A selection of especially interesting seldom-offered items in particularly nice quality. All are available for approval viewing. Scott numbers have been used unless otherwise mentioned.
Please also see the other Gallery pages and the Specialized Stamps pages for other high-quality stamps including both Specialized and non-specialized items.
Select Stamps - Scott #25-34: 1875-1895 "Perf 14 Bicolors"
Scott #25 [1875 3 øre blue and gray Bicolor, Perforation 14 x 13.5, Normal Frame] Mint, lightly hinged, with F-VF++ centering. Very fresh and bright with great colors, "perfect" perforations, and very lightly hinged original gum.
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23.00
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232433
27 [1879 5 øre Bicolor] Print 4. Mint, lower two stamps NH, BLOCK OF FOUR with Fine centering. Wonderfully fresh and bright. The individual break-up value as singles is $188!
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169.00
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401220
Scott #30 [1875 16 øre Bicolor, Perforation 14 x 13.5, Normal Frame] Used with Fine+ centering. Superbly struck, but inverted, #117 (Odder) 3-ring numeral cancellation. A very nice example!
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14.00
401219
Scott #30a, AFA #27.1, Facit #33a. Printing 1: Light Gray and Dark Olive Brown [1875 16 øre Bicolor, Perforation 14 x 13.5, Normal Frame] Used with F-VF centering. Fresh and attractive with true colors and very light cancellation. AFA Specialized 2016 Catalog (most recent edition as of 4/2026) value DKK 750 (US$113 4/2026). Though this stamp fits under the umbrella of Scott #30a, the Scott value for #30a is for a later printing "light gray and brown", not for this early and much scarcer printing. Because of the very thin paper used for Printing 1, undamaged examples are quite hard to find. A handsome example!
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79.00
247008
31 INVERTED WATERMARK, Print 4. Facit #34dvm. AFA #28.4 omv vm. [1875 20 øre Bicolor, Perf 14 x 13.5] Used VF with well-struck and complete #152 numeral cancellation (Skibby). An outstanding example that is fault-free (scarce on this thin paper), excellent centering, and complete numeral cancellation. Inverted watermark examples are seldom seen so nice!
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65.00
247009
31 Print 3b. Facit #34cc variety. AFA #28.3b variety. [1875 20 øre Bicolor, Perf 14 x 13.5] Used with Fine centering and very light cancellation, but one short perf tooth. OVAL VARIETY "white spot before P" is very clear. Printing 3 is interesting because it is listed as 3a and 3b, with two different colors, thus one would think it would be divided into two different printings. That this is printing 3b is confirmed by a small note in Lasse Nielsen handwriting (I had submitted the stamp to him ca.2010). There is additional information in the AFA Specialized 2016 regarding the frames from plates A and B, but I have not (yet?) found that information presented by Lasse Nielsen. The oval variety is clear and according to the Lasse Nielsen handbook, it can only be Oval Flaw 62 (OF.62). However, the Nielsen handbook does not state the plate position of OF.62 in Printing 3a or 3b -- I am not sure if this is simply because the position was not known or if it is because examples of OF.62 on printing 3b had not been observed. An attractive example of an interesting stamp.
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44.00
401202
Scott #32, AFA #29.1, Facit #35a. Printing 1 [1875 25 øre gray and green, Bicolor, Perforation 14 x 13.5, Normal Frame] Used with F-VF centering and very nice appearance with crisp #42 (Middelfart) 3-ring numeral cancellation. Great color and unusually nice looking for this printing. Printing 1 of this stamp has distinctive color and a faint checkerboard pattern in the green oval printing (present on this example). Printing 1 is always on extremely thin paper resulting in most examples having become damaged over time. A handsome example.
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249895
Scott #33a, AFA #30a, Facit #36a. Printing 1b [1874 (1874 Print 1b, brown and violet-blue) 50 øre Bicolor, Perf 14 x 13.5] Used with F-VF centering, exceptionally strong violet-blue color, and excellent perforations for this issue. Though the cancellation is very light, it is clearly a RAILWAY cancellation (it does include "1 TOG" and "... JB"). This is an outstanding example of a scarce stamp that is extremely difficult to find with such nice color and in such nice quality, and so lightly canceled!
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195.00
401221
Scott #34 [Scott Classic #34d], AFA #31.3, Facit #37c. Printing 3: Blue Gray and Orange Yellow [1875 (1891 Printing) 100 øre Bicolor, Perforation 14 x 13.5, Normal Frame] Used with VF centering. Neatly struck (HU)MBLE town cancellation. The "mble" ending of the town name is rare in Denmark; according to my information HUMBLE is the only possible town (a small village on the island of Langeland). The AFA Specialized 2016 Catalog (still the latest edition as of 4/2026) value is DKK 600 (US$90 4/2026). A very attractive example of the stamp with nothing added to the price for the scarce cancellation.
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