Argentina stamps

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Argentina is the second-largest country in South America in area, and the third largest in population.  Argentina has a long, tapered shape and occupies most of the southern part of South America. The Andes Mountains stretch along the country's western border, with a bare, windswept plateau called Patagonia, which extends across the south. A grassy plain, called The Pampa, lies near the middle of the country. Most Argentines are of Italian or Spanish ancestry. Indians ‘the original inhabitants’ make up only a small part of the country's population. Argentina's name comes from the Latin word for silver, argentum, because the first Spanish settlers came to Argentina in search of silver and gold during the 1500's. For almost 300 years, Argentina was a Spanish colony. It finally gained its independence in the early 1800's.  Argentina began printing its own stamps in 1858.

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Scott: #474P

(Thanks to Lou Guadagno)

Issued: 25.5.1940

Centenary Penny Black

Inside #474: Argentina #1O

Inside #474: Argentina #5O

Inside #474: Buenos Aires #4O

Buenos Aires, long the chief port and commercial center of Argentina, was independent from the rest of the country at various times in the 19^th century. Since 1862, however, it has formed a province of Argentina, whose stamps have been in use since 1864. A British post office in the city used regular British stamps (canceled "B-32") from 1860 to 1873 (http://www.linns.com).

Inside #474: Cordoba #1O

A province in central Argentina, Cordoba issued its own stamps from 1858 to 1865, when they were replaced by the issues of the central government (http://www.linns.com).

Inside #474: Corrientes #3O

The northeast province of Argentina, Corrientes issued its own stamps until 1880, when they were replaced by regular Argentine issues.

(http://www.linns.com)

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Scott: #B12P, #CB1-5O

Issued: 26.8.1950

Argentine Int'l. Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #B12, #CB1-3: Argentina #CB5O

Scott: #CB2aO

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Scott: #651P, #652P, #653P

Issued: 21.8.1956

Corrientes Stamp Centenary Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #651: Argentina - Corrientes #1O

Inside #652: Argentina - Corrientes #3O

Scott: #653aP

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Scott: #B14-16P, #CB8-12P

Issued: 29.3.1958

Int'l. Centennial Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #B14: Argentina #3O

Inside #B15: Argentina #2O

Inside #CB8-12: Argentina #1O

Imperf colour trial in maroon & black on ungummed proof paper

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Scott: #678P, #C72-3P

Issued: 18.10.1958

Centenary of Cordoba & Argentine Confederation Postage Stamps

Inside #678: Argentina - Cordoba #1O

Inside #C72: Agentina #1O

Inside #C73: Argentina - Buenos Aires #2O

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Scott: #708P

Issued: 21.11.1959

Day of Philately

Inside #708: Argentina - Buenos Aires #10O

(Thanks to Lou Guadagno)

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Scott: #B36P

Issued: 21.10.1961

International Stamp Exhibition, 1962

Inside #B36: Argentina #6O

Scott: #B37aP

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Scott: #CB30P

Issued: 19.5.1962

Argentina '62 Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #CB30: Argentina #7O

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Scott: #794P

Issued: 20.4.1966

2nd Rio de la Plata Stamp Show

Inside #794: Argentina #8O

Inside #794: Argentina #9O

Inside #794: Argentina #10O

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Scott: #B51P

Issued: 14.12.1968

1^st Lion's International Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #B51: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #B55P

Issued: 18.12.1971

2^nd Lion's International Solidarity Stamp Exhibition

Inside #B55: Stamp Collecting

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Scott: #1055O

Issued: 21.12.1974

World Youth Philately Year

Inside #1055: Stamp Collecting – TBI

Help me identify

I asked Lou "What do think about this one as the stamp inside Argentina #1055?"

Lou wrote: Nope, not even close. If you shrink the scan to the size of the stamp on #1055, the dark areas don't match up  either as is or inverted, and especially, there is no dark area all by itself for the bull.

Over the years, I have attempted to find an ID for this issue with no luck. With the internet, I had hopes that I would find an enlargement of the photo by Sara Facio used on the stamp.  She is a well known Argentine photographer, and there are dozens of her works on line, including others on Argentine stamps, but not this one.

