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Denmark: Gallery: Select Stamps - Scott #57-96: 1905-1930 Wavy-Line Numerals; King Christian IX, King Frederick VIII, etc.

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 #57-96: 1905-1930 Wavy-Line Numerals; King Christian IX, King Frederick VIII, etc.

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Quality & Description

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Hinged

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Used

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247994

58 INVERTED WATERMARK, Facit #77vm, AFA #43 omv vm [1905 2 øre Numeral and Wavy Lines, Crown Watermark, Perf 12.75] Mint, extremely lightly hinged, with VF centering. Very attractive example. Surprisingly hard to find despite a modest catalog value.

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8.50

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247995

58 INVERTED WATERMARK, Facit #77vm, AFA #43 omv vm [1905 2 øre Numeral and Wavy Lines, Crown Watermark, Perf 12.75] Mint, extremely lightly hinged, with F-VF centering. Surprisingly hard to find despite a modest catalog value.

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6.75

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247996

58, Facit #77v2, AFA #43ay [1905 2 øre Numeral and Wavy Lines, Crown Watermark, Perf 12.75] "PARTIALLY MISSING HEARTS" plate variety listed in both Facit and AFA Specialized. Usually examples with this much of the hearts missing are offered as "completely missing hearts", but that would not be correct. Both varieties are are not transient variations caused by too much inking; they are constant flaws that developed due to wear of the cliches (and likely due very shallow relief of that area of the cliches at the time of cliche manufacture). Used with F-VF centering and fully dated 3 September 1907 cancellation. The variety is clearly visible (or perhaps I should say "clearly not visible" since the partially missing hearts is the variety). Seldom offered, and when offered, many times it is not the actual variety. This is a nice one!

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24.00

248000

59, Facit #78v1, AFA #44bx [1905 3 øre Numeral and Wavy Lines, Crown Watermark, Perf 12.75] "MA" JOINED plate variety listed in both Facit and AFA Specialized. This variety only exists in 3 sheet positions (31, 38, 95). Mint, extremely lightly hinged, with VF centering. This variety is always in demand because it is so obvious, however, it is seldom offered.

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26.00

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400688

Scott #59 Yellowish Gray Oily Print, AFA #44ab [1905 3 øre gray (shades) Wavy-Lines, Watermark Crown, Perforation 12.75] NEVER HINGED with F-VF centering. Wonderfully fresh and bright. This 3 øre stamp had a total of 26 printings, 1905-1913, all in shades of gray. The distinctive colors from those printings are Yellowish Gray 1905-1906, Yellowish Gray Oily Print 1907 THIS STAMP -- THE SCARCEST OF THE COLORS; Light Gray 1906-1908; Blackish Gray 1910-1911. The other shades of gray are difficult to sort out. The AFA 2016 Specialized Catalog (still the most recent version as of December 2025) value of THIS NH Yellowish Gray Oily Print stamp is DKK 250 (12/2025 approximately US$40). This color / printing is quite hard to find in any condition and quality, but NH examples are seldom seen!

ACTUAL item.

34.00

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400689

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34.00

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247997

60 INVERTED WATERMARK, Facit #79vm, AFA #45 omv vm [1905 4 øre Numeral and Wavy Lines, Crown Watermark, Perf 12.75] Mint, extremely lightly hinged, with VF centering. Very attractive example. Surprisingly hard to find despite a modest catalog value.

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15.00

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247999

60 [1905 4 øre Numeral and Wavy Lines, Crown Watermark, Perf 12.75] Mint, hinged, with XF/VF centering, BLOCK OF FOUR. Very fresh and attractive appearance. The color shade, paper, and impression strongly suggest that this block is from the first (scarcer) printing series (1905-1907; AFA #45a). Though normal Mint stamps are certainly not "scarce", blocks have become much harder to find in the last 20-30 years, particularly such nicely centered blocks.

