| Stamps - Scott #264-415 1938-1949 Issues |  Top |
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322a/322 (Facit #332CB) [1941 5 kr blue Stockholm Palace, pair with straight-edge on right side only] CB pair, Used with Superb centering and ESKILTUNA cancellations, but with light bends (hard to see). Correct greenish-blue color of the early printings. This example came off packages of ball bearings sent by airmail in 1941-1942 from Sweden to the Ford Motor Company in the U.S., for military production -- would have to have been sent on the dangerous secret night flights from Stockholm to Scotland and then onward by clipper flying boats to the U.S. [see the book Blockade Runners]. One of the key BC/CB pair issues -- such nice centering is quite scarce! Otherwise would be $245 for this centering. |
59.00 |
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322a/322 (Facit #332CB) [1941 5 kr blue Stockholm Palace, pair with straight-edge on right side only] CB 10-BLOCK (THE COMPLETE BOOKLET PANE, w/o selvage), Used with VF/XF centering and ESKILTUNA cancellations, but with bends and a couple shorter perforations. Correct greenish-blue color of the early printings. This example came off packages of ball bearings sent by airmail in 1941-1942 from Sweden to the Ford Motor Company in the U.S., for military production -- would have to have been sent on the dangerous secret night flights from Stockholm to Scotland and then onward by clipper flying boats to the U.S. [see the book Blockade Runners]. One of the key BC/CB pair issues -- such nice centering is quite scarce! Attractive and completely sound in all respects. Such large blocks of this BC/CB issue are extremely scarce because most of the heavy packages they were on (or on parcel cards) received very rough treatment. While it may not be obvious, stamps like these helped win WWII. |
195.00 |
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397 FLUORESCENT, Facit #300v1 [1968 Fluorescent Printing of the 1948 1.40 kr dark green 3-Crowns] Used VF, but with light bend, on piece of domestic money order card, with well-struck and fully dated, neat HÄLSINGBORG 13 February 1969 cancellation. An unannounced (accidental?) 1968 printing on bright yellow fluorescent (under long-wave UV light) paper. This variety (and also some faintly fluorescent varieties of other stamps) was accidentally discovered around 1978 by a staff member of the Rolf Gummesson stamp dealer firm who was checking some other stamps under UV light and noticed that some unexpected stamps were fluorescent! In 1968-1969 this denomination was needed, as a solo use, for only three purposes. Actually these three rates started 1 January 1967 and ran through 28 February 1969, but the fluorescent stamp was apparently not printed or put into use until mid-late 1968, thus the period of use for it was only a FEW MONTHS. The uses were: 1) Domestic Swedish postal money orders over 10 kr up to a maximum amount of 2000 kroner. The domestic money order forms were usually light brownish in color and bear only Swedish text. 2) Postal money orders to Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway, over 10 kr up to a maximum amount of ?? (believed to again be 2000 kroner). The color and text of such cards has not been recorded by me; this use is very unusual. 3) Foreign postal money orders sent to all other (non-Nordic) countries, up to 250 kr. The Swedish international postal money order forms were usually pink in color and can be identified by the color and especially the text in Swedish and French. The forms sent outside of Sweden were widely distributed. In virtually all cases, the destination post offices usually kept such forms as the receipt for making the payment to the recipient. After a few years, some countries (including Sweden) cut the stamps from money order and parcel cards and sold them as kiloware. The vast majority of known used examples of this fluorescent stamp are from such kiloware (which I believe was not sold until around 1975-1976). Uses of this fluorescent stamp on complete cards is very scarce; I have only seen complete cards used to non-Nordic countries. Uses of this flourescent stamp on a piece of card (i.e. from the kiloware) are scarce because this was not catalog-listed until several years after discovery and even then most collectors who obtained and soaked kiloware were not aware of the existence of this stamp on fluorescent paper. [The supply of mint stamps was long exhausted before this variety was discovered; only by chance might a collector have obtained a mint example (of a 20 year old stamp design) from the post office in 1968.] Rare in mint and quite hard to find Used, and especially undamaged and with nice centering on a piece of card! |
18.00 |