| Select Stamps - 1920-1921 Gustav V Full Face, Gustav I Adolf, Gustav Vasa |  Top |
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243740 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
141 [1920 20 öre Gustav V Full Face, Coil] NEVER HINGED with F-VF centering for this issue. Very fresh and with excellent perforations. Facit 2022 value for NH is SEK 1000 for the least costly paper/color! ACTUAL item. |
69.00 |
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249488 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
142 [1920 10 öre Gustav V Full Face, Sheet Stamp] Mint, lightly hinged, with F-VF centering. Wonderful color, excellent perforations, and nice centering for this difficult issue. ACTUAL item. |
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8.00 |
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249490 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
143 KPV WATERMARK, Facit #151C-Bz [1920 20 öre Gustav V Full Face, Sheet Stamp] NEVER HINGED with typical Fine centering. Pristine gum, wonderful color, and just one blunted perforation tooth (this issue usually has poor perforations). As fresh as the day it was issued. Very clear letters watermark, visible without fluid. Facit Classic 2024 value SEK 1800 for NH. Seldom offered in NH condition. ACTUAL item. |
95.00 |
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249491 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
143 KPV WATERMARK, Facit #151C-Bz [1920 20 öre Gustav V Full Face, Sheet Stamp] Mint, lightly hinged, with typical Fine centering. Pristine gum (lightly hinged), wonderful color, and perfect perforations (this issue usually has poor perforations). Other than the light hinge mark, as fresh as the day it was issued. Very clear letters watermark, visible without fluid. Facit Classic 2024 value SEK 400 for Mint Hinged, but such fresh examples are hard to find. ACTUAL item. |
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39.00 |
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249497 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
143 KPV WATERMARK, Ulmarish Dark Blue Facit #151Cg-Bz [1920 20 öre Gustav V Full Face, Sheet Stamp] Used with XF-Superb centering and light cancellation, but with a couple blunted perforation teeth (very typical). This is one of the two colors that exist with the KPV watermark; Facit Classic 2024 value SEK 550. An very attractive example of a stamp that is usually very poorly centered and usually has poor perforations. ACTUAL item. |
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44.00 |
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249495 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
143 KPV WATERMARK, Dull Dark Blue Facit #151Cd-Bz [1920 20 öre Gustav V Full Face, Sheet Stamp] Used with F-VF+ centering, a neat MALMÖ 6 April 1921 cancellation, and excellent perforations. This is the scarcer of the two colors that exist with the KPV watermark; Facit Classic 2024 value SEK 600. A very nice example of a stamp that is usually very poorly centered and usually has poor perforations. It is hard to find examples this nice. ACTUAL item. |
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49.00 |
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244005 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
165, Facit #152A cx [1920 20 öre Gustav II Adolf, Coil, Wavy-Line Watermark] Used with F-VF centering and light cancellation, but one shorter perforation tooth (typical for this issue). This stamp is surprisingly hard to find and is missing from many collections (or has the unwatermarked stamp in its place). (Facit 2021 value SEK 400 = approx US$48 9/2021.) ACTUAL item. |
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33.00 |
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245914 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
165 (Facit #152h-Cx) [1920 Gustaf II Adolf, Coil, Watermarked Wavy-Lines] Used with F-VF centering and with typical perforations for the issue. Very neat, light cancellation. An attractive example of a stamp that can be quite hard to find. Facit 2022 value SEK 400 for normal quality such as this. ACTUAL item. |
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45.00 |
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244006 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
165 + KPV Watermark, Facit #152A cxz [1920 20 öre Gustav II Adolf, Coil, Wavy-Line + KPV Watermark] Used with XF-Superb centering and neat cancellation, but one shorter perforation tooth (typical for this issue). Typical small part of letter watermark showing. This stamp is scarce and is missing even from many specialized collections (or has the wrong stamp in its place). This is an unusually nice example of a stamp that is quite hard to find! (Facit 2021 value SEK 2500 = approx US$300 9/2021.) ACTUAL item. |
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229.00 |
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401832 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #195, Facit #154a on B Paper [1921 110 öre Gustav Vasa] Mint, Original Gum, Lightly Hinged, with F-VF centering COIL PAIR WITH BACK NUMBER "18" on the right stamp (left as viewed from reverse). A very fresh and attractive pair with bright color, crisp detailed engraving impression, and "perfect" perforations (quite unusual). Back numbers are remarkably unusual on the 1920-1936 "bandmärken" stamps. Furthermore their purpose and their production is very little known even by specialized Swedish collectors. In "Postage Stamps of Sweden 1920-1945" [English edition; a Swedish edition was also produced] by Georg Menzinsky and published as "Postal Museum Communication No 23" by the Swedish post office, all aspects of the production process of the 1920-1945 stamps is discussed. Working for the post office, Menzinsky was probably the most well-informed author on this subject. Menzinsky wrote regarding coil stamps: "After the perforating process, the stamps are examined and counted on the control table. The web is then cut up, [unclear if only cut by length or also cut into coil strips at this point in the process] and sheets of paper s.c. [so-called] banderols, usually of the same color as stamp [ink] and specially gummed in advance, are affixed between every 100th, 500th, or 1,000th stamp. These strips show the value [denomination] of the stamp, the value of the [entire] coil and the number of stamps in the roll. If coils of 500 are to be manufactured, the printed web of stamps passes over a control roller fitted with a small printing plant [numbering machine(s)] which prints control figures on the gummed side of the stamp. A star is stamped on the first one, the figure 2 on the 20th, the figure 4 on the 40th and so on up to the figure 50 on the last [500th] stamp." From this I surmise that the rolls of 100 were produced for retail sale to individuals and small companies; that the rolls of 500 were produced for distribution to postal clerks (who had to do very frequent inventory of their unsold stamps, thus they used the back numbers to know how many stamps remained on that roll); and that the rolls of 1000 were produced for large mailers (who used machines to apply stamps to envelopes), operators of stamp vending machines (who likely re-rolled to fit their machines), and perhaps [?] for the philatelic sales office (which needed to fill large numbers of orders for various quantities of stamps.) Since, according to Menzinsky, only the 500-stamp roll size received back numbers, and according to my surmisation that individuals were probably sold 100-stamp rolls and thus were not likely to have received back-numbered stamps since only the 500-stamp rolls received back numbers, this goes a long way toward explaining why the back-numbered stamps are so seldom seen. Stamps bought in rolls by individuals were likely to mostly have been applied to envelopes. And since the back number was on top of the gum, the back number likely did not survive soaking a stamp off an envelope. Any types of production varieties and special items relating to the 3-stamp Gustav Vasa issue are very unusual and sought after. Ordinary single examples (without back number) of this stamp, with this centering, sell for around $30 per stamp. ACTUAL item. |
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