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34.00

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247998

60, Facit #79v2, AFA #45ay [1905 4 øre Numeral and Wavy Lines, Crown Watermark, Perf 12.75] "AR" JOINED AT BOTTOM plate variety listed in both Facit and AFA Specialized. This variety only exists in a total of 5 positions in the C and D sheets of the first printing series (1905-1907). There are two extremely similar versions of the variety: 1) From a matrix flaw that resulted in the vareity in sheet positions 29, 31, 44, 46; and 2) an individual cliche flaw that resulted in the variety in sheet position 39. I believe that this example is one of the four matrix flaw positions. Used with VF centering and dated [6 or 16 or 26] June 1907 cancellation. The variety is clearly visible. This variety is always in demand because it is so obvious, however, it is seldom offered.

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24.00

248001

61 [1912 5 øre Numeral and Wavy Lines, Crown Watermark, Perf 12.75] Used BLOCK OF FOUR with F-VF centering, but with a couple minor bends as expected on a postally used block. Just as a point of interest (not affecting the price), this block shows an example of what is today called "revenue protection". The block was placed sideways on the envelope and received a machine cancellation which thus was mostly on two stamps (and a tiny bit on a third). Thus an observant postal clerk applied a handstamped cancel to fully cancel the other two stamps. Back then, it was "worth" the effort for postal clerks to do this, to prevent re-use of stamps, since the postage cost was "real money" to an ordinary person. While this is a "very common" stamp in Used condition, used blocks are very seldom offered!

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4.00

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Used

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400690

Scott #62 Carmine Rose, AFA #65a [1912 10 øre rose (shades) Wavy-Lines, Watermark Crown, Perforation 12.75] NEVER HINGED with Superb centering. Wonderfully fresh and bright. Any printing (color shade) of this stamp is very difficult to find in NH condition and with such nice centering. This may be the best centered NH example I have had in 25+ years, perhaps the in 52 years.

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SOLD

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400691

Scott #62 Carmine Rose, AFA #65av [1912 10 øre rose (shades) Wavy-Lines, Watermark Crown, Perforation 12.75] NEVER HINGED with VF-XF centering. Wonderfully fresh and bright. AFA-LISTED PLATE VARIETY #65av with (faint) white line in the right lion from the rear toward the center of the lion. (There are less delicate ways to describe this one.) AFA just mentions that this is a matrix flaw, meaning that one position in the group of cliches that were duplicated to make a larger quantity of cliches passed this "flaw" onto several cliches, thus several sheet positions. The "SAVA Bogtryk 1983" variety catalog lists this as #65/14a and indicates that this variety is found in position 14 in part of the printing and to a less obvious degree also in positions 29, 56, and 66; this example is from one of those latter three positions. Any printing (color shade) of this stamp is very difficult to find in NH condition and with such nice centering. This is the only example of this variety that I have recorded having in 52 years.

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34.00

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248002

62 [1912 10 øre Numeral and Wavy Lines, Crown Watermark, Perf 12.75] Used BLOCK OF FOUR with VF centering, but XF appearance. No defects. AALBORG 20 May 1914 cancellations. While this is a "very common" stamp in Used condition, used blocks are very seldom offered -- the AFA Block Catalog 2017 (most recent edition) listed the value at 60 DKK!

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7.50

247993

64 Dark Blue, Facit #83a, AFA #66x [1912 20 øre Wavy-Line, Perf 12.75, Crown Watermark] Used Horizontal Pair with XF centering and a neat VEILE 9 September 1912 bridge cancellation. The right stamp has a listed stamp variety, AFA Specialized 2016 (most recent edition) #66x: "shorter curved line on right side of top of crown"; DKK 125 for normal quality single. A very attractive and clearly visible example of this rarely-offered plate variety.

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20.00

400684

Scott #67, Facit #66a, AFA #49 Sepia-Brown [1904 25 øre brown (shades) Christian IX] Mint, extremely lightly hinged, with F-VF centering. The hinging is so light that the previous owner thought it was NH. Wonderfully fresh and with the true Sepia-Brown color (not the Gray-Brown color). Attractive Mint examples of this stamp are surprisingly hard to find.

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24.50

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400685

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24.50

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247010

68 GRAY LILAC (Facit #67b, AFA #50 Gray Lilac) [1905 50 øre Christian IX] Used with VF centering. PRE-PRINTING PAPER FOLD: horizontal, near the bottom, all the way across the stamp, wider at right side. The cancellation is clear of the wider part of the fold -- the unprinted gap -- at the right. This type of variety is exceptionally scarce on the Christian IX stamp issue, and especially on the higher denominations. This stamp is the key value of the set; even normal examples with nice centering are hard to find -- a normal example with this centering would be around $120!

