Lot 80003 – Argentina, Buenos Aires – 1858-59 “Barquitos” steamship issues,

1858-59 “Barquitos” steamship issues, group of seventeen items, comprising:

Tres pesos: four glass clichés, two in negative and some with production notes about chemicals used and exposure times, also an exposure on celluloid with notes about the violet filter used.

Cuatro pesos: one very attractive glass cliché in brown and an exposure on celluloid in vermilionm (mirror image) with notes that specify details about temperature and duration of exposure.

Cinco pesos: a single negative glass cliché, coloured around the area of design to focus the light.

Un peso: six glass clichés in varying colours, incl. deep red-brown, an exposure in white (very unusual) on celluloid, and an attractive essay on cardboard dated Nov. 1931.

An important and unique range of the steamship issue, a great classic of worldwide philately, with very little similar material found in the Musée de la Poste of Paris, and the B.P.A.