Comments: One of the true rarities of the Finnish Serpentine Issue. This is the 10 penni stamp usually issued in black but instead printed in the 5 penni color. Bright Fresh color and a beautiful, blue, centered Nyslott, 26 March 1871 cancel. In our opinion missing only one tooth tip. A very nice example of this rare stamp. Facit values a perfect stamp at 60,000 Swedish Krona or about $9,000USD. They rate a stamp with one or two teeth missing at 30,000 krona or $4,500.
Condition: Very Fine - especially for this issue. Oesch in his usual "discerning" way makes several comments about the stamp. While he admits to the fresh color and "nice" postmark, he marks the upper left and right corners as short teeth, but it is questionable whether there could really reasonably have been teeth there in any event. The one short perf on the right is a tip missing and has not cut the stamp border, while it does appear that the lower right corner perf is either creased or re-attached. Stamp is otherwise without defects and also signed on the back.

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