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401547 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #O34 (or #O23) [1941 7 øre Official #O34 Unwatermarked or #O23 Watermarked] (VF) on 11 July 1942 unsealed printed matter cover marked "Trykksaker", from MOLDE to TINGVOLL. On 13 July (postmark on reverse) forwarded from Tingvoll to Angvik. (Angik is a couple/few kilometers directly across the fjord from Tingvoll, but 70-80 km by road.) Both postmarks are bridge-with-vertical-lines style. Both versions of the 7 øre stamp are much scarcer Used than Mint and can be hard to find on nice-looking covers. This is assumed to be the lower-value unwatermarked version because of the date. Very neat and attractive. ACTUAL item. |
14.00 |
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401551 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #O39 (or #O28) [1945 30 øre Official #O39 Unwatermarked or #O28 Watermarked] (VF) SOLO USE on 30 October 1945 LOCAL RATE "money letter" envelope, which contained 25.00 kroner in cash, used locally, from the sheriff office in TINGVOLL, with bridge-with-vertical-lines style cancellations. The reverse is sealed with official post office "POSTOBLAT" seals, handstamped with the sheriff office rubber stamp. The back flap has some opening damage, but one of the two seals is fully present. This is assumed to be the lower-value unwatermarked version because of the date. At that time, the Norwegian "lensmann", or sheriff, acted both as a law enforcement official and as a local authority that, in small communities, handled some other civil government functions. The local rate was 10 øre (1 July 1919 thru 30 September 1946; after that it increased to 15 øre thru 30 June 1949 after which the local rate was eliminated. The insured (money) letter fee (for up to 500 kr) was 20 øre 1 Sept 1920 thru 30 June 1949. The money (insured) letter service had more secure requirements and methods than the registered mail service. However, registered mail numbered postal labels (with the "R" torn off) were often used to provide the tracking number for the item. Very neat appearance. This would be nice addition to a Law Enforcement thematic collection. ACTUAL item. |
28.00 |
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401546 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #O21, O18a [1933 100 øre Lithographed Official; 1935 40 øre Typographed Official] (XF-VF) on 17 December 1936 MONEY LETTER cover from the tax authorities in Sør-Trøndelag with three ornate was seals on the reverse from that tax office. The three wax seals were required for this type of envelope back-flaps; five wax seals were required for traditional types of envelopes in which the four back segments met at a point the middle. This cover contained 1768.12 KR of currency. On the backside is a distribution list, with four recipient signatures, showing how the all the funds were dispersed by the "head cashier" addressee. I cannot recall ever before, in 53 years, seeing such a money disbursement list on a cover. Sent to a village name that appears to be Langlek, but I cannot find such a location -- it must be located in the Sør-Trøndelag region because of the money disbursement by that tax authority. Mailed at "TRONDHEIM / Bko", with a bridge-with-vertical-lines style of cancellation. The "Bko" in the cancellation refers to "banko brev" or "money letter". The money letter system apparently operated somewhat similarly to the registered mail system (which was for documents, not valuables), but with much higher security requirements. Registered "R" numbered postal labels were used -- before/when "V" insurance numbered postal labels were available or had not yet come into use -- to supply the tracking number for the item, but the "R" segment at left was removed as this was to be handled more securely than a registered letter. The 100 øre stamp is "very scarce" on cover. The Facit Classic 2024 on-cover value starts at SEK 300, but I can only recall having one or two examples on cover in 53 years (since 1973). An outstanding cover that would be a key item in an Official Mail collection. ACTUAL item. |
70.00 |
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401553 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #O41A [1946 40 øre ultramarine Official] (VF) on 25 September 1950 domestic DOUBLE-WEIGHT REGISTERED cover from the Nidaros Diocesan Board, sent to Haltdalen. The diocesan boards were the elected regional governing body for each of the 11 dioceses within the Church of Norway. The boards had official mail franking / postal privileges the same as any government office. With red-R registration label, mailed from "TRONDHEIM A", and canceled with two VF strikes of the "TRONDHEIM Bko." bridge-with-vertical-lines cancellation. The double weight (20-125 gr) domestic letter rate was 50 øre from 1 October 1946 thru 30 September 1951. The registration fee was 30 øre from 31 October 1946 thru 30 June 1951. Registered official covers from this 30 øre fee period are surprisingly hard to find. Coincidentally, this color of the 40 øre stamp came into use on the first day of the 1 October 1946 postal rate change. Very attractive and seldom offered! This would be a nice addition to a Church of Norway thematic collection! ACTUAL item. |
26.00 |
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246004 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
