In my spare time, I collect mint Danish stamps and associated "stuff". My interests include:

• advertising stamps (reklam mærker) - panes and complete booklets
• booklets
• classical stamps & back-of-the-book
• encased postage (frimærkepenge)
• marginal numbers, hand written, on Christian IX and Frederik VIII stamps (see below)
• local post from Fyn (Odense & Svendborg)
• postal stationery (aerograms, korrespondensekort, & wrappers)

A listing of my own holdings of philatelic literature, concentrated on Danish subjects, is here. I am not a dealer and have nothing for sale, but I'd be happy to provide Xerox copies of short exerpts of anything of interest.

In chasing down various arcane philatelic interests, I have occasion to find various libraries with good Danish philatelic holdings. In order to save some of you time, I have compiled a list of libraries that I have found useful.

I have compiled a short glossary of Danish terms which one finds in various stamp catalogs. I hope this makes things a bit easier to root around in catalogs!

My meager, but hopefully growing, philatelic curriculum vitae including my list of publications is also included.

As a sample of my interests, here are a few odds and ends of somewhat less usual material in my collection:

• Here is a small sample of my collection (all these are duplicates) of frimaerkepenge. The images are large, and the notations on the right are catalog numbers using Jørgen Sømod's numbering system: frimærkepenge1, and frimærkepenge2
• Here is a scan of some fourblocks with a hand written, but engraved, plate numbers. An article on this subject seems to be developing. I also have several examples of the the small figure plate numbers,. I haven't done much with these as yet, and would appreciate any information , or references to information, that anyone might have on them.
• Here is a scan of some proofs of Danish returmærker, and a full sheet of the same. Maybe I'll get the regular issues up some day too.
• Danish korresponcencekort are also one of my interests, and here is a scan of Ringstrøm #51B, oplag 68, which is the only known unused example. There is also a single used example known. (NB The image is large for clarity.)

And here is my manko (want) list!

Some interesting and useful philatelic links are:

• DFF, Danmarks Filatelist Forbund
• KPK, the Copenhagen Stamp Club
• Toke Nørby's website, that has a wealth of information about Danish stamps and lots of interesting links, including other collectors' want lists.
• PostDanmark, the Danish Postal Service
• The American Scandinavian Collectors Club
• Jørgen Sømod's website, which contains a good deal of information about frimærkepenge

This part of the website is just under development, but I hope things will improve!

E-mail: sabin@qtp.ufl.edu
Phone: +1 (352) 392-1597
Fax: +1 (352) 392-8722

Last modified: 03.03.2003