1868 Cover from Montevideo to France with “Correo 15 mar 68 Montevideo” cds and French Packet “Ligne K 15 mars 68 Paq Fr N°1” cds, rated “10”, arrival bs, very fine, signed Pothion (Image)

1895 25c INVERTED CENTRE, one of the finest of about a dozen known (all used, incl. unique pair), very well centred and light cds, very fine, signed Bloch, ex E.J. Lee (Scott $2’000+) (Image)

1908 Cruiser “Montevideo,” set of three with INVERTED CENTRES, a nice set, og, very lh and very fine, each signed at least twice (Scott $900+) (Image)

1846-64, Archive from Jean-Pierre Cardeillac, French ingenieur who organised the fortifications of Montevideo in 1842-44 during the War with Argentina, widower with two kids in France, married an Uruguyan woman, and is still considered as a national hero in Uruguay, noted : -1846-47 Report in Spanish about the fortifications from Cardeillac with 36 pages and 7 maps -1861 stampless cover to his children in France with French Consular cds “Montevideo *”, rated “8”, forward within France with Napoleon 20c imperf, unique -1863 cover to France with uruguyan cds and French maritime “Uruguay Saintonge” ds, rare -1864 cover from Montevideo, posted in Paris with Napoleon 20c, rare -7 letters to France 1862-64 (text only) See web for all scans (Est. € 1’000/2’000) (Image)

1856-1983, Mint & used collection in four stockbooks showing a nice selection of Suns, good “Numerals”, varieties include 1894 1 peso with combination perf. (to our knowledge only 10 known), 1910 5m imperf. at right, 1913 overprint on reverse, 1919-20 Mount Cerro 8c with “3” variety”, 1929 Artigas imperf., 1945 unissued “Santiago Vasquez” in green imperf. pair, 1948 Bridges 50c imperf. at left (10 known?), a number of other issues printed on reverse, inverted overprint, plate varieties like “Centesimcs” or “RERO”, later years with useful sets including imperfs, back-of-the-book material including good section of officials, includes also a Ciardi catalogue, gen. fine (Est. € 700/1’000)

1864-1980, Lot of over 350 covers and cards with most of the commercially used mail going to Germany, used postal stationeries, postcards, airs including the usage of 1924 airs together with the 1925 FLORIDA vignette, many items registered, mostly fine to very fine (Est. € 300/500) (Image)

1880-1975, The Americas, lot of 65 covers and cards, mostly postal stationery from a wide range of countries, many from the US but also Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, British Guiana, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador (Est. € 100/150) (Image)