Would you like to identify where your #4 Norwegian Oscar 4 skilling stamps belongs on the plate it was printed from? This tool will aid you. If you use this tool, please write a short comment on your experience. All reactions, ideas/comments etch., are very welcome.
Would you like to identify where your copies of the Norwegian 4 skilling stamps belongs on the plate it was printed from? This tool will aid you. If you use this tool, please write a short comment on your experience. All reactions, ideas/comments etch., are very welcome.
A short history of the Norwegian society and the introduction of prepaid (stamps) letters.
Classical stamps were in the beginning produced by machines using steam or force of hand. This created several flaws in the print on each sheet - creating beautiful puzzles for us to recreate.
Perforations on Scandinavian stamps suffered in the early period of classical stamps, with the production of the stamps as a manual process. The use of manual labour was the cheapest way to produce the stamps, since the volumes were not high enough to invest in more advanced equipment. In the 1860s in Norway they used handpressed bookprint production and a manual comb-perforation machine, imported from England.…
A steady hand, without the pressure of time and irritated customers waiting on you, made for straight precision cutouts of the oldest unperforated stamps with large margins. And we value this highly. But not all were perfect squares with that wide white frame around the stamp. Still eyecatching? The first Norwegian stamp was without perforations, and had to be cut out of the sheet before being…
https://stampcurious.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/nk28-color.mp41st of January 1877 the Norwegian Postal Department issued a new value of 25 øre, in a new series of posthorn stamps. This stamp was intended for single weight letters sent to far off countries, and is today usually found on covers sent to America (United States). The emigration to the United States started in the countryside, especially in inner fjords in western Norway and upper…
Occasionally you find a stamp issue more fascinating than most, and the Swedish 20-on-20 øre issue strikes me as such a stamp. An event forgotten and rediscovered decades later, and a story that gives the taste of the problems facing the printing of stamps in the 1870s. The cut-out stamps to the left shows a pair sent from Malmø 23.10 1875, with a very pale 20…
Being a collector looking for interesting postal use of stamps in the classical period, means having to be a bit lucky some times. Finding rare stamps in larger lots with thousands of others, seeing that small printing error and being the only one to do so, and just having plain and old-fashioned luck where no skill or cunning is involved. This find is one of the…
Already in 1857 the "Statsrevisjonen" indicated the production of a new series of stamps, and in 1860 we find references to printing tests made by Captain C.E. Schwenzen and his firm "Lithografisk officin i Christiania". The contract was signed 15. september 1862, ordering 8 million 4-skilling stamps. Since the Sweedish king Oscar I passed away during 1859, the stamp was designed to show the Norwegian lion…