Auction # 2616 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Special May auction

Sc.52, 1883 provisional of 5c. green, overprint PROOFS: in red, strip of 4 + block of 4 with the overprint shifted + another example with the ovpt. in orange with small font, also in black, block of 4 + 3 singles with horizontal, double, inverted ovpt., etc., very good lot!

Sc.54 + other values, 1884/8, 11 color proofs printed on thin paper, imperforate, including some unadopted designs, about 2 or 3 with a small defect, the rest of fine quality!

Sc.154, 1900 5c. blue, strip of 3 IMPERFORATE BETWEEN HORIZONTALLY, mint with gum and used, also a 5c. and 1c. single imperforate on one side, in general of VF quality!

Sc.728 + C284, W. Churchill, 4 original drawings of the illustrator of the issue, Medina-Medina, unadopted, but one is very similar to the issued value, mounted in folder to be presented to the postal authorities, excellent quality, unique lot!

1980 "Copa de Oro" Football tournament, unadopted design of a souvenir sheet with 3 values and a sketch in pencil, in a folder presented to the postal authorities, the illustrator was Medina-Medina (who also designed the 3 values of the issued set, Sc.1092/1094), unique and of excellent quality!

Folded cover sent from Montevideo to France franked with 60c. (Sc.41 + 43) with semi-mute "A" cancel between 5 bars, along transit and due marks, and on back arrival mark of 4/FE/1878, excellent quality!

RARE CENSORSHIP: Cover sent on 9/FEB/1944 by a sailor of the German battleship "GRAF SPEE" from the internment camp of Sarandí del Yi to a colleague who lived in Rosario (Argentina) + cover with postal franchise sent from Germany to another internee in Sarandí del Yi, both with the rare censor mark applied by the Ministry of the Interior of Uruguay, excellent quality, few known. We also include a cover sent to sailor Paul Lübeck to the first...