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Post by barhata on Feb 15, 2014 18:17:52 GMT
These are the pages for Sweden from my worlwide airmail collection. Please let me know if you have any of the missing stamps available for trade. I try to get the coils in pairs. I am also interested in acquiring a complete booklet or panes of the Flying Swan issues. I have a ton of material to select for trading. ![](http://barhata.freewebspace.com/StampForum/Airmail/Sweden1.jpg) ![](http://barhata.freewebspace.com/StampForum/Airmail/Sweden2.jpg)
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Philatarium
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Post by Philatarium on Feb 15, 2014 19:37:52 GMT
Terry: Really glad you are posting these pages, not just for Sweden but for whichever countries you post to. Thanks!
It might not have been relevant yet, but as you go along, could you point out which airmail stamps are not Scott-listed? For some reason, I seem particularly interested in that. (Probably because there's more of a story behind them.)
Thanks very much for all the great material!
-- Dave
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paul1
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Post by paul1 on Jun 9, 2023 21:59:55 GMT
hope I'm in the right place with this - can shift to blocks and multiples if preferred. This block/joined set was issued in September 1972 with the title 'Transportation Of Mail By Air', and according to my trawling on Stamp World was offered in two formats, though I don't see it shown as a block. The two offerings were:- stamps had a non-perf edge at either the top or bottom - only the one edge, not two - which seems rather odd, though am sure there was a practical reason for this. However, as you see here, this block has non-perfs at top and bottom, so a little curious - anyone care to comment. thanks for looking. ![](https://i.ibb.co/Lp04z3v/P1050015-2.jpg)
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 9, 2023 22:44:32 GMT
It is a pane from a booklet.
Sweden issues most stamps in booklet format and definitives can come in coil so imperf edges are quite normal.
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Londonbus1
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What I collect: Cinderellas and some Ephemera from Great Britain, France and Israel plus a few beautiful bits from elsewhere !! Topical interests include Flags & Judaica, the latter with an emphasis on the Jewish National Fund.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jun 10, 2023 5:48:07 GMT
hope I'm in the right place with this - can shift to blocks and multiples if preferred. This block/joined set was issued in September 1972 with the title 'Transportation Of Mail By Air', and according to my trawling on Stamp World was offered in two formats, though I don't see it shown as a block. The two offerings were:- stamps had a non-perf edge at either the top or bottom - only the one edge, not two - which seems rather odd, though am sure there was a practical reason for this. However, as you see here, this block has non-perfs at top and bottom, so a little curious - anyone care to comment. thanks for looking. I am guessing that Stamp World were referring to each individual stamp in their description. As vikingeck stated, many Swedish stamps are issued in booklets. The correct term for your very nice item is 'Se-Tenant Booklet Pane'. The pane would have had a margin to the left (or to the right ?) which would have been attached to the booklet cover. I believe this issue was only offered in booklets. Individual stamps can be found with straight edges top and bottom or left and right if they came from coils (or rolls over the counter). These can come in the form of Vertical coils (straight edges left and right) or horizontal coils (straight edges top and bottom). I have no knowledge of the make up of the sheets printed for Booklet use but it might be interesting to find out. I can then compare with booklets here in Israel. Have fun. Londonbus1
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paul1
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Post by paul1 on Jun 10, 2023 7:38:33 GMT
so from a booklet then, that makes sense - many thanks to vikingeck and Londonbus1 for their help with this one. Yes, theses items, as shown on Stamp World, were being referred to as separate stamps, and I probably didn't make that clear in my original post. Thanks also for the explanation of 'Se-Tenant' which I'd vaguely been aware of, which apparently refers to adjoining stamps which differ from each other, usually in value or design. I'd not had it in mind to make a Swedish collection, but this came in with many unused second half C20 Swedish issues, so might be another collection in the making!! I rather like this 'pastel shade' of colouring on modern issues - thanks again.
