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248440 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1913 Christmas Seal IMPERFORATE PROOF. Mint, never hinged, COMPLETE SHEET of 25 on UNGUMMED PAPER with beige color back. Colors as issued. Brilliant colors and pristine in all respects. This proof sheet shows the little-known "horn on 9 (of 1913)" variety in position 20 that appears in the issued seals. An outstanding Art Nouveau Christmas seal design. Various proofs of most (1908, 1910-1916) DWI Christmas Seals are recorded, however, they are rarely offered. [This sheet of 25 contains ten horizontal pairs and five singles; in 2023 I sold two horizontal pairs of this color/paper for $79 per pair, imputing a break of value of about $980 for the sheet. Since the market is more limited for full sheets than it is for the popular pairs, I am able to offer the full sheet for well below break-up value. Despite the recent availability of those two pairs and now this sheet, this type of material is extremely scarce!] |
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690.00 |
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248441 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
"DANSK VESTINDIEN PROTEST MOD SALGET" (Protest against the sale...) w/ ULTRAMARINE ON CHALK COATED PAPER. NEVER HINGED, FULL SHEET OF TEN (2 columns, 5 rows) with full margins all around. Each stamp is VF to VF+ centered, with wonderful freshness and perfect original gum. Small printing plate difference in each position allow one to use a sheet like this to "plate" all ten positions. Prior to acquiring this sheet and ten other singles, previously in 50 years I had been able to offer fewer than 8 full-gum single stamps (and no multiples); now the total is less than 18 full-gum singles and only one full sheet. A beautiful and key item from the final chapter of DWI philately as the U.S. was working toward buying DWI (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) during WWI to prevent the Germans from gaining control of DWI as a submarine base! Even single are "rare" in such nice quality. I have quickly sold singles of this quality at $110 each! Even though a sheet is much more rare than a single, the market for a sheet is more limited, thus this is priced at slightly less than its $1100 break-up value. An outstanding and important item for a DWI collection. |
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975.00 |
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248442 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
"DANSK VESTINDIEN PROTEST MOD SALGET" (Protest against the sale...) w/ ULTRAMARINE ON CHALK COATED PAPER. NEVER HINGED single with VF+ centering. Wonderful freshness and perfect original gum. In 50 years I have been able to offer fewer than 18 full-gum single stamps (including this), but not all of which were this nice, and one rare full sheet of ten. This is a beautiful and key item from the final chapter of DWI philately as the U.S. was working toward buying DWI (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) during WWI to prevent the Germans from gaining control of DWI as a submarine base! This is "rare" in such nice quality. I have quickly previously sold singles of this quality at $110 each! An outstanding and important item for a DWI collection. |
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110.00 |
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248443 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
"DANSK VESTINDIEN PROTEST MOD SALGET" (Protest against the sale...) w/ ULTRAMARINE ON CHALK COATED PAPER. NEVER HINGED single with VF+ centering, but tiny spot in the left margin that appears to be stamp gum from the production process. Otherwise wonderful freshness and has perfect original gum. In 50 years I have been able to offer fewer than 18 full-gum single stamps (including this), and one rare full sheet of ten. This is a beautiful and key item from the final chapter of DWI philately as the U.S. was working toward buying DWI (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) during WWI to prevent the Germans from gaining control of DWI as a submarine base! This is "rare" in such nice quality. Otherwise, without the describe spot, I have quickly previously sold singles of this quality at $110 each! A beautiful item for a DWI collection. |
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59.00 |
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248444 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
"DANSK VESTINDIEN PROTEST MOD SALGET" (Protest against the sale...) w/ ULTRAMARINE ON CHALK COATED PAPER. NEVER HINGED single with VF+ centering, but very tiny spot in the bottom margin (below the T of SALGET). Otherwise wonderful freshness and has perfect original gum. In 50 years I have been able to offer fewer than 18 full-gum single stamps (including this), and one rare full sheet of ten. This is a beautiful and key item from the final chapter of DWI philately as the U.S. was working toward buying DWI (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) during WWI to prevent the Germans from gaining control of DWI as a submarine base! This is "rare" in such nice quality. Otherwise, without the describe spot, I have quickly previously sold singles of this quality at $110 each! A beautiful item for a DWI collection. |
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69.00 |
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248445 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
DWI Harbor scene, horizontal-inset format. Highly detailed sepia-photo showing harborside buildings and more buildings ascending the hill in the background. No card publisher indicated. The message on the card is datelined "St. Thomas 23-3-1900". The presumption is that the picture is taken from the St. Thomas harbor viewpoint, but I have not been able to (yet) identify the foreground building and I suspect the picture may instead be of the Christiansted harbor. The diagonal-curving white line is an artifact of the photo printing; I believe it to be caused by a crack in the contact-print glass. The card was mailed within St. Thomas, and it is "franked" with a 5 cent Bicolor Perf 12.75 stamp (Scott #19, Average centering) -- which would have been a large overpayment of postage -- but I am of the opinion that the stamp does NOT belong to this card and was later added to fill in where a stamp had fallen off. The cancellation date is not clear. The stamp would be quite scarce properly used on an item of mail. For this reason, I have priced the card as a picture post card, NOT the stamp used on a card or cover. The card itself is most certainly a very early (the 1900 dateline is appropriate to the card) pre-1907 undivided-address side. This may (?) be the earliest DWI picture post card I have had in 50 years; DWI cards before 1904 are extremely scarce. Ignoring the stamp, this is still a very desirable early DWI picture post card. |
29.00 |
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248381 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1907 NEVER HINGED with VF centering. Incredibly fresh example of the rarest DWI Christmas seal and one of the rarest of all official Scandinavian Christmas seals, as well as being one of the rarest classic worldwide Christmas seals. Keep in mind that the first-ever Christmas seal was issued in Denmark only three years earlier in 1904. It has been a long time since I was last able to offer an example this nice. |
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SOLD |
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248033 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Envelope Facit #6, Ringstrom #5, Engstrom #5B (B=orange) (Watermark Subtype IIb - large ball touches crown on both sides), Scott #U2 [3 Cent orange, Watermark II (large ball)] Light Orange. Watermark tilts to the right when viewed from the front (flap unfolded). Mint in F-VF quality with just a couple very minor blemishes, but with VF overall appearance. The Light Orange color shade is somewhat unusual. Facit 2024 value SEK 400 for normal quality of most common variation. |
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39.00 |
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248034 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Envelope Facit #5, Ringstrom #4, Engstrom #4A (A=blue) (Watermark Subtype IIb - large ball touches crown on both sides), Scott #U1 [2 Cent blue, Watermark II (large ball)] Dull Blue. Watermark tilts to the left when viewed from the front (flap unfolded). Mint in XF quality. Extremely fresh and nice. Facit 2024 value SEK 500 for normal quality of most common variation. |
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90.00 |
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248035 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Envelope Facit #5, Ringstrom #4, Engstrom #4A (A=blue) (Watermark Subtype IIb - large ball touches crown on both sides), Scott #U1 [2 Cent blue, Watermark II (large ball)] Dull Blue. Watermark tilts to the left and is partly on the front when viewed from the front (flap unfolded). Mint in Average quality with a few blemishes, but still acceptable overall appearance. Facit 2024 value SEK 500 for normal quality of most common variation. |
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15.00 |
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