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205057 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
8 (F-VF) [12 öre Vapen blue] on attractive 6 March 1870 cover to Denmark with Superb "PKXP N:r 2" railway cancellation. Fresh and nice. Seldom seen so neat and clear. ACTUAL item. |
75.00 |
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401455 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #43 [1886 5 öre Ringtype With Posthorn on Back] (Superb) on very attractive 23 January 1887 post card with a faint "(PKX)P No 39 B" RAILWAY cancellation, to Borås. The stamp correctly pays the domestic post card rate. The post card is a "formular" style. The appearance of the address side is virtually identical to the officially issued postal stationery cards of the era, except that there is no printed postage indicia. Collecting the various designs / types of the early Swedish formular post cards is a challenging, though fascinating and rewarding, endeavor. There are many variations of the address-side designs; some of them quite remarkable in appearance. They make a beautiful mini collection. (I would be happy to assist with such a project.) This stamp was mostly used for the 5 öre local letter rate; examples used for the 5 öre post card rate are scarcer. ACTUAL item. |
16.00 |
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239531 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
118 (or 124?) x5 and 182 [1921 10 öre green Lion and 1921 40 öre Gustaf V Left Profile] (VF/F-VF and Ave) on 17 June 1923 EXPRESS mail cover to Prag, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, with backstamp. PLK 137 RAILWAY cancellations. Express label #3:1 per Facit Postal listing. Trimmed at top, but indicates sender was in Landskrona, which matches the route of the railway line/cancel. Attractive and colorful. Express covers to other countries (especially other than Germany) are quite unusual. ACTUAL item. |
45.00 |
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401674 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #215 [1924 15 öre UPU Anniversary] (Superb) on a 12 October 1924 cover with RAILWAY CANCELLATION, "PLK 267..." to Stockholm with "STOCKHOLM 6 / TUR / 1 / VA" (machine text repeating receiving postmark on reverse). The envelope is an official mail envelope from a hospital in Uppsala, but the "Tj.- Brev" notation in the lower left corner has been marked out, thus the envelope was personally used. (The "103" written in that spot may be the hospital room number of the sender.) The 15 öre franking correctly pays the domestic letter rate [1 Oct 1922 thru 31 Mar 1942]. Despite the modest catalog value of this UPU Anniversary stamp on cover, any type of cover bearing any stamps of this set are at least "unusual". This is a particularly attractive example. ACTUAL item. |
10.00 |
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401670 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #B33, #213 [1928 10 öre King Gustaf V 70th Birthday; Cancer Fund Semi-Postal; 1924 5 öre UPU 50th Anniversary] (F-VF, XF) on 28 June 1936 post card to DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA with RAILWAY CANCELLATION "PKP 131" (the postmark is hard to read, but it looks like a 3). The card is pre-addressed to a stamp dealer in South Africa who had apparently solicited a stamp order from the Swedish sender of the card. In the full message (in English), the Swedish card sender accepts doing an "exchange"; despite the word "exchange", the South African was a well-known stamp dealer. Very unusual STAMP DEALER MAIL. As of July 2026, in the last 53 years, though I have not kept formal records of this, I do not recall having more than two or three coves from Sweden to South Africa dated prior to WWII. At this moment, I cannot find the foreign destinations scarcity rating list that used to be published regularly, but my recollection is that South Africa had an R3 or an R4 scarcity rating in this time period. The 15 öre franking correctly pays the foreign post card rate [1 October 1925 thru 30 June 1936]; the last day of that rate was two days after this card was postmarked. Despite their modest catalog value of this semi-postal stamp on cover, any type of cover bearing any stamps of this set are "quite unusual" on cover. Furthermore, the 5 öre UPU Anniversary stamp was mostly used for the 5 öre printed matter rate (both domestic and foreign) and is "scarce" on covers leaving Sweden, especially on non-printed-matter covers/cards. However, any of the UPU stamps on cover are "quite unusual". Despite the philatelic correspondence, this is a genuine postal use -- to a "RARE" DESTINATION -- of two stamps that are seldom seen on covers! ACTUAL item. |
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