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229818
174, 177 [2-1/2 Blue M-30; 5m Castle] (VF, F-VF) on 1 October 1935 registered airmail cover from HELSINKI to Glasgow, Scotland. Advertising envelope: shipping company info on reverse.
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35.00
229784
171 x2, 177 [2m Indigo M-30 Lion; 5m Olavinlinna Castle] (VF, damaged) on 19 June 1930 EXPRESS (RARE!) parcel card from HELSINKI to ROVANIEME (arctic region) with receiver.
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30.00
229799
163, 177 [50p Yellow M-30; 5m Blue Castle] (VF, F-VF) on 20 November 1930 money order from BORGÅ / PORVEO (2 types of Russian text removed cancels) to TURKU / ÅBO with receiver.
ACTUAL item.
7.00
229798
163, 171, 177 [50p Yellow and 2m Indigo M-30; 5m Castle] (VF, Fine) on 15 August 1931 COD (175 mk) parcel card from LAHTI to KAUSALA, with receiver.
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8.00
401479
Finland Scott #164, 177 pair [1932 50 penni green M-30 Lion; 1930 5 mk blue Olavinlinna Castle] (VF) on 12 April 1944 domestic FULLY COMPLETE parcel card to SIILINJÄRVI, with Russian-text-removed receiving postmark on reverse. WWII Era (Continuation War) Soldiers Mail, KENTTÄPOSTIA [soldier mail / field post / military mail] KPK #20 small-size, two-ring-bridge dated cancellation. Sent registered with red "R" numbered registration label. Sender address was with unit "1/6230". KPK 20 was the field post office assigned to the 15th Division (15. Divisioona). During 1943 and early 1944, the 15th Division was stationed permanently on the Karelian Isthmus, holding the frontline sector near Lempaala.Parcel cards, ordinary mail or soldier mail, from Eastern Karelia are "quite scarce" for several reasons: The population was significantly disrupted and most normal commercial activities were on hold. Furthermore, the postal system was overburdened just moving letter mail and thus parcel mail was not encouraged. As for SOLDIER usage of parcel cards, typical soldiers did not really have much reason to be sending parcels (and again, it was not encouraged). Any type of military parcel card use in Finland, not just Karelia, is at least "unusual". Parcel cards with numbered KPK cancellations are "scarce" and registered parcel cards are "very scarce". Such parcel cards are usually in horrible condition and usually have the "receipt coupon" (at left) clipped off as intended. Upon delivery, parcel cards were supposed to be retained by the receiving post office; after a defined time period the stamps were cut off, reducing the cards to stamp cuttings sold by the post office as kiloware. While such military mail parcel cards may not look especially unusual, they are! In the last 53 years, I have had one small collection of seven cards (all different KPK numbers) and perhaps 3-4 other individual cards!
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200782
173C pair, 176F pair, 179 (VF, F-VF) [2 mark green, 5 mark yellow orange M-30; 25 mark Woodcutter] on 22 March 1949 air cover, with 39 mark franking, from JÄRVENPÄÄ to the U.S. Letter rate 15 mark letter rate to 20 grams (1 July 1948 thru 31 October 1949) and air surcharge of 12 mark per 5 grams (15 Jan 1947 thru 31 October 1949).
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14.00
229793
165A 4-block, 166B, 170A, 179, 221 (VF, F-VF) on 11 March 1946 air cover from "HELSINKI 1" (BLUE cancels) to the U.S. Rare 5-color combination!
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20.00
229787
173C, 179 white paper [2m Green M-30; 25m Woodcutter] (VF) on 11 February 1952 air cover to Sweden.
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12.00
229814
173C, 179 White Paper [2m Green M-30; 25m Woodcutter] (F-VF) on 28 February 1952 airmail cover from HELSINKI to Sweden.
ACTUAL item.
12.00
229791
166B, 205, 248 (F-VF, Ave, VF) on 5 gram air cover to the U.S.
