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400600 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
ca.1926 Essay of the Second Lion Design (Scott #115-128 design): 20 øre Pale Red Violet TYPOGRAPHED ESSAY (in die proof format), imperforate, on heavy white paper, calendered on both sides (ultra smooth), with the 17.5 x 20.5 mm essay stamp design in a counter-sunk area measuring 21 x 24 mm. The overall size of the paper is 30 x 38 mm. This essay differs from the original in that the essay is larger in size and all the lettering / numbers are bolder. The lion design itself has some tiny differences, but that may just be the result of the essay being printed from a essay-proof die. The design of the issued stamp measures 16.25 mm x 20 mm. Hinged; otherwise pristine. This example is from the Norman Gary collection. This essay appears to be recorded in an unpublished (?) or privately published (only a few copies) manuscript prepared in 2010 by John J. Henry, based on a 1941 publication by Johs Jellestad; Henry translated, expanded significantly, and illustrated the previous work by Jellestad. I say "appears to be..." because the Henry manuscript does not provide measurements of this item nor a detailed description of the differences of the design or the paper and he used very general color naming. Henry does have an illustration of what may be a similar item, but the picture is not clear enough for comparison and appears that the picture may not have been printed in actual size. That being said, Henry did examine this example in 2013 and indicated that he had an example; which I presume to be the example he illustrated in 2010, but I cannot be positive that the two examples were identical. All essays of Norwegian definitive-issue stamps can be considered "rare" to "extremely rare". Unlike a few commemorative-issue essays, items such as this were typically printed in only a very few examples. This is the only example of this essay that I have had in 52 years. A very attractive, very special, "very rare" item that would be a wonderful addition to a Norwegian collection. ACTUAL item. |
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246618 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Essay design similar to and related to Scott #B24 [1941 Norwegian Legion semi-postal] ca. 1941 ESSAY by Harald Damsleth (who was also the artist of the issued Scott #B24) for the "Norwegian Legion" semi-postal issue. Design in horizontal format; cliche 32 x 17 mm, in orange red, on gummed 105 x 90 mm paper. Original drawing is in the Norwegian Postal Museum. Very seldom offered and in extremely strong demand from collectors of WWII-era and Germany-Occupied Countries material. [The Norwegian Legion was formed by Nazi sympathizers to fight alongside the Nazis against the Allied forces. Originally expected to have a more "glorious" role in Northern and Western Europe, the Legion ended up on the Eastern Front where they suffered greatly. This essay has always been scarce, but I suspect that many people in Norway would rather forget this chapter of Norwegian history, thus they are very seldom offered or displayed.] ACTUAL item. |
425.00 |
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239721 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
515/516 ORIGINAL ARTWORK [1968 Aasmund Olavssund VINJE] The original 1967 artwork of the K. Løkke-Sørensen design for this important 1968 stamp issue commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aasmund Olavssund Vinje. A beautiful 100 x 135 mm painting, in shades of brown, on illustrator board (115 x 145 mm). The design is almost identical to the issued stamps except that the denomination is 90 and is on the left instead of right. There is also a design error in the painting (corrected on the issued stamp) -- the artist used the initials OA instead of AO. Signed by the artist at lower left and dated "67". Vinje was a proponent of the use of the Nynorsk [New Norwegian] (Landsmål) language. This is the second Norwegian stamp issue to use the Nynorsk "NOREG" country name! (The first was the 1951 Arne Garborg issue.) Provenance: This was in the William Benfield collection (so marked on the reverse). Benfield bought it from auctioneer and stamp dealer Irwin Heiman (Metro Stamp Company), February 24, 1973 (see note on back of the Benfield album page; the reference to Memphis was because Benfield lived there at the time). I purchased it from Benfield in the late 1980s (?) as part of the Benfield non-Danish essay-proof collection. I sold it to a member of the Vinje family located in the U.S. (early 1990s?). That family later sold it to a western U.S. stamp dealer who noticed that the description was from me and the dealer sold it to me in July 2014. I then sold it again to collector MXZ in September 2014 and repurchased it from MXZ in September 2017 with other parts of his collection. ACTUAL item. |
750.00 |