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236783 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
77 [1908 15 aur Two Kings] Fine centered, revenue use with straight-line sewing machine cancellation and partial (AKU)REYR(I) cancellation. This stamp is only one of six stamp issues (all Two Kings) that I have found (as of 12/2012) with the sewing machine cancellation; it is by far the scarcest that I have recorded. Though only Fine centered, this is still better than usual. ACTUAL item. |
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236786 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
84 [1908 2 kr Two Kings] Fine centered, revenue use with straight-line sewing machine cancellation and postal cancellation. This stamp is only one of six stamp issues (all Two Kings) that I have found (as of 12/2012) with the sewing machine cancellation. Better than usual centering. ACTUAL item. |
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236789 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
84 [1908 2 kr Two Kings] Fine centered, revenue use with random needle holes cancellation and partial AK(UREYRI) cancellation. This stamp is only one of six stamp issues (all Two Kings) that I have found (as of 12/2012) with the sewing machine cancellation. Better than usual centering. ACTUAL item. |
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236795 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
107 [1918 20 aur Two Kings, Crosses Watermark] F-VF+ centered with Mirror Image Watermark variety, revenue use with random needle holes cancellation and 1920 postal cancellation. This stamp is only one of six stamp issues (all Two Kings) that I have found (as of 12/2012) with the sewing machine cancellation. Dated examples are very scarce. One of the best centered examples I have seen. ACTUAL item. |
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400501 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #125 [1920 50 aur Christian X] Used with F-VF centering. Revenue (tollur, customs duty) use with random needle holes cancellation and postal cancellation. Some of the Icelandic postage stamps in current use between 15 April 1920 and 31 December 1921 are known bearing postal-type cancellations and additional "sewing machine and needle" cancellations. Such stamps were used as revenue stamps, to pay import duties on packages coming in through the mail, as precursors to Tollur-canceled stamps. They are very scarce because most were discarded by collectors as being "damaged". Most uses are of high-value stamps (as is true of Tollur cancels as well). One can find examples of sewing machine cancels as either randomly positioned holes (usually canceled before 29 June 1920) or in straight lines (usually from 29 June 1920 onward, when the post office acquired a sewing machine to do the canceling). Very often the holes are not visible from the front of the stamp. See the article in the Resources section for more information. This stamp is only one of seven stamp issues that I have recorded having in 52 years (as of 10/2025) with the sewing machine or random needle holes cancellation. This example is the FIRST AND ONLY example of such a use of a Christian X stamp that I have recorded having! The "holes" cancellations started 15 April 1920. This 50 aur stamp was issued 5 June 1920. The custom office acquired a sewing machine to make straight lines of holes around 29 June 1920; after that date random holes cancellations are rarely found. Thus it is likely that most or all of the random needle holes cancellations on this 50 aur stamp issue occurred only between 5 June and 29 June 1920 -- less than a month! An excellent example of a "rare" revenue use of this stamp! Interestingly, this 50 aur stamp is remarkably scarce with a boxed "Tollur" revenue cancellation, but here is the use for the same purpose with a random holes cancellation. ACTUAL item. |
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