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401229 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #53, 54, 56a BLUE GREEN on PS Envelope Facit #FK6Ba [1892 2 and 3 öre Bicolored Numerals; 1893 5 öre blue green Engraved Oscar; 1891 10 öre postal stationery envelope 150 x 125 mm, Laid Paper //, Carmine Rose, Bluish Gray Paper] (F-VF, VF) 23 March 1894 use to Germany (Hamburg receiver on reverse) with an attractive and quite unusual combination of stamps to meet the 20 öre foreign letter rate. The envelope bears an unusual DATED hotel handstamp of the "Grand Hotel Haglund" in Göteborg, but the envelope was actually mailed on board a train and bears a "PKXP No 81D" railway cancellation. Like virtually all used examples of this tall-format envelope (which stuck up above most of the other items in a tray or bundle), there is some wear along the top of the envelope and (only) the #53 has some wear along the top. The slightly darkish appearance of the envelope is mostly NOT aging -- the paper of this envelope issue was bluish gray in color. This particular blue green color shade (of the range of possible blue green color shades, of the 5 öre stamp) is remarkably seldom offered on any type of cover or card. But, when it is seen on cover or card, 95% of the time it is on a post card, not an envelope. Examples of this color on covers to other countries is quite unusual. Collectors of the Bicolored Numeral stamps (also called the "beer bottle label stamps" due to their design) will also appreciate this unusual combination of stamps and colors. ACTUAL item. |
18.00 |
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233499 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
52 x2, 57 [1892 1 öre Bicolored Numerals; 1903 8 öre Oscar] (VF, F-VF) on 1904 cover from MOTALA to STOCKHOLM. Very unusual stamp combination. Very colorful, Superb quality. ACTUAL item. |
28.00 |
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233500 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
53, 57 [1892 2 öre Bicolored Numeral; 1903 8 öre Oscar] (Ave, F-VF) on 1905 cover from "LINKÖPING Lbr" to STOCKHOLM, with local delivery TUR receiver. Unusual stamp combination. ACTUAL item. |
22.00 |
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201674 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
58 x3 (F-VF) [10 öre Oscar] on 1902 registered cover from Lidköping to Stockholm, With nice Lidköping registry label. 10 öre letter rate and 20 öre registered fee (1885-1905). ACTUAL item. |
25.00 |
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236684 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
58 [1891 10 öre Engraved Oscar] (VF) on 14 August 1908 picture post card (photo scene from town of Säfsjö) to the U.S., with RAILWAY cancellation "PKXP. No 2 A. INR. U.", Danish transit postmark (unusual on mail to the U.S.), and red U.S. New York "DEFICIENCY / IN / ADDRESS / SUPPLIED / BY / NYPO - I.D." handstamp. The so-called deficiency is that somebody could not read "Mass" as the state, even though it was right there. What makes this card especially interesting is that it is a HAND-DRAWN DIVIDED BACK card. Prior to 1 October 1907 divided back cards to the U.S. were charged at the letter rate. This sender was utilizing an earlier undivided-back card, dividing the back so that a message could be written without obscuring the picture on the other side. I do not recall previously seeing a Swedish hand-drawn divided-back card. This is an important type of item in the time line of the postal history of Swedish post cards. ACTUAL item. |
25.00 |
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201672 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
62, 58 (VF) [30 and 10 öre Oscar] on 1897 double-weight registered cover from Kristinehamn to Stockholm, with Kristinehamn registry label. 20 öre double letter rate and 20 öre registered fee (1885-1905). Colorful and attractive. ACTUAL item. |
18.00 |
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401060 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #62 [1891 30 öre Oscar, Engraved] (Fine) solo use on 3 May 1904 domestic money order, in the amount of kr 92.05, from HENNAN (Cancellation Normal Type 14), with a SUPERBLY CENTERED but light cancellation, transiting the supervising post office in LJUSDAL on the same day, to GEFLE where the payment was received (recorded with two different styles of Gefle postmarks) by the recipient on the next day. Hennan is today a tiny village; in 1966 the postal service changed to a rural route of nearby Ramsjö. The 30 öre franking paid the money order rate for over 50 kr to and including 100 kr, 1 Aug 1892 thru 31 May 1918. This rate was the primary solo use of this stamp. ACTUAL item. |
7.50 |