Norway: Stamps

To Philatelia

It took me many years to build up a collection. Lucky to be in a good job with decent salary and no kids! I used to buy from the main auction houses in the Nordic countries and a few UK based. One local collector also helped me out and showed me some great stamps. But the main inspiration was my dad, he had a decent Norway collection which I inherited. But to this day I don't know why he collected Norwegian stamps and never will. I just guess he loved the design and how beautiful the stamps are. I still have the Norway number one with 48 Drammen postmark which he wasn't sure was original, but I am. So I added to his collection and then found the fascination of the early issues. Norway is a great country to collect especially the early ones and for me the Oscar issues are simply the best. Not only a lovely stamp to look at, but many lovely postmarks to collect, town, numeral, manuscript, ship and so on. The covers are also fascinating and for me pairs, strips and blocks the main interest. Thanks for your interest.

Regards Graham

thegubman - I repeat what was said before - Holy macaroni!!! I am blown away by your most extensive collection of Norway Classics. Very attractive examples of the double foot and broken cliche varieties, even duplicated. And the blocks of four and stripes are simply amazing. Most inspiring, would love to try to copy your achievements, but realize I will never be in a position to get anywhere near that level. Thanks for sharing!!!

Interesting comparison, and obvious similarities between the Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian. The good Mr Batz had something going 😊

I've also been perplexed by the 'copycat' on Crete. Your explanation is as good as any, I have no idea myself. Quite remarkable anyway.

Not as with Crete, but this 1876/77 stamp looks very much like the Norwegian one:

Very nice Tobben! Really sweet '48' numeral postmark from Drammen.

The colour seems very reddish on my screen. Isn't this supposed to be yellow-orange? On my screen your looks more like red-orange, so you might have got yourself an unusual shade 😊

I see orange.

Lovely stamps Tobben63. You do get colour variations from a pale yellow (faded) to an orange yellow. Nice to have a matching pair. Cheers Graham

The lats year's I have been putting all the "Posthorn" stamps that came my way into a 16pages stock book. I had now come to the point that two stock book's where filled up. So on Thursday I decided to clean them up and start sorting. I guess there must be more than 1000, but I'm not going to count them. 

I had to split this i two soaking operations (because of the number of stamps). I put some neutral dish washing liquid in a tray and then dump the stamps in. All where more or less of paper, but there was lot of remains of old hinges, and paper and dirt. 



After an hour in the water, the water did not look like this. (I did't take any photo of that). Then I rinse trough 8-10 times to the soap and dirt was out. Dried them in two drying books sorted them roughly. I guess I will use the rest of the weekend to fine sort them ant type them using Norgeskatalogen (special catalog from Norway).

Ok, job is done. 
And as the statistic nerd I'm I could not resit making a spread sheet to register what I was doing. It has catalog numbers from 7 catalogs at most, and the catalog value from Michel 2017.
First of all, her are the stats:


I sorted them on small black cards, will put them in albums and duplicate stock book later.



If you are a nerd you might like to see how much of what and so on, here you have two images of the spread sheet.

I only do this for this job, for the fun of it.
I keep track of what I have and want on Colnect.

[Posted by former member dennisinnorway]

That's a beautiful cover! 

To fill in some details regarding these stamps... there is a set of 3 "charity" stamps pushed out by the German occupation showing ships sunk by allied forces!  They were in fact used as propaganda against King Håkan VII because in addition to the German soldiers killed in the sinking there were also a good amount of Norwegian civilians...

10 + 10 øre:D/S Barøy
Was set to assist in the transportation of released German prisoners of war from the Norwegian prisoner of war camp on the island of Skorpa in Kvænangen, Troms.
Sunk by torpedo.


15 + 10 øre: D/S Sanct Svithun
A complement of passengers consisted of both Norwegian civilians and German military personnel. Although a civilian ship on a regular cargo and passenger route she had German anti-aircraft artillery on board and these guns were always manned by German soldiers. attacked by Canadian fighters based in England. Sunk after fire and damage from air force attack.


20 + 10 D/S Irma
Attacked, torpedoed and sunk by Allied submarines  Feb.  1944.

A fantastic bit of stamp history!

I see a few with starting prices well below the $65.00 US on eBay. One with salvage edge is accepting offers and is listed at 42.00 

hdm1950 and djcmh, thank you for your responses. I am checking out your links.
I need to add in this case I have a $50 EBay gift card I received as a result of an award I received from work. so, I am either going to use it on this or something else philatelic.
as of this morning, I have not yet seen a reply from the dealer, but it is early.


BOB

I realized I have not followed up, on this. the next day, I decided to make an offer for $45 one more time. This time it was accepted. The stamp has been shipped, and I am eagerly awaiting it's arrival.