B3 [1930 30 + 25 øre Nordkap] Used VF centered, but with light bend. "(VIG I HE)LGELAND" 15 February 1933 town cancellation. This cancel on this stamp is scarce -- from 1930-1931 this stamp was only sold at Nordkap and Oslo, and then through 1935, this stamp was only being sold at a few additional locations: Bergen, Trondheim, Hammerfest, and on board the Hurtigruten Bergen - Kirkenes ships. Pre-1936 uses at other locations are seldom seen as the stamp would have to be brought in by the sender. ACTUAL item. |
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80.00 |
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401545 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #O11a [1937 7 øre Typographed Official] (VF) solo use on 24 September 1938 printed matter (faint violet "Trykte Saker") cover from the Nidaros School "Direktør" Office, to the Glåmos School Board at Jensvoll, but forwarded to a town name I cannot read (Ny... It may be "Nyplad" a historical school house in the Trondheim area that still exists as a cultural location). [Nidaros is the historic name for Trondheim.] The only Jensvoll I can find on modern maps is just north of the Arctic Circle, so THIS Jensvoll was probably a tiny community near one of the other locations on the cover. Mailed at ÅSEN, with a bridge-no-vertical-lines cancellation. With a couple of the filing holes often seen on official mail. This is a "scarcer" stamp even as a Used single off cover; would be $27 off the cover! On cover it is seldom offered. I think I have had only three or four examples on cover in 53 years (since 1973). This cover deserves more research to fully understand the places involved. ACTUAL item. |
40.00 |
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401711 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #186, 196 [1939 30 øre Tourism; 1941 20 øre Lion With Shorter Nose on "2" (Facit #226b)] (VF) on a VERY RARE 16 March 1944 AIRMAIL cover from "ØVRE-ÅRDAL" with bridge-style town cancellations, to Paris, France. GERMAN "f" [Frankfurt] CENSOR TAPE and handstamp, along with small censor markings including special on-site censor markings (see below), and one blue CHEMICAL (SECRET WRITING) DETECTION TEST SWIPE on the reverse. There are a couple inconsequential, normal, small opening tears and wear. At this time, airmail covers leaving Norway (thus censored) FROM SMALL VILLAGES are remarkably scarce. Furthermore, WWII-era covers from any size village, town, or city, and especially airmail, TO FRANCE are also remarkably scarce. However, this cover is MUCH MORE RARE... The return address is "Andre O...." / "B21-Z9 / A/S Nordag / Øvre Årdal / (Sogn) / Norge". The "A/S Nordag" is described by Google AI as a "massive, frantic German wartime industrial project to build an aluminum plant and a 13-kilometer supply railway run by A/S Nordag, relying heavily on thousands of Norwegian construction workers alongside ... over 1,000 Soviet / Ukrainian prisoners and more than 600 French civilian forced laborers were quartered in harsh local camps. ... The French civilians in Årdal were primarily young men conscripted under the [French] Vichy regime Service du travail obligatoire (STO). They were rounded up and deported to support the German war industry. While [the French men] were legally classified as "civilians" and permitted to send heavily censored letters home to family, their service was entirely compulsory, enforced under threat of imprisonment or execution for resistance. ... Unlike Soviet and Ukrainian prisoners in Øvre Årdal -- who were treated with extreme brutality and strictly denied outside contact, French STO workers were legally granted limited mail privileges. [This envelope] represents one of [the] rare, surviving lifelines sent from an occupied fjord back to wartime France." ... "The alphanumeric string [in the return address] is a military postal and camp classification code. "B" or "Barakke": indicates a specific wooden barracks building within the multi-camp complex in Øvre Årdal. "Z9": The letter "Z" was frequently used by German camp administrators to categorize Zivilarbeiter (civilian workers) or Zwangsarbeiter (forced laborers) to separate them from standard military POWs (who used Stalag/Oflag designations). [One of the many reasons for the German occupation of Norway was to gain access to the tremendous potential for Norwegian electric energy generation because of the many high-fall, high-volume water sources well suited to hydro-electric generation. Aluminum production, which was absolutely critical to the German war effort, required enormous amounts of electricity. Massive amounts of electricity were also needed to produce "heavy water" which was used in the German nuclear weapons program.] In 53 years, I have never before even heard of this relatively small group of French "STO" workers held as forced laborers in Norway, and I have certainly never knowingly seen a cover sent by one of them. This is a rare piece of WWII postal history! ACTUAL item. |
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401555 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #O60 [1952 15 øre Official "O.S."] (VF) on 14 July 1955 unsealed PRINTED MATTER cover from the County Governor office for Møre and Romsdal. Mailed at MOLDE with non-repeating machine cancellation (wavy lines to right of hub), to ØYDEGARD and then forwarded (bridge-with-vertical-lines postmark on reverse) to Årsund (about 12 km away). The basic (up to 50 gr) printed matter rate was 15 øre from 1 June 1952 thru 30 June 1957. Since the envelope was left unsealed, it did not have to be marked for printed matter. Covers bearing stamps of this "O.S." design are remarkably hard to find. The various denominations were first released in 1951-1952 but were already being replaced by the next design starting in 1955. ACTUAL item. |
14.00 |
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