Auction # 2631 ARGENTINA: Very enjoyable general auction, with a lot of interesting material of all periods!!

"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 $20 (GJ.1310), sent to Decepcion station, cancelled "Not cancelled at origin", VF!

Cover with cachet of Antarctic cruise ships 1975/76, blue handstamp of tourist ship 'Regina Prima', and postmark of the Brown Antarctic base for 26/DE/1975, very fine!

GJ.17, 1P. Cabecita, blue, worn impression, with sheet margin and wide margins, used, superb!

GJ.5, 2c. bluish green, type 2, with original gum (+50%), little paper hinge, very fine quality!

GJ.2, 10c. small figures, marginal block of 4, 2 stamps with variety: Thin white line along the stamps, MNH!

GJ.4, 5c. large figures, used in Rosario, very rare, signed by Alberto Solari on back

GJ.8, 10c. yellow-green, with accent, unused, without gum, VF

GJ.10, 5c. dull rose, without accent, with FRANCA cancel, creased corner

GJ.12, 5c. semi-worn plate, on fragment with Rosario cancel, superb!

GJ.12, 5c. semi-worn plate (very notable only on the right side of the stamp!), used in Buenos Aires, ample margins!

GJ.19, 5c. rose-red, 1st printing, on a letter sent to the "Chamber of Justice" of La Rioja from Córdoba, with emotional text of high literary value, where Nicéforo Castellano asks that a penalty against him affecting his good name be revoked, because it has embittered his life and he has become a wreck. He begs them, and tells them that if that occurs, he will say that those who are part of the chamber are just in their punishments and kind-...