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Sweden: Cancellations: By Town: M

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]".

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Used

US$

401122

Scott #326 BOOKLET PAIR [1941 15 öre Sancta Birgitta (Saint Bridget) Booklet Issue] Used with XF centering. Neat, well-centered, 2 March 1942 "MALMO 1 / * PAK *" town parcel post cancellation. Though this is not scarce as a single stamp, attractive Used examples of the booklet pairs are remarkably hard to find, especially with well-centered cancellations.

ACTUAL item.

12.00

248625

Scott #57 [1903 8 öre Engraved Oscar] Used F-VF. "MARSTRAND / Lbr" (mailed in a letterbox) 10 August 1910 cancel, VF. The cancellation was too large to fit on a single stamp; this is about as nicely centered and as complete (on a single stamp) as they can get. Letters mailed in letter boxes often received the "Lbr" cancellations so that the post office could deny responsibility if the delivery time was longer than normal for a letter mailed at a post office.

ACTUAL item.

5.00

248617

Scott #40 [1891 2 öre Ringtype, Posthorn on Back] Used F-VF+. MÖNSTERÅS 7 November 1893 cancel, F-VF+. The 2 öre denomination was virtually only used for the local printed matter rate (or as a make-up value for other odd rates) and thus is not often found used in mid-sized and smaller towns such as this one.

ACTUAL item.

12.00

248616

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

ACTUAL item.

10.00

401119

Scott #322 Light Blue, Facit #332cBB BOOKLET PAIR [1941 (1953 Printing) 5 kronor Stockholm Royal Palace Booklet Issue] Used with F-VF+ centering. Crisp, partial 10 March 1953 MORA town cancellation. The "BB" (booklet pairs with both stamps perforated on three sides) booklets were first issued 7 July 1953. Examples canceled in 1953-1957 are remarkably hard to find! Though this is common as a single stamp, attractive Used examples, without any defects, of the "BB" booklet pairs of THIS COLOR, CANCELED 1953-1957 (before the 1958 printing in Dull Greenish Blue) are remarkably hard to find.

ACTUAL item.

7.00

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