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249362 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
SVALBARD / SPITZBERGEN "NY-ÅLESUND / [latitude] / SVALBARD" 11 July 1964 cancellations on philatelic cover with stamps of the era. Pink "WORLDS NORTHERNMOST COMMUNITY / KINGSBAY 79 NORTH / SVALBARD" handstamped cachet picturing a seal. ACTUAL item. |
6.00 |
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249013 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
423, 430, 463 All Fluorescent [1967 and 1968 Rock Carvings: 40 dark carmine, 90 blue, 40 øre greenish blue] (VF) on attractive 15 September 1974 cover mailed aboard the M/S NORDNORGE and signed by the ship captain, canceled with the SVALBARDRUTA (Svalbard Route) pictorial ship cancellation, sent to the U.S. Because this route ran from mainland Norway to Svalbard (Spitzbergen), we can reasonably assume that this cover did enter Svalbard / Spitzbergen waters, but that it was not landed or sent from there. Very attractive and colorful franking all with values from the same popular / topical (marine mammals, fish, animals, early people, archeology) definitive design. ACTUAL item. |
12.00 |
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249014 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
418, 419 All Non-Fluorescent [1962 15 brown and 20 øre green Engraved Posthorns] (VF) on an attractive 14 July 1968 philatelic cover mailed aboard the M/S SAGAFJORD, with a pictorial ship cancellation, when it had stopped at NORDKAPP (with the farthest north mainland continental Norwegian post office) with their pictorial NORDKAPP cancellation style then in service. The cover is marked "imprime" (printed matter), but the 35 øre franking was 10 øre short (as of 1 March 1968), thus the cover bears a Norwegian black T-in-circle handstamp indicating postage due. A Norwegian blue postage due rating handstamp (T --- / 90, in circle), with 110 written in at the top, was added somewhere while still in the Norwegian post. [This marking has a complicated interpretation: a) Double the shortage (thus 20 øre) was due. b) This shows a comparison using the normal letter rate of 90 øre; 90 + 20 due = 110. This is a ratio to be used by the receiving country. c) The receiving country was supposed to apply this ratio using their own foreign surface letter rate (was then 13 U.S. cents) to determine the postage due amount to be collected from the recipient in their own currency: In this case, the U.S. foreign letter rate at the time was 13 cents, thus the ratio amount is 110 90ths of 13 cents (which is 15.88 cents rounded up to 16 cents), minus 13 cents, which results in 3 U.S. cents due. I doubt that most U.S. letter delivery carriers mastered this calculation. The calculation was supposed to be done and a U.S. postage due marking applied, by the U.S. incoming foreign mail office. In this case, no U.S. marking was applied and there is no evidence that the due amount was paid.] Norwegian postage due markings on Arctic-origin mail are quite unusual. Nordkapp covers are avidly collected. ACTUAL item. |
16.00 |