Auction # 2635 ARGENTINA: "Budget" auction with many interesting lots

"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...

Cover franked with 10c., with postmark of Melchor Antarctic base 6/MAR/54, VF

Cover mailed during the Antarctic campaign from Marambio Antarctic station on 4/JUL/78, VF

GJ.1, 4 Reales yellow, mint, 4 margins, very light crease, rare, superb

GJ.9, 4 rs. chestnut, used, with defects, very good front

GJ.16, 4 r. green, "REALE*S" variety, used with double ogive cancel of San Nicolás, minor defects, all the same very attractive, low start

GJ.17A, 1$ indigo, with varieties, used with grid cancel of Buenos Aires, superb

GJ.19, 1$ clear impression, rose, on fragment, with dotted ellipse cancel of B.Aires, VF

GJ.22, 2$ blurred impression, light blue, with dotted ellipse cancel of B.Aires, VF

GJ.5, 2c. grayish blue-green, lot of 3 reissues: 2 mint (position 5 and 8) and one used (position 8, forged cancel), interesting!

GJ.6, 2c. lemon yellow, type 6, pen cancelled, VF

GJ.1, 5c. small figures, with ellipse cancel of 'Correo Nacional del Rosario' with FRANCA, minor defect.