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Never Hinged  US$ |
Mint Hinged US$ |
Used US$ |
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J5-8 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
Fine [70106] |
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46.05 |
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J5 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
VF [70107] |
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11.25 |
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| J5 |
F-VF [70107] |
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6.40 |
8.10 |
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| J5 |
Fine [70107] |
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3.80 |
4.15 |
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| J5 |
Ave [70107] |
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2.05 |
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| J5 |
SD (Slightly Damaged) [70107] |
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1.00 |
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J6 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
Fine [70108] |
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8.50 |
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247589 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
J8 [1905 50 bit Postage Due, Perforation 12.75] Used with Superb centering and neat ST. THOM(AS) cancellation. A large percentage of these postage due stamps were used on envelopes containing incoming shipping documents (posted from ships in the harbor to local merchants) and those envelopes were very often not canceled. Thus nice-looking and attractively canceled stamps such as this are unusual. Very fresh and attractive with exceptional centering! |
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59.00 |
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J7 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
VF [70109] |
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12.75 |
22.00 |
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| J7 |
F-VF [70109] |
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9.50 |
14.50 |
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| J7 |
Fine [70109] |
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8.50 |
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| J7 |
Ave [70109] |
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2.30 |
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| J7 |
SD (Slightly Damaged) [70109] |
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.95 |
1.50 |
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247587 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
J7 [1905 30 bit Postage Due] (Mint) Uncanceled / Unused with VF+ centering. Either Mint no gum or Used without cancellation. A large percentage of these postage due stamps were used on envelopes containing incoming shipping documents (posted from ships in the harbor to local merchants) and those envelopes were very often not canceled. The stamps are perfectly fine, but cannot really be called Mint or Used. I price such no-gum DWI postage due stamps at a fraction of the (lower) Mint value. If Hint Hinged with gum this centering would be $14 and if Used with proper cancellations it would be $25. Very fresh and attractive. |
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7.50 |
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J8 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
VF [70110] |
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52.00 |
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| J8 |
F-VF [70110] |
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8.90 |
36.50 |
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| J8 |
Fine [70110] |
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24.90 |
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| J8 |
Ave [70110] |
6.30 |
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| J8 |
SD (Slightly Damaged) [70110] |
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.95 |
4.40 |
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246498 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
J8 Print 1, AFA #Porto 8.1 Dark Grayish Brown Center [1905 50 bit Postage Due] Used with VF centering and with very small, light magenta cancellation -- possibly a strike of the Customs House cancellation, but not enough present to know. A pretty example. |
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46.00 |
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247591 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
J8a (Facit #L8C2) [1913 50 bit Postage Due, Perforation 14 x 14.5] NEVER HINGED with Just-Fine centering (the perforations do NOT touch the design), but with the stress crease (not visible from the front) typically seen on this particular issue/printing. Very fresh appearance. A very scarce stamp that is, in my opinion, grossly undercataloged. Without the crease, this centering would be $69. Seldom offered at such a low price. |
39.00 |
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246468 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
J8a [1915 50 bit Postage Due, Perforation 14 x 14.25] February 1916 printing with small perforation holes. Mint, lightly hinged, with F-VF+ centering. This is a seldom-offered stamp in any condition or centering, however, this is unusually nice centering for this scarce stamp. This one is missing from most collections. [ Additional background information: Though for all to see there are details on this stamp in "DWI Mails" Volume 2, and a listing in the 2016 AFA Specialized Catalog, "virtually nobody" seems to be aware that the stamp with this perforation had two printings: March 1915 VS February 1916. The information in "DWI Mails" dates from 1981 but is fairly extensive, while the 2016 AFA Specialized may (?) be more up-to-date, but lacks detail and context. AFA mentions the perforation hole size are large vs small, while "DWI Mails" states that the March 1915 printing "has slightly larger holes than [the next] printing because the perforating was done by a new machine put in use in 1913. Only "DWI Mails" mentions the shipwreck damaging the March 1915 stamps. Both mention the colors under daylight, but with somewhat different color naming ("DWI Mails" color names given below). Only "DWI Mails" mentions the gum characteristics or the colors under UV light. The sum of the information appears to be: March 1915 Printing 3 (of all 50 bit stamps); light yellowish-gray (under UV: light violet-gray) and deep orange-red. Crackly white gum with larger perforation holes. 5,000 printed, but the ship "ran aground badly water-damaging the stamps". Of those 50 (mostly?) damaged sheets of stamps, 20 sheets are in the Danish postal archives "wrinkled and without gum from the mentioned water damage". That leaves no more than 3,000 of the March 1915 printing, but "It is not known how many ... were used at DWI or discarded ... but they must be considered rare, especially if they still have their original crackly white gum." February 1916 Printing 4 (of all 50 bit stamps); medium gray and medium orange-red (under UV: dark gray-violet center and strong red-lilac frame). Smooth yellowish gum with smaller perforation holes. (In my experience, the perforation hole size may NOT always be the best identifier.) 15,000 printed. "DWI Mails" states that in 1957 3,000 50 bit stamps were destroyed by burning [by the Danish authorities], but apparently it is not known from which printing(s) those stamps came. Because the third and fourth printings appear to have been made out of necessity because apparently the earlier printings had been consumed, it would be a reasonable assumption that excess stamps remained only from the fourth (February 1916) printing, thus lowering that issue quantity to a net of 12,000. I have never seen a collection that contained both printings, or that even mentioned that there were two printings! The March 1915 printing is "rarely" offered (and should be expertized). I have only recorded having a single example and it is certainly tremendously scarcer than the one-quarter of the issue quantity which AFA states -- I suspect that no more than a couple or few hundred examples survived. The information in Facit is very limited: Facit does not list any of the printings on the 1905-1916 postage dues, they give an issue date for this stamp as 1913, and they state a total quantity of 15,400. I have suggested to Facit that they take a closer look at this whole 1905-1916 postage due issue.] |
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