Tre Skilling Banco misprint

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Tre Skilling Banco misprint
Tre Skilling Banco (Yellow Misprint)
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country Sweden
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First day July 1, 1855
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colour Yellow misprint
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Tre Skilling Banco (original print)

The Tre Skilling Banco misprint is one of the rarest and most expensive stamps in the world. The stamp was issued in Sweden on July 1, 1855 . A single copy has survived to this day.

The stamp was part of Sweden's first stamp series from 1855. This consisted of five values ​​of 3, 4, 6, 8 and 24 Skilling Banco . The motif of the series shows the Swedish coat of arms , which is surrounded by the inscription Frimärke , the country name and the value. The executed design came from PA Sparre. The postage stamps were made in letterpress printing . Now it happened, however, that an unknown number of 3-skilling values ​​were printed in the color of the 8-skilling value. They were therefore yellow-orange instead of green. This misprint went unnoticed, however.

In 1886 the young collector Georg Wilhelm Baeckman discovered a copy of the misprint in his grandmother's attic . He sold the stamp for 7 crowns to the stamp dealer Heinrich Lichtenstein. After numerous other changes of ownership, it finally fell into the hands of the Viennese stamp dealer Sigmund Friedl . He sold the Tre Skilling Banco for 4,000 guilders in 1894 to the famous collector Philipp von Ferrary . In the wake of the French government's dissolution of Ferrary's collection after the First World War , the Tre Skilling Banco was bought by Baron Erik Leijonhufvud at a Ferrary auction. A short time later he resold his stamp for £ 1,500 to the Swedish philatelist Claes A. Tamm. In 1937 the Tre Skilling Banco found a new owner in King Charles II of Romania for £ 5,000 through the London auction house HR Harmer. René Berlingin bought it for an unknown amount in 1950 .

In 1984 the Swedish misprint changed hands again. David Feldman was able to call it his own for 977,500 Swiss francs. In 1996 he brought in an amount of 2.5 million Swiss francs (1.6 million euros) at an auction in Geneva . On May 22, 2010, the stamp was auctioned again at the David Feldman auction house in Geneva. Buyer and purchase price were not disclosed. In May 2013, the Swedish entrepreneur Gustaf Douglas acquired the misprint for an undisclosed price.

literature

  • LN Williams: Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps. Volume 1 The Stories. Feldman, Geneva 1993, ISBN 0-89192-435-3 , pp. 257-264
  • LN Williams: Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps. Volume 2 The Biographies. Feldman, Geneva 1997, ISBN 2-9700125-1-0 , pp. 165 f
  • Deutsche Briefmarken-Review issue No. 5/2005, p. 45
  • L. Flimmerstad: The Yellow Treskilling (German edition), Stockholm 2005, 186 pages, ISBN 91-975456-0-0
  • The 3 Skilling Banco yellow In: Julius Kaufmann: Twelve famous postage stamps. Self-published, Tel Aviv 1960, pp. 135-139

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