Newly acquired items worthy of your attention. The newest items are at the top with recently added items farther down. As always, your satisfaction is guaranteed. All are available for approval viewing. Scott numbers have been used unless otherwise mentioned.
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.
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5.00
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401410
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!
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6.00
401411
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.
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56.00
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401412
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.
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22.00
401413
1912 Christmas Seal [Caribbean Map] Used with Superb centering, but with a rounded lower right corner perforation and a faint stain on the right side. This seal bears a proper partial ST. THOMAS cancellation. Used examples of this 1912 "Map" seal are remarkably scarce. As of May 2026, I have had fewer than 5 Used examples and most or all have had quality problems (as is often the case on Used DWI Christmas Seals). A handsome example.
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401414
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.
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15.00
401415
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).
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12.00
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401416
1915 Christmas Seal [King Christian X] NEVER HINGED with XF-Superb centering. Wonderfully fresh and attractive, with bright colors, "perfect" perforations, and "pristine", original never hinged gum.
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17.00
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401417
1916 Christmas Seal ["Southern Cross" Constellation] Mint, extremely lightly hinged, with XF-Superb centering. but with a faint crease near the top of the design. Very fresh and attractive, with bright color, bright white paper, excellent perforations, and "pristine", original lightly hinged gum.
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5.50
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401408
RMS 1 [1875 Ten Cent Royal Mail Steam Packet Company] Mint hinged with XF centering. Fresh appearance, great color, and with "almost perfectly" balanced centering all the way around.
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Scott #R4 FULL SHEET of 25 [1907 2 Francs] NEVER HINGED full sheet of 25 stamps with centering ranging from XF to VF to F-VF to Fine (the best centering is toward the right side and in the lower right quarter. Sold from the Royal Archives with handstamp in the upper sheet selvage "solgt fra Rigsarkivet 1971" -- now 55 years ago (as of 2026). Entirely NH, including the sheet selvage, with a small amount of archival selvage wear in the lower right sheet corner. As nice as an example as one could hope to find. A sheet such as this could be the basis for an interesting plating study; though the position differences are small, each position appears to be slightly different. Though it is not immediately noticeable, this is printed in grayish black foreground with a pale gray underprint, thus it is a bicolor. The two inked dots (actually small registration peg holes) were used to control the positioning of paper, and thus the proper registration of the two colors, for the two trips through the printing press. Though I only started around 2000 keeping detailed records of items such as this that I have had, as of May 2026 this is the only such sheet I have had since around 2000. I believe that I had two other examples of this sheet between 1973 and 2000, but it is possible that this sheet is one of those two examples that came back to me when I purchased a collection to which I had supplied this sheet. The single revenue stamps always sell quickly. NH examples of single stamps sell for around $8 each down at the Fine-centered end of the spectrum and up to about $18-20 each for NH VF examples and $25 each for XF examples. The total of the break-up value of this sheet is well over $400! Priced well below break-up value!
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SOLD
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401401
Scott #R4 [1907 2 Francs] NEVER HINGED with Fine centering, but with small, natural paper stress crease. Very fresh.
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5.50
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401402
Scott #R1 [1907 10 bit] NEVER HINGED with F-VF centering. Wonderfully fresh and bright. [McRee states that there were four printings. Years ago I saw all four color shades / combinations in one collection; they are slightly different. Compare to your collection.]
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SOLD
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401403
Scott #RJ25 [Tobacco Tax 1933 "6" Handstamped Surcharge in Black on Scott #R16 Virgin Islands 10 bit, Perf 11] Used with Fine centering, slightly aged (but better than usually seen), with well-struck handstamped surcharge and extremely light cancellation. An attractive example of a scarce stamp. The Scott 2026 Specialized catalog value is $100, but in my opinion it is much scarcer than that value suggests and any example in any quality sells very quickly.
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400936
1913 Christmas Seal [Crown Prince Frederik] NEVER HINGED with Superb centering. Wonderfully fresh and attractive, pristine in all respects. A "perfect" example!
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20.00
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400937
1915 Christmas Seal [King Christian X] NEVER HINGED with Superb centering. Wonderfully fresh and attractive, pristine in all respects. A "perfect" example!
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20.00
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400938
1915 Christmas Seal [King Christian X] NEVER HINGED with Superb centering. Wonderfully fresh and attractive, pristine in all respects. A "perfect" example!
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20.00
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400939
1908 Christmas Seal [Queen Charlotte Amalie] NEVER HINGED with Superb centering. Wonderfully fresh and attractive, pristine in all respects. A "perfect" example!
