118 - COVERS / POSTAL HISTORY - Closing at 3 PM GMT on Oct 20th

Ship letter franked with a British stamp, mailed onboard a ship destined for Reykjavík and cancelled there before being sent onwards to the addressee in the UK.

• Lot: 61175

Ship letter to Norway franked with a pair of 10 aur Dynjandi stamps that have been cancelled EDINBURGH PAQUEBOT, Bergen arrival machine slogan cancel on back.

• Lot: 61176

Incoming collector's cover with stamps of the German Democratic Republic cancelled with boxed "Paquebot" of Reykjavik as well as a REYKJAVIK CDS from 1956.

• Lot: 61177

Ekta póstgengið skipsbréf póstlagt um borð í „M.S. GULLFOSS“ á leið til Gautaborgar til eins af áhafnarmeðlimum annars skips Eimskipafélagsins „M.S. REYKJAFOSS“ í Gautaborg, áætlunarhöfn Reykjafoss. Bréfið frímerkt með íslenskum merkjum sem stimpluð voru við komuna til Gautaborgar. Slík bréf sem ekki hafa verið útbúin af söfnurum eru sjaldséð.

• Lot: 61178

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: 61179

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

• Lot: 61180

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

• Lot: 61181

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

• Lot: 61182

• Lot: 61183

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: 61184

Scarcer first day cover (FDC) with the complete Matthías Jochumsson set from 1935. Facit 3.000.

• Lot: 61185

Complete set of the 1930 Parliament airmail issue on a registered airmail cover cancelled with Þingvellir pictorial celebration cancellation as well as a datestamp of 27.VI.30 alongside, addressed to Reykjavik.

• Lot: 61186

Leifur Eiriksson and the Discovery of Vinland (America) souvenir sheet on a first day cover from October 9th 1938.

• Lot: 61187

The first four values of the Geysir series on a first day cover (FDC) cancelled on April 1st 1938 (1.4.1938).

• Lot: 61188

First day cover with those values of fish/Geysir/Viking that were issued in 1943.

• Lot: 61189

Fish, Geysir & Karlsefni, scarcer first day cover (FDC) from 26.3.1945. Facit 1.700

• Lot: 61190

The first fish/flag stamps along with 40 aur Geysir on first day cover (FDC) dated 10.5.1939.

• Lot: 61191

Registered first day cover franked with the three values of the 1939 New York's World Fair (NYWF) issue that came out on April 30th 1939.

• Lot: 61192

Snorri Sturluson set of 1941 complete (3 values) on a beautiful first day cover (FDC) cancelled on 17.11.1941.

• Lot: 61193

"Heavily franked" first day cover (FDC) bearing the complete set of six (plus additional copies of some values) of the Jón Sigurðsson issue of 1944, cancelled with the Þingvellir pictorial cancellation and sent by registered mail to Reykjavík.

• Lot: 61194

Scarcely seen first day cover with A BLOCK OF FOUR of the 25 kr Parliament building stamp from 1952.

• Lot: 61195