| 1907-1935 Various Issues |  Top |
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64 [1907 1 kr King Haakon VII, First Design] Used with Fine centering and neat, fully dated, virtually complete, circular (bridge style) 21 August 1909 LEVANGER (a mid-sized town) town cancellation. Such complete circular cancellations are quite scarce on these high-denomination Haakon VII stamps, especially from other than the largest cities. ACTUAL item. |
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42.00 |
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65 [1907 1-1/2 Kr Haakon VII, First Design] Used Superb horizontal PAIR with proper VF+ 1910 "KRISTIANSUND N." circular town cancellation. This issue is always more desirable with proper circular town cancellations. Used multiples are scarce and seldom offered. ACTUAL item. |
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219.00 |
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65 [1907 1-1/2 kr King Haakon VII, First Design] Used with XF centering and fully dated, circular (bridge style) 26 April 1910 "...AVANGER" (very likely STAVANGER, a larger town) town cancellation. Fully dated circular cancellations are scarce on these high-denomination Haakon VII stamps. ACTUAL item. |
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89.00 |
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72 Rose Red, Rough Perforation Variety [1915 2.00 kr Haakon VII, Solid Background] NEVER HINGED 4-BLOCK with VF centering. Fresh and brilliant multiple -- blocks of the rough perforation varieties are rarely offered. ACTUAL item. |
59.00 |
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Scott #111 [1925 10 øre Lion "SVALBARD" (Spitzbergen)] NEVER HINGED with F-VF+ centering. This example shows the rough perforation variety; I estimate that only about 30% of the issue is the rough perforation variety. Very nicely centered for this stamp; only a small percentage of this 10 øre stamp are this well centered or better. Wonderfully fresh with great color and correct, never hinged original gum. While this is not a "scarce" stamp in Mint Hinged or Used condition, it is "scarce" in NH condition. The 2024 Facit Classic assigns this NH stamp a value of SEK 150, which is 3x the Mint Hinged value, but in my experience NH examples are even harder to find than that multiple suggests. ACTUAL item. |
SOLD |
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Scott #112 [1925 15 øre Lion "SVALBARD" (Spitzbergen)] NEVER HINGED with F-VF centering. This example shows the clean perforation variety; I estimate that only about 70% of the issue is the clean perforation variety. Though this has "only" F-VF centering, this is actually very nicely centered for the 15 øre stamp; for some reason that I do not understand, the 15 øre stamps of this set usually have terrible centering. Wonderfully fresh with great color and correct, never hinged original gum. While this is not a "scarce" stamp in Mint Hinged or Used condition, it is "scarce" in NH condition. The 2024 Facit Classic assigns this NH stamp a value of SEK 150, which is 3x the Mint Hinged value, but in my experience NH examples are even harder to find than that multiple suggests, especially with centering this nice. ACTUAL item. |
SOLD |
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Scott #113 [1925 20 øre Lion "SVALBARD" (Spitzbergen)] NEVER HINGED with VF centering. This example shows the clean perforation variety; I estimate that only about 70% of the issue is the clean perforation variety. This example is extremely nicely centered for the 20 øre stamp. Wonderfully fresh with exceptional centering, great color, "perfect" perforations, and never hinged correct original gum. While this is not a "scarce" stamp in Mint Hinged or Used condition, it is "scarce" in NH condition. In NH condition, this is the key value of the set. The 2024 Facit Classic assigns this NH stamp a value of SEK 250, which is 5x the Mint Hinged value, but in my experience NH examples are even harder to find than that multiple suggests, especially with centering this nice. An exceptional example! ACTUAL item. |
SOLD |
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Scott #114 [1925 45 øre Lion "SVALBARD" (Spitzbergen)] NEVER HINGED with XF centering. This example shows the clean perforation variety; I estimate that only about 70% of the issue is the clean perforation variety. This example is extremely nicely centered for the 45 øre stamp; this denomination is usually not well centered. Wonderfully fresh with exceptional centering, great color, "perfect" perforations, and never hinged correct original gum. While this is not a "scarce" stamp in Mint Hinged or Used condition, it is "scarce" in NH condition. The 2024 Facit Classic assigns this NH stamp a value of SEK 150, which is 3x the Mint Hinged value, but in my experience NH examples are even harder to find than that multiple suggests, especially with centering this nice. An exceptional example! ACTUAL item. |
18.00 |
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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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123 [1927 35 øre olive-brown Standing Lion, typographed] NEVER HINGED with F-VF+ centering, but with a one short perforation. The 35 øre olive-brown is the scarcest (Mint, Hinged or NH) stamp in this definitive issue -- it is a key stamp missing from many collections, especially in NH condition. There were ten printings of this stamp resulting in several obvious differences in color and gum. This example is Greenish Olive with White Smooth Gum. NH examples are quite hard to find. Facit 2022 NH value SEK 3200 [about $380 4/2022]. ACTUAL item. |
175.00 |
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