Auction # 2440 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Splendid October 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...

23/SE/1932 Berlin - Asunción (Paraguay): ZEPPELIN cover franked with 2Mk. and special marks, arrival backstamp, excellent quality! NOTE: covers flown by Zeppelin to Paraguay are scarce!

12/SE/1969 Cover commemorating the "Second Meeting on Communications", Antarctic Treaty, Buenos Aires, with signatures of all the attending delegates: Harry Francis, Nels Johnson, Cap. Claude Navarrette and Lte. Lonnie Muncy (USA), T.F. Lawrence, Thomas V. Holland, R.A.E. Holmes and Don Styles (Australia), Takeo Kawahara (Japan), Bjorn P. Syvertsen (Norway), Mario Izaguirre, Aldo Irrera and Hugo Ordoñez (Argentina), Dr. J.A.Heap (UK), Youri...

Cover commemorating the inauguration of the Marambio Antarctic base on 29/OC/1969, first flight to Antarctica from Río Gallegos on a Fokker F-27 airplane, excellent!

GJ.7, proof of 4P. in grayish dun eventually issued in red, position 40, excellent quality, very rare, with Alberto Solari certificate.

Fragment of cover with rare combination of Cabecita 2P. blue clear impression (GJ.20) + Escudito 5c. semi-worn plate, cancelled Buenos Aires 2/SE/1863, very nice and scarce! With Alberto Solari certificate.

GJ.1, Un Real MC, mint no gum, very ample margins, excellent quality, catalog value US$300

GJ.13, 1877 REDDISH LILAC, with the extremely rare oval cancel of RECEPTORIA DE CANDELARIA (+300%), tiny thin on back, superb appearance!

GJ.8b, 1862 10c. green with "8 cut angles" var. and notable plate wear producing large white spots, superb, very rare. With Solari certificate and signed by Victor Kneitschel, exceptional and unique example!

GJ.10, 5c. without accent over the U, franking a folded cover to Buenos Aires, with spectacular FRANCA cancel of Rosario in BLACK!! Extremely rare, VF quality!

GJ.10, 5c. dull rose without accent over the U, block of 4, mint original gum, one with "RETOUCH in EN of CENTAVOS" variety, very nice and attractive!

GJ.12, 5c. semi-worn plate, with interesting RETOUCH in the lined background (over TA of CENTAVOS), used on fragment with interesting blue datestamp, VF quality, very rare retouch!