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Direct link to Scandinavian website price lists.
Direct links to U.S. and World stamp website price lists.
How to obtain printed price lists by postal mail or download price lists as PDF files.
New website price lists & announcements in order of issuance...
New on 18 January 2012:
 The Iceland Covers section has been completely reorganized, expanded, and has many new covers. The covers are categorized on 49 pages based on stamp issue / time period, type of mail service, etc. Sections of special interest, with many new items, include: Icelandic SHIP COVERS, Icelandic AIRMAIL COVERS, and Icelandic VATNAJOKULL GLACIER EXPEDITION COVERS.
A modest, but significant range of Danish Postage Due Covers has been added to the website. They range from Danish postage due stamps on covers from other countries, to underpaid internal Danish covers, to Danish business reply mail covers, including postage due meter imprints.
Denmark Railway Locomotive Personnel Help Fund Charity Seals are listed in the catalogs as Christmas Seals. These very attractive locomotive seals were issued from 1914 to the 1950s. Many are quite scarce -- and sought after by railway thematic collectors -- but I have been able to assemble a nice group of the earlier issues.
Several new Collection Lots have been added.
An emailed-only 18 January 2012 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 5 January 2012:
A nice group of Denmark Revenue cigarette tax stamps have been added.
Finland Scott #152 (25 mark M-17 "Saarinen Lion" with Posthorn Watermark) is in stock, NH and Used, as well as plate blocks and 4-blocks.
Aunus Stamps with certificates.
Three very scarce 1922 Karelian covers are available including a FIRST DAY COVER bearing some of the (very scarce on cover) high values and a registered cover with VIOLET cancellations.
North Ingermanland Stamps: A very nice selection of imperforates and perforation errors & varieties, etc.
A group of the "Perf 14" Iceland Stamps with plate varieties and perforation errors are offered.
Norway Returned Letter Stamps: Two nice examples of these unusual stamps are available.
Sweden Scott #1 Used at a very reasonable price is offered. There are also a variety of other interesting Swedish stamps
Several non-stamp Polish-related Slania-engraved items are back in stock.
An attractive group of various U.S. Revenue Stamps have been added.
Several new Collection Lots have been added.
An emailed-only 5 January 2012 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 20 December 2011:
A wide variety of stamps have been added to the New Arrivals sections of each country.
Slania-engraved Great Britain (5 pages) Stamps including both printings of the Machin issue, Gutter Pairs, Presentation Packs, PHQ/Stamp Cards & Maximum Cards, Souvenir Folders, Booklet; and even a very scarce British Postal Order.
Several new Collection Lots have been added.
An emailed-only 20 December 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 6 December 2011:
I have been adding more DWI stamps to the stock. This would be a great time to check for holes in your collection.
I have an excellent stock of the National (Thorvaldsen) Icelandic Christmas seals on the website, as well as the Scouting, Karitas, UMF, and the three ROTARY issuers of Icelandic Christmas seals.
National (10 pages starting here)
Scouting
Karitas
UMF
Hafnarfjordur Rotary
Kopavogur Rotary
Saudarkrokur Rotary
Norway Seamens Homes in Foreign Ports Charity Seals: These are fascinating maritime-theme designs that are seldom seen. If you collect Norway, seals, or maritime-related topics, including lighthouses, you should definitely take a look.
Canada Stamps: If you are seeking any Canadian stamps not listed, I have a stock of both the lower-cost stamps and more modern stamps. Please send along your want list.
New book: NORWAY PARCEL POST TO 1945 A wonderful, long-needed work on all aspects of Norwegian parcel post, from the beginnings up to 1945. Includes domestic and foreign uses, periodicals and newspapers, cash-on-delivery, etc., with cataloging of the recorded postmarks, postal forms / parcel cards, labels, etc., as well as the domestic and to-Nordic parcel post rates.
2012 FACIT Specialized Catalog The text is in ENGLISH and Swedish and the illustrations are in COLOR. The major special article this year is a revised listing of Swedish Postal Stationery (last appeared in 2008 and usually only appears about once every five years -- this is THE catalog of Swedish postal stationery).
Several new Collection Lots have been added, including some nice Denmark, Finland, and Norway collections.
An emailed-only 6 December 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 2 December 2011:
An emailed-only 2 December 2011 E-News has been issued, including many philatelic holiday gift ideas; such as 2012 FACIT Specialized Catalog, AFA Scandinavian Christmas Seal Catalog 2012, supplies like the mount cutter we use here in the office, or a gift certificate if you're not sure what you need right now. Whether you put some stamps on your wish list or ask for a stamp catalog, we will be happy to help your family with the ordering. It is as simple as a phone call. We will take care of everything.
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New on 17 November 2011:
Quite a few hard-to-find stamps have been added to the Stamp Sections of Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. Be sure to look at the "regular" stamp listings, but also at the Gallery, Specialized, and Bargain sections.
There are hundreds of Iceland covers available, all illustrated and described. Start here for 3 pages of various covers and here are 30 pages of all types of covers including a wide range of U.S. Military in Iceland WWII covers.
There are lots of interesting Norway Covers available. Starting here is a page of various & unsorted, but following that are another 49 pages of classified covers
An emailed-only 17 November 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 2 November 2011:
Denmark Recently Issued: Stamps
Finland Recently Issued: Stamps, Mini Sheets
Greenland: Recently Issued Stamps, Booklets, Machine Stamps, Maximum Cards
Iceland Recently Issued: Stamps, Booklets
Greenland "FGB mindeark" Souvenir Cards issued by the Society for Greenlandic Children (FGB) have been restocked including some that had been out of stock for a while.
Faroe Souvenir Pages: These little-known officially produced Faroe souvenir pages/cards are missing from almost all Faroe collections.
New Price Lists are available as downloadable Acrobat PDF files for viewing on your computer or printing out and by postal mail. At long last I have divided the Scandinavian price lists by country (instead of huge all-Scandinavia lists for "stamps" vs "specialized"). Each individual country price list includes everything that is on the website for the respective country. Price lists are available for: Aland, Danish West Indies, Denmark (including Slesvig), Faroe, Finland (including North Ingermanland), Greenland, Iceland, Norway (does NOT yet include "regular" stamps; send your want list), Sweden (does NOT yet include "regular" stamps; send your want list). An ALL-Scandinavia price list (the combination of the above) is available (only) for download on the website.
Several new Collection Lots and Philatelic Literature have been added.
An emailed-only 2 November 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 20 October 2011:
ÅLAND Recently Issued: Stamps, Booklets, Gutter Pairs, Gutter Strips, FDCs.
FAROE: Recently Issued Stamps, Booklets, Machine Stamps, FDCs, Maximum Cards.
Year Packs: Denmark 2010, Norway 2010, Sweden 2010.
Denmark Scott #22 mint block, this 4 skilling Line Perforation 12.5 issue is on virtually every want list.
Greenland private booklets I have just added to the website several of these scarce booklets (issued in quantities as low as 100!). Though it sold instantly, I have also documented on the website a new type of the PF-G13 booklet; similar new types may exist for 14, 15, and 16; check your collection and let me know.
Iceland A range of 1910-1950 NH, Mint Hinged, and Used Icelandic stamps have been added to the website. A wonderful mint block of Scott #175, the top value of the 1931 Gulfoss waterfall issue has been added. Also new is a pristine example of a rare classic booklet.
