Second last day for Royal Airforce mail to be cancelled with the "FPO 526" cds (April 5th 1943) before they started using the "RAF 001" cds on April 6th 1943 on a very clean little cover sent to England.
"SKILDING COVER“ - from 1875 where the skilding stamp has regretfully been cut off. The cover is sent to the district doctor Páll Jakob Blöndal in (Stafholtsey in Borgarfjörður, d. 1903) and based on the recipient's penciled note on the front, the sender was the district doctor in Ísafjörður, Þorvaldur Jónsson. The letter is postmarked SVEINSTAÐIR 10.11 and HJARÐARHOLT 21.11 on the front.
Lot: 62112
ISK 32,000.00
No. of bids: 11
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1907 - Iceland - Stamp
Interesting incoming postcard from the United Kingdom written in ESPERANTO, Esperanto label on the address side.
Lot: 62113
ISK 5,000.00
No. of bids: 1
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1914 - Iceland - Cover
20 aur Frederik VIII on a commercial cover sent by a Reykjavík merchant to Germany in 1914. On the reverse is the merchant’s oval letter seal.
Incoming German parcel card from 1929 sent business to business to a company in Reykjavík, unfranked. Copenhagen transit cancel on back and a faint Reykjavik arrival cancel on front.
Well preserved parcel card for a 750 gram packet sent as COD from Reykjavik to Þingeyri in Dýrafjörður in 1931. Franked with a 1 kr Christian X stamp from the first issue as well as a 20 aur Museum building stamp and cancelled with the CDS of the Reykjavik customs post office.
Lot: 62119
ISK 18,000.00
No. of bids: 1
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1933 - Iceland - Cover
COVER TO POLAND 1933 - Cover sent by from the renowned amateur photographer Hjálmar R. Bárðarson in Ísafjörður, possibly sent as a shipletter (posted at portside) in Ísafjörður as the cover is cancelled in AKUREYRI. Cancelled CZERWIN and WARSZAWA prior to being returned to the sender. Two filing holes at left.
Lot: 62120
ISK 8,000.00
No. of bids: 4
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1938 - Iceland - Cover
Registered cover sent to France in 1938 franked with e.g. a 25 aur University stamp. Half of the reverse has been removed.
Lot: 62121
ISK 3,000.00
No. of bids: 1
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1950 - Iceland - Cover
Skemmtilega frímerkt flugpóstbréf til Kaupmannahafnar 1950, sent sem Express ábyrgðarbréf sem var alls ekki algengt á þessum tíma.