More about the 'many scratches' 2 pesos late issues plate variety

 Now that I have clipped and processed the complete batch of 2 pesos late stamps I had mounted on pages, it's time to take a much more in-depth look to this variety, or family of varieties. I do not know if it is progressive-i.e. that it's one plate position that progressively got more scratches, or several plate poisitions that share one major scratch and have other scratches that differ. I am leaning towards the latter, but I simply do not know.

I see the following three plate varieties:

1. Only the long horizontal scratch above the midpoint across the left side frame.

2. The long horizontal scratch above the midpoint across the left side frame combined with two additional scratches: a vertical scrtach in the blue field aligned the R and the E of REPUBLICA, and a diagonal scratch between what look like an orange and a pepper.

3. Same as 2 but with two additional and almost parallel long diagonal scratches in lower left frame AND a scratch over the pear. This is the most common variety, and if progressive, then the most common state.

Three 1943 covers to Brazil

 It's interesting that these two countries were not at war with each other, yet Brazil censored mail from Argentina.

1 peso airmail 1943 cover to Curacao

 A rare destination. I collect these airmails on cover only when they are posted with the 1935-51 definitives.

1943 Dutch Government in exile cover

 This is a spectacular use of six 1 peso clay stamps.

Rerouted 1943 cover to Germany

 This cover was rerouted to Oberstdorf, a town in Germany's Allgäu Alps, which is today about 6 hours South of Detmold by car. The 1 peso has what looks like a plate variety. (For some reason sometimes this software loads the images in a backwards order.... oh, well!).

A 1943 1 peso cover to Canada

 I love blue covers. Don't ask me why. The 1 peso is most likely 1E4 Dutch paper of 1940.