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Non-Postal Argentina S/s commemorating UPU Centenary & Death Centenary of Sir Rowland Hill showing #B4P

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

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Scott: #1201P, #1203P

Issued: ??.??.1978

Showing Correct Positioning of Stamps

Inside #1201 & #1203: Pseudo Stamps on Envelope

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Scott: #1231P

Issued: 29.1.1979

Centenary of UPU Membership

Inside #1231: Argentina #56O

Lou wrote: You have the right stamp scan but the wrong ID. The designer made an error, and instead of showing a rouletted Sc #37 which was issued in 1878, the actual centenary year, he used a perforated stamp with the same design, Sc #56 that was not issued until 1887. The Scott catalog IDs the SoS as #37 in error also, and I advised them years ago about it, but it remains unchanged. I also advised about the error when we were updating the lists so many years ago, but never checked to see if it was corrected. I was looking at another Argentina SoS on your sites and finally saw your scans.

Attached are scans of both the actual #37 and a better #56 from my collection. I think you should make mention of the error and show both stamps on your sites. You could also point out that #1231 was printed in 1978 and not released until January 20, 1979-- see date in center bottom margin below design.

Argentina #37 Argentina #56

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Scott: #1235P

Issued: ??.??.1979

Stamp Collecting

Inside #1235: Stamp Collecting (Pseudo Stamp)

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Scott: #1249PP

Issued: 29.9.1979

Death Centenary of Sir Rowland Hill

Scott: #1249 – Block with Labels

Inside #1249 (on label): G.B. #1

Inside #1249 (on label): Argentina #1

Scott: #1249 – First Day Card

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Scott: #B80a-83aO

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert for the scans

Issued: 27.9.1979

Buenos Aires '80 International Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #B80a-B83a (In Margin): G.B. #1

Inside #B80a-B83a (In Margin): Corrientes #3O

OR

Inside #B80a-B83a (In Margin): Corrientes #1O

Inside #B80a-B83a (In Margin): Buenos Aires #3O

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Scott: #B88-91P

Issued: 15.12.1979

PRENFIL '80, Buenos Aires

Inside #B88: Argentina - Buenos Aires #3O (Changed Color)

Inside #B89: Argentina Type A580P (Pic of #1249)

Inside #B90: Argentina #91O

Inside #B91: ??? (Argentina Type A588- #1259) P

For ships on stamps on stamps: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0555/index0555_002.htm

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Scott: #1283O

Issued: 12.9.1980

National Census

Inside #1283: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #1508-12P

Issued: 13.7.1985

ARGENTINA '85

Buenos Aires to Montevideo 1917 Teodoro Fels flight 

Inside #1508: Argentina #231O

Villa Dolores to Cordoba, 1929

Inside #1509: Argentina #345P

Comodoro Rivadavia, Nov. 1929

carried and signed by EL PILOTE: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1929)

Inside #1510: Argentina #345P

Inside #1510: Argentina #C1 (3)O

Although the Scott Catalog (2003) describes the cover on this stamp as "Buenos Aires to France, 1929 St-Exupery flight", the postmark and address (and history!) show that this is not the case. It was mailed to Trelew, like the preceding cover of Oct 31, in the same handwriting. A magnified view of the postmark shows that it originated in Bahia Blanca, a route that St-Ex flew the next day, on Nov. 1

https://www.trussel.com/saint-ex/stamps/arg85.htm

The same cover appears on this $1 stamp from the 2000 booklet (see Sc #2118), "First airmail flight to Trelew" with a clearer postmark.

Hannibal Brown: The Country Where The Stones Fly

... In the afternoon of October 12,1929 three pilots are waiting for their friend Antoine at the northern dock of Buenos Aires harbor in Argentina. At his arrival Antoine is welcomed like a prodigal son by a broad shouldered Jean Mermoz, with his flying hair and windy red scarf; his dear friend Henri Guillaumet, with his blue eyes and boyish grin and Marcel Reine.

In this new land Antoine will face the most unusual and dramatic situations and some of them like a fairy tail, that will be perpetuated for the rest of his life, his experiences, adventures, the people and the scenery will be the inspiration to write Night Flight and the foundation of his most important book, The Little Prince.

Two days after his arrival in Buenos Aires Saint Exupery traveled 400 miles south to Bahia Blanca, the first stop on a proposed Patagonian line as the passenger of Paul Vachet, then operations manager of the Argentine company. The two man continued on, over 800 miles of desolate coastline, to Comodoro Rivadavia, a frontier town that looked to Saint Exupery like a set for Charlie Chaplins movie Gold Rush.

He no longer had to battle Moors and sandstorms in Cape Juby,Western Sahara but had exchanged them for wind and night, for airfields that were dusty in fine weather and swampy most of the time, overrun, as was at Bahia Blanca, by snakes or scorpions, illuminated at night only by storm lamps and faint triangles of gasoline flares.

