BOYSCOUTS - Savings stamp - Complete sheet of six 5 kr savings stamps (dark blue print on red paper) for participation in the 1948 Scout Jamboree at Þingvellir (Thingvellir). The sheet is mint never hinged and is extremely well preserved. Only a very few such sheets are known to have survived.
Lot: SkatarSpariÖrk5kr
Price ISK 18,000.00
ca 1905 - Iceland - 1 - Cover
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.
FÁSKRÚÐSFJÖRÐUR B1b on domestic cover from 1922 franked with a scarcely seen non-philatelic franking of two different 5 aur provisional stamps along with a 10 aur Christian X stamp.
ÍSAFJÖRÐUR B2c1 on a domestic money letter in the amount of 50 kr. The cover franked with a pair of blue 40 aur Christian X stamps. Reykjavik arrival cancel as well as five wax seals on back.
34 (Höskuldsstaðir) on a 1923 money letter in the amount of 10 kr, franked with four copies of brown 20 aur Christian X stamps and sent to Reykjavik. Five wax seals as well as a DJÚPIVOGUR transit and REYKJAVIK arrival cancels on back.
5 aur stamp in perf 13 with small "þrír" overprint on printed circular cancelled in Reykjavík on 11.11.97 and arrival cancelled with HAFNARFJÖRÐUR C1 crown cancel on front.
HoLT C1, exceptional transit strikes of the cancel on each side of a cover (stamp regretfully cut off) sent to Önundarfjörður in the 1890s. Further transit cancels from BÆR and ÍSAFJÖRÐUR.