Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 24, 2016 17:58:46 GMT
And here are the early Sweden official stamps, which I like very much. I never had any of these prior to acquiring that early Sweden collection, and I was really pleased that these were included in the lot. These are also a challenge to find with good centering, so I was happy that more than half of these were pretty nicely centered.
I don't know too much about these stamps. Mark, do you collect the back-of-the-book Sweden, too? If so, I would love to see your collection and hear your comments.
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madbaker
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Post by madbaker on Dec 25, 2016 15:08:43 GMT
Beryllium Guy: Thanks for the compliment. And thanks for sharing your pages too!  Even though I'm moving much of my WW collection to Steiner pages, the issue of "unfillable" blank spaces is one I deal with too. Although it's not error stamps in my case, it's just the really expensive ones! If you fill the rest of the page, I'd be tempted to put something in the space, with an appropriate note behind. Fill in those cracks, so to speak. That's a pretty wide album page you have. Very attractive. Is the album fast bound or loose leaf? Mark
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 25, 2016 16:18:22 GMT
Thanks for your nice reply, Mark, and merry Christmas to you!
I am using the old brown cover Scott International albums. The page sizes are essentially the same as the current blue cover Scott International albums, but they have spaces for all regular catalogue numbered stamps. The blue cover Scott Int'l does not have spaces for all stamps and tends to exclude the really expensive ones and doesn't worry about watermarks and perf differences.
There are some definite upsides to that approach! But in the end, I decided on the brown cover albums (no longer in print, by the way) because I like to collect complete sets, even if it means I need to get some pricey stamps. That's part of the challenge for me, and I have been lucky to get some high SCV stamps at low prices by spending my time looking through unsorted mixtures and old collections. Those sorts of bargains are out there if you can spend the time.
My brown cover albums are hard-bound rather than loose-leaf. I think my set was printed in the 1930s. I think Scott stopped making these and started doing their Specialty Series sometime in the 1940s. There are probably others on TSF who know more about the details than I do. I got started with Scott albums because my first album was a Scott, and my Dad always used Scott albums, too.
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madbaker
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Post by madbaker on Dec 26, 2016 14:54:24 GMT
... Those sorts of bargains are out there if you can spend the time.... Yup. I'm a sucker for the box lot, the job lot, the feeder collection, etc. I have a plug in my system at the "get rid of duplicates" stage but don't we all. |
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 26, 2016 16:03:57 GMT
I agree, Mark! And getting rid of duplicates is one of my missions for 2017.
You previously mentioned that you bid on auction lots to get some of your material. One thing I have started doing is: rather than bid against others in auctions, I wait until the auction is over, and then I buy from the unsold lots instead.
That way there is no competition, and sometimes the seller will even lower the price just to move the material. I can tell you about one specific company with which I have had good luck if you are interested. I got my early Sweden stamps that way....