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401477
Finland Scott #164, 205 [1932 50 penni green M-30 Lion; 1943 10 mk red-violet (shades) Lake Saimaa, Re-engraved] (VF) on 15 December 1943 domestic parcel card to SIILINJÄRVI, with Russian-text-removed receiving postmark on reverse. WWII Era (Continuation War) Soldiers Mail with a KENTTÄPOSTIA [soldier mail / field post / military mail] violet, boxed handstamp (one of the many styles) and with KPK #5 small-size, two-ring-bridge dated cancellation. Sent registered, with bold violet boxed "KIRJATAAN" [registered] handstamp and red "R" numbered registration label, but the label was cut in half when the left-side coupon was cut off upon delivery. Sender address was with unit "8029/1.KPK". KPK 5 was one of the largest and most fluid field post hubs. During the stable trench warfare phase of 1943 to early 1944, components of KPK 5 operated heavily in Ladoga Karelia and East Karelia, before falling back during the 1944 Soviet offensive.Parcel cards, ordinary mail or soldier mail, from Eastern Karelia are "quite scarce" for several reasons: The population was significantly disrupted and most normal commercial activities were on hold. Furthermore, the postal system was overburdened just moving letter mail and thus parcel mail was not encouraged. As for SOLDIER usage of parcel cards, typical soldiers did not really have much reason to be sending parcels (and again, it was not encouraged). Any type of military parcel card use in Finland, not just Karelia, is at least "unusual". Parcel cards with numbered KPK cancellations are "scarce" and registered parcel cards are "very scarce". Such parcel cards are usually in horrible condition and usually have the "receipt coupon" (at left) clipped off as intended. Upon delivery, parcel cards were supposed to be retained by the receiving post office; after a defined time period the stamps were cut off, reducing the cards to stamp cuttings sold by the post office as kiloware. While such military mail parcel cards may not look especially unusual, they are! In the last 53 years, I have had one small collection of seven cards (all different KPK numbers) and perhaps 3-4 other individual cards!
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401478
Finland Scott #164, 173B, 205 [1932 50 penni green, 2 mk yellow M-30 Lion; 1943 10 mk red-violet (shades) Lake Saimaa, Re-engraved] (VF) on 15 February 1944 domestic FULLY COMPLETE parcel card to PUOLANKA, with bridge-style receiving postmark on reverse. WWII Era (Continuation War) Soldiers Mail (KENTTÄPOSTIA) [soldier mail / field post / military mail] with KPK #11 small-size, two-ring-bridge dated cancellation. Sent registered, with red "R" numbered registration label. Sender address was with unit "KPK 9 / 5569". This card appears to have been attached to a package as a tag. TWO CENSORSHIP HANDSTAMPS on the reverse. Having two Finnish censorship handstamps is "scarce" on any WWII-era Finnish mail. In 53 years, this is the only WWII-era parcel card that I can recall having that had ANY indications of censorship. Very scarce!KPK 11 served the 11th Division (11. Divisioona) and associated border jaeger battalions. Throughout 1943 and mid-1944, this division was entrenched in East Karelia (specifically along the Svir River / Syväri front).Parcel cards, ordinary mail or soldier mail, from Eastern Karelia are "quite scarce" for several reasons: The population was significantly disrupted and most normal commercial activities were on hold. Furthermore, the postal system was overburdened just moving letter mail and thus parcel mail was not encouraged. As for SOLDIER usage of parcel cards, typical soldiers did not really have much reason to be sending parcels (and again, it was not encouraged). Any type of military parcel card use in Finland, not just Karelia, is at least "unusual". Parcel cards with numbered KPK cancellations are "scarce" and registered parcel cards are "very scarce". Such parcel cards are usually in horrible condition and usually have the "receipt coupon" (at left) clipped off as intended. Upon delivery, parcel cards were supposed to be retained by the receiving post office; after a defined time period the stamps were cut off, reducing the cards to stamp cuttings sold by the post office as kiloware. While such military mail parcel cards may not look especially unusual, they are! In the last 53 years, I have had one small collection of seven cards (all different KPK numbers) and perhaps 3-4 other individual cards!
ACTUAL item.
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401480
Finland Scott #174A, 205 [1942 2-1/2 mk carmine M-30 Lion; 1943 10 mk red-violet (shades) Lake Saimaa, Re-engraved] (VF) on 21 June 1944 domestic FULLY COMPLETE parcel card to SIILINJÄRVI, with Russian-text-removed receiving postmark on reverse. WWII Era (Continuation War) Soldiers Mail, KENTTÄPOSTIA [soldier mail / field post / military mail] KPK #21 small-size, two-ring-bridge dated cancellation. Sent registered with red "R" numbered registration label. Sender address was with unit "5/1354". KPK 21 served the 18th Division (18. Divisioona), a major combat unit that spent 1943 and the summer of 1944 stationed on the Karelian Isthmus, particularly around the Valkeasaari and Siiranmäki sectors, where they faced the brunt of the Soviet breakthrough in June 1944.Parcel cards, ordinary mail or soldier mail, from Eastern Karelia are "quite scarce" for several reasons: The population was significantly disrupted and most normal commercial activities were on hold. Furthermore, the postal system was overburdened just moving letter mail and thus parcel mail was not encouraged. As for SOLDIER usage of parcel cards, typical soldiers did not really have much reason to be sending parcels (and again, it was not encouraged). Any type of military parcel card use in Finland, not just Karelia, is at least "unusual". Parcel cards with numbered KPK cancellations are "scarce" and registered parcel cards are "very scarce". Such parcel cards are usually in horrible condition and usually have the "receipt coupon" (at left) clipped off as intended. Upon delivery, parcel cards were supposed to be retained by the receiving post office; after a defined time period the stamps were cut off, reducing the cards to stamp cuttings sold by the post office as kiloware. While such military mail parcel cards may not look especially unusual, they are! In the last 53 years, I have had one small collection of seven cards (all different KPK numbers) and perhaps 3-4 other individual cards!
