39 Light Green [1890 5p green (shades) 3-Numeral, Perf 12.5] Mint, moderately hinged, with F-VF centering. Very fresh and bright.
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34.00
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246737
39 [1890 5 penni 3-Numeral] PLATE PROOF in DEEP GREEN on ungummed, yellowish-white paper, in imperforate horizontal pair. Never Hinged (ungummed), XF with large margins. Proof from original plate, NOT printed later from defaced, scrapped plate. Proofs of the 5 penni seem to be much scarcer than the 20 or 25 penni denominations. Wonderfully fresh and bright. Proofs of this issue are seldom seen.
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246736
39 [1890 5 penni 3-Numeral] PLATE PROOF in DULL GREEN on ungummed, yellowish-white paper, in imperforate horizontal pair. Never Hinged (ungummed), VF with ample to huge margins. Proof from original plate, NOT printed later from defaced, scrapped plate. Proofs of the 5 penni seem to be much scarcer than the 20 or 25 penni denominations. Wonderfully fresh and bright. Proofs of this issue are seldom seen.
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245791
40 Bright Aniline Red [1890 10p red (shades) 3-Numeral, Perf 12.5] Mint hinged, with VF centering. Very attractive with brilliant color. Mint examples of this workhorse 10p stamp are surprisingly difficult to find in nice quality.
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80.00
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248043
40a Rose [1890 10p rose 3-Numeral, Perf 12.5] NEVER HINGED with VF centering. Excellent centering and wonderful color, perforations, gum and freshness with very distinctive color. This has been protected for the last 134 years as part of a block that has just been broken (because it was falling apart). The 10p has only one printing/color, Facit #29a, that can fit in the category of "rose" as listed by Scott (#40a). Mint examples of this workhorse 10p stamp are surprisingly difficult to find in nice quality -- and NH examples of this quality are "very scarce". This color is missing from most collections.
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119.00
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245792
40a Dark Rose [1890 10p rose 3-Numeral, Perf 12.5] Mint, moderately hinged, with F-VF centering. The 10p has only one printing/color, Facit #29a, that can fit in the category of "rose" as listed by Scott (#40a); it is a dark rose such as this example. Very attractive with fresh appearance. Mint examples of this workhorse 10p stamp are surprisingly difficult to find in nice quality.
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80.00
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246739
41 [1889 20 penni 3-Numeral] PLATE PROOF in ORANGE on ungummed, yellowish-white paper, in imperforate, upper left corner margin vertical pair. Never Hinged (ungummed), XF with huge margins (plus sheet margins). Proof from original plate, NOT printed later from defaced, scrapped plate. Wonderfully fresh and bright, with brilliant color. Proofs of this issue are seldom seen.
95.00
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248045
42 [1889 25p ultramarine 3-Numerals, Perf 12.5] Mint, lightly hinged, with VF centering. Brilliant color and wonderfully fresh and bright. An outstanding example of a workhorse stamp that is now quite difficult to find in nice quality.
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74.00
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231382
42, Facit #31C1ff. The extremely scarce "Indigo" printing (Facit 2007 SEK 2200 = $330). Used VF. Seldom offered.
275.00
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246738
43 [1890 1 mark 3-Numeral] PLATE PROOF in SLATE and ROSE on ungummed, yellowish-white paper, in imperforate left margin single. Never Hinged (ungummed), VF with ample to huge margins, plus large left sheet margin. Proof from original plate, NOT printed later from defaced, scrapped plate -- non of which were printed bicolored. Proofs of the 1 mark are extremely unusual. Wonderfully fresh and bright. Proofs of this issue are seldom seen.
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1889-1900 "Three Numerals", Both Perforations continued ...
44 IMPERFORATE PAIR [1890 5 mark 3-Numeral] Yellow Green and Light Rose (Facit #33b) of the second (1894) printing. Mint, without gum -- appears to never have been gummed. Huge, even margins. This is an actual stamp printing, in the correct color on stamp paper, not a color proof (unless the color was identical) and absolutely not a private print from a discarded plate. Though imperforates are known to exist [per Waris] for all the 3-Numeral denominations except the 2 penni, Facit only lists some of them. Where Facit does list them, the prices are up to SEK 1200 per mint hinged SINGLE and up to SEK 1600 per NH SINGLE -- in all cases, these values are far too low compared to market demand. The 3-Numeral 1889 Series handbook by Pentti Waris (1998) surprisingly mostly ignores the imperforates (probably due to lack if information; it also ignores proofs) and just makes a general statement: "It is not easy to explain the origin of completely imperforated [sic] stamps, but they were probably illegally taken from the stamp printers." That accusation may be true in at least some cases, perhaps for the imperforates Facit chooses not to list, however, lack of information is not proof to condemn items. After 129 years in the case of this particular stamp printing, I believe it is time to accept such stamps for what they look like: Imperforates. Not withstanding the status of such items, imperforate examples are exceedingly scarce and seldom offered! This is the only example of this imperforate that I have recorded having in 48 years.
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244812
61 Dull Carmine [1895 10 penni carmine 3-Numeral, Perf 14x13] Used with XF centering and a very light cancellation, with "J.G.W." PERFIN. Viewed from backside it is horizontal, reading from right to left (thus reads correctly from the front). LAPE 2010 describes this as position Ia; that 4 of the 8 positions are known to exist. It was used by "John Gust. Wikeström" of Turku / Åbo; that as of 2010 was recorded in use from June 1899 through February 1903; and that it is the rarest Finnish perfin, with 0.2% share of all (almost 8000) Finnish perfins recorded in a 1983 census. This is the only example of this pattern (in any position) that I have recorded having in 48 years.
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190.00
248047
63 [1895 25p ultramarine 3-Numerals, Perf 14x13] Used Block of Four with VF-XF centering. Sharp, single, well-centered strike of tri-lingual 2 July 1900 HELSINGFORS / HELSINKI cancellation. While the Facit 2024 value of Used blocks of this stamp is modest (SEK 60), examples this nice are "rarely" seen!