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241966 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1 [1855 4 sk Lion] Used F-VF, with huge margin at top, medium margins at sides, and very small margin at bottom. Wonderfully bold and complete 12-bar cancellation (somewhat scarcer than 11-bar). Dark color and clear impression. Very fresh and attractive. Facit value SEK 1400 = US$150 (6/2020) for wide margins and most common cancellation. ACTUAL item. |
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120.00 |
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248970 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1 Medium Blue on Thin Paper [1855 4 skilling Lion] Used with four ample to large margins with VF appearance. Neat, almost complete and almost perfectly centered CHRISTIANIA cancellation. A very pretty and fault-free example of the first Norwegian stamp! ACTUAL item. |
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135.00 |
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400603 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #1 [1855 4 sk Lion] Plate Position B47. Used F-VF, with three medium margins and one small margin (is clear all the way around). Remarkably neat and light BERGEN 185x cancellation -- leaving most of the central lion clearly visible. Attractive Milky Blue color and a remarkably crisp and clear printing impression (with a new or recently cleaned die). Facit 2024 value for most common color, position, cancellation, etc. is SEK 1400. ACTUAL item. |
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SOLD |
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238304 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1 Used Fine (three ample margins, but touching at top) Medium Blue, thin paper. Superb SANDEFJORD 1 June 1856 town cancellation. Wonderful cancellation. ACTUAL item. |
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125.00 |
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238305 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1 Used Fine (two very large margins, one small margin, but touching at top) Light Blue, thin paper. Probably plate position A11. Superb KRAGERO 17 March 1856 town cancellation. Beautiful cancellation. ACTUAL item. |
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195.00 |
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238306 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1 Used Fine+ (one large, one ample, and two small margins) Medium Blue, very thin paper. Well centered TRONDHJEM 20 January 1856 town cancellation. Nice example. ACTUAL item. |
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140.00 |
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237812 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
1, 2-5, 15 [1855 Number One, 1856-57 Oscars, 1867 8 Skill 8 Coat of Arms] The COMPLETE SET of six 1924 OFFICIAL REPRINTS. Mint VF still affixed to the original 1924 Handbook page, as they were all issued. These 1924 reprints have color shades different from the even scarcer 1914 reprints. The 1924 #1 is Deep Blackish Blue (instead of Dark Greenish Blue). The 1924 Oscar colors are: Dull Yellowish Orange (instead of Dark/Bright Orange); Dark Silvery Gray (instead of Greenish Light Gray); Blackish Blue (instead of slightly greenish Dark Blue); Dark Brownish Red (instead of Light Brownish Red). The 1924 #15 is slightly orangish Red (instead of Carmine). In total, I have only had four or five complete sets of these (not all members of the sets at the same time) in 41 years. This is certainly among the nicest looking that I have had. ACTUAL item. |
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400752 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #24 Major Variety, Facit #25, NK #35 [1879 5 øre Shaded Posthorn; Small 5 is smaller and without ball on bottom tip; with a faint checkerboard pattern in the solid color areas] Used with Fine centering. A very unusual example with a remarkably dark-but-bright blue color. In the Scandinavian catalogs, this stamp is considered to be a separate "major number" because the printing plate was made by a different method than the "normal" Scott #24 stamps. The specialized catalogs list this major variety as being in ultramarine or blue or "ultramarine-blue". However, the hand-mixed colors exist in a range from light blue to bright blue to dark-bright blue [this example] to ultramarine (light to dark shades) to grayish ultramarine. Some colors [such as this example] are scarcer than others. The common denominator is that the small "5" in the oval band is smaller than on the "normal" Scott #24 stamps, and it does not have a ball at the end of the bottom curl. Also, because of the texture of the stamp paper and/or the tympan paper [the packing material that is under the stamp paper being printed], there is almost always at least a faint checkerboard appearance in the solid-color areas of the design (oval band). A very attractive example with wonderful (and scarce) color. This stamp is missing from most Norway collections. Facit 2024 value SEK 800 for the most common color (this is scarcer). ACTUAL item. |
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SOLD |