Buenos Aries Paddle Steamer

The weather has turned a bit here.  We have had the heater on and indoor activity has been the go for a few days.  I have been chipping away at the shoe box of stamps I bought earlier in the year.  My estimate is around 10,000 stamps in this box and I have cleared out enough to comfortably sit the lid on without compressing any anymore.  One of my criteria for the ADSIL Album is old age and also at least one stamp from every country in the world.  Buenos Aries is a city in Argentina. In the early days they issued there own stamps but only during a four year period from 1858 to 1862.  I found three of those stamps in the box.  The main rule is "Don't forget to look at the stamp". You can absentmindedly flick through them.  These were not old looking, they were mint, untainted and pristine in condition and colour.  Also they were imperforate. Only really old stamps were like this, issued before they invented perforations.  These were the first ever stamps from Buenos Aires.  Their values started going up, the first one is worth $400,  the second one is worth $800 and the third one is worth ...

Paddle Steamer issued in 1858 my oldest stamp so far