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246091 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B6 [1931 1-1/2m+15p Hameenlinna Castle Red Cross semi-postal] Used with Superb centering, very large, perfect margins, and very neat corner cancellation of the correct type and appearance for the time period. The stamps of this set are hard to find with such nice centering and are very seldom seen so neatly canceled. |
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22.00 |
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239575 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B15-17 [1934 Finnish Generals Red Cross semi-postal: E. Horn, T. Stålhandske, and J. de la Gardie] Imperforate Plate Proof set of vertical pairs in final issued colors. VF, Ungummed (as always), Never Hinged. These are genuine plate proofs, but were "taken home without authorization" by one of the workers and discovered many years later after the man died. The price works out to only $30/stamp for an item of which only 100 of each stamp exists in private hands! |
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239576 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B18-20 [1935 Scholars: Matthias Calonius (lawyer, jurist) Henrik Gabriel Porthan (historian, humanistic sciences, author) Anders Chydenius (priest, philosopher, "the leading classical liberal of Nordic history"); Red Cross semi-postals] Imperforate Plate Proof set of horizontal pairs in final issued colors. VF, Ungummed (as always), Never Hinged. These are genuine plate proofs, but were "taken home without authorization" by one of the workers and discovered many years later after the man died. The price works out to only $30/stamp for an item of which only 100 of each stamp exists in private hands! |
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239577 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B21-23 [1936 Statesmen: R.H. Rehbinder, G.M. Armfelt, A. Horn; Red Cross semi-postals] Imperforate Plate Proof set of horizontal pairs in final issued colors. VF, Ungummed (as always), Never Hinged. These are genuine plate proofs, but were "taken home without authorization" by one of the workers and discovered many years later after the man died. The price works out to only $30/stamp for an item of which only 100 of each stamp exists in private hands! |
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245711 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B22 [1936 2m+20p Statesman Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt Red Cross semi-postal] Used single with Fine+ centering and absolutely superb WIITASAARI (now Viitasaari) 2 January 1936 SECOND DAY cancellation; Russian-Text-Removed type. The official first day of this issue was 1 January, however, with virtually all post offices closed on New Years Day, first day covers are extremely rare (the Facit value for a 01-01-1936 first day cover is SEK 20,000!!!) -- 2 January was the effective first day of actual use of this stamp, but even Second Day Covers are very scarce. Though the stamp has typical centering for the issue, the postmark is perfectly struck and perfectly centered. (Properly dated, used-in-period, postmarks are scarce on set.) This is an extremely unusual and very special example! It will not surprise me if a Finnish auction house buys this stamp and puts it on the front cover of one of their catalogs! |
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79.00 |
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245695 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B74 [1946 1m+.25 Net Fishing Red Cross semi-postal] NH with Fine centering. RED CROSS MISALIGNED, halfway upward out of the intended box. While the printing registration for the typographed Red Cross does vary, it is unusual to find examples with the cross this far out of the box. |
4.00 |
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231873 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
B200 Non-Fluorescent (Facit #756v2). The rarest of the semi-postal stamps; very few printed! Used VF+ with first day postmark. |
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49.00 |
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246870 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B241-3 [1990 Butterflies Semi-Postal set] Used VF set of 4-blocks with perfectly struck FIRST DAY CANCELLATIONS. A very popular topic. Just as four sets of singles the break-up value is $14.20. |
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12.50 |