Private issues
La Unión
J. A. Ruiz
(images courtesy of Miguel Zea)
A 25c note from José Antonio Ruiz of the cacao refinery "La Unión" (Clavo de la Victoria), 20 kilometres south of Villahermosa. The stamp on the back is dated 12 May 1914.
José Antonio Ruiz y Compañía, at the hacienda Santa Rosalía, was the largest producer of aguardiente in Cardenas in the 1890s.