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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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".
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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".
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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195.00
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!
ACTUAL item.