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247572 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
25 Dark Gray, Facit #25a [1897 6 aur Numeral, Perf 12.75, 1897 Printing] Used with F-VF centering and with neat, full, almost perfectly centered, proper AKUREYRI single-ring cancellation. Very attractive with fresh color and perfect perforations, and with a nice smaller-city cancellation. A very nice example. ACTUAL item. |
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26.00 |
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243304 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
O9 [1895 50 aur Official, perforation 14 x 13.5] Used with Average-Fine centering, and with strong HRAUNGERDI provincial town corner cancellation. Great color, perfect perforations. The stamp centering is typical for the 50 aur. This smaller town cancel is quite unusual on the early Official stamps. Provenance: from the Roger A. Swanson collection, from of a page of six 50 aur stamps sold by Northland Auctions in 1995; subsequently in the Frederick H. Campbell collection, prior to my purchasing the group. Very pretty! ACTUAL item. |
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79.00 |
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202795 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
ISAFJÖRDUR VF on Scott #19 Fine+. ACTUAL item. |
90.00 |
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247575 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
10, Facit #11d, AFA 7.4x Plate Variety [1876 6 aur gray, blurred print Numeral, Perforation 14 x 13.5, Fourth Printing] Used with Fine+ centering and full, well-centered REYKJAVIK single-ring cancellation. AFA-listed #7x Print 4 (DKK 800 [$120 10/2023] in the 2016 Specialized, most recent edition) plate variety: "White spot in front of P; white spot over O; diagonal cuts in lower left corner and frameline; dent in right frame line near bottom opposite AU". An interesting feature of stamps from this printing is that when viewed under 10x magnification at an oblique angle to a point-light source, the ink has a silvery metallic sheen. A very attractive example with a nice cancellation. ACTUAL item. |
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59.00 |
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247576 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
10, Facit #11d, AFA 7.4 [1876 6 aur gray, blurred print Numeral, Perforation 14 x 13.5, Fourth Printing] Used with Fine+ centering and full, perfectly-centered, but inverted, fully dated 9 December 1894 REYKJAVIK bridge-type cancellation. An interesting feature of stamps from this printing is that when viewed under 10x magnification at an oblique angle to a point-light source, the ink has a silvery metallic sheen. Examples of the Numeral stamps are surprisingly difficult to find with fully (including year) dated cancellations because the more usual single-ring cancellations did not include a year date. In this case, the presence of the 1894 date is a nice because it means that this stamp cannot be from Print 5 which was in July 1895. A very attractive example with a nice cancellation. ACTUAL item. |
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23.00 |
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202800 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
REYKJAVIK F-VF+ on Scott #20 F-VF+. ACTUAL item. |
130.00 |
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247578 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
11 PERFORATION ERROR, Facit #12d variety, AFA #8.7y variety, Clear Carmine Red, Thick Paper [1876 10 aur Numeral, Perf 14 x 13.5 (1895 printing)] This perforation "error" variety -- blind perforation in the 6th horizontal hole -- is one of four possible varieties resulting from missing horizontal row pins in the perforating machine -- they are constant varieties on the 7th (1895) printing of this stamp (and the 1895 printings of the 3 and 6 aur stamps). Each of the different perforation errors affects that vertical column in the sheet. Additionally this example has one of the several versions of the AFA #8y plate variety: "Chunk missing from upper right frame line". Similar, but different versions of this variety exist in the sheet. Used with Superb centering and well centered and fully dated 22 June 1896 REYKJAVIK bridge cancellation. Very attractive appearance -- an exceptionally well-centered example! ACTUAL item. |
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19.00 |
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247579 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
11 PERFORATION ERROR, Facit #12d variety, AFA #8.7y variety, Clear Carmine Red, Thick Paper [1876 10 aur Numeral, Perf 14 x 13.5 (1895 printing)] This perforation "error" variety -- blind perforation in the 4th horizontal hole -- is one of four possible varieties resulting from missing horizontal row pins in the perforating machine -- they are constant varieties on the 7th (1895) printing of this stamp (and the 1895 printings of the 3 and 6 aur stamps). Each of the different perforation errors affects that vertical column in the sheet. Additionally this example has one of the several versions of the AFA #8y plate variety: "Chunk missing from upper right frame line". Similar, but different versions of this variety exist in the sheet. Used with F-VF centering and complete, well-centered (sideways), but light, STRANDASÝSLA single-ring cancellation (Facit 2024 rarity factor on this series is R4 = SEK 300 [about US$30 10/2023]. Very attractive appearance -- an exceptionally well-centered example! ACTUAL item. |
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19.00 |