Auction # 2517 ARGENTINA: Selection of rarities from all periods!

Fantastic book on PEN CANCELS ON STAMPS OF THE PROVINCE OF CORRIENTES: DICK, Enrique: "Las plumas de Corrientes", study of the pen cancels of this province, its historial background and much more information! Important study of the different and varied pen cancels on Corrientes stamps, with their particular features, and inks applied at each post office. Using his own classification, the author seeks to unpack the characteristic strokes of...

GJ.6, Tres Ps. green, type 25 in Kneitschel's reconstruction (the actual position in the original sheet was clearly different, because in the left margin it shows the frame line of a neighboring stamp, so it cannot be from the left sheet margin!), 3 good margins, 2 immense, very interesting, with Alberto Solari certificate

GJ.9A, 4 Reales, dark chocolate, oily impression, type 39 on the plate reconstruction, excellent mint example, very fresh, very fine quality!

GJ.10, IN Ps. yellowish dun, beautiful example with very ample margins, very fresh and excellent color and impression. It has some small thins on back, almost insignificant given its exceptional front, good opportunity at low start! With Alberto Solari certificate

GJ.13a, 4R. green, clear impression, with PARTIAL DOUBLE IMPRESSION variety, mint, immense margins, very fresh example of great beauty!

GJ.17c, 1P. blue, with variety "1 without period", franking a small folded cover sent from Buenos Aires to Italy on 14/MAY/1862 by French mail, with 7x7 dotted cancel, along rimless datestamp of Buenos Aires and octagonal "Conf. Argentine - Saintonge", "10", and on back transit and arrival marks, very fine quality, rare!

GJ.22d, 2P. blue, 2 examples with almost clear impression, on a fragment used in Buenos Aires, the right example with very notable Lacroix Freres watermark (the stamp was detached and hinged back for easier examination), very rare, very fine quality!

GJ.5, blue-green, fantastic MNH example (+200%), with original gum intact and perfect, very fresh, very intense color, incredibly beautiful, with wide margins and a very neat impression. Very rare!

GJ.5, bluish green, mint full original gum (+50%) very lightly hinged, superb and very fresh, beautiful color!

GJ.10, salmon rose, type 6, mint, excellent quality, very rare!

GJ.15, lilac, block of 4 consisting of types 1-2-6-5 (composition 2), featuring type 2 (top right stamp) in a very high position, with 2 strikes of double circle datestamp of Corrientes 5/MAR/1879 (in this period this cancel presented a dent below, probably due a fall from the desk), excellent quality, with Alberto Solari certificate