119 - BRIDGE CANCEL & X-MAS SEAL COVERS - Closing NOV 3rd at 2 PM GMT

Inland money letter for 4.000 kr even, sent from AKRANES, transit canc Selfoss as well as two wax seals on the back.

• Lot: 61441

COD parcel card sent within Reykjavík in 1969 franked with the unusual franking of e.g. a 10 kr University stamp from the 1961 souvenir sheet. Various return markings on front.

• Lot: 61442

Yellow COD type parcel card sent to the boarding school at Reykjanes (Ísafjardardjúp) with an 80 kr strike of a company franking machine in red. Scarce.

• Lot: 61443

Ballot cover from 1978 with the hand stamp of the CONSUL IN ODENSE.

• Lot: 61444

Cover sent to Sweden with Swedish stamps applied as postage due on arrival.

• Lot: 61445

1980 BALLOT COVER from the election when Ms. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was elected the first female president in the world, sent from the Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen.

• Lot: 61446

Registered express cover sent from Reykjavik to SOUTH AFRICA in 1984, arrival cancels on back.

• Lot: 61447

RARE Legal Summons cover from 2014 with mixed franking of krónur and gram values.

• Lot: 61448

Old telegram with a short Christmas greeting.

• Lot: 61449

3 covers with Iceland connections.

• Lot: 61450

Ballot cover with a wax seal of "Undirkjörstjórn 12".

• Lot: 61451

Pre-printed inter-office postal form inscribed DJÚPIVOGUR.

• Lot: 61452

Scarcely seen unused 175 aura light blue aerogramme which has been sold by the Post after having had a franking of 230 aurar added, in the form of a machine meter postmark in red ink. The meter mark dated 10.1.62.

• Lot: 61453

3 aur postal card used locally within Reykjavik in 1903 with the rare "Árdegis" handstamp.

• Lot: 61454

3/5 aur Christian X postal stationery card used locally within Reykjavík, meeting notification on back. Rounded corners.

• Lot: 61455

Postally used 35 kr postal stationery card with a 5 kr additional franking for the 40 kr rate, cancelled in Reykjavik in 2000. A yellow post office label asking the addressee to ask the sender to use the full and proper address on future mailings.

• Lot: 61456

EXCEPTIONAL small size Christmas card with a (tiny) miniature calendar for the year 1938 affixed as a decoration on front. With the calendar of course being usable to some extent, petty officials will presumably have demanded it to be taxed and therefore it has received the scarcely seen revenue/tax handstamp "ALMANAKSSJÓDUR" on one of the pages. An awesome item for an exhition collection due to it's size. RARE ITEM.

• Lot: 61457

Pre-printed cheque from Landsbanki Íslands, Reykjavík. The check is issued by Fiskveiðihlutafélagið Hængur in 1937. A 10 aur postage stamp has been affixed to the check, as was allowed instead of using a specially printed Greidslumerki fee stamp. The stamp then cancelled with the office hand stamp of the entity issuing the cheque. Cheques or invoices/receipts with such usages of stamps instead of Greidslumerki are scarcely seen. For reasons probably not easily proven, the former applies especially to those where the postage stamp has actually been cancelled (either by manuscript or hand stamp). My suspicions lean towards it being so that used postage stamps were often removed from such documents due to their (even if only miniscule) value, while unused stamps without gum were closer to being worthless. This stamp duty was charged on checks and invoices/receipts over 20 Icelandic krónur in value during the years 1935-1941. More details on this can be read in Þór Þorstein's book on Icelandic revenues and theis usages available in .pdf format on the website of the Icelandic Philatelic Federation: https://www.postsaga.is/is/baekur/thor-thorsteins/gjalda-og-sofnunarmerki-auk-stimpla-a-islandi

• Lot: 61458

Very rare piece of document with two Spanish consular revenues applied and cancelled at the Spanish Consulate in Reykjavík.

• Lot: 61459

• Lot: 61460

Incoming ship letter from LEITH, franked with a British 2 1/2 penny stamp first cancelled in transit in AKUREYRI before being forwarded to Laxárdalur near Húsavík. RARE ITEM.

• Lot: 61461