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243527 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #R1 [1907 10 Bit] NH VF. Wonderfully fresh. [McRee states that there are four printings. Years ago I saw all four color shades / combinations; they are slightly different. Compare to your collection.] ACTUAL item. |
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Scott #R1 [1907 10 bit] NEVER HINGED with F-VF centering. Wonderfully fresh and bright. [McRee states that there were four printings. Years ago I saw all four color shades / combinations in one collection; they are slightly different. Compare to your collection.] ACTUAL item. |
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246607 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #R1 [1907 10 Bit] Used VF with both manuscript ("19/7/1908" and signature) and bank handstamp cancellations. [McRee states that there are four printings. Years ago I saw all four color shades / combinations; they are slightly different. Compare to your collection.] ACTUAL item. |
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243529 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #R1 "MAK." Overprint [1907 10 Bit] NH Fine. Very fresh. Archival sale overprint ca.1971. The Danish "Mak." abbreviation, for "makulatur" philatelically means waste, canceled, defaced. [McRee states that there are four printings of the original stamps. I can only recall seeing one printing with the Mak. overprint, which would make sense since it is likely that only (or mostly) the final printing would have still been in stock when DWI became VI.] ACTUAL item. |
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246608 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #R2 [1907 50 Bit] NEVER HINGED with Average centering (perforations just cut the frameline at top), with INVERTED WATERMARK. The inverted watermark is known to exist but is listed with just a dash in the price in Scott. I have not previously recorded having an example of an inverted watermark on any of the five printings. If I have noticed any other dealers offering the inverted watermark, I do not recall. In my experience with inverted watermarks on DWI and Danish revenue stamps of this format (all printed by the same printer), the inverted watermark on a particular stamp is either relatively easy to find or it is extremely scarce -- this stamp is in the "extremely scarce" category. [McRee states that there are five printings. Over the years I have seen several of the resulting different color shades -- this example is a Pale Green -- but I have not seen them all at one time and thus I cannot supply comparison information. Compare to your collection. I do not know which of the printings are known to exist with inverted watermark. However, I feel confident in saying that if there were any inverted watermarks on this stamp that were sold in the 1971 archival sale, it was extremely few, perhaps just a single sheet.] ACTUAL item. |
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401401 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #R4 [1907 2 Francs] NEVER HINGED with Fine centering, but with small, natural paper stress crease. Very fresh. ACTUAL item. |
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401400 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #R4 FULL SHEET of 25 [1907 2 Francs] NEVER HINGED full sheet of 25 stamps with centering ranging from XF to VF to F-VF to Fine (the best centering is toward the right side and in the lower right quarter. Sold from the Royal Archives with handstamp in the upper sheet selvage "solgt fra Rigsarkivet 1971" -- now 55 years ago (as of 2026). Entirely NH, including the sheet selvage, with a small amount of archival selvage wear in the lower right sheet corner. As nice as an example as one could hope to find. A sheet such as this could be the basis for an interesting plating study; though the position differences are small, each position appears to be slightly different. Though it is not immediately noticeable, this is printed in grayish black foreground with a pale gray underprint, thus it is a bicolor. The two inked dots (actually small registration peg holes) were used to control the positioning of paper, and thus the proper registration of the two colors, for the two trips through the printing press. Though I only started around 2000 keeping detailed records of items such as this that I have had, as of May 2026 this is the only such sheet I have had since around 2000. I believe that I had two other examples of this sheet between 1973 and 2000, but it is possible that this sheet is one of those two examples that came back to me when I purchased a collection to which I had supplied this sheet. The single revenue stamps always sell quickly. NH examples of single stamps sell for around $8 each down at the Fine-centered end of the spectrum and up to about $18-20 each for NH VF examples and $25 each for XF examples. The total of the break-up value of this sheet is well over $400! Priced well below break-up value! ACTUAL item. |
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243530 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #R4 "MAK." Overprint [1907 2 Franc] NH F-VF, left marginal example. Very fresh. Archival sale overprint ca.1971. The Danish "Mak." abbreviation, for "makulatur" philatelically means waste, canceled, defaced. [McRee states that there are three printings of the original stamps. I can only recall seeing one printing with the Mak. overprint, which would make sense since it is likely that only (or mostly) the final printing would have still been in stock when DWI became VI.] ACTUAL item. |
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243532 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #R8 [1907 10 Franc] NH Fine. Wonderfully fresh. [McRee states that there are two printings. Compare to your collection.] ACTUAL item. |
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