Det Danske Spejderkorps jubilee label — oak and fleur-de-lis
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1959.DNK.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- 50th anniversary of Det Danske Spejderkorps
1959.DNK.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Denmark (DNK)- Year / date
- 1959
- 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
- Green, light green, red and yellow
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Production
- Printer
- Beckers Papirindustri
- Printing
- Lithography
Notes
Oak tree with a red trunk against a light-green canopy carrying the Scout fleur-de-lis, the year 1959 in yellow either side of the trunk and 1909 on an acorn at its foot, DET DANSKE SPEJDERKORPS across the base. Printer's imprint in the lower margin: MÆRKAT Indr. 10550 · BECKERS PAPIRIND.
Series history
A jubilee label — mærkat in Danish — issued in 1959 for the fiftieth anniversary of Det Danske Spejderkorps, the Danish Scout Corps. It carries no face value and no catalogue number: this is a cinderella, sold to raise funds and to be stuck on correspondence beside the postage, and the copy held here is cancelled, so it was used that way.
The design is an oak with a red trunk rising against a pale green canopy in which the Scout fleur-de-lis is set, the year 1959 in yellow to either side of the trunk and 1909 on an acorn at its foot, with DET DANSKE SPEJDERKORPS along the base. The lower margin carries the producer's imprint, MÆRKAT Indr. 10550 · BECKERS PAPIRIND., for Beckers Papirindustri.
The two dates need a word of explanation. Det Danske Spejderkorps was formally constituted on 16 December 1910, but the corps has always counted its founding from 19 November 1909, when Scouting was first organised in Denmark — so 1959 was its jubilee year rather than 1960.
Colnect files this label under a broad heading for the St. George's Guild in Denmark, which collects Danish Scout and Guide labels of many kinds; the label itself names the Scout Corps, and it is catalogued here under that. It joins the run of Danish cinderellas already in the catalogue, from the Carl Lønberg advertising label of 1913 through the camp-fund labels of 1920 and the Sct. Georgs-gilderne label of 1930.