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401481
Finland Scott #164, 205 [1932 50 penni green; 1943 10 mk red-violet (shades) Lake Saimaa, Re-engraved] (VF) on 11 July 1944 domestic FULLY COMPLETE parcel card to POURTILA, with bridge-style receiving postmark on reverse. WWII Era (Continuation War) Soldiers Mail KENTTÄPOSTIA (violet, boxed, under the stamps) [soldier mail / field post / military mail] with KPK #24 small-size, two-ring-bridge dated cancellation. Sent registered, with violet straight-line "KIRJATAAN" (registered) under the stamps and with red "R" numbered registration label. Sender address was with unit "5058 / 2.KPK". KPK 24 was assigned to the 4th Division (4. Divisioona). This division was actively deployed in East Karelia along the Maaselkä isthmus sector until they were ordered to retreat back toward the pre-war border in the summer of 1944.Parcel cards, ordinary mail or soldier mail, from Eastern Karelia are "quite scarce" for several reasons: The population was significantly disrupted and most normal commercial activities were on hold. Furthermore, the postal system was overburdened just moving letter mail and thus parcel mail was not encouraged. As for SOLDIER usage of parcel cards, typical soldiers did not really have much reason to be sending parcels (and again, it was not encouraged). Any type of military parcel card use in Finland, not just Karelia, is at least "unusual". Parcel cards with numbered KPK cancellations are "scarce" and registered parcel cards are "very scarce". Such parcel cards are usually in horrible condition and usually have the "receipt coupon" (at left) clipped off as intended. Upon delivery, parcel cards were supposed to be retained by the receiving post office; after a defined time period the stamps were cut off, reducing the cards to stamp cuttings sold by the post office as kiloware. While such military mail parcel cards may not look especially unusual, they are! In the last 53 years, I have had one small collection of seven cards (all different KPK numbers) and perhaps 3-4 other individual cards!
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401482
Finland Scott #164, 173B, 205 [1932 50 penni green, 2 mk yellow M-30 Lion; 1943 10 mk red-violet (shades) Lake Saimaa, Re-engraved] (VF) on 15 December 1943 domestic FULLY COMPLETE parcel card to SIILINJÄRVI, with Russian-text-removed receiving postmark on reverse. WWII Era (Continuation War) Soldiers Mail (KENTTÄPOSTIA) [soldier mail / field post / military mail] with KPK #27 large-size, single-ring-no-bridge dated cancellation. Sent registered, with red "R" numbered registration label. Sender address was with unit "KPK 1 / 7064" (?). The card has some staining, but that is to be expected under such war-time winter conditions. KPK 27 served the 2nd Division (2. Divisioona). In 1943 and 1944, the 2nd Division was positioned on the Karelian Isthmus in the central sector (around Metsäpirtti and Taipale).Parcel cards, ordinary mail or soldier mail, from Eastern Karelia are "quite scarce" for several reasons: The population was significantly disrupted and most normal commercial activities were on hold. Furthermore, the postal system was overburdened just moving letter mail and thus parcel mail was not encouraged. As for SOLDIER usage of parcel cards, typical soldiers did not really have much reason to be sending parcels (and again, it was not encouraged). Any type of military parcel card use in Finland, not just Karelia, is at least "unusual". Parcel cards with numbered KPK cancellations are "scarce" and registered parcel cards are "very scarce". Such parcel cards are usually in horrible condition and usually have the "receipt coupon" (at left) clipped off as intended. Upon delivery, parcel cards were supposed to be retained by the receiving post office; after a defined time period the stamps were cut off, reducing the cards to stamp cuttings sold by the post office as kiloware. While such military mail parcel cards may not look especially unusual, they are! In the last 53 years, I have had one small collection of seven cards (all different KPK numbers) and perhaps 3-4 other individual cards!
