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Sweden: Cancellations: By Stamp - 1858 Coat of Arms - 12 Öre

Scott numbers have been used for the stamps unless otherwise indicated. The quality / centering of the stamp is stated separately from the quality / centering of the cancellation. In a postmark / cancellation context, the quality / centering of the cancellation is usually the dominant driver of the value. All these items and many thousands more are available for viewing on approval. Please request approvals; due to lack of time, the vast majority of my Swedish cancellation stock will never make it to the website or price lists.

Swedish cancellations starting with the letter "Å", "Ä" and "Ö" are at the end of the A-Z alphabet. Over time (and particularly as part of a major change in 1900) there have been changes in the spelling of Swedish town names and/or which letters are used for the same purpose. For the purpose of our cancellation listings, the spelling in the cancellation has been used, thus if you are looking for a particular town, look in the appropriate multiple places in the alphabet. As examples... W has changed to V: Varberg and Warberg are the same town, but in different periods of time. F has also sometimes changed to V: V(W)ifstavarf has become Vivstavarv. Q has sometimes changed to K: Qvibille has become Kvibille. [General information on other letter-use changes is welcome.]

Home County (Län) / Province (Landskap) collecting: The 21 Swedish Counties are current administrative units, while the 25 Swedish Provinces are historical, geographical, and cultural designations. The borders of each are sometimes the same, but are often different, with many inclusions, exclusions, and combinations and changes over time. It is too complicated a subject for discussion here. Collecting Swedish postmarks and cancellations is often done at the Province level, so-called "home town collecting". The Facit "Postal" Cancellations and Postal History Catalog (which is available from us) provides a map and a set of abbreviations for each County and Province. Using the abbreviations from the Facit Postal, in some case our descriptions will include the County and Province for a town in square brackets, such as "[F-SM]" (Jönköping County-Län / Småland Province-Landskap). A web page can be searched with "Control+f" or "Command+f". To find the COUNTIES, search using a square bracket, followed the County abbreviation, followed by a dash, such as "[F-". To find PROVINCES, search using a dash, followed by the Province abbreviation, followed by a square bracket, such as "-SM]".

By Stamp - 1858 Coat of Arms - 12 Öre

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Used

US$

248240

Scott #8, Blue, Used F-VF. HÖGANÄS 1871 cancel, F-VF.

ACTUAL item.

10.00

248616

Scott #8, Blue, Used Fine+. MORA 7 March 1866 (thus Type I; Facit value SEK 100) cancel, Fine.

ACTUAL item.

10.00

248237

Scott #8, Light Blue, 1855 Perfs, Used F-VF. PITEÅ cancel, VF.

ACTUAL item.

5.00

248241

Scott #8, Blue, Used F-VF, but some clipped perfs at left. ULRICEHAMN 1871 cancel, VF+.

ACTUAL item.

4.00

401303

Scott #8 Blue, Clear Print, Dense Background [1858 12 öre blue Coat of Arms] Used with F-VF centering. Strong color and excellent "1855 type" perforations. SUPERBLY STRUCK WEXIÖ 1 July 1859 RECTANGULAR / BOXED CANCELLATION DATED EXACTLY ONE YEAR AFTER THE FIRST DAY OF ISSUE OF THIS STAMP DESIGN. This style of cancellation had five types (illustrated in SFF Handbook 23 on rectangular cancellations), four of which are known (per Facit Postal X) used on this stamp, but only Types 1, 3, and 4, are known used as late as 1859. This example appears to be a Type 4, but the type differences are hard to differentiate without examples of all of them for comparison. All the three or four types known on this stamp have fairly similar catalog values in the range of SEK 250-400 per Facit Postal X. However, the catalog values are for more typical looking examples than this incredible, Superb cancellation strike. Complete town name and date; rare completeness and quality -- on a single loose stamp -- for this style of cancellation. A beautiful example! This is certainly one of the best-struck, if not the best-struck, rectangular / boxed style cancellations on this stamp that I have been able to offer in 53 years! The one-year-birthday cancellation is icing on the philatelic cake.

ACTUAL item.

55.00

248238

Scott #9, Ultramarine, Used VF. UDDEVALLA 1861 cancel, XF.

ACTUAL item.

22.00

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