Newly acquired items worthy of your attention. These may or may not be described with quite as much detail as usual, however, as always, your satisfaction is guaranteed. All are available for approval viewing. Scott numbers have been used unless otherwise mentioned.
The covers in this section are generally in date order, thus airmails and other types of covers are mixed in by date. Be sure to carefully review all the listings.
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10 øre V-Overprints pair (Scott #212 or #225; cannot be identified without removing from cover, which is too dangerous because of the other postal and WWII history of this cover) on a 15 November 1941cover with RJUKANBANEN railway postmark and sent to Oslo. This cover has an important story to tell, even though it looks "normal". It is, in fact, a normal domestic rate usage from a local provincial government office in the countryside to a large company in Oslo. But... the first important clue is the addressee: Norsk Hydro Electric. NHE owned the hugely important hydroelectric plant at Vemork, near the village of Rjukan, where heavy water was produced. The sender was a government office in the area of the hydro plant, thus the cover was probably not actually mailed on the train, but it was postmarked in the postal compartment of the train on the critically important 10-mile railway line, and sent to the main office of the company that owned and operated the hydro plant. This cover was in the "hands" of people intimately involved in a hugely important chapter of WWII and of nuclear history in general, from the Nazi guards on the train to the Oslo managers of the hydro plant. Just one year after this cover was mailed, a British Commando mission to the plant (Operation Freshman) failed when their plane crashed; the survivors were captured and executed by the Germans.
500.00
SOLD
229658
September 1860 Stampless cover Bergen - Hamburg - France - Spain. Attractive and in excellent condition. An unusual destination from Norway in this era.
145.00
229660
14 (VF) on 1872 cover to SWEDEN! With Swedish railway transit. Scarce usage.
90.00
229661
18 (VF) on 1875 cover (off edge).
12.00
229664
44b, Facit #45b (VF) on 1886 cover from ETNE to the U.S. Scarce. Nice example.
260.00
229662
40 20mm (VF) 1892 cover with VF FUSKE single-ring cancel.
80 (VF) on cover with 1913 early TEXT machine cancel promoting the 1914 exposition. Real-photo (but damaged) picture post card to the U.S. Priced only for the cancel/usage, not the card.
10.00
229644
77 x4 on 1917 WWI censored cover to U.S.
10.00
229624
80 [10 øre Posthorn] on 1919 (?) DFDS (crossed out) envelope, canceled at BERGEN, to Denmark. Return address of the DFDS "Alexandria".
5.00
229656
81 (Fine) on 1923 6 wavy lines KRISTIANIA MACHINE-CANCELLATION cover. Scarcer 10 øre Green usage on illustrated advertising post card (unusual for Norway). This is after your WWI cut-off, but it also has a BERGEN machine (no lines) receiver on the front which is a bit unusual. Priced for the franking and card, not the cancel.
12.00
229668
88 (F-VF) on attractive 1924 picture post card (real photo: Hammerfest harbor) with "NORDLANDS POSTEXP. H" ship cancellation, to the U.S. This stamp as proper solo usage is one of the scarcest of the set.
79 (7 øre) on ca.1931 tiny envelope to the U.S. Usages of these tiny visiting card envelopes to other countries, especially to non-European countries, is very scarce.
15.00
229709
119 (VF) on 1932 REAL PHOTO post card (Oslo city scene) to the U.S. with OSLO railway shipping promotional machine cancel.
9.00
229625
122 (damaged) on 3 April 1933 illustrated advertising (BEAR SKIN!) cover to England with "PENGER..." text-machine cancellation used only at TRONDHEIM in 1932-33 -- and seems to be quite scarce. Despite the problem with the stamp, this is a spectacular cover!
30.00
229708
115, 119 (VF, F-VF) on 1933 cover to Austria with OSLO machine cancel.
6.00
229707
115, 119 (VF) on 1934 cover to the U.S. with HARSTAD machine cancel.
5.00
229674
1936 post office form Parcel Tag specially for parcels to the U.S. One 0.3 kg parcel from OSLO TOLLPOST to Ohio. Franked with four stamps totaling 165 ore. Nice quality for such a usage.
15.00
229702
79 (F-VF) on 1936 cover to U.S.
5.00
229627
70 3-strip (VF) on Superb 6 April 1937 parcel card (tag specifically for parcel to the U.S.) from DRAMMEN to the U.S. The weight is indicated as 24 kilos and the contents "frimerkearklipp"!!!! That is a LOT OF STAMPS! I knew the addressee, Jens W. Nyboe; he was Danish, an engineer, and lived in Chicago nearly his whole adult life except for time in the Caribbean building airfields for the U.S. military during WWII.
119 (VF) on 1937 horribly damaged tourist post card, but with an unusual KINGS BAY / SPITSBERGEN handstamp in black. Addressed to the U.S., the card apparently entered the mailstream at HARSTAD, Norway, where the stamp was canceled. Offered with the assumption that the only value is to be had from cutting out the Spitzbergen handstamp. Nice early genuine non-philatelic mail.
8.00
229706
157 (VF) solo use on 1937 Superb cover from DRAMMEN to Germany.
40.00
229711
122 (F-VF+) solo usage on 1937 cover to the U.S. with "BERGEN - NEWCASTLE B" SHIP cancel.
7.00
229712
122 (VF) solo use on neat 1937 cover to the U.S. with BERGEN machine cancel.
6.00
229713
122 (VF) solo use on neat 1937 cover to the U.S. with BERGEN machine cancel for 1938 Oslo "VI KAN" Exposition.
6.00
229714
122 (VF) solo use on 1937 cover to the U.S. with OSLO machine cancel.
5.00
229715
122 (VF) solo use on neat 1937 cover to the U.S. with BERGEN machine cancel.
5.00
229716
122 (VF) solo use on REAL PHOTO picture post card (DOMAAS rural scene) to the U.S. with DRAMMEN machine cancel.
10.00
229710
122 (VF) on 1938 cover to the U.S. with an illustrated airplane promotional cancel.
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