FINLAND Price List #75F
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FINLAND Price List #75f Includes “Basic” Stamps, Gallery, Bargain Stamps, Covers, Cancellations, Specialized Stamps, Booklet Panes, Year Packs, Year Books, Mini Sheets, Plate Blocks, Proofs, Karelia Stamps and Covers, North Ingermanland Stamps and Forgeries Jay Smith & Associates P.O. Box 650 Snow Camp, NC 27349 www.JaySmith.com [email protected] $5 1-800-447-8267 (336-376-9991) Jay Smith & Associates Ordering P.O. Box 650 Information Snow Camp, NC 27349-0650 USA Toll Free Phone: 1-800-447-8267 (U.S. & Canada) www.JaySmith.com Others Phone: 336-376-9991 – Fax: 336-376-6750 email: [email protected] Place Your Order Today Payment Plans are Available Email, Phone, Fax, & Mail Orders Welcome If you wish to purchase any item (or selection) for which Mail your order in the enclosed envelope or phone toll-free from making payments would be more convenient, interest-free US and Canada 1-800-447-8267 (outside US and Canada call payments plans are available (subject to credit approval). 336-376-9991). You may fax your order to my 24-hour fax: 336- If you need to make a return... 376-6750. You may email your order to [email protected] For your protection, valuable returns should be sent by Insured or (to pay by VISA or MasterCard use my secure website at: Registered mail, with full value declared. Whomever places an item secure.JaySmith.com). If I am not able to fill your order in the mails is responsible for it until it is successfully received. completely, you will receive a prompt refund check. If you would prefer to receive credit for future orders, please advise, and I We also buy will gladly maintain a credit for you. We are interested in buying Scandinavian philatelic material Authenticity & Your Satisfaction is Guaranteed including collections, single items, and accumulations. Rarities, covers, and “unusual” material are especially needed. When Unless specifically stated, you may return anything, within ten sending material, please use registered mail and include your days of receipt, for exchange, credit, or full refund. My asking price. Your offer will receive Jay’s personal attention. exclusive money-back lifetime guarantee assures to the purchaser every item is genuine & as described. Abbreviations, Quality, and Condition Approvals are Available Superb: Perfectly centered. VF: Very Fine (very well centered with almost equal margins; You may view any item on approval (subject to credit approval). will please the most discriminating collector). Your want list is welcome for any Scandinavian material F-VF+: Fine to Very Fine Plus (middle range between VF and F-VF). whether or not it is listed in this price list. F-VF: Fine to Very Fine (a middle range between Fine and VF Please List Your Alternate Choices with 2 opposite equal margins). Many of the stamps in this catalog are one of a kind. To avoid dis- Fine+: Fine Plus (perforations well clear of the design; a appointment, please include alternates with your order. Alternates middle range between F-VF and Fine). will be sent only if something you have ordered is sold out. Fine: (perforations clear the design). Ave: Average (perforations touch or cut the design). Postage and Handling SD: Slightly Damaged (a presentable copy, but may have a thin, To help offset some of the cost of handling, please include: crease, pulled perf, etc.). Stamp/Cover orders: $0.01 – $10.00 $4.00 NH: Never Hinged Original Gum, Unmounted, Postfrisk. $10.01 – $20.00 $3.00 Mint: Stamps have original gum, but are hinged. $20.01 – $40.00 $2.00 LH: Lightly Hinged. OG: Original Gum. Over $40.00 Postpaid NG: No Gum. RG: Regummed. Book orders: within the US $3.00 pp: Pulled perforation. FDC: First day cover. Album orders: postage varies by weight & location Covers will show signs of wear normal for passage through the mails. Clients desiring Registered mail should add $10.00. Postage additional outside the U.S. Terms Prices are in U.S. dollars. Checks, drafts, money orders, and Visa or MasterCard (in U.S. dollars) are welcome. Cash or stamps are sent at risk of sender. Credit for your duplicates or unneeded stamps can be arranged (please describe). Full gum VISA and MasterCard are welcome. U.S. postage can sometimes be accepted at some percentage of Please supply your complete card number and face value (please inquire). North Carolina residents please add expiration date. Payments for large purchases can 6.75% sales tax. Every effort will be made to honor these prices be billed to your credit card on a monthly basis (ask). until the next catalog is issued, however, prices are subject to Secure website: secure.JaySmith.com change without notice. Not responsible for typographical errors. Superb VF F-VF+ F-VF Fine+ Fine Ave Finland Gallery Finland Gallery: Select Stamps Finland Item # Description Price NH Mint Used Item # Description Price NH Mint Used sults.... Use a 10x magnifying glass and look AT 24 February 1882 arc-style cancellation. The dat- Gallery the paper, not through it. Use oblique (low-angle) ing is significant because it positively confirms the A selection of especially interesting seldom-of- lighting and look across the stamp surface, from identification as the first printing from the Charta fered items in particularly nice quality. All are side to side.] This example has clear ribbing. Stamp Office. Even more exceptional, the STAMP available for approval viewing. Scott numbers .... --- --- --- 70.00 HAS NOT BEEN SOAKED and has some enve- have been used unless otherwise mentioned. 