264a/264 (Facit #259BC) [1938 15 öre Emanuel Swedenborg (theologian and scientist), pair with straight-edge on left side only] Used VF BC 4-BLOCK with 17 February 1938 cancellations (just a couple weeks after issue). One blunted perf on lower pair; otherwise excellent. Used BC/CB blocks are quite unusual! Priced only as two pairs.
ACTUAL item.
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90.00
248461
273a Imperforate on Right (Facit #261B-Right) [1938 5 öre New Sweden (Settler and Indian)] Used with Superb centering and September 1938 cancellation. Though this is a "hard to find, but not scarce" stamp, examples with such nice centering are "very scarce".
ACTUAL item.
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12.50
241024
273/273a (Facit #261CB) [1938 5 öre New Sweden (Settler and Indian), pair with straight-edge on right side only] Used VF CB 4-BLOCK with 30 October 1938 cancellations. Excellent quality, strong perforations. Used BC/CB blocks are quite unusual, especially these larger-format stamps. Priced only as two pairs.
ACTUAL item.
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90.00
248467
273a/273 (Facit #261BC) [1938 5 öre New Sweden (Settler and Indian), pair with straight-edge on left side only] Used BC PAIR with XF centering, lightly canceled. Very attractive example. The Used combination pairs are hard to find in such nice quality.
ACTUAL item.
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48.00
248468
273a/273 (Facit #261BC) [1938 5 öre New Sweden (Settler and Indian), pair with straight-edge on left side only] Used BC PAIR with XF centering, Superb-centered, but with some blunted perforations on the right side. Neat SPENSHULT 10 May 1938 village cancellations. Quite attractive example despite the perforations. Otherwise would be $55 for this quality and cancellation; the #273a single is in perfect quality.
ACTUAL item.
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12.00
248463
274a Imperforate on Right (Facit #262B-Right) [1938 15 öre New Sweden (Calmar Nyckel ship)] Used with Superb centering and neat ÖREBRO 6 May 1938 machine cancellation. Though this is a "hard to find, but not scarce" stamp, examples with such nice centering are "scarce".
ACTUAL item.
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8.50
248464
274a Imperforate on Left (Facit #262B-Left) [1938 15 öre New Sweden (Calmar Nyckel ship)] Used with Superb centering and neat cancellation. Though this is a "hard to find, but not scarce" stamp, examples with such nice centering are "scarce".
ACTUAL item.
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7.00
248466
274a Imperforate on Right (Facit #262B-Right) [1938 15 öre New Sweden (Calmar Nyckel ship)] Used with F-VF centering and neat, very well-centered, "PKP 410" 17 June 1938 RAILWAY cancellation. Though this is a "hard to find, but not scarce" stamp, examples with such nice cancellations -- and especially with railway cancellations -- are "scarce".
ACTUAL item.
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10.00
248470
274/274a (Facit #262CB) [1938 15 öre New Sweden (Kalmar Nyckel ship), pair with straight-edge on right side only] Used CB PAIR with VF centering and neat 23 May 1938 cancellation. A very attractive example of a SCARCE pair. This pair is so scarce in Used condition because most 15 öre single stamps were used for the domestic letter rate; a pair (30 öre) required either use on a foreign letter or a double-weight domestic letter.
ACTUAL item.
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90.00
244112
274a/274 (Facit #262BC) [1938 15 öre New Sweden (sailing ship Kalmar Nyckel), pair with straight-edge on left side only] NH BC Pair with XF centering. This is quite hard to find so well centered! A very popular thematic!
ACTUAL item.
278/278a (Facit #266CB) [1938 5 öre Gustaf V 80th Birthday, pair with straight-edge on right side only] NH CB pair with Superb centering. Wonderfully fresh. Quite scarce with perfect centering both around the whole pair and within the individual stamps.
ACTUAL item.
74.00
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244115
278/278a (Facit #266CB) [1938 5 öre Gustaf V 80th Birthday, pair with straight-edge on right side only] NH CB pair with VF centering. Bottom margin attached (thus had been mounted inverted in a booklet). The right side of the margin shows the a registration bar marking. This type of marking is called "regm" in specialized Facit listings, but this particular marking is not mentioned by Facit -- and I cannot recall previously having an example on this issue. A very attractive example of a scarce pair. Normally $59 without this unusual marginal marking.
ACTUAL item.
64.00
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244116
278/278a (Facit #266CB) [1938 5 öre Gustaf V 80th Birthday, pair with straight-edge on right side only] NH CB pair with VF centering. Wonderfully fresh.
ACTUAL item.
59.00
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244119
278a/278 (Facit #266BC) [1938 5 öre Gustaf V 80th Birthday, pair with straight-edge on left side only] NH BC pair with XF centering. Top margin attached (thus had been mounted upright in a booklet) -- NO extra cost for the margin. A very attractive example of a scarce pair -- especially scarce with such huge margins and nice centering!
