| 1961-1970 Commemoratives |  Top |
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215095 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
409 Non Flour [Niels Bohr, Nobel Winner] 1964 post card to U.S. ACTUAL item. |
12.00 |
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215096 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
410 Non Flour [Niels Bohr, Nobel Winner] 1963 5 gram letter to U.S. ACTUAL item. |
12.00 |
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401871 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark Scott #425 Non-Fluorescent x5 [1966 50 øre Christen Kold, Educator] (VF) on 28 June 1982 philatelic cover carried by the Danish-flag ship "THALA DAN" and MAILED AT SCORESBYSUND, GREENLAND. From there sent to addressee in the United States and with a U.S. SORTER MARKING on reverse confirming that this was carried through the mail. Mail involving this ship is well-known to collectors of Antarctic mail because, after being built in 1957 in Denmark, this ice-strengthened polar research and cargo ship was used extensively in support of Australian and French Antarctic missions. This may (???) be the last Scandinavian- or Arctic-related mail carried by this ship because, later in 1982, the ship was sold to the Brazilian Navy. Brazil renamed it the "Barão de Teffé (H-42)", and used it to help build and supply the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station during 1982-1994. It was scrapped in 2007. Before it was sold to Brazil, this was a Danish-flag ship. Thus mail posted on board, when on the high seas, was supposed to use Danish stamps. This cover was posted a Scoresbysund, Greenland, and there properly canceled with the town postmark (on the Danish stamps). According to international postal practices this cover should have received a "Paquebot" handstamped postal marking in addition to the town cancellation -- to explain the reason for a Greenlandic cancellation on Danish stamps -- however, I suspect that Scoresbysund did not have such a handstamp device. After the issuance of regular Greenlandic postage stamps in 1938, Danish stamps have very seldom borne Greenlandic postmarks. This is the primary type of use that would resulted in a Greenlandic postmark on a modern-era Danish stamp. ACTUAL item. |
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