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CORDOBA

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1858 Tower in an ellipse

Probably genuine 

  5 c blue
  10 c black

Value of the stamps

 
vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon
 
*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare
Value Unused Used Remarks
5 c RR ? Printed in sheets of 30 stamps.
10 c RRR ? Printed in sheets of 20 stamps.

Both stamps were issued on 28 October 1858. The 5 c was printed in sheets of 30 stamps (3 rows of 10 stamps) and the 10 c in sheets of 20 (4 rows of 5 stamps). The value was applied manually on the printing stones (and thus the stamps can be plated). A ince website on these stamps (in German) can be found at: http://www.klassische-philatelie.ch/arg/arg_cordoba.html.

Forgeries exist, (I'm not quite sure if the above 5 c stamp is genuine), examples:

Forgery!
(Forgeries)

In the genuine specimens, the letters 'CORDOBA' should be almost as thick as 'CEN'. In the genuine stamps, some have a dot behind 'CEN' and others don't (only 1 in 30 stamps has a dot).

I know that in 1880 forgeries were made in Buenos Aires (often offered as 'reprints') by a certain Mr. Esteve Latour (Le Timbre Poste by Moens, 1882, No.236, page 77).

Genuine stamps with forged cancels also exist, example:


(Genuine stamp with forged cancel)

The forger Schröder seems to have made forgeries of the 5 c and 10 c, but he also added bogus values of 15 c violet, 25 c orange, 50 c green and 1 P red. In an article from the American Philatelist ol 36, 1922-23, page 99-100, in which he describes the genuine 10 c varieties, Hugo Griebert mentions that the Latour and Schroeder forgeries are easily identifiable (but he doesn't say how....).


(Schröder or Schroeder forgeries?)


Other forgeries of the 5 c value


Some badly done forgeries.


A reprint made for the 100 year stamp centenary.

 

In 1890 two telegraph stamps were issued (10 c blue and 40 c green), the inscription was "TELEGRAFO PROVINCIAL CORDOBA", example:

1901 Fiscal stamps, inscription "OFICINA OUIMICA MUNICIPAL CORDOBA"

In this design were issued (perforated or imperforate): 1 c green, 2 c blue, 3 c red and 5 c brown.

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