| 1872-1876 Ringtype Perforation 14 |  Top |
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Sweden Ring-Type Covers to Foreign Countries: Collection of 17, 1872-1891: A remarkably unusual (as a collection) offering of RING-TYPE (the stamp designs in Scott #17-49) stamps on covers mailed to foreign destinations. All of the covers are somewhat worse for wear, but this is quite typical for covers to other countries from 120-150 years ago! There are a total of 17 covers to 6 different destination countries, as follows: Denmark x1 with a Superb Scott #22 with a superb 1872 (first year of issue) cancellation. England x3 including a Scott #23. Wales x1 (which from a postal history standpoint is tremendously scarcer from Sweden than the rest of the UK; sent to the Swedish Consulate in Cardiff). Germany x7 with a variety of different stamps and manners of use; one has a Swedish Royal Family seal on the reverse. Norway x2, both 1876 with 12 öre stamps in different color shades, one with plate varieties. USA x3, to unusual destinations of California, South Carolina, and Oregon. Again, all of these covers have various types of heavy wear or defects, but the stamps are mostly okay. They are on a collectors album pages with additional annotations and illustrations of the postmarks, but because of how the pages were stored, I suggest moving them to your own album pages (you can clip out and mount the postmark illustrations). If all these covers were in much better (but still not perfect) quality, the would have a total individual retail value of about $950 -- there are some quite unusual covers in this group. However, in the quality they are in, their individual retail values totals about $245. I am offering them as a collection, further discounted! This would be a great way to spice up your stamp collection and/or to start exploring early Swedish covers. Shipping cost is additional for this item. |
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