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Sweden: Cancellations: By Stamp - 1924 UPU Congress And UPU Anniversary

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 - 1924 UPU Congress And UPU Anniversary

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Scott #212, Facit #197cx [1924 10 öre UPU Congress, Wavy-Line Watermark] Used with F-VF centering and a neat 3 December 1924 "(SMÅLA)NDS ANNEBE(RG)" SMALL TOWN cancellation. In 1924 this small town had a population of about 1000 and was centered around the "Annebergs Tändsticksfabrik" (Anneberg Match Factory). The town now has a population of only 800-900. This is an attractive example with great color, "perfect" perforations (which is "scarce" for this stamp), and a very neatly struck small-town cancellation. Small-town cancellations seem to be especially scarce on this watermarked stamp. The two UPU-issue sets in general seem to have been very little used in small-town post offices. (It would have been a lot of extra work for the small-town postmasters to handle, store, and account for these large-size stamps when "normal" stamps were already in the small-town post office stock.) The watermark on this example is very obvious without using any watermark fluid. This stamp is remarkably difficult to find, especially in Used condition with a genuine cancellation, and especially with "perfect" perforations. The Facit Classic Catalog 2026 value is SEK 600 (approx US$60 10/2026) without considering the unusual cancellation. A pretty example of a scarce and undervalued stamp that is missing from most Used Swedish collections.

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