Auction # 2616 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Special May auction

"Joyas Filatélicas de la República Argentina 1862-1867", 337 pages, fantastic book recently published, author Pablo Reim, editor Guillermo Jalil. Excellent work with illustrations in full color of the great pieces and letters of the "Escuditos" and "Rivadavias" issues. It also includes other very interesting chapters: Pre-stamp mail postal marks, cancels applied on classic issues, and a short but attractive introduction to Argentine...

Sc.1/83, complete country, including Sc.55A (overprint of 1969), Sc.80, Sc.81/83, etc., stamps of very fine quality, almost all MNH perfect (a few in the earlier issues are lightly hinged, almost insignificant), very high catalog value (I estimate between US$1,600 and 2,000), rare lot!

Yvert 2, 1933 Emergency aid, mint, excellent quality, the stamps are MNH, very fresh, catalog value Euros 1,600.

HUGE POSTAGE: Registered cover sent from Hamburg to Buenos Aires in NO/1923 franked (on front and back) with 75 stamps of 1,000,000,000Mk (Sc.295), total postage 75 thousand million Marks!!, with some defects (about 10 stamps are damaged), but spectacular and striking piece!

31/MAR/1932 Friedrichshafen to La Paz (Bolivia), card sent by Zeppelin by registered mail, with special handstamp and arrival backstamp of 29/MAR, VF and unusual destination! Ex-Loeb (its selling price was US$350)

2/SE/1933 Berlin to Brazil, commercial cover flown by Zeppelin, with mixed meter postage (1.25Mk.) + postage stamps (25Pg.), arrival backstamp, VF!

Lot of over 50 private posts stamps and returned mail labels, most mint without gum, in general of VF quality, unusual lot!

CHARCOT: Dr. Charcot and wife visiting Mina Loreto in Punta Arenas (Chile), old postcard of very fine quality!

RARE PAIR: GJ.3, blue, pair with types 5 and 7 VERY SEPARATED between them (more than usual), rare and very interesting!

GJ.6, yellow, complete sheet of 32 stamps, composition 2, disposition I, with traces of the screws that hold the 4 groups of 8 types, with a minor crease of little importance, very nice, low start!

GJ.14, notable brownish light lilac-rose color produced by effect of the dark gum on the original dark lilac-rose paper that can be observed in the central left border (which never had any gum), mint block of 4 with full original gum (+50%) with light hinge marks, very fresh, excellent quality, catalog value US$1,200 + 50% (original gum) = US$1,800. With Alberto Solari certificate

GJ.1e, 5c. with variety "2 periods after CENTAV", pair (both with the variety) franking an entire letter sent from Rosario to Buenos Aires on 22/JA/1859, excellent quality! The text is interesting, of commercial natura, about transactions and accounts in gold.