ACTUAL item.
64.00
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244121
278a/278 (Facit #266BC) [1938 5 öre Gustaf V 80th Birthday, pair with straight-edge on left side only] NH BC pair with XF centering. A very attractive example of a scarce pair -- especially scarce with such huge margins and nice centering!
ACTUAL item.
64.00
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244126
278 Booklet COVER ONLY (Facit #266, H36) [1938 5 öre Gustaf V 80th Birthday] Booklet cover, with staple, but NO stamps. Logically creased at the binding line on the front cover. Panel text (in Swedish) about postal services and rates. Such booklet covers are often requested because they allow for display without the high cost of buying a booklet containing stamps. Keep in mind that the complete booklet containing stamps ranges in price from $100 (containing #278) to $400-500 (containing BC/CB pairs)!
ACTUAL item.
12.00
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244122
279/279a (Facit #267CB) [1938 15 öre Gustaf V 80th Birthday, pair with straight-edge on right side only] NH CB pair with XF centering. Top margin attached (thus had been mounted upright in a booklet) -- NO extra cost for the attached margin. A very attractive example of a very scarce pair. This pair is hard to find so well centered.
ACTUAL item.
119.00
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244124
279/279a (Facit #267CB) [1938 15 öre Gustaf V 80th Birthday, pair with straight-edge on right side only] NH CB pair with XF centering. A very attractive example of a very scarce pair. This pair is hard to find so well centered.
ACTUAL item.
119.00
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241038
292/292a (Facit #318CB) [1939 5 öre Per Erik Ling (founder of Swedish gymnastics), pair with straight-edge on right side only] NEVER HINGED Superb CB pair with jumbo margins. Outstanding example!
ACTUAL item.
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68.00
241037
292/292a (Facit #318CB) [1939 5 öre Per Erik Ling (founder of Swedish gymnastics), pair with straight-edge on right side only] Used Superb CB pair with neat, fully dated, 24 April 1939 cancellation. Outstanding example.
ACTUAL item.
292a/292 (Facit #318BC) [1939 5 öre Per Erik Ling (founder of Swedish gymnastics), pair with straight-edge on left side only] Used VF BC 4-BLOCK with neat cancellations. Excellent quality, strong perforations. Used BC/CB blocks are quite unusual. Priced only as two pairs.
ACTUAL item.
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90.00
241044
297/297a (Facit #320CB) [1939 10 öre Jöns Jacob Berzelius (chemist), pair with straight-edge on right side only] Used Superb CB pair with neat, round MALMÖ cancel and perfectly even margins on both stamps. Top margin from booklet mounting still attached and with half cylinder 1 marginal marking (does not increase price). Wonderful quality, strong perforations. Outstanding example.
ACTUAL item.
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325.00
241045
297/297a (Facit #320CB) [1939 10 öre Jöns Jacob Berzelius (chemist), pair with straight-edge on right side only] Used VF-XF CB pair with fairly light (very light on 297a) cancel and large margins. Excellent example of a very scarce pair.
ACTUAL item.
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285.00
241046
297a/297 (Facit #320BC) [1939 10 öre Jöns Jacob Berzelius (chemist), pair with straight-edge on left side only] NEVER HINGED VF BC pair. Wonderfully fresh and bright. Excellent example of a very scarce pair.
ACTUAL item.
235.00
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242276
297a/297 (Facit #320BC) [1939 10 öre Jöns Jacob Berzelius (chemist), pair with straight-edge on left side only] NEVER HINGED VF BC pair. Wonderfully fresh and bright. Excellent example of a very scarce pair.
ACTUAL item.
235.00
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241048
298/298a (Facit #321CB) [1938 15 öre Carl von Linne (botanist, taxonomist, writer), pair with straight-edge on right side only] Used XF CB 4-BLOCK with 6 June 1939 (issued on 2 June) MALMÖ cancellation. Excellent quality, strong perforations. Used BC/CB blocks are quite unusual. Priced only as two pairs. Scarce and sought after by many thematic collectors.
ACTUAL item.
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90.00
241049
298/298a (Facit #321CB) [1938 15 öre Carl von Linne (botanist, taxonomist, writer), pair with straight-edge on right side only] Used XF CB 4-BLOCK with 6 June 1939 (issued on 2 June) MALMÖ cancellation. Bottom margin example showing booklet mounting and complete cylinder 1 marginal marking -- the bottom margin mounting means that this was from an inverted-mounting booklet. Excellent quality, strong perforations. Used BC/CB blocks are quite unusual. Scarce and sought after by many thematic collectors. An outstanding item!
ACTUAL item.
