Auction # 2546 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: General December 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...

GJ.17, 1P. blue, dull impressions, 5 examples with shading color: light blue, azure, blue, greenish blue and dark blue, very good lot!

GJ.17, 3 examples in azure or light blue, different cancels, very fine quality!

GJ.17, with "BUENOS : AIRES" variety, mint original gum, attractive!

GJ.24, 15c. blue mint WITH ORIGINAL GUM (+50%), VF quality!

GJ.84, 1888 5c. Rivadavia type I (large collar), beautiful MNH example (with tiny hinge mark in the sheet margin), excellent quality!

GJ.87, 1888 10c. Avellaneda, mint with full original gum, light hinge mark, excellent quality!

GJ.96, ¼c. Paz, COLOR PROOF in light red, block of 8 printed on card, with lower sheet margin and printer imprint, excellent quality, very nice!

GJ.110, 1889 10c. Avellaneda, lot with types I, II and III (with soft pearls in the white strips and light line on the forehead, with the pearls but no line, and without pearls). These 3 types are produced by the wear of the printing plate, MNH and of excellent quality, rare group!

GJ.113, 1889 50c. Mitre, COMPLETE SHEET of 100 stamps with Expedición cancel (bulk mailing), VF and very rare, probably unique!

GJ.134, 1890 provisional with red overprint, COMPLETE SHEET of 100 stamps, MNH, excellent quality (with 4 small hinge marks in the sheet margin), rare in such exceptional quality!

GJ.137/151, ½c. to 5P. with MUESTRA overprint, also postal stationeries of the issue with the same overprint, in the book edited by C. Carlés with details of the issue. In total 14 stamps and 11 postal stationeries with MUESTRA overprint, some pages of the book with minor defects, the stamps and PS of VF quality, rare!