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234157 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Greenland #41 [1961 35 øre Drum Dancer; Slania-engraved] (VF) on 17 June 1961 tourist mail picture post card from SDR. STRØMFJORD to the U.S. The card is Norwegian: real photo of Djupvandshytten showing glacier, hotel, etc.; very high resolution -- you can count the shingles on the hotel roof! |
16.00 |
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234075 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
KGH 19 [Hay making at sheep farm, Igaliko, South Greenland] maker Top Card, copyright 1966. Used VF from NARSSAQ franked with Scott #62 [1 kr Polar Bear engraved by Slania], properly postally used 11 August 1976 to the U.S., but 10 øre overpaid. |
12.00 |
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234095 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
KGH 66 picture post card ["The post office at Thule Air Base" with Sukkertoppen (sugar top) in the background] maker Top Card, copyright 1966. Used VF with Scott #106 [1977 1.00 Jorgen Brønlund, explorer], 1 February 1979 from SDR. STRØMFJORD to Denmark. The card bears a circular handstamp in black: "POSTAGE PAID / * PORTO BETALT *", type 2c (with the asterisks) listed in GF5 1999 [valued at DKK 400, but I have only ever seen three examples]. This handstamp was used May-June 1978 in the gift shop at the Sdr Strømfjord airport to indicate that the purchaser was paying for both the post card and the postage -- the postage was applied later and the card mailed by gift shop personnel. This was to save time and trouble and to allow senders to buy the postage even when the post office was closed. Uses of this handstamp are extremely scarce. This example is a bit odd, but is explained by the accompanying handwritten (in English) explanation by the Danish military officer who had purchased the card on a Sunday in May-June 1978. He forgot about them until February 1979 at which time he tried to mail them. The postal clerk was unwilling to accept that the postage had already been paid (and indeed, the gift shop had probably not paid the post office for a stamp) and thus required the sender to pay for and apply a postage stamp. |
60.00 |
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234096 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
106 [1977 1.00 Jorgen Brønlund, explorer] (VF) on 1 February 1979 picture post card (helicopters at Sdr. Strømfjord airport) from SDR. STRØMFJORD to Denmark. The card bears a circular handstamp in black: "POSTAGE PAID / * PORTO BETALT *", type 2c (with the asterisks) listed in GF5 1999 [valued at DKK 400, but I have only ever seen three examples]. This handstamp was used May-June 1978 in the gift shop at the Sdr Strømfjord airport to indicate that the purchaser was paying for both the post card and the postage -- the postage was applied later and the card mailed by gift shop personnel. This was to save time and trouble and to allow senders to buy the postage even when the post office was closed. Uses of this handstamp are extremely scarce. This example is a bit odd, but is explained by the accompanying handwritten (in English) explanation by the Danish military officer who had purchased the card on a Sunday in May-June 1978. He forgot about them until February 1979 at which time he tried to mail them. The postal clerk was unwilling to accept that the postage had already been paid (and indeed, the gift shop had probably not paid the post office for a stamp) and thus required the sender to pay for and apply a postage stamp. |
60.00 |
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234094 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
KGH 197 [Old KGH buildings at Frederikshåb] maker Polar Card, copyright 1980. Used VF with Greenlandic special stamp show cancel for Nordia 84 in Reykjavik, Iceland. |
4.00 |