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234146 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
C1 x10 (two pairs and a 6-block, all VF), 170 (VF), and 184 (F-VF) on 2 June 1932 airmail COVER FRONT ONLY to the U.S. with air label and notation "Via Air Mail / Oslo-London". The fourth C1 from the left has Facit-listed variety #160v1 "ME on left side connected". Though just a front, this is a spectacular item with high-value franking. If the stamps were simply removed from the paper, they would individually sell for about $200, not counting a premium for the #C1 6-block. While first flight covers bearing #C1 are fairly standard items, 10-C1-stamp frankings such as this are quite exceptional. ACTUAL item. |
270.00 |
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235899 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
C9, C10 [1931 30 aur, 1 kr ZEPPELIN Overprints] (VF, Fine+) on 30 June 1931 registered post card to Germany (Heinrich Keimel), with usual green triangular handstamp and Friedrichshafen machine receiver. If the stamps were removed from the cover, they would sell for $310 [1/2012] with this centering. Correct franking for a post card. Very fresh and attractive. ACTUAL item. |
325.00 |
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235902 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
C15, C17-20, 219 [1934 10, 25, 50 aur, 1, 2 kr Airmail Scenes and 5 aur Fish] (VF) on 12 November 1945 registered airmail cover TO CANADA. Though the sender was a well-known stamp dealer, this cover, addressed to a person at a bank, could very reasonably be a totally commercial use (and if not, then it is still a commercial philatelic use). If this was a philatelic cover, the dealer would have used a 20 aur Airmail to complete the set instead of the 5 aur Fish. The rate is exactly correct for a 15 gram registered airmail cover at this time (60 aur surface to 20g, 60 aur registration, 90 aur per 5g air surcharge). The stamps on the cover would sell for about $90 [1/2012]. A very unusual use. ACTUAL item. |
170.00 |
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400720 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #C23, C26 [1947 75 aur and 3 kr Airmails] (VF) on December 1954 surface-rate, registered cover to the U.S. The cancellation is faint, but the receiving postmark on the reverse is dated December 13, 1954. The envelope itself was originally created in 1952 for FDCs and memorial covers for Scott #274-7 [Death of Sveinn Björnsson, First President of Iceland]. However, this use several years later is just using the envelope for philatelic-business mail, addressed to Van Dahl Publications (Albany, Oregon), then the publisher of Stamp Collector magazine/newspaper. I suspect that this registered use was sending payment for a subscription or advertising and is a proper "non-philatelic" use, even though within the philatelic business. The 3.75 total postage exactly paid the 1.75 surface letter rate to all countries outside Scandinavia [1 October 1953 - 30 June 1958], and the 2.00 registration fee [1 May 1950 - 30 June 1958]. The 1947 airmail stamps were still in regular use at this time. An attractive cover that represents an unusual use. ACTUAL item. |
12.00 |
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229388 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
C29, 219, 249 (VF) on 1951 airmail business size cover to the U.S. ACTUAL item. |
14.00 |