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229679 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
195 (VF) on 1947 underfranked 31 May cover from NESTTUN with 15 ore postage to BERGEN. Marked "+20" due. On reverse a 20 ore stamp (#196) has been affixed and canceled with ordinary (it is so plain it is unusual) BERGEN 2 June postmark. Roughly opened but still unusual. ACTUAL item. |
14.00 |
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229637 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
195, 310 (VF) on 25 June 1951 picture post card (Vigeland) from OSLO, to the U.S. with airmail label affixed. However, the 35 øre postage did not pay the airmail rate, thus Norwegian postage due handstamp applied: single-ring, violet "T / 5 / cts.". There is also a violet single-line marking between two lines "Not paid for air mail"; I think this is a Norwegian marking, but am unsure -- note that it is in English. I cannot recall previously seeing that marking. No indication that postage due was collected upon delivery. ACTUAL item. |
15.00 |
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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 |