Collection: Current Weekly Auction - Closing Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 11:30 pm Atlantic Time

Welcome to our weekly unreserved auction! This week we complete the bird theme that was started last week, and offer a specialized modern Sweden theme as a special for this week, as Will is away until Monday next week.

Sweden is a really unique country to collect, and one which should be of special interest to those who like modern Canada. Why? Well, for starters, Sweden uses the same printing technology that BABN used to produce the integral booklets of the Centennial issue: the Goebel multicolour press. Secondly, Sweden is unique in the sense that it is the only country I know of that does NOT print stamps in sheets, and has not done since 1938! Every stamp is either a coil, or comes from a booklet. Therefore, the collecting of booklets is far more mainstream in Swedish philately, as there are NO plate blocks to collect for any issue after 1938. Finally, nearly all of the stamps issued prior to the 2000's are engraved by the great master engraver Czeslaw Slania. So, they are very beautiful stamps in general. They are thus, the only country I know of that has issued se-tenant coils of different designs, and lastly, like Canada they have used invisible DAVAC gum. But unlike Canada, they stuck with it, with DAVAC replacing PVA very soon after PVA was introduced to replace DEX gum.

We present you this week with an in-depth offering of Swedish booklets that starts with the Gustav V issues of 1916 and goes all the way to the early 2000's. In addition, we offer a comprehensive range of singles, including paper varieties, tagging varieties and coils with control numbers on the back, which occur on every 10th stamp in a coil roll. We have published an interesting blog post here, which discusses how the information gleaned from collecting and studying these booklets could be utilized to re-examine the booklets from the Centennial issue. 

Canada this week will be represented by a nice range of Provinces and some early issues. There will also be some nice British Commonwealth and earlier European material. 

There are 403 lots this week.  The first 230 are listed now, with the balance to follow tonight and probably tomorrow as well. 

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