232812 12 [5p Laid Paper, Roulette III] Mint no lope remains on the reverse, thus the aniline (wa- Showcase gum (as usual). Attractive centering. Couple teeth ter soluble!) color appears exactly as it was missing and a couple others creased, as usual. originally printed. It is rare to find used examples Item # Description Used Nice, fresh looking example. of the aniline colors that have never been changed 218460 Scott #10f variety, Facit 9IIv1C4a Carmine .... --- --- 190.00 --- by soaking. A wonderful example that is much [40 pen ROULETTE IV, STAMP TYPE II] Used 236014 13b [1866 10 penni Roulette I, Laid Paper] more significant than it first appears. with VF+ appearance and nearly FULL TEETH; Used VF with full, even margins and neat, light, .... --- --- --- 50.00 only a couple of tooth tips missing. Examples of well-centered ALAVO cancellation and bright col- 237539 29 Aniline Red [1882 25 Red penni 4-Nu- Roulette IV are rare; examples with completely or. Looks like full teeth, but two perf tips may have meral, Perf 12.5] Used F-VF with VF centered perfect teeth may not be known (Finnish expert been reattached. Much, much nicer than usually BLUE 2-ring LEMPO(IS) [day/month not present Kaj Hellman once commented that this example seen. Scarce stamp. --- --- --- 245.00 in device] 1884 cancellation, with tiny part of sec- may be the nicest in existence): Facit prices full 238718 19a Bright Yellow Green [1875 8 penni 4- ond strike. Very attractive with nice contrasting teeth, but Norma does not. However, this example Numeral, Perf 11] Mint with Superb centering colors. --- --- --- 14.00 is STAMP TYPE II (cut in right side of bottom of and huge margins, but no gum. A beautiful exam- 238561 29f, Facit 17SeeC4 [1881 25 penni Dull Car- crown; see Facit) which makes it a major rarity; ple of a color that is very scarce with nice centering mine 4-Numerals, COMPOUND PERF 12.5 x 11] both Facit and Norma indicate that the price of a and large margins. Very scarce color with gum, but Used with Superb centering, but minor mucilage Stamp Type II example (of even the most common would fetch $450 with this centering. mark on reverse from mounting in an ancient al- roulette) should be tripled! In addition to the .... --- --- 180.00 --- bum (does not affect the appearance from the overall excellent quality, it has a full NYSLOTT 237535 21 [1875 20 penni Ultramarine 4-Numeral, front). Neat 2-ring BJORNEBO(RG) 18 July 1882 June 1867 cancellation. Accompanied by a 1991 Perf 11] Used F-VF with sharp RAILWAY “42” cancellation. An beautiful example of a very sel- Mikko Ossa certificate stating, in his typical ex- 1870s cancellation. Attractive. dom-offered stamp that is missing from the vast tremely strict and blunt fashion, that “The stamp .... --- --- --- 7.50 majority of collections. has short teeth and some teeth have breaks [i.e. 238313 Finland Scott #22 Carmine [1879 25 penni .... --- --- --- 125.00 creases on teeth]. The stamp is not repaired.” perf 11] Used with F-VF centering and bearing VF 238560 29f, Facit 17SeeC4 [1881 25 penni Dull Car- However, it is obvious from the appearance of the (sideways) SWEDISH 6 September 1881 “STOCK- mine 4-Numerals, COMPOUND PERF 12.5 x 11] stamp that the quality is much nicer than that de- HOLM K.E.” incoming ship mail cancellation. A Used with Fine centering. Neat 2-ring scription suggests. The stamp was in the “Michi- very nice example! --- --- --- 24.00 (B)JORNE(BORG) 26 July (most certainly 1882; gan” collection built by an American who lived in cannot be earlier) cancellation. An excellent exam- Finland in the 1950s-60s; he obtained many of his 238562 23 Deep Red [1875 32 penni 4-Numerals, Perf 11] Used Superb centered, but with mucilage ple of a very seldom-offered stamp that is missing stamps from such eminent Finnish philatelists as from the vast majority of collections. E.A. Hellman. I acquired the stamp in 1991 and mark on reverse from mounting in an ancient al- bum (does not affect appearance on the front). .... --- --- --- 145.00 have since sold it twice and then repurchased the 238316 31 [1885 5 penni green 4-Numerals] Used entire collections of the clients to whom I sold it.