Old christmas seals from Denmark
I try to limit my collection only to used wordwide stamps, but every once and awhile I place miscellanous “non-stamp” items to the back of my stockbooks. This post shows two old christmas seals from Denmark.
The 1934 seal shows the Christmas Seal Association’s Recreational Home “Lindersvold”. The stamps design was reproduced after a photograph. Seal was printed by Alfred Jacobsens Etablissement in a sheet of 50. Total print was 16,5 million stamps. Until 1935 the danish christmas seals were published each year around 1st December.
The 1935 seal has Holy Virgin with baby Jesus. The design is done by sculptor Utzon Franck. Once again the seal was printed by Alfred Jacobsens Etablissement. From 1936, christmas seals where published around mid-november. This seal was published on 15th November 1935 with total print of 16.5 million copies.
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You really did your research on who printed, and how many were issues, as well as the date the seals were released to the public. I have a small box full of used Danish Christmas seals from the first year (1904) and wish they had been left on cover. There must have been a time when they were considered better soaked off. Like Humpty Dumpty, the pieces can not be put back together again.
Hi John,
and thanks for the comment… I know that there was a time when soaked off was preferred. If I remember correctly, the tide started to change in 1960’s and nowadays it’s heavily weighted for full items instead of single soaked stamps.
PS. Checked your website. Looks great!
Keijo – I had the privilege to visit Aarhus, Denmark a few years ago. We visited Den Gamle By, the “old town” there in Aarhus. Displayed on the walls of one of the buildings is a large collection of recreations of Danish Christmas seals… looked to be complete. I loved the art on these stamps.
Best
Dell
Aarhus sounds like a great place to visit some day (whether or not the recreations are still there, LOL)