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translation:
Your post is filled with secret symbols - have you seen them?
March 18, 2016 Thomas Nielsen
Small cats, self portraits and generous voters on stamps are both fun and a protection against falsehood.
Danish stamps are filled with subtleties that are hidden from the naked eye and can only be seen with a powerful magnifying glass.
There is no official overview of how many Danish stamps are found with hidden messages, but it is more than 100.
"One example is four stamps with ferries, where little cats are engraved," explains Peter Schweizer, educated in the graphic industry, and is expert in finding the small 'invisible' symbols.
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According to him, the tradition began with the Swedish stamp graveyard Czes#322;aw S#322;ania, which among other things has engraved 241 Danish stamps. The first time he put his humorous touch on a stamp, was in Sweden in 1973 in connection with Vasaløbet. On the stamp he has portrayed himself along with the thousands of other participants in the race.
It requires an unusual precision to engrave a stamp. Nevertheless, the engravers use extra time to put their marks on the marks. Today, according to Peter Schweizer, Norwegian Martin Mörck is the champion in the microscopic subtleties.
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"I think it's something all the engravers have done at some point. There have been less lucky examples in the United States, but it's mostly humorous features, "he says, highlighting one of his own engravings:
"I engraved a Swedish mini-sheet for the World Cup in 1994, where I am sitting among the audience with a model of my sailing boat in my arms."
Alvor in the joke
At Postnord, which publishes the stamps in Denmark and Sweden, you know the 'invisibilities', and you do not see them like a joke.
»If you try to copy a stamp with a very small symbol, it will not appear in the copy, and it will quickly detect a fake. The graves look like fun, but there are serious signs of the symbols, "says Martin Pingel, Design Director for Postnord. He does not want to reveal how many stamps there are exactly with secret messages, but he estimates that there will be two to three pieces a year.
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