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42.00
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400844
1913 Christmas Seal [Crown Prince Frederik] Lower Right Corner Margin BLOCK OF FOUR. NEVER HINGED with VF to XF centering. The seals are all NH; there is one hinge on the lower left part of sheet margin. Wonderfully fresh and attractive, pristine in all respects. Individual 1913 NH VF seals sell for $15 each; this block is priced just below the $60 break-up value and two or three of the seals in this block are easily XF centered.
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57.00
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400845
1913 Christmas Seal [Crown Prince Frederik] Upper Left Corner Margin SINGLE. NEVER HINGED with VF centering. The seal and sheet margin are all NH. Wonderfully fresh and attractive, pristine in all respects. A handsome position piece.
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1913 Christmas Seal [Crown Prince Frederik] NEVER HINGED with Superb centering. Wonderfully fresh and attractive, pristine in all respects. A "perfect" example!
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20.00
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400847
1913 Christmas Seal [Crown Prince Frederik] NEVER HINGED with VF centering, but with very tiny facial scrape spots (losses of tiny parts of the chalk-coated paper). NH VF normally sells for $15!
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2.95
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400848
1913 Christmas Seal [Crown Prince Frederik] NEVER HINGED with VF centering, but with one or more perfectly round SMALL HOLE(s) caused by a boring insect (in the tropical climate). The are sort of fun because it looks like the seal was shot by a miniature bullet(s). NH VF normally sells for $15!
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1.25
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400654
Scott #5 (Scott Classic #5b, Medium Paper), Facit #5d Printing 4 [1873 (1880 Printing) 1 cent Bicolor, Perforation 14 x 13.5] (Fine) on 2 cent POSTAL CARD Facit #bke 2b with 4 text lines (fourth text line measures 66 mm and there is not an extra corner orament in the left frame), in VF quality. The card was sent 6 July 1883 from ST. THOMAS to Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, with manuscript endorsement for mailing to be on the SS Reliance. The Used postal card itself is scarce, with a Facit value of SEK 1500. The 1 cent Printing 4 stamp used on any cover or card is also scarce with a Facit value of SEK 3500!!!! (Just for reference, the Used single off-cover stamp has a Facit value of SEK 700.) It is a very attractive and scarce card with a business message, but even more interesting is the correspondence itself and the history behind it. The sender of the card is a formal STAMP DEALER in DWI, "J. Rogers / Dealer in Postage Stamps". The reverse of the card has his PRINTED business information. This is the most formal in-DWI stamp dealer item I can recall having in 52 years. Rogers sent the card to another stamp dealer, R.W. Mercer in Cincinnati, with the message: "Your postcard to hand [received]. Circulars [price lists] however have not been received. I send you per bookpost [printed matter] my latest wholesale lists, and solicit your orders. If you send me your latest quotations for Dept stamps [U.S. Official Departmental Stamps] we may do some business." Rogers continues, with the most interesting text: "We are mutual sufferers of the "JC GLENNAN" fraud, do you expect to recover anything?" This mention of a philatelic fraud caught my attention, but I was unable to find any references to a stamp fraud of that name in that era, so I asked the question in my "Philatelic E-News" weekly emailed newsletter. I am extremely thankful to client "J.H." for researching this subject and finding the answer (and sending me the image which is reproduced here) in The Washington Post, on page 2 of the June 5, 1883 edition. J.C. Glennan was actually the ALIAS of an "about" 16 year old boy by the name of Marathon M. Ramsey, who was ARRESTED, in Washington DC, for having perpetrated a $5 fraud on R.W. Mercer, the recipient of this postal card! Ramsey was held in Washington DC "for the action of the Cincinnati authorities." I do not know anything beyond what is shown in this short article. 142 years later is hard to believe that the police took this $5 fraud seriously, arrested somebody, etc. While $5 meant a lot more then than it does now, I have had a U.S. DOJ prosecutor tell me that they will not open an investigation unless the losses total at least $100,000. I have also been told by both local and out-of-state police departments that they either do not have jurisdiction or do not have the resources to pursue charges for an interstate fraudulent check (not just a bounced check, but a fake check) in the amount of $1200. Times have changed!A wonderful item of DWI Postal History, of DWI Postal Stationery, of Stamp Dealer History, and of Social History in general.
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375.00
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248440
1913 Christmas Seal IMPERFORATE PROOF. Mint, never hinged, COMPLETE SHEET of 25 on UNGUMMED PAPER with beige color back. Colors as issued. Brilliant colors and pristine in all respects. This proof sheet shows the little-known "horn on 9 (of 1913)" variety in position 20 that appears in the issued seals. An outstanding Art Nouveau Christmas seal design. Various proofs of most (1908, 1910-1916) DWI Christmas Seals are recorded, however, they are rarely offered. [This sheet of 25 contains ten horizontal pairs and five singles; in 2023 I sold two horizontal pairs of this color/paper for $79 per pair, imputing a break of value of about $980 for the sheet. Since the market is more limited for full sheets than it is for the popular pairs, I am able to offer the full sheet for well below break-up value. Despite the recent availability of those two pairs and now this sheet, this type of material is extremely scarce!]