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129.00

248684

75, AFA #57t [1907 25 øre Frederik VIII] Used with Fine centering and neat cancellation. The AFA-listed "trissfejl" plate variety: "color line extending from lower left of lower right corner ornament". AFA 2016 (most recent edition) Specialized Catalog value DKK 150. The variety on this stamp is surprising hard to find.

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12.00

240772

78 Rough Perforation Variety [1907 100 øre Frederik VIII] Mint Superb, JUMBO-margined example. An exceptional example in three ways: The perforation variety, the huge margins, and the wonderful centering. Very fresh. Extremely unusual.

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140.00

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240619

82 [1912 5 Kr Post Office Building, Crown Watermark] Mint with Average centering (four perfs just barely touch the frame line), very modestly hinged. No defects. Wonderful, rich color. As comparison, Mint F-VF would be $395! The plate for this stamp was a copper-plate engraving, but made in two different styles. The frame is very deeply engraved thus has very think ink, while the center has shallow engraving with tremendous detail. The result is the appearance of having been printed with two different color shades of ink!

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145.00

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Used

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249566

Scott #82 [1912 5 Kr Post Office Building, Perf 12.75, Crown Watermark] Used with F-VF and unusually neat, carefully placed cancellation. Wonderful freshness, deep color, and perfect perforations. An unusually attractive example of a stamp that is hard to find undamaged (because they were often used for parcel mail) and so neatly canceled.

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140.00

400658

Scott #82 Plate Variety, AFA #67m [1912 5 kr Post Office, Perforation 12.75, Crown Watermark] Used with VF centering and an extremely light cancellation that is clear of the variety. Catalog-listed PLATE VARIETY 2016 AFA Specialized Catalog (still the most recent edition as of 11/2025) #67m "small color spot in top of K of KRONER" from position 13 in the sheet. The AFA value is DKK 2800 (about US$445 as of 11/2025). The plate varieties on this issue are quite difficult to obtain and it is unusual to find them unobscured by the postmark. This example is extremely nice.

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339.00

400545

RE33 pair [KKKK coal company, 2 øre] Mint, lightly hinged, with F-VF centering. AFA 2023 value DKK 150 (US$ 24) for a hinged pair. Very attractive.

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21.00

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400686

Scott #86 Type I, Carmine, Facit #87I, AFA #78ba [1913 2 øre red (shades) Wavy-Lines, Watermark Crosses, Perforation 14 x 14.5] NEVER HINGED with XF centering. Wonderfully fresh and bright. The Type I version has a rounded lower left point of the "2" (Type II has a sharp corner) and the E of the right ØRE has somewhat curved lines and somewhat rounded corners (Type II has straight lines and sharp corners). Type I exists in a range of red color shades (Type II only exists in Bright "Clear" Red). The AFA Specialized Catalog states that, overall, this stamp had 29 printings with colors ranging from Deep Red to Pale Red, but AFA divides those colors into four main groups, with some overlapping of time periods: Carmine 1914-1915, Dull Red 1914-1916, Yellowish Red 1919-1921, and Warm Strong Red 1926. In Mint condition, the Carmine group is by far the scarcest, especially in NH condition because so many of the earlier stamps were consumed in postage use; most of those that were put into collections were hinged into albums. The AFA 2016 Specialized Catalog (still the most recent version as of December 2025) value of the NH Carmine stamp is DKK 270 (12/2025 approximately US$43). Any printing / color of this stamp is hard to find well centered in NH condition, but such nice NH examples of the Carmine color are very hard to obtain!

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SOLD

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400687

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SOLD

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400547

RE35 3-strip [Familie Journal magazine, 10 øre green Wavy-Lines] Mint, with center stamp only lightly hinged and others NH, with F-VF centering. AFA 2023 value DKK 220 (US$ 35) for just a Hinged pair; 3-strips are scarcer. Very fresh and attractive.

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31.00

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400548

RE39 3-strip with margin [Rundskuedagen 1930, 10 øre light brown] Mint, hinged, with Fine centering. In my experience, Mint pairs and strips of this issue are much harder to find than the modest catalog value suggests.

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14.00

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