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246091 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B6 [1931 1-1/2m+15p Hameenlinna Castle Red Cross semi-postal] Used with Superb centering, very large, perfect margins, and very neat corner cancellation of the correct type and appearance for the time period. The stamps of this set are hard to find with such nice centering and are very seldom seen so neatly canceled. ACTUAL item. |
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22.00 |
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239575 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B15-17 [1934 Finnish Generals Red Cross semi-postal: E. Horn, T. Stålhandske, and J. de la Gardie] Imperforate Plate Proof set of vertical pairs in final issued colors. VF, Ungummed (as always), Never Hinged. These are genuine plate proofs, but were "taken home without authorization" by one of the workers and discovered many years later after the man died. The price works out to only $30/stamp for an item of which only 100 of each stamp exists in private hands! ACTUAL item. |
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239576 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B18-20 [1935 Scholars: Matthias Calonius (lawyer, jurist) Henrik Gabriel Porthan (historian, humanistic sciences, author) Anders Chydenius (priest, philosopher, "the leading classical liberal of Nordic history"); Red Cross semi-postals] Imperforate Plate Proof set of horizontal pairs in final issued colors. VF, Ungummed (as always), Never Hinged. These are genuine plate proofs, but were "taken home without authorization" by one of the workers and discovered many years later after the man died. The price works out to only $30/stamp for an item of which only 100 of each stamp exists in private hands! ACTUAL item. |
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239577 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B21-23 [1936 Statesmen: R.H. Rehbinder, G.M. Armfelt, A. Horn; Red Cross semi-postals] Imperforate Plate Proof set of horizontal pairs in final issued colors. VF, Ungummed (as always), Never Hinged. These are genuine plate proofs, but were "taken home without authorization" by one of the workers and discovered many years later after the man died. The price works out to only $30/stamp for an item of which only 100 of each stamp exists in private hands! ACTUAL item. |
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249035 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B99 [1949 9+3 mk Wild Rose TB Flowers Semi-Postal] NH with F-VF+ centering upper plate block of 6: "4-1949 No 824". Though a common stamp as singles, plate blocks are hard to find. ACTUAL item. |
7.00 |
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249036 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B100 [1949 15+5 mk Coltsfoot TB Flowers Semi-Postal] NH with XF centering lower plate block of 6: "4-1949 No 823". Though a common stamp as singles, plate blocks are hard to find. ACTUAL item. |
11.00 |
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231873 "View REPRESENTATIVE Image"){kind=small} |
B200 Non-Fluorescent (Facit #756v2). The rarest of the semi-postal stamps; very few printed! Used VF+ with first day postmark. REPRESENTATIVE image of stamp design. |
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49.00 |
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246870 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B241-3 [1990 Butterflies Semi-Postal set] Used VF set of 4-blocks with perfectly struck FIRST DAY CANCELLATIONS. A very popular topic. Just as four sets of singles the break-up value is $14.20. ACTUAL item. |
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12.50 |