100 years of Polish settlement in Argentine.
The stamp shows us a chart of Argentine with a stylistic image of a steamship. Not a name of the ship is given, but most probably the vessel depict is a German ship, most Polish emigrants sailed from a German ports to Argentine.
After the failure of the November Uprising of 1830-1831 against Russian rule, the rebels scattered all over the world and some came as far as Argentine. The next stage of Polish emigration was rather more prosaic when seven Polish families came out to till the red soil of Misiones in 1897. Their life was hard but many more were to follow, including even a couple of nobles: Białostocki and Tarnowski.
Misiones is an Argentinian province southeast of Asunción.
Wikipedia has more on Polish emigration to Argentine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Argentine
Poland 1997 1z40 sg 3695, scott 3357.
POLISH EMIGRATION TO ARGENTINA 1897.
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