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115.00
242519
298a/298 (Facit #321BC) [1938 15 öre Carl von Linné (botanist, taxonomist, writer), pair with straight-edge on left side only] Mint XF BC PAIR with reasonable hinge mark on the 298 and NH 298a (the scarcer stamp). Huge margins and remarkably nicely centered, with perfect perforations and great color. A scarce pair for which there is a space in virtually all European-made albums and also an important item for many thematic collections.
ACTUAL item.
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150.00
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241050
298a/298 (Facit #321BC) [1938 15 öre Carl von Linne (botanist, taxonomist, writer), pair with straight-edge on left side only] Used XF BC 4-BLOCK with 12 June 1939 (issued on 2 June) MALMÖ cancellation. Top margin example showing booklet mounting. Excellent quality, strong perforations. Used BC/CB blocks are quite unusual. Priced only as two pairs. Scarce and sought after by many thematic collectors.
ACTUAL item.
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90.00
244133
312a/312 (Facit #324BC) [1940 5 öre Carl Michael Bellman ("the master of Swedish songwriting"), pair with straight-edge on left side only] NH BC pair with XF centering. An excellent example, with great centering. This pair is usually not well centered. Hard to find so nice! Sought after for many thematic collections.
ACTUAL item.
Scott #313 BOOKLET PAIR [1941 15 öre Johan Tobias Sergel (artist and sculptor) Booklet Issue] Used with Superb centering both between the stamps (very unusual) and around the outer four sides of the pair. Neat, partial KARLSHAM(N) town cancellation. Though this is not scarce as a single stamp, attractive Used examples of the booklet pairs are remarkably hard to find.
ACTUAL item.
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8.00
401116
Scott #313 BOOKLET PAIR [1941 15 öre Johan Tobias Sergel (artist and sculptor) Booklet Issue] Used with XF centering both between the stamps (very unusual) and around the outer four sides of the pair. Neat, superbly centered, 14 February 1941 "KARLSKRONA 1 / * LBR *" town cancellation. The "LBR" is an abbreviation of lådbrev, a letter mailed in a letter box. This was stated in the cancellation because the post office did not want to be blamed for any delay in case the letter itself was dated before the date of the postmark, since the post office did not control when the letter was placed in the letter box. Though this is not scarce as a single stamp, attractive Used examples of the booklet pairs are remarkably hard to find. Such nicely canceled pairs are especially difficult to obtain.
ACTUAL item.
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14.00
401117
Scott #313 BOOKLET PAIR [1941 15 öre Johan Tobias Sergel (artist and sculptor) Booklet Issue] Used with Superb centering both between the stamps (very unusual) and around the outer four sides of the pair. Neat, partial 13 May 1941 NORR....E town cancellation. Though this is not scarce as a single stamp, attractive Used examples of the booklet pairs are remarkably hard to find.
ACTUAL item.
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8.00
401118
Scott #322 Light Blue, Facit #332cBB BOOKLET PAIR [1941 (1953 Printing) 5 kronor Stockholm Royal Palace Booklet Issue] Used with Superb centering both between the stamps (very unusual) and around the outer four sides of the pair. Crisp, partial 1953 town cancellation. The "BB" (booklet pairs with both stamps perforated on three sides) booklets were first issued 7 July 1953. Examples canceled in 1953 are remarkably scarce! 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.
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12.00
401120
Scott #322 Very Light Greenish Blue, Facit #332cBB BOOKLET PAIR [1941 (1953-1957 Printing) 5 kronor Stockholm Royal Palace Booklet Issue] Used with VF centering. Crisp, Superbly centered 6 June 1957 "STOCKHOLM 16" 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! The Facit Catalog numbers the 1953 (Dull) Light Blue printing as color "c" [for this printing, I do not agree with their word "Dull" in their color name] and the 1958 Dull Greenish Blue printing as color "d". However, as this 1957-canceled example demonstrates, there was ALSO a Very Light Greenish Blue color printed sometime in the 1953-1957 time period that either Facit does not list (or Facit should have used a 1957 year date instead of the 1958 year date for the their "d" color. Though this is common as a single stamp, attractive Used examples, without any defects, of the "BB" booklet pairs of THIS COLOR, CANCELED BEFORE the Facit-listed 1958 printing in Dull Greenish Blue, are remarkably hard to find.
ACTUAL item.
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8.50
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.
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7.00
241057
322a/322 (Facit #332CB) [1941 5 kr blue Stockholm Palace, pair with straight-edge on right side only] CB 4-BLOCK, Used with Superb centering and ESKILTUNA cancellations. Correct greenish-blue color of the early printings. This example came off packages of ball bearings sent by airmail in 1941-1942 from Sweden to the Ford Motor Company in the U.S., for military production -- would have to have been sent on the dangerous secret night flights from Stockholm to Scotland and then onward by clipper flying boats to the U.S. [see the book Blockade Runners]. One of the key BC/CB pair issues -- such nice centering is quite scarce! Attractive and completely sound in all respects. Blocks of this BC/CB issue are scarce because most of the heavy packages they were on (or on parcel cards) received very rough treatment. Priced at only the value of two Superb pairs.