During this heroic period of the new Aeropostale, the chief concerns were developing the network of routes on the continent and achieving complete air transport of mail from France to South America. As director of Aeroposta Argentina, Saint Exupery established a string of new airfields toward the Patagonia in small towns which would become famous through his book Night Flight, like Bahia Blanca, Comodoro Rivadavia, Trelew, San Julian. He then flew all the way down to Rio Gallegos in Tierra del fuego, where he established the southernmost airfield. He wanted to extend the Line to Punta Arenas, one of the southernmost towns in the world, but the Chilean authorities would not allow this extension. ...

Buenos Aires to Bremerhaven 1934 Graf Zeppelin flight

In late June 1934, the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin undertook a notable journey to Buenos Aires, Argentina, marking its sole visit to the city. This experimental flight aimed to assess the feasibility of extending regular airship services to Argentina. During this voyage, the Graf Zeppelin overflew several South American cities, including Porto Alegre, Pelotas, and Paranaguá in Brazil, before reaching Buenos Aires. Despite the interest generated, a regular airship service to Buenos Aires did not materialize. Instead, passengers and mail were typically transported by airplane from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires to connect with the airship service.

Inside #1511: Argentina #C6O

Inside #1511: Argentina #C10O

Inside #1511: Argentina #C17O

Inside #1511: Argentina #C9O

Inside #1511: Argentina #343P

(Thanks to Komlóssy Zoltán for scan)

Inside #1511: Argentina #345P

Inside #1511: Argentina #341O

(Thanks to Komlóssy Zoltán for scan)

First Antarctic flight, 1952

A special flight to Deception Island marked the seasonal opening of the Argentine base in 1952. Two naval Catalina seaplanes, under Commander E. Iradlagoitia, carried an unknown amount of mail from the island on the return flight, while the activity continued to increase British protests.

https://www.south-pole.com/aspp109.htm

Inside #1512: Argentina #588P

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Scott: #1720O

Issued: 27.10.1990

Stamp Day

Inside #1720: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #B162P

Issued: 21.11.1992

Parafil '92

Inside #B162: Pseudo Stamp

(Thanks to zhang for the scan)

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Scott: #1902O

Issued: 7.10.1995

Birth Centenary of Juan Peron

Inside #1902: Argentina essay of unissued 60c 5 Year Plan stamp, 1951

Design component: frames and Peron portrait only, value and bottom tablet changed to create new stamp.

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #1977O

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert for the scan

Issued: 4.10.1997

Centenary of Frigate President Sarmiento

Inside #1977: SOS in Sheet Margin

South Africa #7O	India #82P
Italy #94P	Spain #299O
France #159P	Portugal #210P
Brazil #223P

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #B172-5P, #B175aP

Issued: 10.5.1997

Mevifil '97

Inside #B172: France #1O

Inside #B173: Spain #10O

Inside #B174: Argentina #8O

Inside #B175: Buenos Aires #3O

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert for the scan

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Scott: #1974P

(Thanks to Martin Hirschbühl for the scan)

Issued: 06.09.1997

50th Anniversary, Women’s Political Rights Law (Eva Peron)

Inside #1974: Type A229P, 1952 (B) (Pic of #609)

See Evita On Stamps: http://www.virtualstampclub.com/evita.html

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Scott: #2003P

Issued: 27.6.1998

250^th Anniversary, Argentine Postal Service

Inside #2003: Corrientes Type A2O (Pic of #7)

Scott: #2003aO

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Scott: #2103a-bP

Issued: 20.5.2000

Stamp Show 2000 Exhibition

Inside #2103b: Argentina #7O

Inside #2103a (In margin of sheet): Argentina-Buenos Aires #11O

Inside #2103a (In margin of sheet): G.B. #1 [R-M]

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Scott: #2118O

Issued: 9.7.2000

Aerophila 2000 Exhibition

Inside #2118: Argentina #345P

(Thanks to Komlóssy Zoltán for scan)

Inside #2118: Argentina #C1 (3)O

Scott: #2118aO

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Scott: #2124O

Issued: 7.10.2000

Espana 2000 Exhibition

Inside #2124 (In margin): Spain #1P(Spain, Bulgaria)

Inside #2124 (In margin): Argentina-Buenos Aires "Guachito" essay, 1857O

(Thanks to Lou for the essay scan)

The first Spanish postal stamp, the postal stamp printed by Estado de Buenos Aires in 1857 -"gauchito", which was never used, mail coach from the nineteenth century crossing a swamp, a postmark from Merlino and Campanella service of messengers, the painting of an Argentine horse breed, and the nomination of Bautista and Simón de Tassis as "Hostes Mayores de la Corte", signed by Carlos I of Spain in 1518.

