Auction # 2616 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Special May auction

Sc.C1/C5, 1927 "TESTART" complete set on a cover carried on 18/AU/1927 via the regular airmail service between Santiago and Valparaiso of Cía. de Aeronavegación Comercial, very fine quality, rare!

Yvert 126/7, 1950 UPU 75 years, DIE PROOFS: without face value in black, and the values issued in chestnut-black, very fine quality, very rare!

Folded cover sent from Santiago to San Juan (Argentina) on 25/AP/1864 franked with 10c. (Columbus of 5c. x2, some margins are immense!), very nice!

Folded cover sent to Copiapó franked with 5c. Columbus (Sc.14) with 4 margins (3 are huge), addressed to a "Pedro Cordero", but another person took it by mistake and later returned it with a note on back ("La devuelvo por haberla sacado equivocada, aunque es parecido el nombre y apellido"), it received 2 red datestamps of Copiapó for 8/JA/1867, very attractive! NOTE: The stamp has been lifted for examination and hinged back to the cover.

Folded cover dated Valparaiso 31/MAY/1868 sent to San Juan (Argentina) franked with 10c. (Sc.18) and mute "4 wedges" cancel, excellent quality!

Folded cover sent from Santiago to San Juan (Argentina) on 16/AP/1872 franked with 10c. (Sc.18), mute cancellation along a violet datestamp, excellent quality!

18/AU/1928 Experimental flight Valparaiso - Santiago - Montevideo, of Cie. Generale Aeropostale, via Buenos Aires, where the mail was transferred to one of the French airplanes involved in the weekly service by the Atlantic route, very fine quality!

4/MAR/1929 First flight Valparaiso - Santiago - Arica, Military Air Line, pilot Arturo Kinsley, bearing on back transit mark of Santiago and arrival, excellent quality!

11 Airmail covers (2 registered) sent in 1930/1 to France (one to Italy) via C.G.A. with nice frankings, in general of very fine quality! ATTENTION: Please view ALL the photos of the lot, because all the content has been scanned (both sides)

Yvert 95/104, 1918 complete set of 10 overprinted values, MNH blocks of 4, excellent quality!

Sc.C3, 1928 1S. on 20c. gray, stamp with normal overprint + other 2 with varieties: "left figure is larger" and "right figure is larger", mint without gum, VF quality!

Sc.C1a + C2a, 1929 50c. and 75c., overprint with the word "PROVISIONAL" slanted at a 41 degree angle, the former MNH and the other one with minor hinge mark, excellent quality!