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400857 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #83 Dark Red Brown [1910 brown (shades) 15 øre Posthorn] Mint, hinge remnant, with VF centering. Facit lists (#109a) a Reddish Brown, but this is NOT that. The Facit-listed "Reddish Brown" is a very light color, which I call "Light Red Brown". Instead this is Facit #83b which Facit describes in very general terms as a range of colors, "Dark Brown to Brown". The "Dark Brown" extreme of that spectrum is very dark and is NOT obviously reddish. However, the "Brown" end of that spectrum is actually this color -- which I call "Dark Red Brown" to clearly distinguish it from the Facit #83a. This stamp is remarkably difficult to find with nice centering; most examples seen are only Fine or perhaps F-VF. This example has nice perforations for this small-hole perforation issue. While this stamp has a modest catalog value, it is much scarcer with nice centering than the catalog value suggests. ACTUAL item. |
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10.00 |
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400993 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #84 [1920 blackish blue 15 øre Posthorn] NEVER HINGED with XF centering. This example has the small-hole perforation that is typical for this particular stamp. Wonderfully fresh with "almost perfect" centering, intense color, excellent perforations for this stamp, and post-office-fresh NH gum. While Mint Hinged stamps are not hard to find, well centered examples are remarkably scarce and NH well-centered examples are very seldom encountered. This particular stamp has a large NH premium (about 9x per Facit) for normal centering -- most were consumed in postal use and those that went into early stamp collections (106 years ago!) were almost all hinged into albums. NH examples with nice centering are truly scarce! This is certainly one of the nicest NH examples I have been able to offer in 52 years. ACTUAL item. |
SOLD |
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