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229380 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark #91 [7 ore green typographed Wavy-Line] on 1928 printed matter rate cover (reduced size but looks completely natural) from Denmark or mailed aboard a Danish ship, to AKUREYRI, Iceland. Machine canceled in REYKJAVIIK and with superb strike of boxed "Skipsbrjef" mark, indicating incoming ship mail. Also with AKUREYRI cancel as the cover was forwarded to SIGLUFJORD. An extremely unusual usage. A bit worn as one might expect. ACTUAL item. |
75.00 |
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229296 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark 192 (F-VF) on 1929 ship letter TO ICELAND, with Icelandic "Skipsbrjef" boxed handstamp (equivalent of paquebot marking) and REYKJAVIK 18.IV.29 cancellation. A very nice example; quite scarce. ACTUAL item. |
60.00 |
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235908 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
147 [1925 35 aur Reykjavik, Esja Mountain] (VF) on 23 January 1929 PAQUEBOT cover to the U.S., machine canceled at "KØBENHAVN / OMK" (with "KØB DANSE VARER" slogan), Denmark, and with Danish "FRA ISLAND" handstamp. Typical of "fishing boat mail" posted en-route on the North Atlantic or handed to fishing boat captains at small coastal villages. Very attractive. ACTUAL item. |
110.00 |
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235909 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
147 [1925 35 aur Reykjavik, Esja Mountain] (VF) on 1929 PAQUEBOT cover to the U.S. (addressed to the Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit), hand canceled at "KØBENHAVN / OMK 7", Denmark, and with Danish "FRA ISLAND" handstamp. Typical of "fishing boat mail" posted en-route on the North Atlantic or handed to fishing boat captains at small coastal villages. Very attractive. ACTUAL item. |
130.00 |
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235911 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Iceland #112 [1922 5 aur Olive Green Christian X] and Denmark #94 [1921 10 øre Green Wavy-Line] (F-VF) on ICELANDIC - DANISH - NORWEGIAN TRIPLE COUNTRY cover hand canceled on 17 June 1929 at BERGEN and with black Bergen "Paquebot" handstamp, to København, Denmark. The sender may have been confused about what stamps were required or perhaps simply used whatever stamps were at hand. I have never before in 38 years had such a use. Spectacular! ACTUAL item. |
225.00 |
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235912 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Denmark #192 [1927 15 øre Typographed Caravel] (VF, cover creased through stamp) on beautiful 10 June 1929 shipmail cover TO ICELAND, posted at sea. Upon arrival at Reykjavik, it received a black boxed "Skipsbrief" (ship letter) handstamp and was machine canceled. Very attractive Danish hotel illustrated advertising cover. Non-philatelic uses of this handstamp are quite unusual as are Icelandic-canceled foreign stamps. ACTUAL item. |
180.00 |
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238291 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
Faroe Scott #9 [1975 50 oyru Map] on 1975 philatelic printed matter post card to Denmark with Danish incoming ship mail boxed "FRA FÆRØERNE" cancellation (Daka #DK82) and "KØBENHAVN Omk 24" dated side cancellation. Addressed to Denmark. Nice cancellation strikes. REPRESENTATIVE image of stamp design. |
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7.00 |
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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. |
SOLD |
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