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Facit #FK5(F4) 20 Kopek Oval in Black. Official 1881 "Stamp Print" (meaning that it was only printed in this size, not as a full envelope) Reprint. Superb, with huge margins top and bottom, but narrow margins at sides (correct and true of all the 1881 Stamp Prints of the Ovals), on ungummed white paper. The item of which this is a reprint is the greatest philatelic rarity of Finland with only two examples known. Despite the modest SEK 400 catalog value in Facit 2011, I believe that this is only the second example that I have had in 38 years! |
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Facit #FK1(F4) 10 Kopek Porto Stempel in Carmine. Official 1881 "Stamp Print" (meaning that it was only printed in this size, not as a full envelope) Reprint. Large margins all around, on ungummed white paper. VF, but a couple small black marks of unknown origin. The item of which this is a reprint is major rarity. Despite the modest SEK 400 catalog value in Facit 2011, this is very scarce. |
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Facit #FK2(F4) 20 Kopek Porto Stempel in Black. Official 1881 "Stamp Print" (meaning that it was only printed in this size, not as a full envelope) Reprint. Superb with large margins all around, on ungummed white paper. The item of which this is a reprint is major rarity. Despite the modest SEK 400 catalog value in Facit 2011, this is very scarce; I have probably only had two or three examples in 38 years. |
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99 [1921 60 penni Violet M-17 Saarinen Lion] plate proof on extremely thin yellow paper. Superb top margin single. |
120.00 |
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99 [1921 60 penni Violet M-17 Saarinen Lion] plate proof on extremely thin yellow paper. Top margin pair with vertical crease affecting one stamp. Beautiful and scarce. |
150.00 |
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1866 80 mark S/S #50 KS1, Roulette IV. Used VF with unusually good roulette teeth, but with major tear in upper left corner (that could be made to be less obvious). Despite the damage, this is one of the rarest first issue Finnish revenue stamps. The non-scientific Saarinen roulette variety survey found only three examples (including from his own collection) of the 80 mk stamp with KS1 and one with KS2. This example is one of those three KS1 stamps and the only one that was IV x IV (the other two were I x IV). The collection from which this stamp came included a notation to emphasize the rarity of this stamp; it stated that using the 1871 as an example, only 25 examples of the 80 mk stamps were requested for the entire year, for the entire country of Finland. And S/S notes that for the 1881 issue, only 3 of that (1881) 80 mk design had been recorded! Any way you look at it, this is a very scarce stamp. |
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Karhulan-Sunilan Railway: 1955 and 1993 #7 [1930 8 Mark Black on Green; Bear riding winged wheel] PERFORATION ERROR with extra row of horizontal perforations. Lower left corner margin position, NH VF. Extremely scarce and important item for both Bear and Railway thematic collectors. Mentioned in the 1955 catalog, but not priced; not even mentioned in the 1993 catalog. |
175.00 |
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Karhulan-Sunilan Railway: 1955 and 1993 #8 [1930 10 Mark Black on Brown; Bear riding winged wheel] PERFORATION ERROR with extra row of horizontal perforations. Lower left corner margin position, NH VF. Extremely scarce and important item for both Bear and Railway thematic collectors. Mentioned in the 1955 catalog, but not priced; not even mentioned in the 1993 catalog. |
175.00 |
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1896 usage of 10 Penni 3-Numeral postal card with railway cancellation, to Tammerfors. This card is quite unremarkable except that between the two address lines someone has made repeated colorless impressions with a roulette device of the same style as was used for making the "big tooth" roulette postage stamps (as well as revenue, local, and shipping company stamps). These impressions may have nothing at all to do with those devices, however, it does make this an interesting item. |
12.00 |
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"Fredrika Runeberg 1807 - 1879" essay prepared ca.1947. Finnish author. Brownish Red, engraved, on perforated, gummed stamp paper. Known to have been printed in sheets of 100. Exact date of "issue" not known to me, but is very similar in style and printing to the issues of 1947-52. This subject and design was not accepted. NH VF single stamp. |
9.00 |
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