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248305 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
22 [1976 160 oyru Faroe Flag] Single on FDC with Bechsgaard cachet. The name and address was printed at the same time as the cachet, thus this is technically unaddressed. Serially numbered. "SANDVIK pr. TVØROYRI" village cancellation. This style of FDC was made with cancellations at various (perhaps all?) villages -- it would be fun to try to find more of them. While it is hard to think of such an item as "scarce", it has been almost 50 years since this was issued and I have only had three or four of these particular covers (canceled at various villages). |
10.00 |
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248116 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #2 Type I PAIR [1941 20 øre overprint on 1 øre Numeral, Overprint Type I] (VF) Pair on neat and attractive BRITISH CENSORED (PC 90 censor strip) cover, sent via England, to the United States, with neat THORSHAVN [Eat Faroese Codfish] cancellation with a light date, but appears to be dated 5 August 1941. Correct 40 øre surface mail foreign letter rate. Outstanding quality. Covers bearing the 20/1 stamps are much less common than those bearing the 20/5 or 20/15 stamps. If the stamps were removed from this cover (never!) they would sell for a total of $150! Scarce cover! |
225.00 |
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248115 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #2 Type I HIGH OVERPRINT Facit #4Iv3, Faroe Daka GF10 2017 #4B, AND Scott #4 PROOF PRINT (ESSAY) WITHOUT BAR BELOW "20" AND "20" DOUBLED Facit #6v4, Faroe Daka GF10 2017 #6PII [1941 20 øre overprint on 1 øre Numeral and 1940 20 øre overprint on 15 øre Caravel] Used, both stamps with VF centering on large piece of envelope, canceled 30 October 1941 at THORSHAVN. The 1 øre "high overprint" is not just a random shift, it is a major variety listed in all the catalogs. The overprint is positioned with the "20" numerals on top of "DANMARK". It is believed that only six sheets of the "high overprint" were printed. The majority of them were used, often in combination with the 20 øre "without bar". The 20 øre "without bar" is often called a "proof" in the specialized catalogs, but it is more properly termed an "essay" -- a trial of the overprint design. Two sheets of the 20 øre "without bar" were printed, one of those sheets had the overprint doubled (as this example). [Only a single example of the 20 øre "without bar" is known to exist, NOT doubled, in Unused/Mint condition, and NONE are known to exist in Unused/Mint condition with the overprint doubled. The doubling of the overprint is hard to see because the placement of the second strike is very close to the first strike; view under at least 10x magnification.] It is believed that virtually all of both versions of the 20 øre "without bar" were used in combination with the 1 øre "high overprint", as is the case with this example. Thus collectors of "mint only" Faroe stamps must accept a Used example! With only 100 originally overprinted of this red stamp, this is a "rare" stamp that is missing from virtually all Faroe collections. Both stamps are seldom offered and examples with both on the same piece are even scarcer! The total Facit 2024 value as two Used single stamps is SEK 8500! Accompanied by a 1977 Gunner Lundegaard Nielsen photo certificate (which does not mention the doubled 20) AND accompanied by a 2024 Jay Smith color certificate with "lifetime" guarantee. |
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247196 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
143 [1986 3.00 kr Europa 86 / Marine Pollution] (VF) WITH "V.L." PERFIN, right-reading from front of stamp, of the Valdemar Lützen company (the major Faroese oil and petroleum products company), on a January 1987 typical-use business-size window envelope used with TÓRSHAVN with machine cancellation, business correspondence. While the VL perfin is not "rare" on modern Faroe stamps, it is scarce -- single stamps sell for around $15 -- this is priced at the value of the VL perfined stamp. This 300 franking paid the domestic A-letter rate to 20 grams (1 January 1986 - 31 December 1988). |
15.00 |
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244209 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark #238E [1939 25 øre brown Caravel Type II] pair and two singles (VF, but some "hidden" creasing from envelope) on 16 June 1943 airmail cover (with Danish-style light blue airmail label) to Harald Yden of Skäralid, Sweden. (information about the Yden family can be found on the web.) Mailed by Rigmor Pedersen from FUGLEFJORD with two clean and nice strikes of the small starless cancellation (Daka #06.02). Dated THORSHAVN side cancellation. The cover bears a RARE, and very neatly struck, violet handstamp "O.A.T." (Onward Air Transmission). [OAT markings were applied to indicate that the mail should be carried onward by air, if possible, even if previous part(s) of carriage had not been by air. The handstamp was usually only applied to the top letter in a bundle, thus their scarcity and great interest to collectors. Daka states in regard to mail to/from the Faroes: "relatively rare on cover".] This cover is also very unusual in that it is not censored, thus makes the routing to Sweden difficult to determine. However, Daka illustrates this exact style of O.A.T. marking, either in red or purple, as known on mail exchange with the United States -- with a valuation of DKK 8000 (around $1300). on philatelic covers, but this is certainly "genuine ordinary postal use", part of larger correspondence (I have other covers from the correspondence). [Daka also lists O.A.T. use to Sweden with an oval marking at DKK 10,000 (around $1650).] The 100 øre postage properly pays the 20 øre letter rate and the 80 øre airmail surcharge. The description by a previous owner stated that the letter was sent by a Danish seaman interned in the Faroes. However, Rigmor (the sender) is typically a female name and I cannot find any record of any internments in the Faroes of Danish seamen. I pass this information along for further research, but I do not claim this to be from an interned seaman. An exceptional cover from a very chaotic period in Faroese postal history. |
1200.00 |
