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400458 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #B11 Plate Variety [1932 2-1/2 + 25p Parliament Building, Red Cross semi-postal] Used VF "cracked column" variety from plate position 15 -- this used to be listed by Facit. Diagonal blue line through one of the central main columns. Very well-centered and neatly-canceled example of a hard-to-obtain variety. ACTUAL item. |
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SOLD |
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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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400461 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #B110-3 BOOKLET PANES [1952 Olympics Booklet Issue] Used VF Set of booklet panes with binding margins, AND THE EMPTY BOOKLET COVER, each bearing a 19 July 1952 (FIRST DAY OF GAMES) official Olympic Games cancellation WITH "c" CODE LETTER AT BOTTOM OF POSTMARK (indicates the exact post office location at the Games). Though the sheet versions of the stamps were issued on 16 November 1951 and 15 February 1952, the booklet was not issued until 15 May 1952. The Games were open 19 July - 3 August 1952. I do not recall previously having such a set of the panes and booklet cover canceled on the first day of the Games. I may have had an example many years ago, but I did not record having it (as I would have since about 1995). An outstanding -- and very, very unusual item -- for either a Finland collection or an Olympics collection. ACTUAL item. |
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59.00 |
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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 |