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243080 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
26 Salmon, Facit #13LC2a [1881 (1882 printing, thin frame lines) 5 penni 4-Numeral, Perf 12.5] Used XF-Superb with Superb centered (but inverted) arc-style HELSINGFORS cancellation in which the year date seems to have been intentionally (?) omitted. Delicate color, wonderful appearance. ACTUAL item. |
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22.00 |
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249903 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #34 Dark Greenish Blue [1885 25p 4-Numeral] (Fine) The final printing of this stamp (Facit #23i, December 1888) on a badly worn 17 June 1889 cover from IDENSALMI with Arc-style postmark, to the U.S., and forwarded. An 1885 cover from the same correspondence had the recipient receiving mail through a charity organization in Cleveland, Ohio. This cover, four years later, shows that the recipient had their own address and had recently moved to a yet new address; perhaps the American Dream at work. Leaving Idensalmi around 17 June, the cover transited St. Petersburg on 11 June (according to the Russian Gregorian calendar), then New York on 6 July and arriving in Cleveland on 7 July. The destination (Cleveland) is extremely unusual for Finnish mail in this era; most such mail was either to New York, Chicago, or the Northern States (such as Minnesota, North Dakota, or northern Michigan). Though the stamp is undamaged, the cover (as was the 1885 cover) is in poor condition, but if it were in nice condition it would have a Facit 2025 value of SEK 1200 for this stamp paying the postage to the U.S. in 1885-1889. ACTUAL item. |
19.00 |
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249902 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #21 Ultramarine [1875 20 penni 4-Numeral, Perforation 11] (VF) on 5 July 1881 cover FRONT ONLY with neat strikes of the sans-serif WIBORG arc-style cancellation, used locally with a same-day arrival postmark. The printings of this issue are difficult to sort out, but based on the date, this has to be to be in the Facit #16S range, and is most likely from the Second Cliche Group, Facit #16Snn (Ultramarine Blue, Normal Frameline Thickness), which was delivered from the printer in March 1881. Though this is only a front, it is a very attractive example of a LOST TERRITORIES use; Wiborg is now part of Russia. Facit 2025 value for the most common printing on cover is SEK 350; though this is only a front, it is a nice Lost Territories item. ACTUAL item. |
14.00 |
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