Newly acquired items worthy of your attention. These may or may not be described with quite as much detail as usual, however, as always, your satisfaction is guaranteed. All are available for approval viewing. Scott numbers have been used unless otherwise mentioned.
Finland #72 on 8 April 1906 picture post card with WÅRDÖ bi-lingual Russian-text cancellation (Alandia #132.02), to Finström. A scarcer cancellation on cover; nice usage. Very neat and attractive.
38.00
222060
Finland #276-7 [1948 Finnish translation of the New Testament by Agricola] and #B74 x2 [1946 1 mk Fishing Nets, semi-postal] on 30 October 1948 cover with PÅLSBÖLE cancel (Russian text removed; the Alandia book shows this cancel used 1919-1936, but it was used into at least the 1950s, though worn out and smudgy by this time). Extremely scarce destination from Aland.
12.00
218477
Sweden 15 öre double postal card, Facit #29a, with 6 öre additional franking (to make 20 öre rate) used both ways! Airmail 4 June 1956 from TRELLEBORG, Sweden, to the post office at MARIEHAMN, asking about postal rates. Replied 5 June 1956 airmail back to Sweden, properly utilizing the Swedish postage paid by the double/reply postal card. The reply bears an unusual handstamp of the Mariehamn post office. Though mailed by a known stamp collector, this is a very rare type of usage from Åland.
60.00
218476
Finland #402 and 464A combination pair from booklet (VF) on 25 August 1975 Åland tourist picture post card [Mariehamn harbor and ferry ships] mailed on board a ferry traveling toward Finland. Landed and put into the post at TURKU, Finland, with unclear NAVIRE ship letter (paquebot) cancellation. The booklet stamps are scarce on covers from Åland.
15.00
218430
Registered mail receipt 25 November 1983 for two registered and two insured pieces of mail from the village of TOSARBY with nice postmark, to MARIEHAMN. Such postal forms were rarely saved and are thus now seldom offered.
25.00
223924
23 May 1987 picture post card with Swedish franking and special cancellation, with violet oval "POMMERN / POSTAD OMBORD" 23-31 May 1987 ship marking. Printed cachet: official mail carrier for the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race 1988 / Sail Mariehamn and picturing a modern Viking Line ship. The picture sides shows a dramatic painting of the Pommern under full sale in a storm. The Pommern was in Stockholm for this event. The Pommern is emblematic of the Åland Tall Ships that sailed the world; it is pictured on the 1984 2.00 stamp from the first Åland stamp issue.
8.00
223923
1994 interesting philatelic cover bearing Swedish stamps (including Slania-engraved Sweden #1 stamp) with blue railway pictorial UPSALA-LENNA JERNVÄG undated cancellations (perhaps not postal?). Dated Swedish side cancellation "GRISSLEHAMN 18.6 POSTRODDEN 1994" sail boat pictorial cancellation (this was used for the annual mail boat race commemorating how mail was carried between Sweden and Åland. Also with undated postmark indicating carried by mail boat across the Åland Sea. Certainly the only example quite like it that I have seen; I do not recall ever previously seeing the railway cancel.
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