2012 FACIT Specialized Catalog The text is in ENGLISH and Swedish and the illustrations are in COLOR. The major special article this year is a revised listing of Swedish Postal Stationery (last appeared in 2008 and usually only appears about once every five years -- this is THE catalog of Swedish postal stationery).
New AFA Catalogs and other Danish books, including a new title Danish Postal Rates and Postal History 1875-2003, and a special expanded edition of AFA Scandinavian Christmas Seal Catalog 2012.
Several new Collection Lots and Philatelic Literature have been added.
An emailed-only 20 October 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 27 September 2011:
Denmark Official Stamps: A wide range of stamps, including multiple examples of Scott #O4 (one of the scarcest Danish stamps). Includes stamps ranging from Superb to Bargains, mint and used singles, blocks, plate varieties, color varieties, inverted watermarks, etc., etc.Gallery, Bargains, Specialized, and New Arrivals.
2012 FACIT Specialized Catalog The text is in ENGLISH and Swedish and the illustrations are in COLOR. The major special article this year is a revised listing of Swedish Postal Stationery (last appeared in 2008 and usually only appears about once every five years -- this is THE catalog of Swedish postal stationery).
Several new Collection Lots have been added.
A large selection of used Philatelic Literature has been added, including some AFA Denmark books, full sets of Scott Catalogs from previous years, etc.
An emailed-only 27 September 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 14 September 2011:
Denmark Postal Stationery express mail envelope: Perhaps the most beautiful Scandinavian postal item!
Faroe Perfins: While Faroese mailers have only made use of two perfin designs, they are hard to find and are avidly sought after.
Slesvig Stamps (2 pages) and Cancellations have been added to the website.
Some really interesting Icelandic labels are available.
ANOTHER group of Norway Seamens Homes in Foreign Ports Charity Seals that includes some really nice material that has been unavailable for years. Even included are three issues for which I have never before been able to show illustrations!
Sweden 1938-1941 BC & CB Pairs These scarce pairs have been added to the website. More examples will follow soon, so if you don't now see what you need, please send your want list to get first choice of new items.
Several new Collection Lots have been added.
Scott Catalogs: many volumes and sets are available including a complete 2008 set.
An emailed-only 14 September 2011 E-News has been issued, including information about a Denmark Fredrik IX 1948-1960 FDC collection/exhibit that is available. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 30 August 2011:
Denmark Semi-Official Airmails and WWII Anti-Nazi Illegal Labels have new items added.
A very attractive Used VF example of Faroe #1 has been added. It is accompanied by a Jay Smith Certificate with Lifetime Guarantee!
A very unusual group of full mini sheet cacheted Faroe FDCs has been added. Because of their original cost and the declining number of private cachet makers, these are seemingly very scarce.
Postal stationery indicia ("Stamp Print") Finland reprints have been added. These were officially printed in "stamp size" instead of full postal stationery envelopes. Also, interesting Saarinen Lion (1917-1929 design) Finland proofs have been added.
A significant group of additional Norway Seamens Homes in Foreign Ports Charity Seals have been added to stock including some that are either first I have had or at least the first I have had in a very long time.
Sweden Scott #023 Type II / Facit #TJ22B. Broken thin frame line above S of SVERIGE. Four attractive used examples with a wide range of prices have been added to the website.
Many mint, mostly NH Canada Stamps have been added to the website.
Several new Collection Lots have been added.
An emailed-only 30 August 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 17 August 2011:
Greenland Private Booklets (PF-G series) have been restocked.
North Ingermanland #12-14 have been restocked in NH and Used condition. These high-value pictorials have become quite scarce.
U.S. Federal Duck Stamps section has quite a few additions. Take a look.
Several new Collection Lots have been added.
An emailed-only 17 August 2011 E-News has been issued. In addition to the above, it includes many items not offered on the website. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 28 July 2011:
A variety of interesting items have been added (as well as many stamps into the "normal stamps" listings). DWI 17a (Rare Normal Frame), Never Hinged! And also some other nice varieties. Faroe #1 Mint and Used available. Faroe Very unusual FDC collection including many cachets of which I have never before had examples! Greenland Pakke-Porto Stamps in Savings Book. A rare item, loaded with stamps (Scott #Q6a and #Q11) that are seldom seen used with village cancellations. Greenland Flight Covers. Some scarce new items have been added. Greenland Cancellation Card Collection. Very interesting and priced far less than half their individual value. Sweden #O5 [Official 6 öre Gray, Perf 14] Used VF+.
A few notable worldwide items have been added as well. Prussia #4. Five copies including a 3-strip on a postal stationery front-only. Charles Lindberg Autograph. A very scarce piece of aviation history!
Denmark Christmas Seal Official Reprints (4 pages): Since 1976, older Danish Christmas seals have been officially reprinted by the Danish Christmas Seal Fund. The front of the sheet indicates the year of reprinting, in Danish, such as "Nytryk 1976". The back of each seal also bears the year of reprinting, in English, such as "Reprint 1976". These are usually collected as sheets of ten. Additionally, between 1976 and 2001, nine souvenir sheet reprints have been officially issued in conjunction with stamp shows. These have mostly consisted of five seals: One oversize design and four normal size seals, as well as marginal text.
Denmark "Cold War Emergency Stamps" New Discoveries. I have just discovered (or at least seem to be the first to record in the literature) a NEW PAPER TYPE and two significant NEW PLATE VARIETIES.
Danish tete-beche pairs came from the special sheet layouts needed to make booklet panes. The special tete-beche pairs (i.e. those not listed by Scott) are listed by the specialized catalogs, however, it turns out that the listings ignore significant color shades. As each new printing (of the same stamp) for booklets was made there was the possibility of a different color shade. When the remainders of these special sheets were sold (officially, by the post office) to collectors in 1971, it seems that little care was taken to document the different printings / color shades for each stamp. Instead the catalogs just listed them by the basic color of each stamp issue.
Several new Collection Lots and Albums have been added.
An emailed-only 28 July 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 7 July 2011:
A range of Danish Classic Stamps have been added. Whether you are seeking #1, #10, #11b-15b Line Perforations, #44d, etc., you will find something of interest.
Some very attractive bargain examples of scarce Finnish Stamps have been added, including: #16, #36, #37, #58, #C1, etc.
A variety of new Icelandic Stamps have been added, especially airmails, including varieties, high-quality stamps, and bargains.
A substantial group of United States Stamps has been added, ranging from early issues up to the 1930s. They range from mint & used singles to mint & used blocks. There are a some nice multiples of the $2 Prexie and also a useful group of Ducks.
A new section of United States Ephemera has been added for non-philatelic paper ephemera items which may still hold interest for collectors.
Several new Collection Lots, Albums, and Literature have been added.
An emailed-only 7 July 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 21 June 2011:
Various Danish Stamps that are hard to keep in stock: #16 Used, 120 Mint VF, 191 NH VF, many postage dues, Q11 Mint VF and Used VF.
Various Finnish Stamps: Finland #16 inexpensive example, 101 Mint, 118 Mint Superb LH, 135a Mint, and others.
