I found this recently and having a quick look at Michel I`d say this is a reprint of the 1855 #1 issue (1868, 1871 or 1885?) The original should be bluesih green, on thicker, greyish paper. The paper seems greysh, but I`m unsure about colour (Mi = ND hellgrün). I`d like to know other CV than Michel too (Mi prices usually higher for Europe than other catalogues). Any information about reprints?
WADMALATZ----Yours doesn't look like a reprint ,because it lacks the two clear distinctive features as listed in the FACIT catalog . Im not sure if it is your scanner or that stamp just lacks the details of the original stamp,so its a forgery in my view point .
Thanks for your replies. Floortrader, I don`t have Facit, so what are those `distinctive features`? Michel only states, that it should be perf 14 and the original comes for in a blueish-green colour (blaulichgrun, blaugrun, hellblaulichgrun). I have a new scanner, still learn to use it... but I agree that it seems a forgery. I only found this on ebay, listed as Yvert #1, but I wasn`t convinced: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sweden-1855...em3f0957e603
WADMALATZ--3 SKILLING BANCO---All the reprints of this value have two clear distinctive features: The letter "i" in SKILL has on its right a white dot or a short white line .The second is between "F" and "R" on left side a coloured dot or a short coloured line. ----from the FACIT catalog .
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