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229395 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
203 pair, 208B, 229 (VF) on 1945 air cover to the U.S. Scarce franking! ACTUAL item. |
85.00 |
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229394 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
208A 4-strip (VF) on 1945 air cover to U.S. on business size envelope. Scarce usage. ACTUAL item. |
35.00 |
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229358 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
208B on ca.1945 air cover to Sweden (back flap missing). The airmail postal rates were EXTREMELY confusing after the end of the war as service was resumed in bits and pieces. I have not been able to properly "rate" this cover, but rates are not fully reconstructed for airmail to Sweden at this time. Very unusual usage. ACTUAL item. |
25.00 |
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400202 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #203 x10 PLUS 13 Fish stamps [1938 15 aur Geysir / Geyser] (Fine/F-VF/VF) June 1945 (might be 1 June) legal-size heavy airmail cover to the U.S. from ISAFJORDUR. Franked with 10 examples of the 15 aur GEYSIR stamp (which alone sell for $6 - $12 each as Used stamps, depending upon centering!), plus 13 FISH STAMPS: 5 aur x3; 10 aur Gray x8; and 50 aur x2. The total postage paid was 345 aur. However, the postal rate appears to work out to only 330 aur: 1 APR 1943 through AUG/SEPT 1945 (exact end date of period is not known); the surface rate was 60 aur per 20 grams and the airmail surcharge was 90 aur per 5 grams. It was very common for such errors / differences to occur at the time, especially in the smaller towns out in the "provinces" where such mail was relatively unusual -- this is still considered to be acceptable. In fact, from August 1945 through March 1946, many of the postal rates seem to be formally unrecorded because of the chaos following WWII. There are the remains of U.S. censorship tape on the left end of the envelope. A spectacular and "rare" cover with extremely unusual franking (the Geysir stamps). ACTUAL item. |
175.00 |
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229396 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
208Ac x3 on 8 August 1947 Registered air cover to Austria with Austrian censor. ACTUAL item. |
55.00 |
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240330 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
208Ac pair, 208Bd, 225 pair, 226 pair [1947 60 aur and 1 kr Geyser Perf 11.5; 1945 25 aur red-brown Fish and 1946 35 aur Fish] (VF except 208Bd F-VF) on 19 April 1949 airmail EXPRESS cover to the U.S. with large red and black (printed on white paper) EXPRES label. New York receiving postmarks. Express covers are not often seen. ACTUAL item. |
50.00 |
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244921 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
281 [1953 1.75 kr Old Manuscripts] (F-VF) solo use on 25 March 1955 airmail picture postcard with "KEFLAVIK / FLUGVÖLLUR" bridge cancellation, to the U.S. The 1.75 kr franking is a 5 aur convenience overpayment of the 1.70 kr rate -- there was never a 1.70 kr stamp in this rate period. The total 170 aur postal rate is the surface world (outside Scandinavia) postcard rate (100 aur) plus the minimum airmail surcharge amount (70 aur); 1 October 1953 - 30 June 1958 inclusive. Locally published postcard picturing Þórsmörk above the Krossá river. Minor wear at top of card. Surprisingly scarce solo use of this stamp, though a small convenience overpayment, this was typically how this rate was actually paid. This cancellation device is especially interesting to collectors of bridge cancellations: It has no lower bridge line; similar to type B5 which has no upper bridge line, but to my knowledge a type number has not been assigned to this one with no lower bridge line. However, Þorsteins in his 2003 bridge cancels book lumped this cancel into type B6; it seems to be the only such postmark with no lower bridge line (in that catalog the cancel is valued at 10 Euro. ACTUAL item. |
20.00 |