The main object of this exhibit is to show the different use of postal services in Iceland and different censoring and routes for the civil post during WW II.
This exhibit goal: Is to show the usage of the Icelandic Crown Cancels, mainly during the period of 1894-1903, different types along with names of the offices they were used at, for canceling stamps or as a transit cancellation. Noted are information on Postal Rates and cancels changes. The exhibits plan is by cancel type and then mostly in alphabetical order.
The purpose of this collection is to show the postal history of foreign military forces occupying Iceland during World War II. It includes examples of mail from the various military post offices operating throughout Iceland and shows types of correspondence which were used during the war.
Svart hvít ljósrit af bréfum úr Þjóðskjalasafni sem sýnd voru á Frímerkjasýningunni NORDIA 91. Í sýningunni eru bréf fyrir tíma frímerkjanna, skildingabréf, aurabréf og bréf með Kristjáni IX. bæði venjuleg- og þjónustu bréf.
8 issues of Charity stamps have been issued in Iceland with the total of 22 stamps. They are all shown in this exhibit.
The premium over the postal value varies from 10% to 100% with the average of 20%.
These stamps were not commonly used on regular mail and are extremely rare on parcel cards, like on page 6 in this exhibit.
Why were they not used on regular mail? Perhaps the author of an article in the “Frímerki“ a Magazine for Stamp Collectors, issue 2 in December 1957 appointed.
It was mostly Collectors and Stamp Dealers that purchased the stamps from the Post Office. The Public was not aware of these stamps and they were poorly advertised. The author, probably Finnur Kolbeinsson, Magni R. Magnússon or Þórður Guðjohnsen, the publishers, blamed it on the beneficiaries of the issues. They should have pushed the stamps and organized a well advertised event by motivating children and other volunteers to sell the stamps by offering them by walking door to door. They even offered a free advertising in their magazine. Up to one whole page for each event.
Exhibited in Copenhagen October 2019.
The collection covers both south and north of Þingeyjarsýsla (county), as it is one area. The collection is mainly arranged as follows:
lt begins with prephilatelic letters, although the first one was not delivered by postal mail, but sent by a merchant vesselto copenhagen. Another letter is addressed to Raufarhöfn, but was not picked up and therefore returned to sender (two such letters are known on the free market). The third letter was unstamped and dates back to 1873' lt such a letter was labeled "Public Affairs", as this one, it fulfilled the conditions to make it legal' ln addition, the collection contains a variety of mailed letters, postcards and single stamps with legible cancels from all Post offices (Po) and collecting offices (co) from 1873 to 1944, which had been assigned their own cancellations. Those have mainly been categorized by the duration these offices were operated, but due to the scope of the exhibit, the rule is slightly broken.