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244211 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark #238D 4-strip + single [1940 20 øre red Caravel Type II] (some creasing from envelope and gum soaks) on 4 December 1942 airmail cover (with Danish-style dark blue airmail label) to Harald Yden of Skäralid, Sweden. (Information about the Yden family can be found on the web.) Mailed by Rigmor Pedersen from FUGLEFJORD with three strikes of the small starless cancellation (Daka #06.02). Dated THORSHAVN side cancellation. The 100 øre postage properly pays the 20 øre letter rate and the 80 øre airmail surcharge. The cover bears a PC 90 British censor tape (examiner "5,409"). That examiner number is not found in the Bermuda censor lists, thus suggesting that this censorship was done in the UK. With no evidence of transit at Bermuda or the U.S., and without German censorship, I believe that the only available routes to Sweden would have been via the "blockade mail" -- secret and very dangerous night time flights between Scotland and Sweden, over the North Sea and over German-occupied Norway; OR via UNDERCOVER MAIL through Lisbon, Portugal. The description by a previous owner stated that the letter was sent by a Danish seaman interned in the Faroes. However, Rigmor (the sender) is typically a female name and I cannot find any record of any internments in the Faroes of Danish seamen. I pass this information along for further research, but I do not claim this to be from an interned seaman. An exceptional cover from a very chaotic period in Faroese postal history. |
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244212 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark #282 [1942 20 øre red Christian X] (top perfs worn) on 27 July 1943 cover to Harald Yden of Skäralid, Sweden. (Information about the Yden family can be found on the web.) Mailed by Rigmor Pedersen from FUGLEFJORD with blurred strike of the small starless cancellation (Daka #06.02). Dated THORSHAVN side cancellation. The 20 øre postage properly pays the 20 øre Nordic letter rate. However, "Luftpost" [Airmail] was written on the envelope -- after mailing, this was crossed out in blue crayon and also officially marked out by a handstamp of two red bars. The red bars indicate either "not paid for airmail" (as in this case) or "airmail not possible". The red bars marking is extremely scarce from the Faroes. The cover bears a PC 90 British censor tape (examiner "5,409"). That examiner number is not found in the Bermuda censor lists, thus suggesting that this censorship was done in the UK. With no evidence of transit at Bermuda or the U.S., and without German censorship, I believe that the only available routes to Sweden would have been via the "blockade mail" -- secret and very dangerous night time flights between Scotland and Sweden, over the North Sea and over German-occupied Norway; OR via UNDERCOVER MAIL through Lisbon, Portugal. Especially interesting, but only anecdotal without more markings, other proof, or similar examples, is that the cover is a) vertically folded down the center and b) on the reverse bears the handwritten note "Sendt til Hgör" [?] 29/8". This is typical of folded envelopes that are known to have been sent via UNDERCOVER MAIL, fully prepared for mailing as this is, and enclosed in an outer envelope (in this case would have likely been via Portugal or via New York). In such a case, the outer envelope would have been opened in Portugal or New York, this cover marked with the red bars, and this cover sent on its way from neutral Portugal to Neutral Sweden. However, to my knowledge, there was no surface mail connection (which is all the 20 øre paid for) between Portugal and Sweden, thus I am not sure how this would have been handled. From New York to Sweden, it could have been carried to northern Russia and then on to Sweden. The description by a previous owner stated that the letter was sent by a Danish seaman interned in the Faroes. However, Rigmor (the sender) is typically a female name and I cannot find any record of any internments in the Faroes of Danish seamen. I pass this information along for further research, but I do not claim this to be from an interned seaman. An exceptional cover from a very chaotic period in Faroese postal history. |
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244214 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark #238J, 280 x2, 282 pair [1940 40 øre blue Caravel, 1942 10 øre violet and 20 øre red Christian X] (couple minor faults) on 29 November 1943 cover to Harald Yden of Skäralid, Sweden. (Information about the Yden family can be found on the web.) Mailed by Rigmor Pedersen from FUGLEFJORD with 5 nice strikes of the small starless cancellation (Daka #06.02). Dated THORSHAVN side cancellation. The 100 øre postage properly pays the 20 øre letter rate and the 80 øre airmail surcharge. Light blue Danish-style airmail label. The cover bears a PC 90 British censor tape (examiner 6803; style "51/2191. D.P."). That examiner number is not found in the Bermuda censor lists, thus suggesting that this censorship was done in the UK. With no evidence of transit at Bermuda or the U.S., and without German censorship, I believe that the only available routes to Sweden would have been via the "blockade mail" -- secret and very dangerous night time flights between Scotland and Sweden, over the North Sea and over German-occupied Norway; OR via UNDERCOVER MAIL through Lisbon, Portugal. The description by a previous owner stated that the letter was sent by a Danish seaman interned in the Faroes. However, Rigmor (the sender) is typically a female name and I cannot find any record of any internments in the Faroes of Danish seamen. I pass this information along for further research, but I do not claim this to be from an interned seaman. An exceptional cover from a very chaotic period in Faroese postal history. Remarkably attractive for covers of this type. |
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238291 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
Faroe Scott #9 [1975 50 oyru Map] on 1975 philatelic printed matter post card to Denmark with Danish incoming ship mail boxed "FRA FÆRØERNE" cancellation (Daka #DK82) and "KØBENHAVN Omk 24" dated side cancellation. Addressed to Denmark. Nice cancellation strikes. |
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7.00 |
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237243 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
31 [1978 100 Mykines] (VF) on 29 June 1979 (the 9 of 79 is unclear, but cancel came into use in 1979 per Daka) presumed philatelic picture post card (tiny village of Saksun; Wikipedia: population 34), to Sweden. With Danish incoming ship mail "FRA FÆRØERNE" (Daka #DK86) cancellation and "KØBENHAVN Omk" dated cancellation, both in black. |
22.00 |
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