| Wavy Line Design -- 1905-1917, Typographed, Crown Watermark |  Top |
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62 [1912 10 øre Wavy-Lines / Numeral with Crown Watermark] (Fine) on 14 December 1912 picture post card (H. [Helga] Tesch artist-signed; 3 children, youngest has crashed sled; girl gives aid while boy stands by unemotional -- a classic!) with VF BIRKET star (larger of the two) cancellation Skilling #0138, with dated HORSLUNDE side cancellation, to "Detroit Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin" U.S. Quite a scarce star cancel (Skilling on-cover value DKK 500 in 2007); there are not many star cancellations up at this value level. A very nice item for the cancellation, but also nice for the card. ACTUAL item. |
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Scott #63 Pair [1905 15 øre Numeral and Wavy-Lines, Typographed, Crown Watermark] (Fine) on 19 October 1911 Cash-On-Delivery (COD; Remboursement; Postopkrævning) envelope (243 x 125 mm) in the amount of 16.40 kroner, from AALBORG to TERNDRUP. Upon arrival delivery was attempted, but for a reason not stated, delivery was not accepted and it was returned by the Terndrup post office on 31 October to Aalborg, with AALBORG 31 October receiver on reverse. In such cases, the return was usually because the recipient refused to pay the amount requested. This extremely "dramatic" looking envelope is from a life insurance company associated with The Cooperative Association and says that contains a membership statement (which was actually probably a life insurance bill). This type of life insurance via an association membership was common in many countries at that time. There are two strikes of a boxed "RETOUR" [return] applied at Terndrup -- this handstamp is not often seen on Danish covers and when it is seen, it is most often seen on mail being returned to other countries. There is also a bilingual (French / Danish; for use on both international mail and internal mail) red postal label (applied by the post office in Aalborg) "Remboursement. / Postopkrævning." indicating that this is a COD item. This early postal label is not often seen. In Denmark and the other Scandinavian countries, at this time, using the COD system was a very common way for organizations and companies to collect life insurance premiums, membership dues, periodicals subscriptions, etc. The payment made its way back to the originator via what was essentially a reverse postal money order. COD envelopes of this era are not unusual, however, this is the most "dramatic" such envelope I have seen in 53 years! This should be an important item for a Danish COD cover collection or a Wavy-Lines cover collection or a general Danish postal history collection. Because of the "dramatic" appearance I think it is much more effective in telling the story of how this system worked than do most COD covers. ACTUAL item. |
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