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1855, Coat of Arms 4 skilling blue, nice fresh colour and large even margins, most unusually cancelled by circle of 10 horizontal ink lines, originating from a smaller letter-collecting office. Very fine and most attractive. Certificate F.C. Moldenhauer jr. (1987)

1855, Coat of arms 4 skilling blue, a magnificant lower right corner copy in fresh colour and with large margins including 8/8,5 mm sheet margins at right and bottom, used with clear circle of 11 bars on lettersheet with adjacent clear blue "BERGEN 5/3 1855" Trondheim. A beautiful and superb entire. Signed F.C. Moldenhauer in pencil with his certificate (1990) Provenance: 113. Auction E. Mohrmann (1963)

1855, Coat of arms 4 skilling blue, a marvellous horizontal strip of 6 with ample to mostly wide margins and in nice fresh colour, position D31-36, showing re-engraved corner on position 34, neatly cancelled and tied by circle of 12 bars to small envelope of the wellknown correspondance to "Fräulein Amalie Svensen, Leipzig" with frontside blue dispatch mark "BERGEN 6/7 1855" and adjacent boxed "Aus Dänemark". On reverse transit marks of Hamburg and arrival mark of July 11. Extremely fine and flawless condition. An outstanding first issue cover. Signed Herman Toaspern and Finn Aune with his certificate (2008) Provenance: Bernt J. Fossum (2004)

1856/57, Oskar 2 skilling orange-yellow and 8 skilling carmine in horizontal strip of 4, used with clear numerals "25" on small envelope from Bergen (Jul 20, 1858) to Paris via Hamburg and Thurn and Taxis post, correctly franked with 34 skilling. A fine and most attractive cover (some minor creasing in the envelope smoothed down). Certificate Enger BPP (2018)

1856/57, Oskar 2 skilling orange-yellow and 8 skilling carmine in horizontal pair, used with numeral "25" on cover from Bergen (Sep 3, 1857) with full contents to Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The letter is fully paid; the original endorsement "franco Hamburg" was changed in "franco". The franking slightly afixed over the top edge of the cover, but except of 2 shortish perfs of the right 8 skilling in fine condition. The earliest of just 4 recorded entires with the 18 skilling rate to Mecklenburg. Certificate Enger BPP (2018)

1856/57, Oskar 2 skilling orange-yellow, 4 skilling blue and 8 skilling carmine in horizontal strip of 3, all used with clear cds. "DRAMMEN 7 5 1860" on lettersheet via Hamburg to Purmerend, Holland with arrival mark of May 11. A most appealing entire in very fine condition. Certificate Enger BPP (2018)

1856/57, Oskar 3 skilling grey-violet in combination with 1863/67, coat of arms 4 skilling blue and horizontal pair 8 skilling rose, tied by cds. "RIISØER 18 8 1865" to lettersheet with transit marks "SANDØSUND 19 8 1865" and "NORWÈGE AMB. ERQUELINES" to Amiens, France. The 3 skilling stamps few short perf tips, otherwise very fine and fresh. Just 4 entires recorded with this franking. Certificate Enger BPP (2018)