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 26, 2016 16:11:46 GMT
I don't know too much about these stamps. Mark, do you collect the back-of-the-book Sweden, too? If so, I would love to see your collection and hear your comments. Mark, any comments about the early official stamps from Sweden? Do you know much about them? A lot of the catalogue value in the lot which I got was in some of these issues, but I know very little about them. |
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renden
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Post by renden on Sept 22, 2018 20:20:14 GMT
I am posting a booklet I found in my UPU 1974 (100th Anniversary) stash - Scott 2009 standard catalogue does give info on it as well as the individual stamps I have (# 1084-1085 individual)(1085a for the booklet pane).... shown here. Hope you like it. On cover it mentions UPU 100 ar Vallor 75 ORE PRIS 7:50 with tthe UPU logo René ....after a few trials of scanning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 22, 2018 22:13:43 GMT
My personal favourites from Sweden are the Nobel Prize winner series from the 60's. I don't quite have everything, though, still looking...  |
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Mar 5, 2019 18:04:05 GMT
Nice postings @nl1947. I have several of these Bandmerker (coil stamps) and did for many years ago set them up and cataloged them. But I need to go over that and maybe add some more the have come to me when "hording". I have this litle Danish book describing them. And of course I have Facit catalogue.  |
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Apr 2, 2019 19:37:09 GMT
I did get this today. Still missing some of the low face value long 14 perf stamps. They are expensive! Michel SE D13 Stamp Number SE O27 Yvert et Tellier SE S14 Stanley Gibbons SE O43 AFA number SE D13 Postmark GØTEBORG 8-2-1890  |
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 2, 2019 23:53:09 GMT
Postmark GØTEBORG 8-2-1890 It looks like 18-2-1890 to me... |
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Post by tobben63 on Apr 3, 2019 4:26:41 GMT
Postmark GØTEBORG 8-2-1890 It looks like 18-2-1890 to me... yes Peter, it looks like that but it is not like that 😊 The date is written vertically with 8 over 2. The year is written horizontal, first 18 then 90. Between 18 and 90 the number 2 from the date comes. So it could look a bit odd, but thats the way theese postmarks are designed. |
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 3, 2019 12:42:29 GMT
yes Peter, it looks like that but it is not like that 😊 The date is written vertically with 8 over 2. The year is written horizontal, first 18 then 90. Between 18 and 90 the number 2 from the date comes. So it could look a bit odd, but thats the way theese postmarks are designed. That's a weird way of dating! |
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Jul 22, 2019 14:09:36 GMT
Allow me a long one. This I had to buy. This cover connects my two favorite places in Sweden, the northern town of Gävle and the village of Gysinge, about 35 miles southwest. The letter, from 1874, shows someone in Gysinge had business with PC Rettig. What was going on? A little checking and voila: back then PC Rettig was a major player in the Swedish tobacco business, later diversifying into related fields like railroads and shipping. In 1874, when this letter was sent, it was still concentrated in tobacco. In all likelihood, someone in Gysinge was selling tobacco to PC Rettig. A Gysinge farmer was betting on the latest trend.
The idea of Sweden as a tobacco producer seems odd today. Back then transportation costs were prohibitive, and raw materials especially had to be gathered close to home. One of the stranger sights in the Swedish countryside today is disused tobacco barns, sometimes towering wooden behemoths that no one can bear to rip down. In Steninge, an especially big one has been turned into a concert space. I guess that’s the best one can hope for.
Still family-owned, PC Rettig & Co AB long ago moved to Stockholm. It diversified out of tobacco in the 1990s. Today it invests in real estate and securities, and owns most of the steam ships flitting around the Stockholm archipelago. Gävle switched its economy from tobacco and shipping to coffee, paper and administration. It’s doing quite nicely. Gysinge hasn’t fared as well. Its population crashed during the urbanization of the mid-twentieth century. Today it is as cute as ever, home to about 135. 
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Sept 23, 2019 13:27:07 GMT
Sorry to blip off mysteriously for a while. I’m still around. A couple weeks ago I bought a painting. Add that to the list of collecting killers like divorce, bankruptcy and illness. I’m still rather stunned—the painting is extraordinary—and now I am appalled at the thought of banging out the cash for so much as an extra toothpick. I’ll recover.
Here is one that came through just before, an 1866 Gävle F12f. You immediately see the arc of an overlapping cancel. That detail always gives me a tickle, even if the auctions say it hurts. Let my mystified heirs deal with that.
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Oct 16, 2019 16:35:47 GMT
My entertainment from postal history is matching clues to snippets of biography. Sometimes the stories are known. Most must be imagined. I try to apply Occam's Razor; fit the simplest plausible tale to the evidence. It's not reproducible science. As the critics never tire of reminding, all biography is invention.
This was brought to mind by a cover from Britain to Sweden in October 1949. Stamped 15 öre due, changed in red pencil to 10 öre, and topped off with a F274 regular Gustav V. Exuberant British back stamp. Postage due upset the universe, let there be no doubt.
