AR / ITEM / 00100428
Plate I
Treskilling Yellow
Swedish · maker unknown
The only known Swedish three-skilling stamp printed in yellow instead of green, found in 1886 and sold in 2010 to an international consortium.
- Date
- 1855
Record
Sweden issued its first stamps in 1855. In 1886 the young collector Georg Wilhelm Backman found this one on a cover in his grandmother's attic at Väster Munga near Västerås. After changing hands several times it was sold in 1894 by Sigmund Friedl to Philipp von Ferrary for 4,000 florins; at the sale of Ferrary's collection in the 1920s it went to Baron Eric Leijonhufvud. In the 1970s the Swedish Postal Museum called it a forgery, but two commissions found it genuine. It sold through David Feldman in 1984 for 977,500 Swiss francs, in 1990 for over $1 million, in 1996 for 2,880,000 Swiss francs and on 22 May 2010, in Geneva, to an international consortium, sold by a financial firm to settle the former owner's debts.
- Culture
- Swedish
- Origin
- Sweden
In the Tapestry
- Owned by · 1894–1917
- Philipp von FerraryAmedium confidence
Provenance and history
1886
Found by Georg Wilhelm Backman in his grandmother's atticA
At Väster Munga, north of Västerås.
1894
Sold to Philipp von Ferrary for 4,000 florinsA
1984
Sold by David Feldman for 977,500 Swiss francsA
1996
Sold for 2,880,000 Swiss francsA
22 May 2010
Sold by David Feldman in Geneva to an international consortiumA
Sources
- A
Wikipedia, 'Treskilling Yellow'
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