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690.00
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248441
"DANSK VESTINDIEN PROTEST MOD SALGET" (Protest against the sale...) w/ ULTRAMARINE ON CHALK COATED PAPER. NEVER HINGED, FULL SHEET OF TEN (2 columns, 5 rows) with full margins all around. Each stamp is VF to VF+ centered, with wonderful freshness and perfect original gum. Small printing plate difference in each position allow one to use a sheet like this to "plate" all ten positions. Prior to acquiring this sheet and ten other singles, previously in 50 years I had been able to offer fewer than 8 full-gum single stamps (and no multiples); now the total is less than 18 full-gum singles and only one full sheet. A beautiful and key item from the final chapter of DWI philately as the U.S. was working toward buying DWI (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) during WWI to prevent the Germans from gaining control of DWI as a submarine base! Even single are "rare" in such nice quality. I have quickly sold singles of this quality at $110 each! Even though a sheet is much more rare than a single, the market for a sheet is more limited, thus this is priced at slightly less than its $1100 break-up value. An outstanding and important item for a DWI collection.
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975.00
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248442
"DANSK VESTINDIEN PROTEST MOD SALGET" (Protest against the sale...) w/ ULTRAMARINE ON CHALK COATED PAPER. NEVER HINGED single with VF+ centering. Wonderful freshness and perfect original gum. In 50 years I have been able to offer fewer than 18 full-gum single stamps (including this), but not all of which were this nice, and one rare full sheet of ten. This is a beautiful and key item from the final chapter of DWI philately as the U.S. was working toward buying DWI (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) during WWI to prevent the Germans from gaining control of DWI as a submarine base! This is "rare" in such nice quality. I have quickly previously sold singles of this quality at $110 each! An outstanding and important item for a DWI collection.
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110.00
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248444
"DANSK VESTINDIEN PROTEST MOD SALGET" (Protest against the sale...) w/ ULTRAMARINE ON CHALK COATED PAPER. NEVER HINGED single with VF+ centering, but very tiny spot in the bottom margin (below the T of SALGET). Otherwise wonderful freshness and has perfect original gum. In 50 years I have been able to offer fewer than 18 full-gum single stamps (including this), and one rare full sheet of ten. This is a beautiful and key item from the final chapter of DWI philately as the U.S. was working toward buying DWI (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) during WWI to prevent the Germans from gaining control of DWI as a submarine base! This is "rare" in such nice quality. Otherwise, without the describe spot, I have quickly previously sold singles of this quality at $110 each! A beautiful item for a DWI collection.
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69.00
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248034
Envelope Facit #5, Ringstrom #4, Engstrom #4A (A=blue) (Watermark Subtype IIb - large ball touches crown on both sides), Scott #U1 [2 Cent blue, Watermark II (large ball)] Dull Blue. Watermark tilts to the left when viewed from the front (flap unfolded). Mint in XF quality. Extremely fresh and nice. Facit 2024 value SEK 500 for normal quality of most common variation.
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90.00
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242324
Scott #1 1978 Official Reprint officially printed from the original plate, with the original burelage, for Volume II of the DWI Mails book. The sheets of 100 were divided into quarters and placed into the books, one quarter per book; all four quarters can be found. The smaller-size marginal number indicates into which DWI Mails numbered volume the sheet was placed. A larger-size marginal number, found only on the lower-right quarter sheets, indicates the serial number of the reprint sheet of 100. Lower right quarter sheet with extremely low "0004" sheet serial number from the DWI Mails Volume II numbered "08".
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"Statue of King Christian IX unveiled August 1909 / Emancipation Garden, St. Thomas, D.W.I." vertical format. Mint VF picture post card. Publisher imprint: Lightbourns West India Series.
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12.00
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234698
Scott #1 1978 Official Reprint officially printed from the original plate, with the original burelage, for Volume II of the DWI Mails book. The sheets of 100 were divided into quarters and placed into the books, one quarter per book; all four quarters can be found. The smaller-size marginal number indicates into which DWI Mails numbered volume the sheet was placed. A larger size marginal number, found only on the lower-right quarter sheets, indicates the serial number of the reprint sheet of 100. Quarter sheet, as issued. This offering is for a random quarter sheet position (this standard image shows a quarter sheet from the lower right position as a generic illustration). Only the lower right position includes the large number; every position bears a different small number. If you require a particular position, please inquire for availability.
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