On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:30:55 GMT, "Tony Vella"
wrote:


Hello Blair.

Thank you very much for bringing to mind even more questions I would like
answered about my gift. Yes, I received a gift and tried to find out more
about it in what I thought was a light-hearted manner. I still would like
to know, for example, why one city paid 1 peso and another paid 2 pesos for
basically the same stamp, and whether all known stamp cancellations bear a
Wednesday date - unfortunately on all my 4 stamps the cancellations are
illegible except for the "SANA". If you are an expert on Argentina then you
are the man for me. I could come up with a million questions about that
country including about initialled departmental officials.

A point that mystifies me in your reply: You refer to my stamps as stamps
and tell me you had a discussion on RCSD about them. You then judged my
questions about these same stamps off topic. Was it because I deliberately
tried to coat my questions in levity? Should I have been more serious and
pontifical in my choice of words?

Again I thank you very much for your questions. I promise to thank you even
more profusely if you can provide me with some answers. I am really curious


Hi Tony:

No offense intended. I'm no expert on Argentina. The previous
thread was on these stamps and as such would be on topic here.

As we get into why a fee is 1 Peso in Rosario and 2 Pesos in Buenos
Aires, we're still marginally on the topic of stamps. [My assumption
was that each municipality could set its own licence fee)
Also it COULD be that the workers made more in the capital city.


However for anyone here to reply with first hand experience, they
would have to have lived in Buenos Aires or Rosario pre 1935 and
to have been "of age" at the time. That would put them at 90+
years of age now.

That's why I suggested the other (Argentine) newsgroup as a better
source for an authoritative reply. They may actually have some 90
year old Argentines posting, even if we do not.

When we get into "why only on Wednesday?" We're getting a little
further from stamps. Your guess was probably the same that I would
make. Wednesday was a slow day compared to Fridays and weekends.

I suspect that we may never find the answers to your questions,
much less in RCSD.

Blair




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