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Posted 02/11/2012   12:31 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add eaglebub7 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Welcome scanstamps!
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Posted 02/11/2012   12:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Scanstamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Just as a further illustration-- the Danish Bicolours DO, indeed, have a posthorn as part of the design:



For most collectors of Scandinavia, when you ask if they "collect Posthorns," you'd typically have them thinking you're talking about THIS series of stamps, from Norway:



Here's a piece of trivia, about those: Norway's posthorn series-- which made its debut in 1871-- is the world's longest running definitive stamp series. Although the designs have modified somewhat over the years, it remains the same basic motif, and is still in use today! In the photo, the stamp on the left was issued in 1877; the one on the right in 1978, over 100 years later.

~Peter
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Posted 02/12/2012   09:55 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add centerstage98 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Welcome - I have just started investigated those classic posthorn stamps and Scandanavia. I have started with Denmark and the wavy lines, though I definitely am interested in the posthorns, too. (One of my neighbors actually has a cool looking mailbox with a posthorn design on it!) Glad to know there is at least one expert here if I have questions.
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Welcome Scanstamps! I am right by in BC!
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Posted 02/20/2012   12:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Scanstamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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From centerstage98:
I have started with Denmark and the wavy lines, though I definitely am interested in the posthorns, too.


The Danish "Wavy Lines" design offers LOTS of possibilities to create a specialized collection; one version or another has been used in Denmark since the design was introduced in 1905. A lot of collectors stick with the pre-1930's versions, but the modern engraved versions have possibilities, too-- with plate flaws, tagged papers, double strikes and other goodies. And because these are/were "common definitives" very few cost more than a couple of dollars.

Have fun with your collection!

~Peter
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Posted 02/21/2012   03:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add finches to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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presided over by a small core group who competitively "grandstand" over "how much they know" about the most esoteric corners of stamp collecting.


Scanstamps, Yes, we have many members that are aware of that place and it's small band of hats on and off yes men.

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Wow cool, I am also from western washington state usa and I was going to ask a question about some denmark stamps- found this thread through search- I have no clue what I have here any help appreciated. All I know is Denmark from my little stamp finder booklet and an online worldwide stamp site, that doesn't give scott numbers, how or what to look for in different varieties not my area, I don't collect worldwide yet, I collect usa stamps and what I get of WW resell. So what do I have here? Anything worth selling on ebay?

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Posted 05/22/2014   01:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Puzzler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
LarryBruce,

I agree on Denmark also, and on this web site, http://www.stampedia.net/stamp/cata...P/DENMARK/en , after searching for the word Frimaerke (stamp in Danish), I found it is

1851 issue (emission).
4 Rigsdaler denomination.
The design is of Royal Emblems.

Konggeligt = Royal
Post = Post or Mail
Frimaerke = Stamp
Fire R.B.S. = Four and RBS I am not sure.
Post horns in the four corners

From my own stamps searching in other countries around this same time frame, the cancels are target cancels and a three-ring (3-ring) numeral cancel, with an 18 on it I think.

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Posted 05/22/2014   04:09 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add LarryBruce to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you Puzzler
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