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Sweden 1856 the 1 Skilling Banco Black Local Stamp

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Black grey to Black Black grey to Black on Black grey to Black on
on thin paper medium thick paper medium thick paper

The introduction of 1 Skilling Banco The public was informed about the change on
Local Letter rate within Stockholm 2 January 1849. The income from the fees
A Royal letter of 22 December 1848 approved a (1 + 1 Skilling Banco) was divided between the post‐
proposal from the Swedish Post that it should be master of the arriving mails and the mailman.
possible for the public to send Local letter mail to A Royal letter dated 23 January 1856 specified that
addresses within Stockholm. Local letter mail should the manager of the department for letter box service
be handled by the department for arriving mail at the in Stockholm should order special stamps to be sold
Stockholm Post Office, which then would forward the to the public with the denomination 1 Skilling Banco.
mail using the existing local mail system. The manufacturing of the “1 Skilling Banco Black
The local letter mail rate was set to be 1 Skilling Local Stamp” was entrusted to the engraver and book
Banco for mail ≤ 4 lod (13,16g) to be paid by the printer Count Pehr Ambjörn Sparre in Stockholm.
sender. 1 Skilling Banco was to be paid by the The 1 Skilling Banco Black Local Stamp was released
addressee, or 1 + 1 Skilling Banco was fully prepaid by on 1 July 1856 and was to be used only on local letter
the sender. mail within Stockholm.

Local Letter rate 12.9.1856.