| 1904-1906 Christian IX |  Top |
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236726 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
66 [1904 20 øre blue Christian IX] SET OF TWO Mint Fine 4-BLOCKS in two distinctly different color shades: Dark Blue and Medium Blue with blue-toned paper. The darker block has one stamp (upper right) with tiny thin speck. The blue-toned-paper block is very interesting with many copper-plate-engraved plate scratches bending in all directions, likely caused by hand-wiping the plate too hard with an abrasive cloth (and probably significantly shortening the life of the plate); this is not often seen so prominently. Priced at only the value of 7 Mint Fine stamps! |
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129.00 |
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247010 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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 |
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248399 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
69 OLIVE BROWN (Facit #68, AFA #51) [1905 100 øre Christian IX] NEVER HINGED with VF centering. Wonderfully fresh with great color and centering, and perfect perforations. Well centered NH examples of the 100 øre are particularly hard to find. A few decades ago, the catalogs distinctly listed the two colors/printings of the 100 øre: yellow brown and olive brown; with the same or similar values. The colors were sometimes confusing, but some older albums still have spaces for both. |
36.00 |
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