Denmark: Gallery: Select Stamps - Scott #O1-24 Official 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.
O3 [1871 16 skilling Official, perf 14 x 13.5] Used VF with neat ASSENS single-ring town cancellation. Wonderful color and extremely nice perforations for this stamp. Accompanied by Lasse Nielsen certificate. Seldom seen so nice!
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395.00
247341
O4 [1871 4 skilling Official PERFORATION 12.5] Used with Fine centering and neat #56 [Ringkøbing] 3-ring numeral cancellation. Nice Carmine color, typical centering, and large margins on three sides, for this scarce stamp. Typical perforations for this line-perforated stamp (usually with messy perforations and always rougher on the top and bottom than on the sides). This is one of the scarcest Danish major-number stamps (only #21 is on more want lists). A sound example of a stamp that is missing from most collections, offered at a very reasonable price.
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279.00
243552
O5 [1871 16 skilling Official PERFORATION 12.5] Used with F-VF+ centering, with numeral cancels a bit blurry. The perforation 12.5 stamps (Scott #21-24, O4-5) are notorious for their extremely rough/poor perforations. This example has typical perforations for a line-perforated 12.5 stamp. A very nice example of a stamp missing from most collections! Danish AFA 2021 catalog value DKK 4000 ($660) for normal quality!
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395.00
232459
O6 Print 1 (Dark Color) [1875 3 øre Perforation 14 x 13.5 Official] NH Fine. Remarkably fresh and with unusually nice perforations for this stamp. AFA 2016 (most recent) Specialized value DKK 900 = $125 (10/2022). This early stamp is quite hard to find in NH condition.
59.00
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247732
Scott #O7 Blue, Plate Variety [1875 4 øre blue Official, Perforation 14 x 13.5] Used with VF centering and 1901 cancellation (thus from a later printing). This unusual example bears a very obvious plate variety: Heavily dented and rumpled left frame line along the top 5 mm. This variety is neither listed by AFA nor is it listed by Regeling in Service Stamps of Denmark 1871-1923 (the primary handbook on the Official stamps). Regeling either missed seeing this large plate variety (which is very unlikely as it is more obvious than virtually any of the plate varieties that have been recorded) or the major cliche damage was quickly noticed by the printers and the cliche was quickly repaired and replaced -- and Regeling did not have an example of it (from the limited set of sheets which are in the Postal Museum) and thus he did not know about it to list it. If the latter situation is true, then this is a very scarce variety indeed! Quite an interesting and special stamp.
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28.00
247733
O9A [1897 3 øre Official, Perf 12.75, Small Crown Watermark] NEVER HINGED BLOCK OF FOUR with F-VF centering. Wonderfully fresh. Priced at less than the break-up value of the four singles!
38.00
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247734
O9A [1897 3 øre Official, Perf 12.75, Small Crown Watermark] NEVER HINGED BLOCK OF FOUR with F-VF centering. Wonderfully fresh. Priced at less than the break-up value of the four singles!
38.00
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247741
O17 [1916 3 øre gray Official, Watermark Crosses, Perforation 14 x 14.5] Used HORIZONTAL PAIR with F-VF centering and neat, well-struck 26 February 1918 cancellation. This stamp is not often offered in Used multiples; furthermore this stamp is much scarcer Used than Mint, thus examples with properly dated in-period cancellations are hard to find. Priced only as two Used F-VF singles!
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21.50
247748
O22 [1921 10 øre green Official, Watermark Crosses, Perforation 14 x 14.5] NEVER HINGED BLOCK OF FOUR with VF centering. A wonderfully fresh example with great color, excellent centering, and post office fresh gum. Multiples of this under-appreciated stamp are seldom offered. Priced only at the break-up value of the four singles!
64.00
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247747
O20 [1923 5 øre Brown Official] NEVER HINGED BLOCK OF FOUR with F-VF centering. Post office fresh example. Multiples of this under-appreciated stamp are seldom offered. Priced only at the break-up value of the four singles!
49.00
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Select Stamps - Scott #O1-24 Official Stamps continued ...
O22 [1921 10 øre Green Official, Watermark Crosses] Used Superb 4-BLOCK with correctly dated 22 November 1923 cancellation. Scarce well centered and even scarcer with year-dated cancellation. AFA 2011 Block Catalog value is DKK 300 = $60 [9/2011] for typical centering. This stamp had a short life as Officials were discontinued on 31 March 1924.
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45.00
235707
O22 [1921 10 øre Green Official, Watermark Crosses] Used Superb 4-BLOCK with correctly dated 22 November 1923 cancellation. Scarce well centered and even scarcer with year-dated cancellation. AFA 2011 Block Catalog value is DKK 300 = $60 [9/2011] for typical centering. This stamp had a short life as Officials were discontinued on 31 March 1924.
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45.00
235709
O23 [1919 15 øre Official, Watermark Crosses] NH VF/F-VF right marginal block of six. (The stamps are NH, the selvage is hinged.) The two stamps in the center row (which is row six of the sheet, confirmed by the marginal dot between the first two rows) are both the "Wide E" variety (all of row six has this variety) listed by AFA as #TJ16x and Facit #TJ23v. Very fresh and attractive position piece. AFA 2011 value just as the six stamps is DKK 2080 = $416 [9/2011] without the approximate 40% premium for the block! Wonderfully fresh and attractive.
325.00
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243089
O23 [1919 15 øre Official, Watermark Crosses] NEVER HINGED left-margin 4-block with Fine/F-VF centering. The plate position can be determined by the registration pin hole at the top of the selvage; that pin is located between the 5th (positionts 41-50) and 6th (positions 51-60) rows, thus this block is positions 51--52/61-62. Very attractive and wonderfully fresh. The break up value of the four stamps is about $82. Blocks of these Officials are getting scarce.
69.00
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235712
O23 Dark Lilac, AFA Specialized #TJ16 Print 2 [1919 15 øre Official, Watermark Crosses] NH Superb 4-BLOCK. Wonderfully fresh and bright. The lower left stamp has a natural inclusion (bit of the tree fiber) spot and is not counted in the value. Very scarce in NH condition and with such nice centering.
425.00
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243093
O24 [1920 20 øre Official, Watermark Crosses] Mint, with Fine centering. Interesting transient variety (in the EFO category): Probably a cliche spacer has worked itself loose and come to the plate surface, causing a printed mark in the margin on the lower left side. This is a seldom-seen type of variety.