af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | aug 1, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Denmark’s fifth type of stamps were issued in the period from 1864-1870. They have a different design compared to the privious stamps. But they still have a crown, sword, and sceptre in the center and wavy-lined filling of the corners (wavy-lined spandrels). A...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | aug 1, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Denmark’s fourth type of stamps were issued in the period from 1858 to 1862. They have the same design as the stamps from 1854-57 i.e. with a crown, sword, and sceptre in the center. But they differed from the previous stamps by having wavy- lined filling of the...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 30, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Denmark’s third type of stamps were issued in the period from 1854 to 1857. They have the same design as the first stamp (4 RBS from 1851), i.e. with a crown, sword, and sceptre in the center and with dotted filling of the corners (dotted spandrels). A series of...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 30, 2023 | Stamp of the day
The 2 RBS (rigsbankskilling) stamp was the second Danish stamp issued 1 May 1851. The stamp was printed in blue on paper with watermark 1 (crown) using the denomination as the design. Like the 4 RBS stamp, it was first produced by the Ferslev printing house and later,...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 28, 2023 | Stamp of the day
The first postage stamps from Denmark were issued on 1 April 1851, by a law passed on 11 March. The first value was a four (Fire) rigsbankskilling (RBS) stamp printed in brown, a square design with a crown, sword, and sceptre in the center. This 4 RBS stamp was first...
