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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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249830 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Finland Scott #27 Dark Brown [1882 10 penni brown 4-Numerals, Perforation 12.5] Used with VF centering, but with a thin. Unusually dark color and with a neat, crisp, partial ÅLAND 1883 (MA)RIEHAMN arc-style cancellation. A great-looking example of a stamp that is scarce used in Åland. ACTUAL item. |
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19.00 |