Various Icelandic Stamps that are hard to keep in stock: #124 Mint VF (actually Superb LH), 128 Used VF (surprisingly scarce), 257-68 a variety of NH, Mint Hinged, and Used singles. Also includes Iceland Scott #31 and 33, the large-text "prir" and "3 prir" surcharges, Iceland Scott #49, the small-numeral 3 aur I GILDI Perf 12.75 stamp, and Iceland Airmails, including C11 Zeppelin three Superb NH examples to choose from.
Norway #543 Norway's rarest modern stamp - in a NH VF date block, printed the day after King Olav died!
A great deal of new material has been added to Iceland Christmas Seals stock, both in the National "Thorvaldsen" TB Seals and in seals of three newly-added ROTARY club towns.
National (10 pages starting here)
Hafnarfjordur Rotary
Kopavogur Rotary
Saudarkrokur Rotary
Several new Collection Lots have been added.
An emailed-only 21 June 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 18 May 2011:
A new section for D.W.I. Shipping Company Stamps (4 pages) has been added. These interesting stamps paid postage on letters when official services were not available and/or were not meeting the needs of the public.
A wide range of stamps have been added to the "regular" listings of Danish West Indies stamps, as well as top quality items in the Gallery, inexpensive items in the Bargains, Christmas Seals, and Virgin Islands Revenues.
A wide range of Slesvig stamps, covers, postal stationery cards, and town postmarks.
There is a scattering of new items in the Faroe listings, including plate varieties and Christmas seals.
Karelia stamps stamps have been restocked and plate blocks, political labels, and covers have been added.
Several new Collection Lots have been added.
An emailed-only 18 May 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 27 April 2011:
At long last I have added the Karelia Stamps (start here) price list to the website. I also have a sampling of 1940s covers on the website. If you have any of the 1922 stamps, I suggest you take a look at this page to see if yours are genuine or fake.
A variety of interesting 1900-1936 Swedish stamps have been added to the website, ranging from scarce watermark varieties to high quality mint stamps to bargains including Scott #133 and #161 which are missing from most collections.
Several new Collection Lots have been added, including great Scandinavia, Worldwide and a very interesting Worldwide Calendar Collection.
An emailed-only 27 April 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 20 April 2011:
Danish tete-beche pairs came from the special sheet layouts needed to make booklet panes. The few regularly issued tete-beche pairs of Denmark are well known and are listed in the Scott Catalog. However, there is another group of special tete-beche pairs that Scott does not list and which are quite scarce -- of some of these, as few as 130 pairs were released!
An emailed-only 20 April 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 13 April 2011:
A wide range of "better" individual stamps have been added to the website, including Denmark #10, Denmark #44d, Denmark #138-41 (Crown watermarked overprints), Finland #58, and Sweden 1924 UPU high values and high quality stamps.
Quite a few North Ingermanland stamps have been added to stock. This fascinating short-lived entity has been restocked and I now have several of the scarcer stamps.
Quite a few Slesvig (Schleswig) stamps have been added to stock. There is also postal stationery, covers, etc.
To my knowledge the most complete listing on the Internet of Iceland Orlof Overprints on Postage Stamps. The purpose of orlof stamps was to collect payment from employers of temporary, part-time, or seasonal employees for vacation pay. The stamps were purchased from post offices, placed in savings books, and then redeemed the following year at vacation time. These 19 orlof-overprinted postage stamps range from uncommon to rare.
Norway #543 INVISIBLE GUM (NK #941II Hs5 Paper), a 50 kroner stamp picturing King Olav, is an extremely scarce stamp, probably destined to become the scarcest, most valuable post-1960 Norwegian stamp.
Scandinavian Tourist Stamps & Booklets. This section has been completely revised with a lot of additional information. The gum varieties (there is one of which only 3200 were issued!) are now included and for the first time, the booklets have been listed and are currently in stock (but surely won't last long)
Philatelic Literature:
Facit Sweden 2011 Catalog - The Swedish Local Post Catalog This catalog, published every other year, has been released and will arrive soon; I expect to be shipping them to clients by May 1. As a Sweden stamp catalog this is simplified and handy, but NOT specialized. However, it contains the ONLY MODERN CATALOGING for SWEDISH LOCAL POST STAMPS - and that part IS specialized. If you collect Swedish locals, you will want to have this catalog!
Facit 2011 Specialized Catalog PAGES BY COUNTRY The 2011 country sections pages-only (these are genuine pages cut from a catalog) have been added. Also some earlier years are still available at great prices.
The Engraving Art of Czeslaw Slania (Short, 2008) This is the most recent and final edition of this valuable book by Harold Short, who has since passed away. It was published by the Czeslaw Slania Study Group (which was since unilaterally disbanded by the founder). The ultimate checklist, handbook, and catalog (but no pricing) of all of Slania's engraved stamps, labels, art, and other works. An absolute must-have book for every Slania collector.
An emailed-only 13 April 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 5 April 2011:
Scandinavian Quick Opinion Service A new service from Jay Smith & Associates - An Internet-based service that can give you a quick opinion on the identification, quality, or authenticity from your scan or from a link to an image on the Internet.
Several new Collection Lots have been added, including great Scandinavia and Worldwide.
An emailed-only 5 April 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 30 March 2011:
To my knowledge the most complete listing on the Internet of Iceland Orlof Overprints on Postage Stamps. The purpose of orlof stamps was to collect payment from employers of temporary, part-time, or seasonal employees for vacation pay. The stamps were purchased from post offices, placed in savings books, and then redeemed the following year at vacation time. These 19 orlof-overprinted postage stamps range from uncommon to rare.
More than 100 new Iceland "Tollur" Cancellations have been added, including a complete invoice and two nice pieces.
New Zealand Stamps (5 pages) and Philippines (U.S. Administration) Stamps have been added to the website.
Several new Collection Lots have been added, including great Scandinavia and Worldwide.
An emailed-only 30 March 2011 E-News has been issued, including information about Expertizing and Consulting Services. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 16 March 2011:
Greenland "FGB mindeark" Souvenir Cards issued by the Society for Greenlandic Children (FGB) have been added to the website. Greenland Thule Red Cross Souvenir Cards, both a souvenir CARD and a perforated souvenir SHEET have been added to the website.
Several new Collections, Albums, and Literature have been added, including a Danish Railway Stamp Collection, and other great Scandinavia and Worldwide.
An emailed-only 16 March 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 2 March 2011:
A wide range of "better" individual stamps have been added to the website, including D.W.I. #J8a, Denmark #1 and #1a, Denmark #271 w/hook, Danish Legion Set, Faroe #1 Mint and Used, Finland #C9 Type II White Fluor, Greenland American Issue Cover, Greenland Plate Varieties, and Norway #28 Mint.
Slania - Rare Monaco souvenir card MonacoPhil 2004 blackprint souvenir card picturing three portraits of Princess Grace.
Japan Stamps (8 pages): NH sets have been added to the Japan section of the website.
Danish Railway Stamp Collection is in stock! Ranging from the 1870s to the 1970s in mint (mix of never hinged and hinged.
An emailed-only 2 March 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 17 February 2011:
FINLAND Recently Issued: Stamps, Year Packs, Mini Sheets
Several new Collections, Albums, and Literature have been added, including a Danish Railway Stamp Collection, terrific U.S. Collection, Scandinavia, Worldwide, Topicals, etc.
