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239519 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
"Tönsberg og Omegns Automobil- Kompani" 10 øre black on pink paper. Pictures an early open-top car driving through the countryside. Brofos believed it to be issued around 1911; a 5 öre black on yellow also exists. Mint VF+, without gum. The company name refers to the "greater Tønsberg area". This is one the classic and most pictorial of the Norwegian non-railway parcel stamps. It is always avidly sought after but is seldom offered. |
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239521 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
"Tönsberg og Omegns Automobil- Kompani" 10 øre black on pink paper. Pictures an early open-top car driving through the countryside. Brofos believed it to be issued around 1911; a 5 öre black on yellow also exists. Mint VF+ centered, without gum. Imperforate, wide-margin left side; scarcer sheet margin example. The company name refers to the "greater Tønsberg area". This is one the classic and most pictorial of the Norwegian non-railway parcel stamps. It is always avidly sought after but is seldom offered. |
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246946 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
"Adams Expres" Kristiania 10 øre pink and black and 20 øre green and black GUTTER PAIR. Mint VF, moderately hinged with partial reinforcement of the gutter perforations as appropriate. Issued by the Adams Expres company in Norway, probably in the 1910s or 1920s (even Brofos was unable to specify the issue date). The Adams company as related to the same or similar company in København and probably many other large cities of the world. Printed in sheets of 90 stamps: forty of the 20 ore on the left (4 columns of 10), then a gutter column, and fifty of the 10 ore on the right (5 columns of 10). This unusual plate arrangement makes possible rare horizontal gutter pairs with the 20 on left and 10 on right. The design is of the company "dog carrying package" trademark. Both values are extremely difficult to obtain -- in 49 years, I have had less than ten total examples of singles and only two examples of gutter pairs. The one other gutter pair example I had sold back in the 1980s (?); I have not found a record of that selling price. However, the last couple single stamps that I have had sold for approximately $300 per set. This is one the classic and most adorable of the Norwegian non-railway parcel stamps. It is always avidly sought after but is seldom offered. |
390.00 |