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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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233220 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
27 [1877 20 øre Shaded Posthorn] Used Fine with nearly perfect FLORØ 12 May 1880 all-serif cancellation. ACTUAL item. |
19.00 |