The introduction of stamps in Norway
A short history of the Norwegian society and the introduction of prepaid (stamps) letters.
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December 14, 2020
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Plating NK 4, Oscar 4 skilling
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.
October 8, 2020
You enjoy jigsaw puzzles? Why not use your old stamps
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.
August 14, 2020
Perforation of stamps in the 1860s
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.…
July 27, 2020
The use of scissors in 1850s
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…
June 25, 2020
Plating tool for NK1 – the first Norwegian stamp
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.
May 15, 2020
Sunlight, the curse of classical stamps
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…
May 10, 2020
A tiny postal fraud in 1876
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…
April 6, 2020
Norway 1863 -1866 Coat of Arms
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…
April 3, 2020
Oscar I stamps 1857-1861
Nk 4 1856 The postal department expected the first stamp to last two years, and hence they initiated the process of making a new series of stamps already in 23rd of January 1855, just three weeks after the launch of the first stamp.Of notice, the letters also indicated a need for a denomination of 8 skilling, the double of the first stamp issued, indicating the use…
March 25, 2020