An emailed-only 17 February 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 2 February 2011:
I have started working on adding nice and/or scarce DWI postmarks to the website. These include the scarcer town postmarks: Kingshill, St. Jan, and the two double-s postmarks "Christianssted" and "Frederikssted".
ICELAND Recently Issued: Stamps, Booklets, Year Packs
A large group of Sweden Bargain Stamps have been added. (See all 7 pages.) These are usually stamps with either lesser centering, or perhaps with disturbed gum, or with small or hidden defects (fully described).
An attractive group of United States Duck Stamps have been added to the website. Whether you seek NH Superb examples or "wounded" Ducks, you will likely find something for you at very attractive prices.
Several new Collections, Albums, and Literature have been added, including Scandinavia, Worldwide, Floor Sweepings Lots, Topical Collections, etc.
An emailed-only 2 February 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 21 January 2011:
A large group of Sweden Bargain Stamps have been added. See all 7 pages.
Four really nice Sweden Collections have been added. The stamps and the albums for less than the individual cost of either!
Another outstanding group of United States Stamps primarily Mint, MOSTLY NEVER HINGED, stamps from 1900 to the 1930s has been added. The quality is outstanding, most with VF or XF or Superb centering. (They are spread over several pages by Scott number.)
An emailed-only 21 January 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 13 December 2011:
Denmark Recently Issued: Stamps
Greenland: Recently Issued Stamps, Booklets, Machine Stamps, Maximum Cards, Year Packs
Danish West Indies & U.S. Virgin Islands:
D.W.I. Reprints
D.W.I. Covers (14 pages)
D.W.I. Picture Postcards
U.S. Virgin Islands Picture Postcards
U.S. Virgin Islands Covers
U.S. Virgin Islands Christmas Seals
Slania-engraved Monaco Proofs as well as France Souvenir Cards have been added to the website. There is also a group on NON-slania-engraved Monaco Proofs that relate to United Nations.
An outstanding group of United States Stamps primarily Mint, MOSTLY NEVER HINGED, stamps from 1861 to 1920 has been added. The quality is outstanding, most with VF or XF or Superb centering. (They are spread over several pages by Scott number.)
An emailed-only 13 January 2011 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 10 December 2010:
ÅLAND Recently Issued: Stamps, Booklets, Gutter Pairs, Gutter Strips, FDCs, Year Packs
FAROE: Recently Issued Stamps, Booklets, Machine Stamps, FDCs, Maximum Cards, Year Packs
Norway Souvenir Cards: More new items added.
"Normal" Souvenir Cards (3 pages)
"NFF" Souvenir Cards
"Engraver & Artist Signature" Souvenir Cards
"Other" Souvenir Cards Includes both official and unofficial issues and even a local post reprint.
Lots of new Scandinavian Catalogs have been added to the website, including AFA 2011 Denmark, AFA 2011 Denmark Block and Plate Block Catalog, AFA 2011 Scandinavia, and Norgeskatalogen 2011. Other Philatelic Literature has also been added or restocked, including Danish Railway Stamps, Norway Machine Cancellations, OFK Norwegian Postal Stationery Catalog 1996/97, and others.
A large group of collections, albums, binders, etc., have been added to the website. The collections include Scandinavian, U.S., UN, and Worldwide. There are many great values here; we are very short on storage space so these are priced to sell fast.
An emailed-only 10 December 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 29 November 2010:
Denmark: Quite a few NH 1900s-1930s stamps have been added, including back-of-the-book issues.
Norway Souvenir Cards: New items added to two categories and two new categories have been added.
"Normal" Souvenir Cards (3 pages)
"NFF" Souvenir Cards
"Engraver & Artist Signature" Souvenir Cards
"Other" Souvenir Cards Includes both official and unofficial issues and even a local post reprint.
Several new Norwegian Philatelic Books have been added to the website.
A handsome group of classic and early U.S. stamps, including Used, Mint Hinged, and Mint Never Hinged, have been added to the website. Ranging from 1852 to about 1920, these new additions are remarkably attractive and fresh examples.
A large group of collections, albums, binders, etc., have been added to the website. The collections include Scandinavian, U.S., UN, and Worldwide. There are many great values here; we are very short on storage space so these are priced to sell fast.
An emailed-only 29 November 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 11 November 2010:
Denmark: Quite a few mint 1880s-1950s stamps have been added, including back-of-the-book issues. Modern Denmark includes some items that were a surprise and are already becoming quite scarce. Two very nice collections and some individual items of Denmark Postal Currency, also known as "stamp coins" or "encased postage", have been added to the website.
A range of mint and used Finland stamps have been added.
Recent full sets of Scott Catalogs have been added, as well as a few individual volumes.
U.S. Mint Full Sheets and U.S. Cancelled Full Sheets have been restocked, but I also have many sheets in stock that are not on the website. Please remember to send your want list.
Facit 2011 Scandinavia Specialized Catalog (In Color) has recently arrived and is in stock for immediate shipment.
An emailed-only 11 November 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 29 October 2010:
The Danish Childrens Books (2010 Europa) issue includes a surprise different die-cut that is a major new stamp and will be listed by all the catalogs and will be in all the albums. All stamps in the issue are die-cut self-adhesive, but there are several variations seen here.
Slania-engraved French Stamps: For the very first time, all four of the "Document Philatelique Officiel" are currently in stock. These are very interesting and bear an ENGRAVED die impression of Slania's stamp in a different color than was issued. Other proofs and imperforates are available.
Several new Norwegian Books are newly in stock, including Little Library of Norwegian Philately - Volume 3 and several years of Norwegian Philatelic Year Books.
An emailed-only 29 October 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 12 October 2010:
Pages have been added for the little-known Postal Savings Stamps and Special Fee Stamps of Greenland.
A variety of Denmark items have been added. See all the new offerings at Diverse New Arrivals and New Arrivals Stamps including essays, bicolors, a scarce inverted frame, perforation errors, inverted watermarks, Round Tower "Bomb" variety, a scarce re-entry, etc.
What Is It? A page has been added as a place that Questions and Answers for Scandinavian philatelic items can be posted. To get started, please read the information here. It is not automated in the sense of a discussion forum; it is necessary to email the question and a scan to me.
A nice variety of Portugal Stamps (6 pages) and Bermuda Stamps have been added and reorganized so the prices are in NH, Mint Hinged, and Used price columns so that you can more quickly know which condition(s) are available.
An emailed-only 12 October 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 6 October 2010:
Facit 2011 Scandinavia Specialized Catalog (In Color) has just arrived and is now in stock for immediate shipment.
The complete literature table of contents is here.
An emailed-only 6 October 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 30 September 2010:
Several new Scandinavian and Worldwide collections have been added, as well as some nice used supplies and used philatelic literature.
A few United States Covers have been added. They include stampless (3 pages), Civil War era, and advertising covers.
Hundreds of stamps have been added to Niue, Sierra Leone, and Tristan Da Cunha, (4 pages). They have been reorganized so the prices are in NH, Mint Hinged, and Used price columns so that you can more quickly know which condition(s) are available.
A nice variety of New Zealand Stamps (5 pages), Year Packs & Sets & Books, a wonderful modern collection in a great album, etc. have been added to the website.
