from the port of La Coruña, the emperor decided that financing should not be provided by merchants. However, the impossibility of obtaining all the necessary funds made it necessary to rely on the help of several capitalist investors, such as the German Fugger and the Welser, and others on a small scale such as Toribio Alonso de Salazar himself, who brought eighty ducats.
The expedition left on July 24, 1525 and arrived near the strait in January 1526.
Alonso de Salazar was the accountant of the ship San Lesmes, commanded by Francisco de Hoces. This ship sailed further south of the strait, up to 55 degrees ur unknowingly discovering Cape Horn end of January. Loaysa died at the end of July 1526 and was replaced in command by Elcanodied four days later. It was then that they appointed the Captain General Toribio Alonso de Salazar. The new captain continued to advance across the Pacific and arrived at the island of Guam on September 4, 1526. There he found the Galician sailor Gonzalo de Vigo, who had deserted Magellan’s expedition and had managed to visit thirteen of the main islands in the region. from the islands of Latin Sails, or Thieves.
