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401640 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Facit #RMS 1 [1875 Ten Cent Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] NEVER HINGED, original gum, with LARGE MARGINS and XF centering. Wonderfully fresh, with great color, and with "almost perfectly" balanced centering and large margins (for this issue) all the way around. Finding examples with "large", clear margins on all four sides is quite unusual because the stamp cliches were only 1.5 mm apart. Thus two perfectly centered stamps next to each other would each only have 0.75 mm of margin of its own! This shipping company was formed in 1839 and served almost the entire Caribbean region. This stamp was issued in 1875 when a change (reduction) in British mail contract coverage in various locations resulted in a need for private mail services between countries, such as offered by this company. The stamps were used on letters to and from many Caribbean ports that did not have British post offices, and paid the postage for a half-ounce letter for delivery to another port in the company system. St. Thomas (DWI) was a frequent port of call for the company as part of a wide-ranging system. These stamps were genuinely used on letters; Used examples are "rare" and examples on covers are "extremely rare". The use of these stamps was discontinued in 1880, by which time most of the countries in the Caribbean region had joined the UPU. An outstanding example of a stamp missing from most DWI collections! ACTUAL item. |
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401641 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Facit #RMS 1 [1875 Ten Cent Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] NEVER HINGED, original gum, with VF-XF centering. Wonderfully fresh, with great color, and with "almost perfectly" balanced centering normal margins (for this issue) all the way around. Finding examples with "large", clear margins on all four sides is quite unusual because the stamp cliches were only 1.5 mm apart. Thus two perfectly centered stamps next to each other would each only have 0.75 mm of margin of its own! This shipping company was formed in 1839 and served almost the entire Caribbean region. This stamp was issued in 1875 when a change (reduction) in British mail contract coverage in various locations resulted in a need for private mail services between countries, such as offered by this company. The stamps were used on letters to and from many Caribbean ports that did not have British post offices, and paid the postage for a half-ounce letter for delivery to another port in the company system. St. Thomas (DWI) was a frequent port of call for the company as part of a wide-ranging system. These stamps were genuinely used on letters; Used examples are "rare" and examples on covers are "extremely rare". The use of these stamps was discontinued in 1880, by which time most of the countries in the Caribbean region had joined the UPU. An outstanding example of a stamp missing from most DWI collections! ACTUAL item. |
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401642 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Facit #RMS 1 [1875 Ten Cent Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] TOP MARGIN BLOCK OF FOUR, NEVER HINGED, original gum, with VF-XF centering. Wonderfully fresh, with great color, and with "almost perfectly" balanced centering normal-to-large margins (for this issue) all the way around. Finding examples with "large", clear margins on all four sides is quite unusual because the stamp cliches were only 1.5 mm apart. Thus two perfectly centered stamps next to each other would each only have 0.75 mm of margin of its own! This shipping company was formed in 1839 and served almost the entire Caribbean region. This stamp was issued in 1875 when a change (reduction) in British mail contract coverage in various locations resulted in a need for private mail services between countries, such as offered by this company. The stamps were used on letters to and from many Caribbean ports that did not have British post offices, and paid the postage for a half-ounce letter for delivery to another port in the company system. St. Thomas (DWI) was a frequent port of call for the company as part of a wide-ranging system. These stamps were genuinely used on letters; Used examples are "rare" and examples on covers are "extremely rare". The use of these stamps was discontinued in 1880, by which time most of the countries in the Caribbean region had joined the UPU. An outstanding 4-block of a stamp missing, even as a single, from most DWI collections! Blocks are very seldom offered! Despite blocks being so scarce, because of my desire to see this block kept intact, my price is below the individual break up value of $296 for the four NH stamps. ACTUAL item. |
