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  • Lot# : 1097 Argentina

    Colonial 1803 (June 25): Long entire letter from Buenos Ayres to Valencia struck on entry with "CADIZ" straight line handstamp and large "10" (reales) marking both in red. Scarce.
    Starting bid : 200.00 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1098 Argentina

    1864: Prepaid cover from Buenos Ayres to Bahia, Brazil with two strikes of circular "Consulate Suisse / Buenos-Ayres" cachets in blue, struck with British P.O. "♚ / PAID AT / BUENOS AYRES" in black and rated "1/-" in red manuscript at top. Reverse with unusual usage of double arc BUENOS-AYRES cds (March 26) and single ring cds (March 29) each in black. The cover with no side flaps but scarce Gi CC1 = £ 850/Scott = $ 900.
    Starting bid : 200.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 300.00 CHF

    Lot# : 1099 Argentina

    French Steamers 1864/1904: Small collection of covers/cards (8) and two pieces with 1864 entire with octagonal "CONF. ARGENTINE / SAINTONGE" datestamp (Sept. 12) rated "8" décimes in Bordeaux, two 1865 entires at double and triple rates each struck with "CONF. ARGENTINE / CARMEL" and carried on the same voyage, one taxed "16" and the other "24" décimes on arrival; 1868 entire letter from Montevideo to Genova struck with circular "MONTEVIDEO / PAQ. FR. K. No 1" in black (July 15), 1885 cover with Montevideo Concular seal in blue with Type Sage 25 c. bistre on yellow cancelled octagonal "BUENOS-AYRES / PAQ. FR. J No. 5" and carried on the "Niger", 1889 cover with Uruguay 1888 10 c. violet used to London on Ligne J (signed Lee), together with two colourful pieces and two later cards.
    Starting bid : 300.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 360.00 CHF

    Lot# : 1100 Argentina

    1889: Rivadavia 5 c. rose postal stationery envelope used to Leipzig, Germany and up-rated with 1888-90 litho 15 c. orange and 1888/89 5 c. rose tied by "Rosario SF" cds's in black (June 16). Reverse with Buenos Aires transit cds's and Leipzig arrival (July 20). The 15 centavos is rare on letter.
    Starting bid : 100.00 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1101 Argentina

    Argentinian States 1856c/62: Lot four covers and eleven used stamps incl. four stampless official lettersheets to Corrientes with oval "Administration General de Correos"; also Buenos Aires Cabescitas, a selection of eleven adhesives with 1859 4 r. green (3), 1 p. blue (4) & 1862 1 p. rose (4), cancelled with different mute obliterators and datestamps.
    Starting bid : 200.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 200.00 CHF

    Lot# : 1102 Argentina

    1948/1950: Highly interesting collection of the issues of the period, with approximately fifty proofs and colour trials, including ten different colour combinations of the 1950 "Philatelic Exhibition" miniature sheet. A very insightful lot into the production process of the time. A rare opporrtunity to acquire this material in quantity.
    Starting bid : 500.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 600.00 CHF

    Lot# : 1103 Argentina

    1856/1924: ROSARIO, collection of early entires, stamps and ephemera, with twenty letters beginning with a prephilatelic clear double oval strike FRANCA, then 1862 Argentine Republic 5c rose good margined copy on letter from Buenos Aires to San Juan with blue double circle arrival, and the same double circle CORREIO DEL ROSARIO on front with close cut horizontal pair to TUCUMAN. Arguably the outstanding item is an 1882 registered letter with mixed 32c franking between 1867 Rivadavia 8c and 1873 Moreno 4c to Italy. The briefly used ROSARIO 'without date' is included on two entires, whilst the remainder is made up of a range of other letters and three fiscal stamps, also with local ROSARIO interest.
    Starting bid : 500.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 600.00 CHF

    Lot# : 1104 Argentina

    1884/1968: Official stamps in all variants with over forty often registered entires, with different uses, airmails, censors, destinations abroad, in the names of Justice, Science, Culture and many other department admitted to the official mail. Included are letters to the Department of Insects at the American Museum of Natural History, Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, the Nuclear Chicago Corporation, a letter from the Argentine Antarctic Institute among many as well as a vast array of stamps in all states of preservation.
    Starting bid : 150.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 150.00 CHF

    Lot# : 1105 Argentina

    Incoming Mail 1890/1930ca.: Correspondence of 70 covers/cards sent from all over the world with interesting frankings and usages mainly to Rosario, incl. 1902 p.p.c. from Orange Free State, 1919 p.p.c. from Straits Settlements, Guatemala 1896 registered and uprated 10 c. stationery envelope, 1901 envelope from Serbia, 1919/20 four p.p.c.'s from Martinique, 1919/20 two cards from Mauritius, 1900 'Avis de Reception' envelope from Egypt, 1919 registered envelope from Beijing as well as five cards from Japan. Some usual wear, otherwise fine and interesting postal history.
    Starting bid : 400.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 800.00 CHF

    Lot# : 1106 Argentina

    1898/1978: Postal stationery and other entires, collection of approximately four hundred items with a great range of unusual items, such as a picture postcard writing to Russia enquiring about the well being of the recipient during the "workers troubles" in 1902, a MUESTRA overprint on a reply card of the same series, a "ESTAFETA FLUVIAL"  cachet from onboard "RIVADERIA", a foldable card with national statistics inside sent to PARIS, an identical card unused with MRC official overprint, and a return receipt letter to Germany from the Director General of the Post office. Attractive and clean lot.
    Starting bid : 200.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 800.00 CHF

    Lot# : 1107 Argentina

    1908/1949: Decorative stationery, twenty-eight entires with a good range of overseas destinations and different designs, coastal scenes, gardens, farming, Esperanto, two with postage due. An "easy on the eye" lot.
    Starting bid : 250.00 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1108 Argentina

    1925/1972: Collection of over 110 Airmail covers, beginning with a couple 1925 internal flights in both directions RIO - CORDOBA, two 1932 ZEPPELIN PAN-AMERICA flights, as well as a range of subsequent flights. Mail to Europe dominates this collection, with a good range of advertising cards for the competing CONDOR and AIR FRANCE service. A CRISTOBAL CZ plane crash cover from 1937 with stamps missing bears testimony to the difficulties aviation pioneers faced. The collection also includes the rare 1932 first experimental flight from BUENOS AIRES to MONTEVIDEO, as well as the first direct flight from BUENOS AIRES to NEW YORK. A fine lot for the airmail enthusiast.
    Starting bid : 500.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,600.00 CHF

    Lot# : 1109 Argentina

    Argentina/Peru, Moens, J.-B. 1882; TIMBRES DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE ARGENTINE et de ses diverses provinces  (Buenos Ayres, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre-Rios, Jujuy, San Luis, Santa-Fe, Santiago del Estero), both volumes of 170 + 148 pages with 90 + 90 gravures sur bois, bound together with the 1878 issue of LES TIMBRES DU PEROU, 2ème édition with 104 pages and 42 gravures sur bois, both books with a print run of 150 examples, half leather hardbound with raised and gold tooled spine.
    Starting bid : 150.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 150.00 CHF
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