Danish Classics, Show Them To Me.

Number 2 is much more problematic.
The following 3 stamps are what I think is Facit 2Ia.

The following 4 stamps, IMO, may be from Facit 2II printing.

The following 3 stamps are, I think, from Facit 2III family (1st from 2IIIA, 2nd and 3d from 2IIIB).

Finally, the next 2 stamps, IMO, are from Facit 2IV printing.








Sorry for occasional dog hair in the scans: dogs are everywhere...

your 2 RBS is thiele printing.. as far as I can tell from the picture a type 4.

and yes 4 RBS poses much more of a problem for most people.

the first 3 stamps are

facit 2 II (thiele I)
facit 2 (ferslev)
facit 2 II (thiele I)

an easy way to determine Ferslev is that the burelage is upwards on the paper, meaning you can see the burelage in the cancel. also most commonly cancelled with mute cancel and number cancel are rare.
thiele I is most common with number cancel but also comes with mute cancel less common.

next picture you have:

facit 2 II (thiele I) .. it's NOT a pemberton
facit 2 (ferslev)
facit 2 II (thiele I) ... PL 6 refers to plate 6, but these don't exist in more than 4 plates. so that info is wrong.
facit 4 a shade (yellowbrown)

next picture.

facit 3 dark red brown (thiele IIb)
facit 2 II (thiele I)
facit 2 II (thiele I)

last picture

facit 4 a shade - as noted a beautiful cancel a + value of around $25 (catalogue value(faultless stamp)) and yours is trimmed in the bottom
facit 4 either c or d shade from the picture i'd have to say d shade, but these are difficult to tell apart from pictures. it's definately not E shade


overall some nice stamps you have there, congrats on those and nice to see such a collection in america :)

Sorsh,

Thank you very much!
I'll make corrections on my tabs in collection.
I'll post some more images of my classic Denmark a bit later.

Mange tak!

I visited Denmark 2 or 3 times, been in Aalborg and in Hirshals (on my way to Iceland ferry), cris-crossed Copenhagen on foot several times: a beautiful city. Very clean, except, may be, the area adjacent to the main train station, though even there I found good hotels and restaurants.

There are many Muslims in Copenhagen now, and they are not as clean-living as native Danish people but they were not a problem usually, though I cannot really call their attitude "friendly". I like to drink the Muslim ayran (a slightly salty, watery kind of kefir), and I used to buy it in the Muslim shop near the train station. The people there looked at me as if I were a blue camel with pink stripes, and made some unhappy comments in their native language (Pushtu, if I was not mistaken).

If there were problems for me in Denmark, I would say prices were too high for almost everything. And, of course, the famous Jante Law mentality — but you know it.

The Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen is one of the best museums in the world! (Which I cannot say, unfortunately, about Thorvaldsens Museum — but that's my personal taste, I don't like his works as much as they are hyped up.

Denmark's, Iceland's and Norwegian oval stamps are among my fovourites. I still cannot find a decent example of 2 skilling perforated 12-1/2: it seems always to be damaged in lots offered for sale, or woefully overpriced.

I would love to see more of your Danish classics, as I am pretty new to them. I marvel at the knowledge of those who have been collecting these longer than I.

you're most welcome, and i'll be happy to assist with other things.. i'm not comfortable with the nowegian posthorn stamps, I have a collection but not really any special knowlegde on them
i have plated the icelandic oval stamp since they were printed the same place as danish bicoloured they're not that difficult to work with.. the problem would mainly be to get hold of decent material.

and yes, copenhagen is about as expensive as it gets... but happy you had some good experiences here.

the 2sk, if you're talking about the bicoloured one, is pretty rare in terms of how many were printed.



this was sold at an auktion couple of weeks ago for a price of around $850.

the problem is that it's lineperforated so more common than not perfs will be missing so this is a very nice copy indeed.

OK, Denmark No. 3 shouldn't be that difficult (I hope).

Two more Denmark No. 3 of Facit 3b shade (if I am not mistaken).

And three more of No. 3 of Facit 3c shade...

sorry. but those are impossible, it's all a matter of tiny color variations, the only way to do it is to have alot, and have them at hand.

but the general rule on these, is every cancel besides number 1 is worth buying at normal rates. since these were mostly used for foot post in copenhagen.

they are one of my favorite stamps -pretty color :)

Sorsh,

Thank you. I wondered, why these 2sk blue stamps almost always carry "1" postmark; now I know!

No. 4 is one of most common classic stamps of Denmark.

I recently sold most of my No. 4 duplicates, and what's left are, IMO, best examples.

I would appreciate any corrections or comments on these, of course.

Here are two examples of Facit 4a.