An emailed-only 30 September 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 13 September 2010:
A major group of hundreds of nice Icelandic Stamps, the result of stocking from three very nice collections, have been added to stock in the last 24 hours. Much of the new material is Mint, both Hinged and Never Hinged, with emphasis before 1940 and on Officials. However, there are many new Used stamps as well. Scarce individually described stamps such as #1 and #4 can be also seen in the Icelandic New Arrivals - Stamps.
An emailed-only 13 September 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 10 September 2010:
Faroe 1980 Europa "Burned Issue" 200 oyru (Scott #54) Slania-engraved original printing that was destroyed.
Finland Imperforates: #68 Imperforate Pair and #99a Imperforate Pair have been added.
Greenland 226 INVERTED OVERPRINT: 4.25 overprint on 0.25 value. NH example with the Superb centering. Accompanied by Carl Aage Møller photo certificate.
Iceland has many stamps from 1880s to 1940s added to stock, especially Mint, both Hinged and Never Hinged, including Iceland Scott #127 NH Superb.
Norwegian WWII Air Drop Propaganda Stamp: Orange (third) design showing Norwegian sailor plucking up Nazi soldiers, commemorating the British/Norwegian 4 March 1941 naval raid on Lofoten. This example is the upper right single stamp from orange sheet of three stamps.
A nice range of attractive United States 1860s-1930s stamp have been added to the website, including NH, Mint Hinged, and Used examples.
Slania-engraved France Proofs and Australia Souvenir Folder have been added to the website.
Many stamps have been added to the Cook Islands and the listings have been reorganized so the prices are in NH, Mint Hinged, and Used price columns so that you can more quickly know which condition(s) are available.
Several new U.S. and Worldwide collections have been added, as well as some nice used supplies and used philatelic literature.
An emailed-only 10 September 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 24 August 2010:
Faroe WWII-era Provisional Surcharges (Scott #2-6) A variety of items have been added including a beautiful NH set, the Type II surcharges, and low-priced examples of the scarcer stamps.
Iceland: An attractive Mint example of Iceland #1 has been added. Iceland Date Blocks have beeen restocked, including some that were not previously available. A page for Iceland Modern Varieties has beeen added to the website.
Norway: Nice examples and specialized varieties of Norway Early Stamps have been added. A new page has been added for Norway Proofs and Norway Specimen Overprints. The Norway Test Stamp 1943 Grieg design used in 1951 is now listed, both imperforate and perforated. An extensive listing of Norway's first Railway Parcel Stamp is now on the website.
"NORWEGIANA": Stamps issued and items from countries other than Norway that relate to Norway. I have finally started working on this section and the first item is a set of stamps from Iran commemorating a Norwegian royal visit to Iran.
Several "well-known" stamps have been added to the website, including U.S. White Plains Sheet, Baby Zepp, Legends of the West Error Sheet, and Bugs Bunny Sheet with Imperforate S/S, as well as a Great Britain Penny Black.
Several new Scandinavian and Worldwide collections have been added, as well as some nice used supplies and used philatelic literature.
An emailed-only 24 August 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 27 July 2010:
Many items have been added to the Iceland National (Thorvaldsen) Christmas Seals section including rare classic sheets, varieties, and also a number of "normal" seals that had been sold out.
Cape of Good Hope two triangles on one beautiful cover.
A variety of United States stamps have been added, from Classics to the 1930s, Mint and Used, ranging from wonderful XF quality to super-bargains with hidden faults.
Several United States Collection Lots with high catalog, but priced at only a tiny fraction, including some nice ranges of color shades and postmarks.
A few United States Covers have been added. They include classics, a mint patriotic envelope similar to, but not exactly like, a catalog-listed item, and a nice advertising collar cover.
New Website Featured Special: Due to a once-in-a-lifetime fortunate purchase of the Iceland 1911 Caritas "Falcon" Christmas seal, I am able to pass on the savings with a 40% discount on NH VF examples of this rare seal. This is one of THE classic designs of early worldwide Christmas Seals.
New Price Lists are available as downloadable Acrobat PDF files for viewing on your computer or printing out and by postal mail. At long last I have divided the Scandinavian price lists by country (instead of huge all-Scandinavia lists for "stamps" vs "specialized"). Each individual country price list includes everything that is on the website for the respective country. Price lists are available for: Aland, Danish West Indies, Denmark (including Slesvig), Faroe, Finland (including North Ingermanland), Greenland, Iceland, Norway (does NOT yet include "regular" stamps; send your want list), Sweden (does NOT yet include "regular" stamps; send your want list). An ALL-Scandinavia price list (the combination of the above) is available (only) for download on the website.
An emailed-only 27 July 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 14 July 2010:
Aland Revenues (5 pages) from the earliest to latest issues, and including Finnish revenues used in Aland.
Danish West Indies Revenues a few new and very inexpensive items have been added.
Danish West Indies 7 Cent Bicolor Stamps (Scott #9): A wonderful selection of normal and inverted frame stamps, including in pairs, strips, and blocks, as well as single stamps.
Danish Advertising Pairs & Panes: A block of two pairs, RE 7 & 8, of the scarcest Danish advertising pairs at an unusually low price. Also a wonderful pair of RE 12, one of the scarcest of these issues.
Denmark Patriotic / Political Labels: WWII Denmark Anti-Nazi Political Labels (perhaps membership fee stamps?) issued by the Danish Communist Party 1942-45. Very rare WWII Danish Legion von Schalburg label in NH condition.
Faroe: #1 (1919 SURCHARGE) VF centered stamp on cover priced at hardly more than a loose single stamp. Very fresh and attractive with clear postmark and a Jay Smith certificate with lifetime guarantee.
1975-2008 Complete NH Collection in handsome Davo Album. Priced significantly less than the already-discounted year set prices with the $135 album included at no cost!
Greenland Q3A (Perf 12.5) Mint examples of both the first and second printings (both are Scott #Q3a) at very attractive prices for this scarce stamp.
Norway Skilling Posthorn strips showing different engraving types
Slania-engraved Monaco Proofs A newly broken sheet offers some dramatic proofs at reasonable prices. Each item is one-of-a-kind, probably unique in private hands.
The Hong Kong listing now contains hundreds of stamps on several pages. It has been reorganized so the prices are in NH, Mint Hinged, and Used price columns so that you can more quickly know which condition(s) are available.
Large group of gently used Philatelic Literature has been added.
An emailed-only 14 July 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 29 June 2010:
A significant group of PICTURE POST CARDS from Greenland (3 pages), Iceland (2 pages), Norway, and Sweden (2 pages) have been added to the website.
Quite a few COVERS have been added from Greenland and Iceland.
Approximately 50 U.S. stamps with a net value of several thousands of dollars have been added to the 1850s-1920s listings, with an emphasis on the earlier issues. There are items in very nice quality and some that are super bargains.
The New Zealand listing now contains hundreds of stamps (most are new) on several pages. It has been reorganized so the prices are in NH, Mint Hinged, and Used price columns so that you can more quickly know which condition(s) are available.
Several new Scandinavian and Worldwide collections have been added.
An emailed-only 29 June 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 15 June 2010:
Danish Advertising Pairs & Panes (10 pages) with many new items in mint and used condition, including scarce "automobile" items. There are new covers too!
