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.
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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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
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
249674
Scott #63 [1905 15 øre Wavy-Line, Perf 12.75, Crown Watermark] Used with XF centering and Superb AARHUS 17 July 1911 bridge-style cancellation. A beautiful example! As of 3/2025 this is probably the nicest perfectly-canceled Used example I have ever seen.
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12.00
Select Stamps - Scott #57-96: 1905-1930 Wavy-Line Numerals; King Christian IX, King Frederick VIII, etc. continued ...
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
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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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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