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401483
Finland Scott #164, 205 [1932 50 penni green M-30 Lion; 1943 10 mk red-violet (shades) Lake Saimaa, Re-engraved] (Fine, VF) on 8 April 1944 domestic FULLY COMPLETE parcel card to SIILINJÄRVI, with Russian-text-removed receiving postmark on reverse. WWII Era (Continuation War) Soldiers Mail, "KENTTÄPOSTIA" violet, sans-serif, boxed, under the stamps, [soldier mail / field post / military mail] with KPK #28 large-size, single-ring-no-bridge dated cancellation. Sent registered, with red "R" numbered registration label. Sender address was with unit "KPK 1 / 3896". KPK 28 was assigned to the 10th Division (10. Divisioona). During the 1943-1944 period, they were positioned on the Karelian Isthmus, specifically guarding the western sector along the Gulf of Finland coast near Kellomäki and Kuokkala.Parcel cards, ordinary mail or soldier mail, from Eastern Karelia are "quite scarce" for several reasons: The population was significantly disrupted and most normal commercial activities were on hold. Furthermore, the postal system was overburdened just moving letter mail and thus parcel mail was not encouraged. As for SOLDIER usage of parcel cards, typical soldiers did not really have much reason to be sending parcels (and again, it was not encouraged). Any type of military parcel card use in Finland, not just Karelia, is at least "unusual". Parcel cards with numbered KPK cancellations are "scarce" and registered parcel cards are "very scarce". Such parcel cards are usually in horrible condition and usually have the "receipt coupon" (at left) clipped off as intended. Upon delivery, parcel cards were supposed to be retained by the receiving post office; after a defined time period the stamps were cut off, reducing the cards to stamp cuttings sold by the post office as kiloware. While such military mail parcel cards may not look especially unusual, they are! In the last 53 years, I have had one small collection of seven cards (all different KPK numbers) and perhaps 3-4 other individual cards!
ACTUAL item.
SOLD
229788
166B, 179, 239, 261 (F-VF) on 1947 EXPRES airmail cover to the U.S. Scarce usage!
ACTUAL item.
28.00
229795
247 [1945 15m Red Lilac Castle] (VF) solo use on 8 August 1948 cover from LEHTIMÄKI (Russian test removed type) to the U.S. (to actor Cary Grant).
ACTUAL item.
18.00
202748
274, 166B x2, 248 (VF) [24 mark red violet, 1 mark green M-30; 20 mark Post Office Building] on 11 May 1949 complete domestic parcel card for 5 kilo parcel from OLLUI to YKSRIHLAJA, with receiver. 45 mark rate for 5 kilo parcel, but what was the extra mark for? The 24 mark stamp is very scarce on cover.
ACTUAL item.
27.00
229789
176G x2, 248 [6m Red M-30; 1945 20m Brown Post Office] (VF) on 22 July 1946 air cover from HELSINKI to the U.S.
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229815
166B x4, 176I, 248 x2 [1m Green, 10m Blue M-30; 20m Post Office] (F-VF) on 1946 air cover from II to the U.S.
ACTUAL item.
9.00
229754
280 pair [1949 35mk Olavinlinna Castle] with pair of two designs of 1954 Art labels, tied on 1955 airmail cover TO MONROVIA, LIBERIA with receiver. These labels exist in several designs and colors -- I do not know much about them, however, they are very seldom seen on cover! Any usage to Liberia is RARE; it is a genuine postal usage; I purchased the familys archive of mail (the father of the addressee apparently ran the College of West Africa at the time). Extremely scarce item.
ACTUAL item.
75.00
229738
B112, 280 (VF) on 16 February 1952 airmail printed matter cover from HELSINKI to LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA (!!!), AUSTRALIA. Olympics all-over publicity envelope. Rare destination at the extreme other side/end of the globe!!
ACTUAL item.
55.00
229810
305 x3, 302 [40m Woodchopper; 10m Green M-30] on 1954 air cover to the U.S. This is a very high postage rate (130 marks) for a cover to the U.S. The published postage rate charts for this period are confusing and appear to have some errors. At 50 grams, the rate would likely have been 120 marks; 55 grams at 132 marks. However, I am not satisfied with this calculation and cannot say whether this cover is correctly paid or not - my experience suggests that it IS correctly paid, but I cannot quote the rate at the moment. Still, an unusual franking. Note that most uses with multiple examples of the 40m Woodchopper stamp are parcel cards, not envelopes.
ACTUAL item.
30.00
236663
350 [1955-57 100 mk Helsinki South Harbor, Light Greenish Blue] (VF) solo use on 30 October 1957 KODAK advertising airmail cover to the U.S. Though Scott gives this color an issue date of 1957, there were five plates and thus five color shades printed from 1955-1957 (though it is unclear when the different printings actually went on sale). In any case, this stamp was replaced with a new 100 mk issue on 2 June 1958 and thus solo uses on cover are seldom seen. Colorful advertising cover.
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