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Auction: 1020 - Summer Collectors Series - Stamps
Lot: 1842

Antarctica 1905 Argentine Expedition to the South Orkneys 1904 (20 Apr.) postcard from Buenos Aires to Hugo Alberto Acuna, the Postmaster at the weather station in the South Orkneys, franked at 5c. and showing a superb strike of the "orcados del sud/distrito 24 (gallegos)" d.s. in dull violet for 1 January 1905. A very rare commercial sending. Photo Estimate £ 1,500-2,000 provenance: Dudley Styles, 1993 Spink, 2002

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£1,000