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229297 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark 306a, 307a on 30 November 1949 airmail cover to Iceland, there forwarded on 22 December with OLAFSVIK transit postmark. Very unusual usage and especially for the Icelandic forwarding with postmark. ACTUAL item. |
22.00 |
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249452 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark Scott #230 Gray Violet and #306a Type III [1948 10 øre gray violet printing Wavy-Lines/Numeral; 1949 15 øre green Frederik IX Type III] (F-VF) on 7 July 1950 cover from KØBENHAVN TO FAROE. No receiving postmark, but such were not normally used in that era. Obviously a non-philatelic cover (and not from a correspondence that have seen before) with the usually expected wear. Though this would be a very ordinary cover used within Denmark, such uses to the Faroes are remarkably seldom encountered! ACTUAL item. |
7.00 |
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325 x3, 323, 334, 335 [1951 55 øre Brown Frederik IX and other values of set: 25 Light Blue, 30 Brownish Red, 40 Gray] (VF) on a 25 May 1954 registered airmail business-size envelope to the U.S. The envelope is a little aged, but the stamps are all VF. The rate is correct for 20 grams: 60 for surface rate to 20 grams, 40 registry fee, 4 x 40 airmail surcharge. The net of the three rate components make this rate possible only from 1 July 1953 through 31 March 1957. This unassuming cover is an extremely scarce item! The 55 øre Brown is rare on cover: AFA 2007 lists it at DKK 1200 = US$210 for a typical usage. This usage is much more interesting, with three examples of the stamp and the franking is "pure" Frederik IX! ACTUAL item. |
175.00 |
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249242 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
326 Pair [1950 70 øre green Frederik IX] (VF) on 9 September 1955 airmail cover from "KØBENHAVN 21 /3" to the U.S. The 140 øre total franking is correct for a 10 gram airmail letter to the U.S. as follows: surface letter to 20 grams 60 øre (1 July 1952 - 14 May 1965) and airmail surcharge 40 øre per 5 grams (1 July 1953 - 30 June 1981). This stamp is not often found on cover, especially NOT mixed with other stamp issues. ACTUAL item. |
8.00 |
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Denmark Scott #335 Type IVb [1952 (1953 type) 30 øre brownish red Frederik IX] (VF, rounded corner perforation) on undated SHIP MAIL ca.1953-1962 (based on the 30 øre Nordic letter rate) cover TO Åbo, Finland. The stamp is canceled with a black straight-line "CARELIA" ship name cancellation. The Finnish Steamship Company (Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget / FAA) did operate a ship by that name in this time period, traveling on Baltic routes. Near the stamp is a similar, violet "KÖPENHAMN" handstamp. (That is the Swedish spelling (the Swedish language was commonly used in the Åbo area) of the Danish capital, "København"; it could have been the name of a small ship or it could be indicated the source location of the letter). The envelope has the printed return address of a company in Kastrup, Denmark, a suburb of København. The addressee in Åbo is also a business. Danish text "SKIBSPOST" (ship mail) was typed at the same time the address was typed. The long, narrow (265 x 110 mm) envelope is the typical shape and size used for ship mail specifically containing CONSIGNEE paperwork (sent to the recipient of freight that has been shipped aboard a ship). Such paperwork is typically in an unfranked (thus typically postage due) envelope or an envelope franked (as in this case) with the postage of the freight-originating country or the flag country of the ship. The paperwork was typically sent to the intended first recipient of the freight (the consignee), in advance of the freight being unloaded from the ship, often to request payment for the cargo or for fees. In some cases, due to the urgency of delivering the paperwork, the envelope may have been hand-delivered directly from the ship to the consignee -- but postage still needed to be paid and canceled because a postal monopoly required that all letters (even if not carried by the post office) still had to have postage paid. While I am short on verifiable proof, I believe that this cover is an example of such CONSIGNEE MAIL. This is the ONLY example of such a cover and/or of such markings / cancellation that I have ever (in 52 years) been able to offer from / to / between Scandinavian / Nordic countries (other than ca.1905 consignee mail to DWI). ACTUAL item. |
SOLD |