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cursus
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Post by cursus on Jun 10, 2023 18:49:08 GMT
Swedish stamps are among the best of the second half of the XXth century with many works by Master Slania. These stamps were just issued as booklets. No coil stamps.
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Jun 4, 2024 13:13:41 GMT
I am wavering about buying this one; so tattered. It will turn to dust. But an irresistibly scribbled distraction when I should be working.
War-time correspondence between two brothers, German Jews. Arthur, a refugee in Sweden, mailed his brother Martin, with the US Army in England. As correspondence, it was a failure. A little digging shows Martin already had left, followed the D Day invasion as a translator and interrogator, exactly like the young Henry Kissinger. The stamp is the abused remnant of a 50 öre F232 from 1930. Curiously, the stamp looks shredded before being canceled in Lidingö’s Brevik post office (Lidingö 3) on 20 June 1944. How do you shred a stamp that way? While nothing can explain the mistreatment of the stamp, the date explains everything else. Sent two weeks after the D Day Invasion, it was a bad moment to try to find an American soldier last assigned to England.
The letter documents at least 11 stops. Here is my effort so far:
- Processed by a British Censor (tape on the front left)
- Processed by the American censor on 5 August (front stamp and pencil note, and tape on the front right)
- Received by the US Army on 9 August (back cancel)
- Failed delivery; Staff Sargent Martin Salomon was no longer in Britain
- Efforts to find him failed in October and November (pencil notes)
- Something happened on 15 May (back stamp and pencil)
- One year after it was mailed, on 3 June 1945 it was stamped upon return to Lidingö
- But the sender, Arthur Salomon, had left Sweden. No doubt because it was safe to return to Germany.
- Someone knew to forward it to Arthur in Copenhagen (back address)
- On this final trip it was cancelled mysteriously in Norrköping, Sweden. Maybe it was an open letter, changing trains.
- There is no Copenhagen cancel—such is the indignity of forwarded return mail—and it appears to have stopped there.
It is easy to imagine the contents of the missing letter to Martin. Sent two weeks after the initial invasion, it had to be full of questions no censor would allow him to answer. Are you part of it? Have you been over yet? And a dozen others, all synonyms for only possible question; are you still alive?![](https://i.ibb.co/t24PKsp/Liding-Salomon-20-6-1944-obverse.png) ![](https://i.ibb.co/WPWrhPs/Liding-Salomon-20-6-1944-reverse.png)
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jun 4, 2024 23:12:18 GMT
@kasvik Nice work Aaron,
How do you shred a stamp that way?
(It must have happened after 5th August 1944) I can only see two possibles, the cover looks flimsy, the stamp may have snagged the machine canceller on 9th August? or, someone began to lift the stamp, (a collector? ) from the cover, and failing miserably.
Have you identified "Headquarters 4th Infantry Division Field Post Office #4 " Location?
A great item, a keeper.
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Jun 5, 2024 0:44:28 GMT
Certainly a cover with an abundance of character!
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Jun 5, 2024 0:47:07 GMT
I don't understand why the postmark is on top of the peeled remains of the stamp. Such stamp lifting is not uncommon on german censored covers looking for hidden messages, but that doesnt fit here.
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Jun 5, 2024 17:23:10 GMT
@kasvik Nice work Aaron, How do you shred a stamp that way? (It must have happened after 5th August 1944) I can only see two possibles, the cover looks flimsy, the stamp may have snagged the machine canceller on 9th August? or, someone began to lift the stamp, (a collector? ) from the cover, and failing miserably. Have you identified "Headquarters 4th Infantry Division Field Post Office #4 " Location? A great item, a keeper. Thanks a bunch rod222 , especially for spotting Headquarters 4th Infantry Division Field Post Office #4. The location I easily pinned precisely; somewhere between Utah Beach and Bavaria! The Divsional history shows they went all the way.
And thanks JeffS and fazeman You're both right; I was being a priss; just plonked for the thing.
Below the stamp as it can look:
![](https://i.ibb.co/mtzFjYN/F232-Nattpostflyg.png)
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