Danish West Indies Revenues and Virgin Islands Revenues
Faroe Christmas Seal Information Booklets - New "Discoveries". Some digging has turned up two more years of these booklets (in English) and a variety of years in Faroese, Danish, German, and French.
Greenland Officially Issued Books These books were issued by the post office and are either about stamps and/or include stamps and/or use stamps to help tell the story. They are all very well produced, have extremely interesting text and wonderful pictures, and are great reads!
Sweden:
Official Reprints and Private Reprints Sweden produced one or more official reprints for certain of the early issues; some of them were even valid for postage, though postal uses are very rare. All are scarce in any condition. Additionally, there have been some privately created reprints or reproductions which, if nothing else, need to be recorded for posterity.
Machine Stamps and Machine Stamps on Cover Sweden has issued "machine" stamps vended from machines made by the Frama and Klussendorf countries, but only from 1991-97. At long last I am listing the stamps and examples of their usage on cover.
Letter Sheets Here is something fun and very elegant, letter sheets (stationery with matching envelopes) produced by the post office. Take a look. The picture shows the envelope on top and the bottom half of the letter sheet paper on the bottom.
United States Stamps (starting here) and Covers A smattering of classic U.S. stamps and Duck stamps have been added, as well as a few covers.
Major revision and enhancement with hundreds of new items have been added to several sections of the worldwide, including Austria Stamps (17 pages), Fiji Stamps, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Stamps. See all here: Worldwide stamps.
An emailed-only 15 June 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 25 May 2010:
Denmark Covers A wide range of Danish covers, from the 1850s to the 1950s, including interesting postmarks, unusual uses, rare destinations, war-time uses.
Worldwide Classics Collection Diverse accumulation of over 100 classic stamps. There are GENUINE high-cataloging stamps in very mixed condition, PLUS ALL SORTS OF REPRINTS AND FORGERIES ranging from crude to very deceptive.
New Catalog: DAKA Faroe GF10 catalog now in stock. It is all in color with great illustrations and the text includes FULL ENGLISH. In addition to the usual listings of stamps, booklets, etc., there is specialized coverage of the 1919 and 1940s issues, the REVENUES (new to this catalog and some items are listed for the first time anywhere!), FREIGHT STAMPS (dramatically revised and expanded; these were last cataloged in the 1980s), POSTMARKS, postal history, maximum cards, show cards, packs, etc.
New Book: Spitzbergen Cruise Mail 1890-1914 (Including Local Post Stamps and Postmarks). Fascinating and extremely useful 58-page, entirely English language, color-illustrated book describing the postal history of the early Spitzbergen mails which mostly emanated from tourist cruise ship visits. Includes extensive details on the ships, routes, and cruising activity, but especially cataloging and illustrating the local post stamps and labels, and the postmarks and ships cachets, etc.
New Book: The Maritime Postmarks of the Danish Kingdom Pictures every ship mail postmark, route postmark, paquebot postmark, etc. Describes the route, the ships, dates of use, and assigns a rarity factor. Includes FAROE and GREENLAND. Plus has 32-page pictorial index of the postmarks organized by appearance / type, making it tremendously easier to find postmark listings.
An emailed-only 25 May 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 6 May 2010:
I have restocked a variety of Danish stamps in all time periods and categories.
I have restocked a variety of Finnish stamps in all conditions and qualities in most time periods.
An emailed-only 6 May 2010 E-News has been issued including information regarding many one-of-a-kind items recently added to the website. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 29 April 2010:
Iceland Stamps A wide range of early- and middle-period mint and used stamps, including several very nice classics such as #1, 3, 5, 7, 8 mint and #6 canceled.
Iceland Mint Collection 1947-2005 in Hingeless Album (1873-2005) Handsome collection of only complete sets, with stamps starting in 1947, mixed hinged and never hinged to the early 1960s, but then never hinged through 2005.
Greenland Pakke-Porto Stamps Several nice items, particularly a very pretty and unusually affordable example of #Q4a, the 1905 10 øre stamp, have been added.
United States:
Mint Sheets and Used Sheets including hard to find modern issues have been added.
National Parks Postal Cards: As announced in Linn's Stamp News, a set of 10 National Parks postal cards has been issued. These were issued in a "booklet" containing two sets of cards. I offer the booklet, the set of 10 loose cards, and even individual cards if you have a favorite National Park.
Duck Stamps: There is a wide range of Duck Stamps from NH Superb all the way to wounded and dead ducks.
More Slania Monaco FDCs have been added to the website.
New Book:
The Maritime Postmarks of the Danish Kingdom Pictures every ship mail postmark, route postmark, paquebot postmark, etc. Describes the route, the ships, dates of use, and assigns a rarity factor. Includes FAROE and GREENLAND. Plus has 32-page pictorial index of the postmarks organized by appearance / type, making it tremendously easier to find postmark listings.
Our Stamp Show Schedule has been updated.
An emailed-only 29 April 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 15 April 2010:
New DAKA Faroe GF10 catalog at special pre-publication price
ÅLAND Recently Issued: Stamps, Booklets, Gutter Pairs, Gutter Strips, FDCs, Christmas Seals, Year Packs, Year Books
DENMARK Recently Issued: Stamps, Year Packs, Year Books
FAROE: Recently Issued Stamps, Booklets, Machine Stamps, FDCs, Maximum Cards, Year Packs, Year Books
FINLAND Recently Issued: Stamps, Year Packs, Year Books
GREENLAND: Recently Issued Stamps, Booklets, Machine Stamps, Maximum Cards, Year Packs
ICELAND Recently Issued: Stamps, Booklets, Christmas Seals, Year Packs
NORWAY Recently Issued: Year Packs, Year Books
SWEDEN Recently Issued: Year Packs, Year Books
An emailed-only 15 April 2010 E-News has been issued including information on the newest Norden theme (Pack available), as well as other interesting offerings only available in the E-News. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 6 April 2010:
Finland Russian-design "Rare" Stamp Scott #72a TYPE I (perf 14.25 x 14) = Facit #57IC1. I have just obtained a very few wonderfully fresh NH VF and Superb examples of this very scarce stamp.
Iceland "Tollur" Cancellations with a wide variety of numbers, including some that I have not been able to offer for years.
Faroe Maximum Cards have been added, including Official and privately issued cards.
United States Scarce Plate Blocks (starting here) Scott numbers: 689, 832, 833, 834 $5 Coolidge, 1052a, 1053 $5 Hamilton, and #C31.
Japan Stamps (8 pages): Over 200 more (in addition to over 500 a couple of weeks ago) NH, Mint, and Used stamps have been added to the Japan section of the website.
Used Scott Catalogs including complete sets.
An emailed-only 6 April 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 17 March 2010:
Denmark Stamps lots of 1900-1940 Mint and NH stamps have been added.
Sweden Key Values Scott #66 NH and #B21 Mint Superb LH.
Faroe:
Souvenir Cards and Pages added.
Specialized Stamps includes examples of a very scarce 1975 Whitened Paper stamp and the 1975 Brown Hills vs Green Hills variety, including very scarce sheets!
Christmas Seals (4 pages including singles) are now included in the "shopping cart" system, with images and varieties.
Slania Monaco FDCs and Maximum Cards have been added to the website.
Catalogs:
The new Finland Lape 2010 Specialized Catalog in stock now. Order your's today!
Facit Pages by Country including 2010.
