1. Articles: Definitive Stamp Issues

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20 October 2016

A unique 20 öre stamp

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The 20 öre green blue/orange Posthorn from 1965 is a beautiful stamp. It is also pretty unique in some ways. First of all it was the first S...
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18 October 2016

Addresses can be tricky

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This letter was mailed on Friday 9 March 1945. It went via England and was examined by the censors there, the war was still going on. Anothe...
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12 October 2016

A letter at Christmas time

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The letter cover is really thin and grey, an old fashion ink pen was used and it looks like the sender maybe was a little bit uncomfortable ...
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29 June 2016

Furry bulky box

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Another domestic parcel address card. This time the parcel was filled with furs and it was bulky too. The furs were delivered from Tranås Fu...
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27 May 2016

Shoes

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Pretty much ordinary Here is another domestic parcel address card, but is it not something peculiar, something special with this card? - n...
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20 April 2016

Two seven kg

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Parcel address card variations This post is about two 7 kilo domestic parcels. The first one was sent on Thursday 11 April 1968. It was s...
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11 April 2016

Grand Hôtel

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Even Stockholm has a Grand Hotel, the most well-renowned and prestigious hotel in the capital. The luxurious hotel have had many famous gues...
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19 March 2016

The blue stamps of Gustav VI Adolf type III

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Why did they have to be blue? When you look at the Gustaf VI Adolf type I, II and III series an observation is that  some denominations ch...
15 March 2016

First violet, then blue and finally grey

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35 öre stamps of Gustaf VI Adolf type III series The  Gustaf VI Adolf definitive series was given a face-lift in 1961. It was the second t...
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9 March 2016

Missing addresses

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Something went wrong here, the red boarded white label to the left signals error . . . The company Sunne Textiles Inc. (Sunne Textil AB) ...
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4 March 2016

Relatives on 55th Street

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It seems like Mrs. Bertha Ahl mailed  a letter to a relative in New York City on Wednesday 9 March 1949. Maybe Mr. Walter E. Ahl was her bro...
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1 March 2016

Valuable books

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Businesses have to get their books reviewed at least annually. In the fall of 1968 the Stockholm based cooperative the Milk Central  (Mjölkc...
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22 February 2016

Air mail to Chicago

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Another post with two letters. Both letters were sent to Borg-Warner Corporation in Chicago, Il in the end of 1954. The first one was sent o...
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9 February 2016

Two letters to UK - 40 öre blue

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The first letter was sent by J. D. Viktor Bemfelt, Stockholm,  an electrical engineer to EMP Electric Ltd, London UK. Mr. Bemfeldt used ...
8 January 2016

Adding up to 1.40

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Traversing rates For more then nine years the postal rate for a Swedish domestic parcel weighing less than 1 kg was 1 kr and 40 öre. Ther...
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