Also a little mysterious. What might connect an unknown sender in a British regional town to a Swedish Miss in another regional town? There is no return address, no contents. Trying hard, there are some clues: the English title, abbreviated first name, and feminine handwriting. Until you come up with something better, my guess; Miss J. Ahlberg was applying for an au pair job. I feel for her, stuck with postage due. It would be cruel to send a bill and turn her down. I hope she got it.
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renden
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Post by renden on Dec 5, 2019 19:40:57 GMT
SVERIGE FDCA nice Mar 24 1983 FDC from Sweden to add to the World FDC collection 
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renden
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Post by renden on Dec 5, 2019 22:00:44 GMT
tomiseksj Here is yet another photo bucket problem thread! not with my cover ! René |
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Post by TSF Admin on Dec 5, 2019 22:08:45 GMT
At some point I'll find the time to replace those images (and others). The posts made by former member Falshung have been removed from this thread as they no longer add value, absent their images. If members find other threads with blurred Photobucket images, please send me a link to the thread(s) in a forum PM.
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Post by nikhil on Dec 6, 2019 4:20:28 GMT
At some point I'll find the time to replace those images (and others). The posts made by former member Falshung have been removed from this thread as they no longer add value, absent their images. If members find other threads with blurred Photobucket images, please send me a link to the thread(s) in a forum PM. Can his images be replaced using the wayback machine? |
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Many of the individual pages of the forum (such as this one) haven't been been archived.
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 24, 2020 22:58:43 GMT
kasvikI just remember that I have this in my collection. 
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Jan 25, 2020 22:09:06 GMT
kasvik I just remember that I have this in my collection. |
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 26, 2020 4:49:33 GMT
Yes I can see it's not perfectly round. Then it is not the same 'Cancel' that you have in your avatar? Or has it been fixed?
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Jan 26, 2020 5:41:00 GMT
Yes I can see it's not perfectly round. Then it is not the same 'Cancel' that you have in your avatar? Or has it been fixed? |
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Mar 2, 2020 20:26:56 GMT
Here's a Swedish PANV cancel (postanvisning = money order) on a Posthorn from 1926. Not rare, but nice. Too cheap for comfort on Tradera at SEK 18 (Two dollars? Gack) plus more than that for postage to the US. At that price I could brag to my wife. If you can be open about your hobby, what's the point? Tradera.com is the place for Swedish stamps, everything is there but the extreme unaffordable totally irrelevant top.
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Mar 3, 2020 7:51:24 GMT
kasvik - Nice find, both the lovely postmark and the added interest of the vertical line in left margin. Well worth the $2 
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 13, 2020 16:08:09 GMT
A post on the Number One threads "made me" go look and see if I had anything- not a lot , and more modern, but below is my oldest (1880's) and then what appears to be around WWI- I'm thinking I do not have enough to add Sweden in with my other somewhat random decisions to collect a country (any country)  |
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madbaker
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Post by madbaker on Apr 13, 2020 16:17:59 GMT
Nice scan stainlessb, those Oscar stamps might well be my favourite issue. |
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Apr 13, 2020 17:24:20 GMT
I agree with you madbaker - the Oscar issue is plain beautiful! stainlessb - that's a nice selection, and a good start. I hope you decide to include Sweden in your sphere of interest, they have such lovely stamps! (And that means a lot coming from a Norwegian that by tradition is raised in a love/hate relation ship with the Swedes, hahaha  ). Thanks also for bumping this thread. I hadn't really looked into this thread before, lots of nice stuff! In particular the gorgeous pages shown some time back by Beryllium Guy , very sweet! Guess I can add a few of my own virtual album pages, as a teaser to get stainlessb interested to include Swedish stamps on his agenda, so here goes   |
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). Thanks also for bumping this thread. I hadn't really looked into this thread before, lots of nice stuff! In particular the gorgeous pages shown some time back by