A Swedish 12 øre Ringtyp on envelope, cancelled "Sparreholm 3.7.1882" and sent to Lieutenant and first Officer Wilhelm von Eckermann on board the Swedish gunship "Urd", Tromsø. "Urd" was carrying the Swedish First International Polar Year expedition to Cape Thordsen in Isfjord, Spitsbergen. Transit cds "Christiania 5.7.82" at the front, and on reverse two "Stockholm 3.7.82" and one Swedish railway cds. Little polar postal history known from the First International Polar Year.

A Swedish 12 øre Ringtyp on envelope, cancelled "Sparreholm 3.7.1882" and sent to Lieutenant and first Officer Wilhelm von Eckermann on board the Swedish gunship "Urd", Tromsø. "Urd" was carrying the Swedish First International Polar Year expedition to Cape Thordsen in Isfjord, Spitsbergen. Transit cds "Christiania 5.7.82" at the front, and on reverse two "Stockholm 3.7.82" and one Swedish railway cds. Little polar postal history known from the First International Polar Year.