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240851 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
115 [1926 10 øre Lion] (F-VF) on 1927 picture post card with GUDVANGEN bridge-style cancellation (scarcer small town), to the Netherlands with receiver handstamp. The card pictures a young couple wearing regional costume dress (Hardanger?), and has a small thumbtack hole, but otherwise is in excellent quality. Published by "J. Karlsen, Bergen", the card is a very thick, very high-quality multi-colored production with printed colors (I cannot count them all, but may be more than 8 colors) on a textured surface (which is difficult to print). Very attractive and unusual. ACTUAL item. |
14.00 |
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401712 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #190 or #165, Strip of Four [1937 or 1940 5 øre Posthorn (without or with watermark -- presumed without)] (VF) on a very neat 24 February 1943 cover from HONNINGSVÅG (a small town on the island of Magerøya, about 217 miles / 350 km north of the Arctic Circle), with Swiss-bridge-style cancellations, to STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN. The cover was carried nearly the entire length of Norway to Oslo where it was GERMAN "o" [Oslo] CENSORED, with an "o" censor tape and a red handstamp. It was then sent eastward to Stockholm, where it was then FORWARDED, thus the reverse bears a STOCKHOLM machine postmark documenting the forwarding date of 12 March. A very attractive and tidy cover, with a sharp cancellation strike. This would be a great item for any of a Posthorn design collection, a Norwegian town cancellation collection, an Arctic postal history collection, an Occupied Norway / WWII-era collection, or a Swedish forwarded mail-handling collection. The high quality paper of this envelope is much more nicely preserved than many war-time covers. ACTUAL item. |
39.00 |
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401058 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #277 x3, 286, 197A [1946 2 kr King Haakon; 1947 50 øre Postal Service; 1946 25 øre orange Lion] (VF, some with wear typical for parcel cards) on 4 May 1948 parcel tag specially printed for mail to the U.S. For one 3 kg parcel, from "KRISTIANSAND S. / PP" with parcel post cancellation, to Buffalo, NY, USA (no receiving markings, but none are expected in this era). Complete tag (often the left end is missing) in very good condition for these. Parcels sent within / between the Scandinavian / Nordic countries and Europe were "controlled" by a parcel card (which bore the stamps and which also acted as signed proof of delivery that was kept by the post office) that usually accompanied, but was not attached to, the package. However because the American parcel post system was completely different, parcel tags like these were designed to be attached to the package. The high denominations of the King Haakon stamps were mostly used on parcel cards and tags. ACTUAL item. |
8.50 |
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401556 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #O71 [1955 35 øre brown-red Official] (VF) on 16 February 1957 domestic cover from the Haltdalen (municipality) "jordstyre". Historically, a jordstyre (literally "earth board" or "land board") was a locally elected, municipal-level agricultural committee in Norway tasked with enforcing national land laws and protecting farmlands. Mailed at LANGLETE with a bridge-no-vertical-lines cancellation, sent to the village of Haltdalen. (Haltdalen was both a village and a larger municipality area.) This basic (up to 20 gr) domestic letter rate only existed for a fairly short time, from 1 January 1956 thru 30 June 1957. Some covers bearing stamps of this design are remarkably hard to find, despite their "normal" appearance. The solo use of this stamp for this postal rate was only possible for 18 months. ACTUAL item. |
12.00 |