ACTUAL item.
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490.00
241056
322a/322 (Facit #332CB) [1941 5 kr blue Stockholm Palace, pair with straight-edge on right side only] CB pair, Used with VF centering and ESKILTUNA cancellations. Correct greenish-blue color of the early printings. This example came off packages of ball bearings sent by airmail in 1941-1942 from Sweden to the Ford Motor Company in the U.S., for military production -- would have to have been sent on the dangerous secret night flights from Stockholm to Scotland and then onward by clipper flying boats to the U.S. [see the book Blockade Runners]. One of the key BC/CB pair issues. Attractive.
ACTUAL item.
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210.00
241058
322a/322 (Facit #332CB) [1941 5 kr blue Stockholm Palace, pair with straight-edge on right side only] CB pair, Used with Superb centering and ESKILTUNA cancellations, but with light bends (hard to see). Correct greenish-blue color of the early printings. This example came off packages of ball bearings sent by airmail in 1941-1942 from Sweden to the Ford Motor Company in the U.S., for military production -- would have to have been sent on the dangerous secret night flights from Stockholm to Scotland and then onward by clipper flying boats to the U.S. [see the book Blockade Runners]. One of the key BC/CB pair issues -- such nice centering is quite scarce! Otherwise would be $245 for this centering.
ACTUAL item.
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59.00
241059
322a/322 (Facit #332CB) [1941 5 kr blue Stockholm Palace, pair with straight-edge on right side only] CB 10-BLOCK (THE COMPLETE BOOKLET PANE, w/o selvage), Used with VF/XF centering and ESKILTUNA cancellations, but with bends and a couple shorter perforations. Correct greenish-blue color of the early printings. This example came off packages of ball bearings sent by airmail in 1941-1942 from Sweden to the Ford Motor Company in the U.S., for military production -- would have to have been sent on the dangerous secret night flights from Stockholm to Scotland and then onward by clipper flying boats to the U.S. [see the book Blockade Runners]. One of the key BC/CB pair issues -- such nice centering is quite scarce! Attractive and completely sound in all respects. Such large blocks of this BC/CB issue are extremely scarce because most of the heavy packages they were on (or on parcel cards) received very rough treatment. While it may not be obvious, stamps like these helped win WWII.
ACTUAL item.
Scott #323 BOOKLET PAIR [1941 5 öre Artur Hazelius (founder of Nordic Museum and Skansen) Booklet Issue] Used F-VF booklet pair with "perfectly" centered, fully dated 31 November 1941 T(ING)SLUNDA town cancellation. This is a "fairly scarce" town cancellation. Though three letters are not visible, this is the only possibility that it could be given the letters that are present and the spacing. Though this is not scarce as a single stamp, attractive Used examples of the booklet pairs are remarkably hard to find.
ACTUAL item.
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7.50
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.
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12.00
401121
Scott #326 BOOKLET PAIR [1941 15 öre Sancta Birgitta (Saint Bridget) Booklet Issue] Used with VF centering. Neat, very light, but clearly dated 21 February 1942 town cancellation of Postmark Type 14 [dotted circle] that appears to be VAREKIL (a scarcer small town). Building a specialized collection of the Postmark Type 14 cancellations (i.e. with dotted circle) would be both challenging and rewarding. I do not know of any such collections, thus one might have field all to themself. Though this is not scarce as a single stamp, attractive Used examples of the booklet pairs are remarkably hard to find!
ACTUAL item.
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10.00
401123
Scott #326 BOOKLET PAIR [1941 15 öre Sancta Birgitta (Saint Bridget) Booklet Issue] Used with F-VF+ centering with neatly struck cancellation (of a type appropriate to the time period) to the side. Though this is not scarce as a single stamp, attractive Used examples of the booklet pairs are remarkably hard to find!
ACTUAL item.
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7.00
238788
1941 Sancta Birgitta / St. Bridget Test Stamp: Defaced "mother die" showing complete design as issued except the denomination area is a white square and a large X has been engraved over the center of the stamp. I have only recorded in the brown issued stamp color and only on booklet stamps. Believed to have been used as a test stamp to perfect the production techniques for this new stamp size/format. Extremely scarce and seldom offered. NH Superb bottom margin single. Perfect!
ACTUAL item.
325.00
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238789
1941 Sancta Birgitta / St. Bridget Test Stamp: Defaced "mother die" showing complete design as issued except the denomination area is a white square and a large X has been engraved over the center of the stamp. I have only recorded in the brown issued stamp color and only on booklet stamps. Believed to have been used as a test stamp to perfect the production techniques for this new stamp size/format. Extremely scarce and seldom offered. NH VF bottom margin single. Excellent!
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