Near Classic Find!

There are a few big empty spaces in my albums (to distinguish them from the many smaller empty spaces) for these big blocks of Chilean stamps from 1948. There were 75 stamps issued, 50 regular and 25 airs to commemorate the 1944 centenary of the publication of Claudio Gay's Natural History of Chile. I had never seen so much as a single of any one of them, so was nicely surprised to find this MNH block of the airmails in a box of stuff I had purchased sight-unseen this week.

OH WOW!!! That's a way to make us Air Mail Collectors Jealous......LOL Very AWESOME find there MV.

Holy,moley! What a delightful find! It's like finding one of the golden eggs at a big Easter Egg hunt!
Thanks so very much for sharing!
Gussyboy1

beautiful setenant block, nice centering, great diversity of animals

What a fantastic find. Beautiful stamps.

Wow

What a find Modern

Your're one lucky guy.

Dianne

Hola:

That is a beatiful piece of chilean airmail stamps, indeed!

Here are the regular 2 issues:

In Blue:


In Green:


All the best,

José

Bienvenido Jose. Very attractive stamps. Thanks to both of you for showing all three sets.

very nice looking stamps! - a great addition to any collection

Very nice find indeed. Here are some used examples. Multiples are very hard to find.




Note there are 2 pairs in this group.