CORDOBA

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1858 Tower in an ellipse

  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:

(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?)