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Norway: Specialized Stamps: Officials

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249726

Scott #O1 Lilac [1926 5 øre Official First Issue] Used with XF centering and VF (inverted) #656 4-ring numeral cancellation. This device was used in two time periods, in two locations, during the lifetime of this stamp: 1923-04-01 through 1927-06-30 SMØRFJORD (on ship mail); and 1927-07-01 through ???? at OPSTAD TVANGSARBEIDSHUS. Nicely struck, fully readable examples of 4-ring numeral cancels are scarce. Any 4-ring-numeral cancellation on an Official stamp is very scarce because the cancels were usually only used at places so small that there was rarely an Official mail coming from them.

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SOLD

249727

Scott #O1 Lilac [1926 5 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with F-VF centering. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. Unusual on this stamp.

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SOLD

249728

Scott #O1 Lilac [1926 5 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with Fine centering and neat February 1929 cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. Unusual on this stamp.

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3.50

249733

Scott #O2 Yellow Green [1926 10 øre Official First Issue] NEVER HINGED with Superb/XF/VF centering BLOCK OF FOUR. Such nice examples of blocks are "very scarce" -- they have mostly been broken up for the single stamps! Absolutely pristine quality.

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SOLD

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249729

Scott #O2 Yellow Green [1926 10 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with XF-Superb centering and neat 1933 cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. This variety is scarce with nice centering.

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249730

Scott #O2 Yellow Green [1926 10 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with F-VF centering and neat cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations.

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2.50

249731

Scott #O2 Yellow Green [1926 10 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with F-VF centering and neat cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations.

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2.50

249732

Scott #O2 Dull Green [1926 10 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with F-VF centering and neat 1927 cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. An unusual color.

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3.00

249737

Scott #O3 Blackish Ultramarine [1926 15 øre Official First Issue] Mint, lightly hinged, with Fine centering. PLATE VARIETY: "white spot at base of RK". While the first Officials stamps are rich with tiny plate varieties, a variety this obvious -- and especially affecting the lettering -- would normally be catalog listed on a "regular" postage stamp.

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249736

Scott #O3 Blackish Ultramarine [1926 15 øre Official First Issue] Used with XF centering. PLATE VARIETY: "frame lines with open gap at upper right corner". While the first Officials stamps are rich with tiny plate varieties, a variety this obvious would normally be catalog listed on a "regular" postage stamp. Any example of the 15 øre stamp is "very scarce" with such nice centering.

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SOLD

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249735

Scott #O3 Blackish Violet Ultramarine [1926 15 øre Official First Issue] NEVER HINGED with VF centering. This is an unusual color, especially in NH condition.

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SOLD

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249734

Scott #O3 Blackish Violet Ultramarine [1926 15 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Mint, extremely lightly hinged, with Superb centering. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. An unusual color. The rough perforation stamps tend to be hard to find in Mint or NH condition because early collectors often failed to recognize that the rough perforations are a collectible variety and did not retain them. The 15 øre stamp is "very scarce" in any condition with such nice centering.

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249738

Scott #O4 Brownish Red [1926 20 øre Official First Issue] HORIZONTAL PAIR Used with XF centering and light, but well-centered cancellation. The perforations are rough on the left side, but that is likely a "natural" problem due to damaged perforating pins. This stamp had several printings, so there are more than the two main colors. This color shade is about halfway between the two, but if I am forced to describe it as one or the other, it is closer to the Brownish Red, though it does have tinges of violet. Used multiples (even just pairs) of the First Issue Officials are surprisingly hard to find. I offer this both as the pair and as a very well-centered example of this in-between color.

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249739

Scott #O4 Red Violet [1926 20 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with F-VF centering and light, neat cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations.

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249740

Scott #O4 Red Violet [1926 20 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with F-VF centering and light, neat cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations.

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2.00

249743

Scott #O6 Ultramarine [1926 40 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. NEVER HINGED with VF centering. Wonderfully fresh and bright with pristine gum. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations.

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SOLD

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249742

Scott #O6 Ultramarine [1926 40 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with VF centering and very light cancellation. This is an unusual example -- the only one like it that I have seen -- in which the rough perforations are only on the bottom part of the stamp. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations.

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SOLD

249741

Scott #O6 Ultramarine [1926 40 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with Average centering and 20 November 1933 cancellation. Though not well centered, this really shows off the extremely small-hole, rough perforations.

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SOLD

249746

Scott #O6 BLUE on THICK YELLOWISH PAPER [1926 40 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with XF centering and neat, light cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. This color shade is most obvious end of the "blue group" spectrum. The paper is clearly thick and yellowish -- there are catalog-listed regular postage stamps on similar paper as well, but they have not been listed for the Officials. A remarkably unusual example.

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249745

Scott #O6 BLUE [1926 40 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with VF centering and well-centered, but light, 31 April 1928 cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. This color shade is in the "blue group", but it leans more toward the ultramarine than most examples in the blue group.

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249744

Scott #O6 BLUE [1926 40 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with Fine centering and neat, light cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. This color is hard to find.

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SOLD

249748

Scott #O7 [1926 60 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Mint, lightly hinged, with XF centering. Wonderfully bright and fresh. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations.

