Stamps

Scarcely seen properly postally forwarded ship mail postcard sent onboard an incoming ship from Denmark in 1967, franked with Swedish stamps that have been cancelled on arrival with a Reykjavík cds as well as the "Frá Danmörku" hand stamp.

• Lot: 61472

PAQUEBOT as well as TÓRSHAVN cds on ship mail cover from 1970.

• Lot: 61473

COD parcel card with 2 kr stamp sent to Reykjavík. Two ÍTREKAÐ handstamps on front.

• Lot: 61477

COD parcel card with 3 kr franking sent within Reykjavík. Two ÍTREKAÐ handstamps as well as a REBUTS return handstamp on front.

• Lot: 61478

Official parcel card sent by stock center of the national telephone monopoly in Reykjavik to the telephone/telegraph office at Gerdar in Gardur with numerous office handstamps of which one is the "BÍLPÓSTUR" marking.

• Lot: 61479

Cover cancelled LAUGARBAKKI with interesting return hand stamp "Þekkist ekki" (Not known).

• Lot: 61480

"J missing from REYKJAVÍK" in a machine cancellation on a fine commercial cover from 1981.

• Lot: 61481

"PÓSTUR OG SÍMI - LAUGAR" cashiers handstamp on a postal receipt from 1986.

• Lot: 61482

Machine cancellation WITHOUT PLACE NAME inserted, used for a short time in Garðabær around Christmas in 1994.

• Lot: 61483

• Lot: 61484

Unusual „Post Route Hike“ card from the 1999 hike bearing cancellations from all stops along the route from Reykjavík to Sandgerði (part of the route was covered each weekend for 5 weeks). Needless to say such cards are not common as hike-participants tended to be rather few.

• Lot: 61485

Cover with the Red Cross Christmas Charity seal of 2002 which is tied by the cancellation, the cover however missing a postage stamp. Through the years it seems that most such covers have been let through the system without charging the postage due, probably due to how busy the Post office personnel tended to be over the holidays. The stamp torn.

• Lot: 61489

Sjaldséð PÓLITÍSKT-SKOPMERKI bundið ásamt póstfrímerki á jólabréf frá árinu 2003 með póststimpli frá Vestmannaeyjum.

• Lot: 61490

Skemmtilega frímerkt flugpóstbréf til Kaupmannahafnar 1950, sent sem Express ábyrgðarbréf sem var alls ekki algengt á þessum tíma.

• Lot: 61496

Thorvaldsen seal tied by postal cancel on 1952 Christmas cover. The seal with a couple of wrinkles.

• Lot: 61497

THE THORVALDSEN'S SOCIETY The society's Christmas charity seal of the year 1952 together with a postage stamp from the Icelandic Post on a Christmas greeting postcard, both tied to the card by the postal cancellation.

• Lot: 61498

1959 Thorvaldsens Christmas Charity seal tied to the Christmas card by the postal cancel,

• Lot: 61499

Two different “Stóra Selsvör” cinderella labels by Pétur Salomónsson from 1960 affixed on a 1962 first day cover that bears one of his illustrations (cachets).

• Lot: 61500

Extremely rare CARITAS PAX Christmas charity seal TIED ON COVER from 1960 BY THE arrival CANCELLATION fro Gothenburg.

• Lot: 61501

Commemorative card with two Scout cinderella stamps issued for the "Vormót Hraunbúa" 1964 Jamboree.

• Lot: 61502

Oddfellow Christmas charity stamp from 1965 on an especially interesting cover sent to the United States before Christmas that same year. The cover eventually returned to the sender resulting in the charity seal being tied to the cover by one of the return handstamps.

• Lot: 61503