Used Scott Catalogs including complete sets.
Japan Stamps (6 pages): Over 500 NH, Mint, and Used stamps have been added to the Japan section of the website.
An emailed-only 17 March 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 23 February 2010:
Early Swedish stamps, mostly mint, just added:
Select Stamps good quality and/or rarity.
Bargain Stamps attractive examples of stamps with "problems" at low prices.
Many new Swedish covers have been added. These include such issues as Ringtypes, Typographed Oscars, Bicolored Numerals (aka the "Beer Bottle Label Stamps"), a rare BC pair on cover (chemistry thematic), Christmas Seals & Labels tied on cover, and much more.
The complete set of North Ingermanland IMPERFORATE Second Issue Forgeries has been added to the website.
Catalogs:
New Denmark AFA 2010 Catalogs are now in stock.
The new Finland Lape 2010 Specialized Catalog will be here soon. Order your's today!
Norgeskatalogen 2010, the Norway Specialized Catalog, is in stock.
Worldwide Cinderellas (2 pages) are what I call the "fun stuff" of philately: Locals, revenues, Christmas & charity & fundraising seals, railway stamps, shipping company stamps, advertising and political labels, poster stamps, reprints, private afterprints, forgeries, etc., etc.
A variety of Worldwide stamps including some very nice early Australia and the Australian States, as well as stamps from Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, and Tonga..
An emailed-only 23 February 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 3 February 2010:
Finland / Sweden Joint Issue Blackprint and Special Souvenir Sheets. In 2006 Finland and Sweden jointly celebrated the Sveaborg / Suomenlinna Fortress. A special folder was prepared, containing: Special souvenir sheet versions of both the Finnish and Swedish panes and a blackprint of the engraved portions of the design.
Book: Iceland Cancellations - Bridge, Roller, and Machine Cancellations 1894-2003 Again in stock from a 20-copy New Printing; Order Soon. Grand Total of Only 220 Printed!
Iceland Postmarks:
Numeral Cancellations (4 pages)
Town Cancellations, Including "Bridge" Type (6 pages)
Tollur (Customs, Revenue) Cancellations (4 pages)
A variety of Worldwide stamps including stamps from Cyprus, Ecuador, France, Hong Kong, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Montserrat, and New Zealand.
An emailed-only 3 February 2010 E-News has been issued including further information about the Finland / Sweden Joint Issue Blackprint and many undiscovered treasures scattered throughout the website. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 21 January 2010:
Greenland Year Sets are now available. In addition to the year SET listing for each year, I have created combinations by the decade and the complete country to-date.
Greenland Year Packs illustrations have been improved to show the stamps they contain.
Beautiful and rare examples of Iceland Caritas / Karitas and UMF Classic Christmas Seals have been added to the website.
Slania-engraved Monaco souvenir cards Yet more have been added! These are items I was unsure even existed until now.
An emailed-only 21 January 2010 E-News has been issued, including helpful information about the images on the website and searching the website. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 8 January 2010:
Faroe Year Sets are now available. In addition to the year SET listing for each year, I have created combinations by the decade and the complete country to-date.
Faroe Year Packs illustrations have been improved to show the stamps they contain.
Greenland Pakke-Porto / Parcel Post Stamps have been added including a nice example of Scott #Q4b THICK PAPER printing. See all the Pakke-Porto stamps I have available at the links below.
Regular Stamps
Gallery (high-quality & specialized stamps)
Bargains (small quality problems, great prices)
Sweden Publicity Proofs were produced by the post office for the purpose of informing the media and thus the public about upcoming stamp issues. These are avidly sought after by collectors of Sweden, collectors of the different stamp engravers -- including many nice Slania-engraved designs -- and thematic collectors. All of them are scarce.
Several collections, albums, and literature have been added to the Specials section.
Many Slania-engraved Monaco items have been added or restocked, including souvenir cards, imperforate stamps and souvenir sheets, used stamps, and some interesting new proofs.
Spain Slania-Engraved Nobel Prize Winners Items have been added to the blackprint sheets, alternating 4-block and pairs.
An emailed-only 8 January 2010 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 15 December 2009:
Åland Year Sets are now available. In addition to the year SET listing for each year, I have created combinations by the decade and the complete country to-date.
Åland Year Packs illustrations have been improved to show the stamps they contain.
Iceland 2009 Die Cut Stamps: A New "Discovery". The 2009 die-cut stamps, Europa and Christmas issues, were made as a special version in which the die-cutting punches all the way through the backing paper, thus the serpentine die-cutting (simulated perforations) is clean and neat.
A variety of Worldwide stamps including stamps from Austria, Bermuda, and Burkina Faso.
An emailed-only 15 December 2009 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 3 December 2009:
Sweden Blackprints
Sweden Postal Art Prints
Sweden Specimen Overprints
Sweden Surcharge & Perforation Errors including significantly misplaced surcharges, DOUBLE SURCHARGES, and a dramatic perforation error.
Swedish book 75 Years of Post Office Stamp Printing 1920-1995.
Denmark Scott #136a - Inverted Frame in a 4-block with three regular stamps.
Slania-engraved Monaco Rainier Proofs
Danish Slania-engraved Test Stamps
A variety of Worldwide stamps including stamps from Austria, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, Falkland Islands, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Labuan, Maldive Islands, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, Tristan da Cunha, and U.S. Possessions: Guam.
An emailed-only 3 December 2009 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 24 November 2009:
Norway FDCs Autographed by Designers and/or Engravers. 1940s to 1960s Norwegian FDCs autographed by the stamp designers, artists, and engravers.
Norway 2008 Posten & Bring Souvenir Sheet now also available canceled.
New Slania Issue from New Zealand issued for the 2009 Timpex stamp show.
Comoro Islands Stamps.
ÅLAND Recently Issued: Stamps, Booklets, Gutter Pairs, Gutter Strips, FDCs
DENMARK Recently Issued: Stamps
FAROE: Recently Issued Stamps, Booklets, Machine Stamps, FDCs
FINLAND Recently Issued: Stamps
GREENLAND: Recently Issued Stamps, Booklets, Machine Stamps, Maximum Cards
ICELAND Recently Issued: Stamps, Booklets
Norden Mythology Packs, Stamps, etc. 2004, 2006, 2008.
Book: International Polar Year book includes souvenir sheets from all 10 countries.
Book: Greenland Seen Through 50 Years of Stamps 1938-1988 Extremely interesting philatelic, historical, cultural, and anthropological book, all "illustrated" through Greenland's stamps.
An emailed-only 24 November 2009 E-News has been issued including information about Sweden's Travels in Space issue, Faroe and Greenland's machine stamps, and Throop's travels to the Bahamas. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
New on 3 November 2009:
Two great Slania Collections are available on the website. If you're looking to start collecting Slania engraved stamps, this is a great opportunity!
Early Greenland (Scott #1-40) and Early Faroe (Scott #2-6, including Type II overprints) have been reorganized and restocked.
Several unusual items that may be of interest have been added:
Icelandic Skilling Stamps (first issue)
Norway #1 with a Blue Grid / Bar cancellation
Norway Scott #1557 S/S "Posten / Bring" Standard officially issued Personalized Souvenir Sheet of two stamps
Greenland Pakke-Porto / Parcel Post Stamps have been added: "regular" bear stamps along with quite a few specialized items with scarcer printings/colors and plate varieties, including some of the officially reperforated stamps.