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249747

Scott #O7 [1926 60 øre Official First Issue] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with F-VF+ centering and neat, light cancellation. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations.

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7.75

249749

Scott #O8 Lilac [1926 2 on 5 øre Surcharged Official First Issue] HORIZONTAL 3-STRIP Used with XF/F-VF centering and neat, light cancellations. Used multiples (even just pairs and 3-strips) of the First Issue Officials are surprisingly hard to find. This surcharged Lilac color had less than 10% the print quantity of the more usual Brownish Lilac; as three single stamps with their respective centering, the individual prices would total $12.85.

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SOLD

249785

Scott #O12a [1934 10 øre Official, Narrow Design, Typographed / Letterpress] Used with XF centering and XF-centered 10 March 1941 "OSLO / HOMANSBY" bridge-style cancellation.

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3.00

249778

Scott #O12 [1933 10 øre Official, Wide Design, Offset / Lithography] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with VF centering. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. The rough perforation stamps tend to be hard to find because early collectors often failed to recognize that the rough perforations are a collectible variety and did not retain them. This example is particularly nice with an almost perfectly centered 14 September 1934 OSLO machine cancellation.

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3.50

249784

Scott #O13a [1937 15 øre Official, Narrow Design, Typographed / Letterpress] Used with VF-XF centering and well-centered, mostly complete, 7 December 1938 KYRK(SÆT)ERØRA bridge-style cancellation. From a small town in TRØNDELAG county, west of Trondheim. The Norgeskatalogen Postal II (2014) cancellation catalog assigns this cancellation a rarity rating of 3, however, any small-town cancellation is "rare" on this particular stamp -- the vast majority of cancellations that I have seen on this stamp are either from Oslo or a few other larger towns/cities. Furthermore, any fully-dated proper-period cancellation is unusual on this particular stamp (genuinely Used is much scarcer than Mint). This is an exceptional example of this stamp -- this the key stamp of the set in properly Used condition and is probably the key Used stamp of all the Norwegian Officials.

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49.00

249779

Scott #O14a SET OF TWO COLORS: DARK RED and ORANGE RED [1934 20 øre Official, Wide Design, Letterpress / Typographed] Both Used with Superb centering and attractive, light cancellations; both cancellations appear to be dated in 1936. These two distinctively different colors are the extremes of the color range of this stamp (there were several printings). The "normal" color is in the Red to Dark Red range; the Orange Red is the exception that seems to have only been one printing. This major color difference is virtually unacknowledged in the literature and thus the set of these colors is rarely offered.

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4.50

249786

Scott #O14a [1934 20 øre Official, Narrow Design, Typographed / Letterpress] Used with F-VF centering and with VF 13 November 1936 FLISA bridge-style cancellation (style with month in Arabic numbers instead of Roman numerals; a Roman numerals version also exists). The Norgeskatalogen Postal II (2014) cancellation catalog assigns this cancellation a rarity rating of 3.

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3.00

249787

Scott #O15 [1933 25 øre Official] Used with VF centering and with VF 17 June 1935 OSLO bridge-style cancellation (style with month in Arabic numbers instead of Roman numerals; a Roman numerals version also exists).

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3.00

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Used

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249780

Scott #O16 [1933 30 øre Official, Wide Design, Offset / Lithography] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with XF-Superb centering. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. The rough perforation stamps tend to be hard to find because early collectors often failed to recognize that the rough perforations are a collectible variety and did not retain them. This example is particularly nice with well-centered 5 November 1935 OSLO bridge-type cancellation.

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4.75

249781

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3.75

249788

Scott #O17 [1934 35 øre Official] Used with Superb centering and with Superb 20 July 1939 OLDEN bridge-style cancellation (style with month in Arabic numbers instead of Roman numerals; a Roman numerals version does not exist for this town).

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9.00

249782

Scott #O17 [1934 35 øre Official, Narrow Design, Typographed / Letterpress] ROUGH PERFORATION VARIETY. Used with XF centering. Extremely small-hole, rough perforations. The rough perforation stamps tend to be hard to find because early collectors often failed to recognize that the rough perforations are a collectible variety and did not retain them.

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2.75

249789

Scott #O19 [1933 60 øre Official, Wide Design, Lithographed / Offset] Used with XF centering and VF-centered 12 February 1937 MANDAL (Type 2) bridge-style cancellation, with month in Arabic (types also exist for this town with month in Roman numerals). Very attractive.

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4.50

249790

Scott #O19a [1935 60 øre Official, Narrow Design, Typographed / Letterpress] Used with VF centering and Superbly centered 17 March 1937 LILLEHAMMER bridge-style cancellation. An outstanding example.

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7.00

249783

Scott #O21 [1933 100 øre Official] VERTICAL PAIR. Used with VF centering, but with a couple small bends. Used multiples (even "just" pairs) of this stamp are quite hard to find. This example is especially interesting because of an unusual (and thematically interesting) postmark: 3 August 1936 "LANDBRUKHØYSKOLEN i ÅS" bridge-style cancellation that is complete on the pair (though at an angle). The cancellation is from the Agricultural High School in Ås, south of Oslo. The Norgeskatalogen Postal II (2014) cancellation catalog assigns this cancellation a rarity rating of 3, but a long-name postmarks are hard to find complete.

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12.00

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