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| When such stamps had been issued in other regions in earlier eras, they were often called Ship Letter Stamps. However, these stamps were intended to pay for freight shipments between the islands, particularly agricultural goods such as milk, butter, and even animals, along with all the other types of freight and parcels needed to supply dailiy life. The stamps were apparently not sold to the public, but were applied by the shipping company to the bill of lading at the time of shipment. Despite the primary use on freight, the earlier issues are known used on envelopes; in such cases, that may have been the quickest way to get messages or business papers transmitted. During the WWII era the Faroe government took over freight operations; later all operations were consolidated under government control, thus the post-WWII issues are "government issued parcel stamps", not privately issued! As such they should start to receive much more respect than they have in the past These stamps have been listed in Wowern GF14 catalogs and they are now listed in the Daka GF10 (21st edition, 2010) Catalog, which is available from me. THE CATALOG NUMBERS HAVE CHANGED FROM CATALOG TO CATALOG; THE CURRENT NUMBERS (WHICH I HAVE USED IN THIS LISTING ARE DIFFERENT FROM PAST NUMBERING SYSTEMS. Please confirm that the numbers correlate to the stamps you actually need. These stamps rarely make it to my website or price lists and are usually only available via approvals. Please be sure to let me know of your interests; a good selection is usually available. | ||
| The stamps of this era bear the name of one of the three ships in use: Masin, Ritan, and Smiril. (In 1982-84 four stamps reappeared with the Masin name; see the General Issues section for those.) These stamps are mostly in coil roll form on various colors of paper and look more like tram tickets or similar, most separated with partial perforations and partial rouletting on the top and bottom. These crude separations (perfs and roulettes) are often irregular and/or damaged, but that is not normally considered a philatelic defect. These stamps (and in the next period too) were normally applied to a receipt strip at one edge of the bill of lading document; in some time periods the receipt strips bearing stamps are not uncommon. Value of such strips is usually determined by the cost of the most valuable stamp on strip, plus the individual used single cost of any other stamps. Complete documents are scarce. These stamps were normally canceled by marker or heavy pencil or pen; such use is normal and does not reduce value. |
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