Regular Stamps
Gallery (high-quality & specialized stamps)
Bargains (small quality problems, great prices)
New Arrivals
New Price Lists are available as downloadable Acrobat PDF files for viewing on your computer or printing out and by postal mail. The lists include: Scandinavian Stamps; Scandinavian Specialized; Slania-Engraved & Greta Garbo; United States & Worldwide; United States Only; Scandinavian Year Packs.
Stamp Mount Cutter. This is the mount cutter we prefer to use in the office and with our personal collections.
Facit 2010 Scandinavia Specialized Catalog (In Color) are in stock and ready for immediate shipment.
An emailed-only 3 November 2009 E-News has been issued. If you do not receive the E-News, Subscribe now!
The complete listing of the price lists in order of addition (like the above) is here.
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New printed price lists of all -- and only -- the items on the website are available. The printed price lists do not include the illustrations. Due to the amount of work involved, the printed price lists are updated only every few weeks.
There are separate price lists for:
Each Scandinavian Country:
Aland
Danish West Indies
Denmark (including Slesvig)
Faroe
Finland (including Karelia and North Ingermanland)
Greenland
Iceland
Norway (does NOT yet include all "regular" stamps)
Sweden (does NOT yet include all "regular" stamps)
Slania-Engraved items (also Greta Garbo)
United States Stamps (and few covers)
Worldwide Stamps (and a few covers). Does not include U.S. or Scandinavia.
Scandinavian Philatelic Literature
Please only request the lists you actually need; they are very expensive to print and mail.
Please read this if you are in the U.S. or Canada or this if you are in another country. Then send an email and please specifically state if you want specific Scandinavian countries, Slania, United States, Worldwide, or Scandinavian philatelic literature price lists. (Repeated non-specific requests will probably be ignored.)
Please note that these lists only include what you see listed on this website and are provided simply as a convenience. If what you are seeking is not shown on the website, then please send your want list rather than just requesting a price list. (If it is not on the website, it won't be in the price list.) Clients who send want lists always have access to the freshest stock and new items as they come in.
For U.S. and Canadian Clients...
The first copy of printed price lists will be sent to U.S. and Canadian clients at no charge. Further updates can be sent, upon request, at no charge to those clients actively making purchases or who send want lists. Otherwise there may be a postage charge for further updates -- these lists cost several dollars each to print and mail.
For Overseas Clients...
Unfortunately, due to the large number of requests received from overseas people who seem to just collect "free price lists" -- and because a) all the information the lists contain is on this website and b) the overseas airmail postage cost is very high -- there will be a MINIMUM $10 shipping charge (payable by MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, cash, US$ check, etc.) for price lists sent to overseas addresses. A matching-amount credit voucher will be included with the price lists and will be valid only on purchases (totaling) at least five times the amount of the credit. Example: If the shipping cost is $10, you will receive a $10 credit which will be valid on a purchase of $50 or more.
Please email to inform me of the desired price lists and to learn the shipping cost for them. I will need to know exactly which price lists you wish to receive and I will need to know your COMPLETE POSTAL ADDRESS.
Once you have been informed of the shipping cost and if you wish to proceed....
To send shipping cost payment by PayPal, use the email address "paypal@JaySmith.com", use a subject of "Price List Shipping Payment" and be sure to indicate again the price lists you desire and include your complete postal address.
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Hidden in Plain View: Stamp Position Codes "The language of stamps" or the meaning of stamp positions on letters and post cards.
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| To meet my own need for catalog number concordances, I have finally started publishing comprehensive catalog number concordances for the Scandinavian countries. At this moment only DWI, Greenland, and Iceland are ready (the later two only up to 1995, so far). However, I will be preparing these bidirectional catalog number concordances for all the Scandinavian countries and eventually will include the other specialized catalogs as well. Reservations are welcomed. These are very inexpensive (considering the labor required to make them) and are published loose-leaf. An attractive binder is available. I intend to update the concordances annually; subscriptions are available. Though these have only been available for a few weeks, they have been a great hit. You will find them extremely useful! |
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Facit Specialized Catalog PAGES BY THE COUNTRY. |
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| These are genuine Facit Catalog pages, not copies (of course!). They are loose pages; please be aware that there is no room for binding -- you will have to figure out for yourself how to bind or otherwise manage them. The pricing is by country. There are sometimes conflicts involving back-to-back countries, thus I am offering the pages a number of different ways to compensate for this. Supply is very limited. If you have always wanted a Facit Catalog, but could not justify it for "just one country", this is your chance -- but you must act quickly. Here is more information about the Facit Scandinavian Specialized Catalog. |
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| Shopping Cart System and Secure Website for Credit Card Payment |
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| My shopping cart system is fully functional for almost all the price list pages. The cart system will be extended to the few remaining pages very soon. I also have a secure website for secure acceptance of credit card payments. You can use this method any time you wish to send your credit card information: for placing orders, making approval payments, or for updating new issue and Stender supplement credit card information, etc. I take the privacy and security of your information very seriously -- I never share your information with anybody for any reason. |
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| Scandinavian Philatelic Literature, including the Scandinavian Annual Catalogs |
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| The web versions of my philatelic literature price lists were last updated on 24 January 2012
and are the most current. Knowledge is the key to enjoying your collection and the key to buying wisely. View the listings live on the web or download the literature price list in PDF format. Let me know If you would prefer a printed copy sent by postal mail. |
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| Investment Opportunity Information |
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Jay Smith & Associates is offering to its clients an opportunity to invest in the company. If you might be interested in interest rates of 7% up to 16%, be sure to read the complete information and risk statement presented.
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| Our Stamp Show Schedule |
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APS AmeriStamp Expo 2012 (the "Winter" APS show)
This large annual stamp show in the U.S. is in a different part of the country every year during January or February; this year it is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
January 27-29, 2012
Cobb County Galleria Centre
Two Galleria Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia
We will attend and bring our stock. More information to follow.
For more information on the show, visit the website at:
http://stamps.org/AmeriStamp/Index.htm
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SPECIAL OFFERS!
GREAT VALUES!
Updated
24 January 2012
Scandinavia:
Philatelic
Literature
Collections
Used Albums
U.S. Stamps:
NH, Mint, and Used at great prices.
Collections
World Stamps:
Better stamps at great prices.
Collections
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SCANDINAVIAN PRICE LISTS BY POSTAL MAIL
Over 100 pages of price lists are available
by postal mail. While these will eventually also be available
on the web, I am not quite there yet. Request
your copy of the printed price lists today.
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SCANDINAVIAN PRICE LISTS ON THE
WEB Take a look at my specific country
price lists and topic price lists on
the web.
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Approvals are the best way to add to your collection.
If you prefer to examine stamps and compare them to your
collection, before you purchase, you will very much enjoy my
approval service. Send your want list today.
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Stender Scandinavian Stamp Albums
Albums made in Scandinavia, by Scandinavians make the most sense.
Well designed and attractive, these extremely price competitive
albums will make a great home for your collection. See the complete price list.
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I have added a Frequently Asked
Questions "FAQ" page for web site, computer, and Internet questions
as they relates to my site. I welcome your comments, input, suggestions,
corrections, etc.
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