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242319 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #10 (Facit #11c "Silver Gray") and Scott #11 [1876 6 and 10 aur Perf 14 x 13.5] Used Fine and F-VF on small piece with clear Danish "FRA ISLAND" incoming ship mail cancellations. Very colorful and attractive; very unusual on piece. |
45.00 |
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44B [1904 5 kr Christian IX] Used with VF centering, however with worn appearance and color somewhat faded. While I think that this stamp may have been genuinely used on a high-value (registered, insured, or parcel) letter leaving the country, the cancellation either confuses the issue or makes the stamp much more rare. The cancellation is a type (with "9-4 E" hours indicator) that was not used in Iceland in this era. It appears to be a Danish postmark with a "K." at the bottom (for the "København K" post office). That is typical type of Danish cancellation found on Icelandic "fishing boat mail" - mail that was either mailed at sea, or was accepted at the dock in Iceland right before leaving port, and was handed over to the Danish post office upon arrival at a port in Denmark. What makes this example especially interesting in that regard is that a Danish cancellation on this high denomination stamp is "quite rare". However, without more research, I cannot vouch for the cancellation. If it were not worn and faded, and if it had a certificate, it would be valued at multiple times the normal Used value. |
95.00 |
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243926 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
145 [1925 10 aur Reykjavik scene] Used XF with XF strike of Danish "KØBENHAVN / Omk 9" 18 February 1927cancellation. Danish cancellations on Icelandic stamps of this era are not uncommon (due to the large amount of letters mailed at sea aboard fishing boats that arrived in Denmark). However examples are scarce when they are so well struck that they show the entire cancellation, including the specific local branch that canceled the item, as this one does. An outstanding example! |
24.00 |
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243308 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
O9 [1895 50 aur Official, perforation 14 x 13.5] Used with Fine centering and with bold "(FRA) ISLAND" DANISH INCOMING SHIP MAIL CANCELLATION. Very attractive, but with expertly repaired and reperforated top margin. The stamp centering, clearing the perforations, is better than usual for the 50 aur. While this type of cancellation is commonly seen on regular Icelandic stamps of this era, Danish incoming ship mail cancellations are rare on Icelandic Official stamps. Early Official mail leaving the country is extremely rare; Official stamps were likely only accepted on mail going as far as Denmark. I cannot recall having, in the last 48 years, any examples of an Official stamp this early bearing such a cancellation. Provenance: from the Roger A. Swanson collection, from of a page of six 50 aur stamps sold by Northland Auctions in 1995; subsequently in the Frederick H. Campbell collection, prior to my purchasing the group. The scarcity of this cancellation on this stamp is demonstrated by a) that somebody would so expertly repair such a stamp and b) a high-level collector and prominent international exhibitor such as Swanson would include it in his collection. |
69.00 |