Auction # 2616 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Special May auction

RARE MARK OF TRAVELING PO: Folded cover sent from B.Aires to Lobos on 8/MAR/1876 franked with 5c. (GJ.38) and datestamp of origin, alongside spectacular "E. AMB. F. C. O. B. A. - 2" of the same day, excellent!

Couple of covers sent to San Juan in DE/1897, both with spectacular illustrated corner card of the GRAND HOTEL FRASCATI, very fine quality, possibly the most beautiful cachets of old hotels!

POSTAL HISTORY AND GOOD CANCELS: Cover with cachet of "Escuela Nacional de Agricultura y Ganadería" of VILLA CASILDA (Santa Fe), originally sent to General Pablo Riccheri in Coronel Suárez, and very possibly franked with official stamp, datestamp of Casilda, and on back interesting: "ESTAFETA AMBULANTE 4 - F.C.G. SUD DE S. FE Y CBA." of 4/OC. In Coronel Suárez it lost the original postage, and it received a 5c. Seated Liberty with a...

RARE CAR POSTAL AGENCY: Registered cover sent from Trelew to Buenos Aires on 10/JUL/1929, as at the time communications in Patagonia were extremely difficult, the cover was dispatched by postal agency to San Antonio Oeste, there it was franked with 25c. and posted by mail (on 12/JUL) to destination, with arrival on 15/JUL. On back it bears the extremely rare violet mark: "LINEA DE AUTOMOVILES - ENTRE TRLEW-SAN ANTONIO-BUENOS AIRES - LA UNION...

28/MAR/1928 Buenos Aires to Uruguay, registered cover carried on CGA flight, very fine quality!

GREAT RARITY: 2/JA/1929 Asunción (Paraguay) to Buenos Aires (final destination Montevideo), cover carried on the return experimental flight of Aeroposta Argentina S.A., subsidiary of C.G.A., the pilot was Paul Vachet who flew a Laté 25-Renault airplane, on back there is an arrival mark of Buenos Aires, very fine quality, very rare, very few known! Ex-Algerio Nonis

6/NO/1929 Comodoro Rivadavia to France, airmail cover sent by Aeroposta Argentina - C.G.A. franked with 48c., on back there is an attractive violet mark: "AEROPOSTA ARGENTINA S.A. - AEROPLAZA DE COMODORO RIVADAVIA" (rare!), very fine quality!

21/MAY/1930 Santiago de Chile - Buenos Aires - New York, cover carried by Zeppelin with good postage and a green arrival mark on back. It has a corner card of the "Savoy Hotel" in Santiago includes its original letter, in which the sender exaplains that, upon learning of the departure of the Graf Zeppelin from Buenos Aires to USA, he would try to have some letters carried on the airship by entrusting them to a pilot of N.Y.R.B.A., who would...

8/OC/1932 Buenos Aires to Czechoslovakia, postcard sent by registered mail by Zeppelin franked with 1.02P., with transit mark of Friedrichshafen 19/OC and arrival on 20/OC, VF quality, unusual!

Special card of Condor airline to send New Year greetings at a reduced rate, franked with 35c. and sent from BARILOCHE to Germany on 27/DE/1936, very fine quality. Rare, and much more when sent to small towns in the interior of the country!

Special card of Air France to send New Year greetings at a reduced rate, franked with 40c. and sent from Rosario to Switzerland on 23/DE/1938, very fine quality, rare!

FLIGHTS TO FALKLAND ISLANDS/MALVINAS: 3 Cards carried on the 3 experimental flights of August, September and October 1971 + 30 covers that were flown on the flights to Port Stanley of the Argentine Air Force (including the first flight and those during 1972), all with arrival marks (some applied with notable delay) and returned to sender, with various Joint Declaration handstamps, etc., the former are very scarce, all of excellent quality, ex...