Ended on Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 2:30 AM.

Thematik: Arktis / arctic: 1932 "Gerhard Folgerø" on Vikingship "Roald Amundsen": Cover from Saint P

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Start of the sale:
Monday, September 16, 2019 at 1:30 PM
Item n°838032403
Sale ends:
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 2:30 AM
Lot:
#08576
Catalog:
45. Christoph Gärtner Auction - 15. October 2019 - Single lots Overseas & Europe

1932 "Gerhard Folgerø" on Vikingship "Roald Amundsen": Cover from Saint Paul, Minn., U.S.A. to Bergen, Noway with typewritten note "This letter was carried from Saint Paul to Norway, in the Viking Ship, Roald Amundsen.", with cachet "VIKINGSHIP ROALD AMUNDSEN/over the sea" and with Captain Gerhard Folgero's signature, franked by US 1925 2c. black & carmine (Norwegian imigration ship "Restauration") tied by St. Paul '26 May 1932' duplex, and with Bergen '21.IX.32' arrival datestamp alongside. Additional 'franked' by Island 10a. brown without cancellation, fine. A very unusual and rare cover from Gerhard Folgero's passage with his Vikingship "Roald Amundsen" from Norway (1929/1930) to the U.S.A. on the Columbus Transatlantic route via Spain, the Canary Islands, Cuba and the Mississippi from New Orleans to Minneapolis (and his district Saint Paul), from where he started the way back to Norway in 1932.

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Thematik: Arktis / arctic: 1932 "Gerhard Folgerø" on Vikingship "Roald Amundsen": Cover from Saint P

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