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Scott: #2153 S/SP

Issued: 16.6.2001

BELGICA 2001 Exhibition

Inside #2153 (In margin of sheet): Argentina #35O

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Scott: #2166 S/SP

Issued: 27.10.2001

HAFNIA 2001 Exhibition

Inside #2166 (In margin of sheet): Denmark #2O

Inside #2166 (In margin of sheet): Argentina-Cordoba #1O

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Scott: #2208O

Issued: 19.10.2002

Communities - France, Switzerland, Spain & Italy

Inside #2208: Argentina Revenue stamp of 1922O

Thanks to Michael Merritt

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Scott: #2209-10P

Issued: 2.11.2002

50^th Anniversary FAEFW

Inside #2209-10: Corrientes #1O

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Scott: #2272P

Issued: 21.2.2004

100^th Anniversary, Orcadas Magnetic & Meteorological Observatory

Argentine Antarctica Creation of the Post Office named South Orcadas

Inside #2272a: Argentina #127P

(Thanks to Komlóssy Zoltán for scan)

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Scott: #2407P

Issued: 19.08.2006

150^th Anniversary, Corrientes Stamps

Inside #2407: Corrientes #1O

Inside #2407 (in upper margin): Corrientes #4O (1864)

Corrientes, Spanish for "currents" or "rapids," is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by (from the North, clockwise): Paraguay, the province of Misiones, Brazil, Uruguay and the provinces of Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco.

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Scott: #2429-33O

Issued: 21.03.2007

25th Anniversary, Falkland Islands War

Inside #2429: Argentina #90P

Lou wrote: The ID of Argentina #90 on Argentina #2429 is incorrect. The stamp reproduced is an imprinted stamp on an aerogram from 1963, note only navy and blue, not multicolored like #90. After Argentina invaded the islands, they needed to provide means for their soldiers to keep in contact with their families.  Initially, they used confiscated Falkland Island OHMS envelopes, but later, they provided stocks of old surplus Argentine aerograms. Although these were imprinted with 11, 13 and 18 peso valued stamps; they were supplied free to the soldiers.  Finally, in May, specific airletter sheets with "SERVICIO EXTRAORDINARIO" and a boxed "FRANQUEO PAGADO"(Postage Paid) imprints were made available. Examples of soldier mail from the seventy four day war are very rarely on the philatelic market, as probably most are still held by the families or were discarded, and so are in demand and expensive. 

The 18 Peso imprinted stamp has a special "ISLAS MALVINAS" cancel dated 6 ABR 1982 (only four days after the invasion), and this may be the first day of use of the aerograms. 

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Scott: #2491a-fO

Issued: 26.07.2008

Stories of Songs for Children

Inside #2491a: Argentina #2216bO

Inside #2491f: Argentina #2239O

Inside #2491f: Argentina #2236O

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Scott: #2510P

Issued: 1.11.2008

150 Years of the first postage stamps of Buenos Aires, Argentine Confederation, and Córdoba  

Inside #2510a: Cordoba #2O

(Thanks to Lou Guadagno for the scan)

Inside #2510b: Buenos Aires #4O

Inside #2510c: Argentina #3O

Early provincial stamps

The first period in the political history of Argentine postage stamps is the so-called Classical one between the first stamps (1856) and the first commemorative ones (1892). The earliest Argentine stamps were issued by the separate provinces of Corrientes (1856-78), Cordoba (1859-62), and Buenos Aires (1858-59). The mere existence of these provincial stamps reflects the reality that Argentina was hardly a single organized country in that period, but rather a loose federation of some very independent provinces.

There is a charming story surrounding the preparation of the Corrientes 1856 stamp: that it was designed and engraved by a bakers delivery boy, Matias Pipet, who had served as an apprentice to a French engraver before arriving in Corrientes. Since no one in the Corrientes provincial government had any experience preparing stamps, the boy was asked to undertake the task, and he simply copied the stamp he knew best, an early French stamp bearing the head of the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres.

http://www.mundoandino.com/Argentina/Postage-stamps-and-postal-history-of-Argentina

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Scott: #????O

Imprinted Postal Card

Issued: 17.06.2010

National Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #????: Argentina #583bO

("cut out" from imperf s/s, issued December 21, 1948)

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Argentina #3019-3020O

Issued: 24.06.2024

Philatelic

Inside #3019: Argentina - Corrientes #1O

Inside #3020: TBI

FCD

Thanks to Zoltán Komlóssy

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Best website related:

http://www.correoargentino.com.ar/

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