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Scott #B32-6 COMPLETE SET ON FIVE COVERS [1928 King Gustaf V 70th Birthday; Cancer Fund Semi-Postal Set] (VF/F-VF) set of five matching covers (using hotel stationery) canceled "MALMÖ 1 / * BREFP.*f.*" and addressed to the same hotel. These are not first day covers (issued 16 June 1928) and the reason for their creation is not known. However, they are a remarkably unusual set; in 53 years of specializing in this area I have never before had a set of such covers (or even a set of all five stamps on one cover). Furthermore, despite their modest catalog values, any type of cover bearing any of these five stamps is "quite unusual" and most postally used solo uses for correct postal rates are "very scarce". This set would be a terrific addition to a mini collection of Swedish semi-postal stamps and/or covers. ACTUAL item. |
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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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