Mint? first day issue blocks of four

I don't really know if it's OK to call these mint or not. However, the first day issue blocks of 4 that I have seem to be of the same kind of item as the one Doug is selling. I do now by fact that the ones I have were purchased by my grandmother at the Argentine central post office. They would sell you on the first day issue, blocks of four not attached to any envelope, that they would
cancel for collectors. I guess it could have been a custom worldwide in the 50's and early 60's? Maybe?

All comments are welcome.

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Details

Scott Argentina Catalog no. CB 20 63. Date 1960 (Semi-postal issue)
6 pesos + 3 pesos grey

Concordance = Stanley Gibbons Catalog no. 983.

Not another Columbus stamp…

At first glance I when I looked at the image depicted on this stamp I thought it had to do with Columbus and the discovery of America. It was the presence of the three large ships with sails that misled me. A closer look first revealed a fourth ship in the background also the text which read: “Combate de Montevideo”. What is this all about? And why on an air mail stamp?

The combat of Montevideo also known as the Action of May 14^th, 1814, was a battle that took place on the 17 of May, 1814 and meant the end of the Spanish domination of the Rio de la Plata waters. In Argentina, May 17^th is also considered to be “National Navy Day” (Dia de la Armada Nacional).

Argentina fought its war of independence from Spain between 1810 and 1818. The combat of Montevideo was fought within this context. In midst of the war Gervasio Antonio Posadas had been elected by an assembly in Buenos Aires as Supreme Director. He created a naval fleet and appointed William Brown as Chief Commander on March 1^st, 1814. It was this reduced fleet that engaged with combat with the Spanish ships on the coast of Montevideo on May 14^th, 1814 and defeated them three days later.

This stamp is one in a series of air mail stamps issued on March 2^nd, 1957 to commemorate the centenary of Admiral William Brown’s death.

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Details:

Scott Argentina Catalog no. C63. Date: 1957
60 centavos blue grey

Concordance: Stanley Gibbons no. 902; Yvert/Tellier (poste aérienne) no. 43.

A postal parcel bulletin to the most famous jewelry store in Cordoba?

This ”boletín de expedición” (expedition bulletin), also called ”boletín de encomiendas” (parcel bulletin), is a kind of postal entire used in the sending and receiving of packages or postal parcels.

It consists of a large card of thin paper or cardboard, which on the front has the indicium or postal pre-paid marking and space to fill in the addresses of both the sender and the addressee. The postal parcel bulletin states that it covers up to 5 kilograms.

This postal parcel bulletin was sent on the 18th of April, 1913 by a Señor B. Guthmann in Buenos Aires to a Señor V. Pavese in Córdoba. What is remarkable, is that there is no specific address for the addressee… Could it be a person who received parcels very often? Was it such an important person in Cordoba, that he (or his company) did not need his (its) address specified?

Looking into Italians who emigrated to Argentina, and in Particular to Córdoba from Piemont, I found out that a Vicente Pavese owned in the beginning of the 1900s the most famous jewelry store in Cordoba, La Moderna.

The parcel states that it weighed 3,350 kilograms. And we are curious about what the contents could have been…

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Postal Parcel Bulletin - Catalogue Vasen / Riese no. B16 (1913).
Farmer. 1 peso - blue.