KFUK-Spejdernes Landsudstilling, Forum København — exhibition label
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1938.DNK.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- KFUK-Spejderne national exhibition
1938.DNK.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Denmark (DNK)- Year / date
- 1938-05
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- No face value
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Cinderella
- Colors
- Yellow, green, red and black
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- PerforationsHole gauge between stamps (e.g. 12, 13½). Higher ≈ finer.
- Imperforate
- Printing
- Lithography
Notes
A Guide in green blouse and dark skirt standing on a plinth with her arms flung wide, a triangular tent bearing the KFUK trefoil above her head and a row of Danish flags at the lower left. KFUK-SPEJDERNES LANDS-UDSTILLING across the head with the dates 24. 25. og 26. MAJ 1938, FORUM · KØBENHAVN on the plinth, and a vertical slogan beginning BENYT LU— down the right margin, trimmed at the edge. Printer's imprint of Andersen & Bruun in the lower margin. The copy held is used, with a cancellation across it.
Series history
An advertising label for the KFUK-Spejdernes Landsudstilling — the national exhibition of the KFUK Guides — held at the Forum in Copenhagen on 24, 25 and 26 May 1938.
KFUK is Kristelig Forening for Unge Kvinder, the Danish YWCA, and its Guide branch is the association known today as De Grønne Pigespejdere, the Green Girl Guides. The same organisation appears in this catalogue sixteen years earlier, on the K.F.U.K.s Spejdere label of 1922.
The exhibition brought together displays from Guide towns across Denmark, each showing what was particular to it, and its most remembered feature was a wall hung with eight thousand dolls dressed in Guide uniform. It was also a fundraiser with a purpose: the takings bought the property that became Spejderbakken, the association's leader-training centre.
The label shows a Guide on a plinth with her arms flung wide beneath a triangular tent carrying the KFUK trefoil, Danish flags massed at her feet, the whole in yellow, green and red. Andersen & Bruun printed it; the copy held is used and cancelled, so it travelled on mail as intended. It carries no face value and no catalogue number — a cinderella, like the run of Danish Scout and Guide labels already in this catalogue from 1913 onwards.