New Stampcollector From Denmark

Hey to all of you

Nice to join a community with common interest.

I signed up yesterday, guess it is time to say hey.

I have been collecting stamps for 53 years, the good thing being of age is I sometime discover stamp I did not know I had, the long-time memory is not what it used to be
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I collect Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Island, Germany, France, Belgium and I specialised in Christian X of Denmark before 1933 the book prints periods I do not collect the two-coloured Chr. X. I leave that to others.

Looking forward to reading the topic in the Stamp Forum

Welcome. Enjoy your time here.
Long-time memory is overrated.

Welcome.
Don

Welcome Viking123

I also collect Denmark and have most exept early definitives
from circa 1940 to 1990.
Collected mainly for the engraved stamps especially Slania but
stopped when they changed over to multicolour litho issues.

Thank you Rob Roy, 51 studebaker for the welcome.

@lithograving

I understand why you stopped in 1990, I stopped collecting engravede danish stamp in in 2000 and collect the early Danish stamps from 1851 to 1931. Belgium from 1849 to 1950. Germany also from 1872 to 1950.

Sweden, Norway, Iceland,Faroe Island, Greenland, Germany, Holland, France, Estland Letland, Lithuania, England I just collect because they once was part of Denmark
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Velkommen

I also collect Denmark (my grandparents immigrated from there). It was lots of fun visiting our relatives in 1975, with my parents, when I was stationed in Pirmasens, Germany. My dad couldn't speak Danish, and my uncle couldn't speak English, so we had to get by with my mediocre (at that time) German. We had a great visit and I have many fond memories of Denmark.

John

Hej John

Tak skal du have.

My dad was in the 101'st Airborne division, English wasn't unfamiliar to my brother and I that helped a lot when my family from Wales and Scotland visited. Speaking German is not that easy because of the grammar I speak English rather than German.

It is a small world.

The only reason my uncle knew German was that he was in the Danish resistance during the occupation and was captured by the Gestapo. He thankfully survived that experience. I've always thought it was a funny scenario - three Americans visiting Danish relatives and communicating (only) in German...

I forget the town name now, but it was near Vejle. What a lovely country.

John

@John

Well I grew up at a farm only 30 km from Vejle.

Gestapo was a bounch of sadist,glad your uncle survievede. Most of the people joining the Danish resistance, was either send to a KZ-Camp or shot after interrogation and torture when caught or would stay in a cell for a long time and then shot or send to a KZ-camp.

Perhaps you knew some of our folks. My surname is Knudsen.

John

For everyone else: A little bit of Danish-American humor. Knudsen is as common a surname in Denmark as Smith is here...

Welcome!

Dale

Viking123,

Enjoy having fun with stamps! That is the name of this game.

Collecting for the enjoyment of collecting, whatever that might be, is the name of the game. Don't hesitate to ask questions especially if you need basic information and especially more advanced sources of information for any possible topic. You should be able to find folks on this board a little further along on their collecting journey glad to share experiences.

My personal bias is a used stamp loses the story of its journey in the postal service when it is removed from the cover it transported to its destination. Collecting postal history adds a whole new aspect to your journey in our hobby.

Wishing you many enjoyable future days in our hobby. Russ

Thank you Statesman Stamper

@hoosierboy Russ

Thank you for the welcome.

Personally I think that loose stamps do not loose the story. After my opinion, you can look at the stamp issue, why is the stamp made? hyat type of postal stamp is on your stamp, is there more than one print. etc. I seen single stamp send as mail with the text on the back side, they call it the smallest letter that can be delivered.

Today stamps are printed to exployed stampcollector in the 1840-1940 stamps was printed for a purpose to send a letter from A to B and maybe to A via B to C.

I have a couple of hundreds books related to stamp collecting, litterature is the main source to knowledge, if i'm in doubt be sure I will ask.

Unfortunally I can not show you some of my postal cards and letters my image server Img code is not supported by this side, so I see what else I can find out there that correspond here and is safe to use. 300 Kb for Cards and letters, do not show the details.

Wasn't there a Knudsen on the Kon Tiki?

I don't think so. Perhaps you are thinking of Knut Magne Haugland from Norway, who was the longest surviving member of the original crew.

John

Welcome to the forum!

- Lance