Error Of Colour
[Specially written for “The Press” by KENNETH ANTHONY] QWEDEN’S first stamps, issued on July 1, 1855, were valued in “skilling banco,” the Swedish currency of the time. Just three years later the currency was reformed on decimal lines, and the stamps were altered accordingly. The new unit was the krone, divided into 100 ore—a system which has remained ever since. Because they were in use for a comparatively short time, the original “skilling banco” stamps are now rare. From this issue, too, comes the rarest of all European stamps, the 3 skilling banco error of colour, printed in yellow instead of blue-green. * In 1953, it was reported to have been sold to a Canadian collector for 36.000 dollars. A hundred years after the appearance of the first issue, an international stamp exhibition was held in Stockholm to celebrate the centenary, and a novel method was adopted of raising funds to pay for it.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30953, 8 January 1966, Page 17
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156Error Of Colour Press, Volume CV, Issue 30953, 8 January 1966, Page 17
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