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401644 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Facit #BK17, Engstrom PC-17B, Scott #UX17, R#19 [1916 5 bit Christian X, WOOD GRAIN WATERMARK, Single Postal Card] Card Type B, used on 27 September 1916 from CHRISTIANSTED to St. Thomas, marked as received on 29 September 1916. This is CORRECT COMMERCIAL USE from the pharmacy in Christiansted, operated by Hans Boje, to A.H. Riise in St. Thomas, who operated a very well known pharmacy in St. Thomas. The text of the card appears to be a request / order for items to be sent to Christiansted. There were two printings of this card: 1915/1916 4200 and 1916/1917 4000. However, Mint examples are quite hard to find and Used examples are "VERY SCARCE". Two sub-types of this 5 bit card have been recorded (see Engstrom; "DWI Mails, Volume 2"): Type B has a nick in the bottom line of the E of BREVKORT; Type A does not have that nick. The company operated by A.H. Riise apparently archived of all the mail they received; a significant portion of the internal DWI covers extant are addressed to Riise and a majority of the covers incoming to DWI from other countries are addressed to Riise. In 53 years specializing in such material, I have had only a few Mint examples of this card, but I am not sure if I have ever before had a properly commercially Used example. (If I have previously had a properly Used example, it was decades ago.) The 2024 Facit value is SEK 3000; the 2026 Scott value (which is usually on the low side for DWI postal stationery) is $250; and the 1985 Ringstrom value was KR 4000! This is a "very scarce" postal card that would be a great "prize" in a DWI postal stationery collection. ACTUAL item. |
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401409 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1908 Christmas Seal [Queen Charlotte Amalie] Mint hinged with F-VF centering, but with a moderate crease at the very top of the design, and rounded upper right corner perforation. Very fresh appearance. ACTUAL item. |
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5.00 |
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401410 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1909 Christmas Seal [HDMS Clipper Ship INGOLF, the Royal Danish Navy ship that served as the station ship for DWI.] Used with VF centering, but aged paper, crease, and perforation defects. Partial, proper St. Thomas cancellation. This is not the most beautiful example around, but there is no doubt that it was actually used! ACTUAL item. |
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6.00 |
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401411 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1910 Christmas Seal [Princess Marie of Orléans and Prince Valdemar of Denmark] NEVER HINGED with VF-XF centering, with wonderful freshness, huge margins, great centering, "perfect" perforations, and "pristine" original NH gum. Other than the first seal in 1908 which is "extremely scarce", this 1910 seal is the scarcest of the 1909-1916 seals, especially in NH condition. ACTUAL item. |
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56.00 |
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401412 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1911 REDDISH LILAC Christmas Seal [Crown Princess Alexandrine] Used with VF centering, but with a couple short perforations and some facial chipping-off (in the margins) of the chalk paper coating. This seal bears a proper ST. THOMAS 18 December 1911 cancellation. This Reddish Lilac color is quite scarce and is very distinctive and completely different than the normal Brownish Red Violet color of all but one of the other perforated 1911 seals I have seen. I recorded this Reddish Lilac Used example in May 2026. Prior to that, the only other perforated (i.e. not likely to be a color proof) Reddish Lilac example that I had recorded was in May 2011; it was Mint without gum and was also missing a perforation. Prior to this 2026 recording of a Used example, I was unsure if this color had actually seen use in DWI and that perhaps it was a perforated color proof. This example demonstrates that this color was actually in use in DWI. While this example has some quality problems, it seems to be "remarkably scarce", and until other Used examples of this color are recorded, this example stands as proof that this color was used in DWI. ACTUAL item. |
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22.00 |
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401414 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1913 Christmas Seal [Crown Prince Frederik] Used with VF centering, but with a fairly light crease near the top of the design. Neat, partial, proper (Frederikst)ed or Christianst(ed) 1913 cancellation. A nice looking example. ACTUAL item. |
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15.00 |
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401415 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1914 Christmas Seal [Sunrise and Palm Tree] Mint, lightly hinged, with XF centering. Wonderfully fresh, with gigantic margins, brilliant colors, and bright white paper. (The printing side of paper on the 1914 seal is chalk coated bright white.) This is one of my favorite Christmas Seal designs (of any country). ACTUAL item. |
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12.00 |
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