Denmark: Gallery: Select Stamps - Scott #1-10: 1851-1863 "Square Stamps"
A selection of especially interesting seldom-offered items in particularly nice quality. All are available for approval viewing. Scott numbers have been used unless otherwise mentioned.
Please also see the other Gallery pages and the Specialized Stamps pages for other high-quality stamps including both Specialized and non-specialized items.
Select Stamps - Scott #1-10: 1851-1863 "Square Stamps"
2 Light Red Brown on remarkably white, thin paper. Used VF+ with four large to very large margins. Neat #16 (Flensburg; Schleswig) numeral cancel. An extremely nice example of a very unusual color and paper; rare quality for this printing!
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75.00
230786
2 Blackish Brown Used Superb with four huge margins. Very light, neat 4-ring-dot mute cancel (much scarcer on this color/printing). Extremely attractive.
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75.00
230788
2 Light Red Brown on white, thin paper. Used Superb with four huge margins. Nearly perfect 4-ring-dot mute cancel (somewhat scarcer on this color/printing). An extremely nice example of a very unusual color and paper; rare quality for this printing!
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80.00
230785
2 Red Brown Used VF with four margins. Neat 4-ring-dot mute cancel (somewhat scarcer on this color/printing). Very attractive.
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49.00
235634
2a [First Printing -- First Danish Stamp! "Ferslew" Print with engraved burelage] Facit #2I in LIGHT Red Brown. Used Superb with four large to huge margins. The typical mute cancel is centered a little low, allowing a better view of the stamp design (regulations stated that the cancel was to be in the middle).
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90.00
232420
2a [First Printing -- First Danish Stamp!] Used horizontal PAIR. F-VF with large margins on three sides, but touches at top. Unusually intense dark color and with perfectly centered "bulls eye" mute cancellation. Exceptional appearance. AFA Specialized 2008 value DKK 1800 = $305 (3/09)!
215.00
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230787
2b Yellowish (Orange) Brown Used VF+ with four large or huge margins. Neat #43 (Nakskov) numeral cancel. Unusually attractive example!
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90.00
236618
2 DARK CHESTNUT BROWN, Facit #2IVb, AFA #1IIIe Used VF with four full margins. Slightly strong numeral cancel, but a remarkably intense and rich Chestnut color. A scarce stamp, seldom offered with such nice color.
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195.00
232422
3 [2 sk square, blue] Used VF+ with full margins. Strong blue with complete #24 (HELSINGØR) numeral cancellation. This stamp was issued for use on local letters which meant that 95+% of the use occurred in København. Postmarks from other towns are scarce and from small towns or villages are rare.
90.00
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235362
3 [1855 2 skilling] Used Superb with unusually light and neat corner cancel. Regulations stated that the stamps were to be center canceled. "Face free" examples are not often offered.
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70.00
Select Stamps - Scott #1-10: 1851-1863 "Square Stamps" continued ...
3 [2 sk square, blue] Used F-VF+. Light blue with #34 (København railway) numeral cancellation. This stamp was issued for use on local letters which meant that 95+% of the use occurred in København; while this was used in København, cancels other than the #1 are seldom seen.
56.00
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232425
3 [2 sk square, blue] Used F-VF+, fresh example. Nicely centered "SJ.P.SP. B. 2 TOG" railway cancellation; circular date stamp portion of duplex numeral canceler. This postmark is seldom seen directly struck on any stamp of the period, but it is especially scarce on this stamp which is normally found with #1 numeral cancel.
95.00
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232426
4a [1854 4 sk square, dotted spandrels, light yellow brown] Used VF+ lower left corner margin example with very large left margin. #57 (RINGSTED) numeral cancellation.
29.00
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235363
4a Yellow Brown [1854 4 skilling, Dotted Spandrels] Used Superb with large to huge margins and neat #181 (railway) numeral cancellation.
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18.00
230792
5 Bright Green, Used VF+ with four large to very large margins. This issue usually looks dirty or has a messy postmark; this example is clean and fresh with a neat cancellation.
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88.00
234539
5 [8 sk square, dotted spandrels] Used F-VF/VF horizontal PAIR with light numeral cancellations. Full margins all around except close at one spot. Fold between the stamps and some general, mostly light, creasing in the stamps. Pairs are scarce. AFA Specialized 2008 (most recent) value DKK 2500 = $425 (9/2010). Attractive and seldom offered. Great price!
190.00
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230793
5a Yellow Green, Used Superb with four huge margins. This issue usually looks dirty or has a messy postmark; this example is clean and fresh with a neat #57 (Ringsted) numeral cancellation. Seldom offered so nice.
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100.00
235364
6 [1857 16 skilling, Dotted Spandrels] Used Superb with large to huge margins and light #181 (railway) numeral cancellation. The color is grayish violet -- with much more intense violet than is usually seen. Such outstanding quality and color are rarely offered. This must be the most attractive used example of this stamp that I have had in at least five years.
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250.00
230796
7 Orange Brown, Used Superb with four enormous margins and light corner cancellation (contrary to regulations, thus scarce). Though this is a "common" stamp, this quality is seldom offered and is truly one out of a thousand.
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35.00
230797
7 "Coffee" Brown, Used VF+ with four ample to very large margins and neat #26 (Hjørring) numeral cancel. Though this color is not rare, such attractive examples seem to be particularly scarce.