Denmark

Unpaid letter sent from Copenhagen 21 March 1801 to Laurvig, Norway. With list no. 57 – 9 noted on the reverse. 9ß due by addressee for the postage. This is a great historical letter, written just days before Admiral Lord Nelson Fleet arrived at Copenhagen Middelgrund on 1 April. Already the 2 of April in the afternoon, the Danish King accepted the Armistace, already more than 2000 soldiers has died at that time. The letter mention the arrival of an English frigate and that the war seems unavoidable and all forces are joined to prepare for defense.

Money Letter from lottery agent Bruun in Nyborg sent between 1 Feb – 6 Aug 1813 to Bie, Copenhagen. Contained - Heruid 85 Rbd: 12ß D: C: - and royal insignia Fr.VI, and with closed with three red wax seals, two post office seals – NYBORG FR VI – and Bruuns own wax seal. Postage noted on reverse – 2 – 9 – list no. 2 and postage 9 Rbß for 1-100 Rbdlr.: 9 Rbß. Description can be found on Toke Nørby’s website.

Entire from Troense near Svendborg 6 March 1821 to Schiedam, The Netherlands. On front with town manuscript – Svendborg - Prepaid to Hamburg – frit Hamburg – Due in Schiedam – 10 – Stuiver. List No. 1 from Svendborg, transit mark HAMBURG on entry to The Netherlands.

Prepaid letter from Copenhagen 5 September 1848 to Mandal, Norway. Routing instruction – Via Nyborg & Norsk Dampskib -. Postal rates breakdown noted on the top of the letter 42 – 26 – 6. The route via Nyborg is rather unusual.

Local registered letter carried by Copenhagen Foot Post sent 29 April 1874, bearing two 4 sk. X printing and a single 2 sk. VIII printing bicoloured issue, tied by Copenhagen numeral “1” alongside Oval FP mark. List no. 249. 2 sk. local rate plus 8 sk. registration fee, total 10 sk. Local registered skilling letters are very unusual

Airmail card sent from Stettin to Copenhagen 1 June 1926 and charged “100” øre due by the addressee and a 1 Kr. Due stamp affixed. Unusual combination of airmail and 1 kr. postage due stamp.

Royal Service “K.T. m.a.” sent from Frederikshavn to Skagen 6 May 1862, also 5 May CDS showing date for receiving at the post. On front a red circled “O” showing a control for the weight, usually it's a red line across the letter.

Registered double rate letter sent from Copenhagen to Paris 23 July 1854. Total charge 77 sk. - 17 sk. Danish (9 sk. + 8 sk. registration fee) and 60 sk. foreign share = 14 Sgr. The letter has been sent only a week after the new postal rates as of 15.7.1854.

Letter sent from Copenhagen to Bahia, Brazil 2 February 1854. Foreign share 73 sk. = - Danish share 9 sk., total 82 sk. - Postage due 240 reis.

FIRE Rigsbankskiling Ferslew printing on foot-post letter from to Slagelse September 6, 1851 alongside oval foot-post mark in blue. Letters with 4 RBS stamps to the province of Denmark are rather unusual to find.

Letter from the small substation (MPX) of Stokkemarke to Nakskov 1 December 1852 franked with 4 RBS Thiele I. Stokkemarke opened 1 April 1851 and were a MPX to Maribo. Since MPX were not allocated c.d.s.'s it used ink to cancel stamps and manuscript ”Stk. 1/12 52.-” instead. The MPX of Stokkemarke were paid by Maribo to run the office. A fine proof to the postal historian to explain the activities of the small substations on the country side. Ex. J. Schmidt-Andersen. Unique.

"Letter sent from Copenhagen to Hillerød 12 July 1858-62 and at the front endorsed “pr. Deligencen” "mail coach", a very scarce endorsement on Danish letters."

Letter sent from Søllested to Nykjøbing 17 December 1864, bearing a 4 sk. Arms issue tied by numeral “110” alongside 1-line mark “STOKKEMARKE 18/12 64”. Rare in such a appealing qualilty.

2 Rigsbankskilling Thiele printing plate I, pos. 63, type 3 with even margins and a nicely placed cancel in the corner leaving most of the stamp design visisble and rare in this condition as the instruction was to cancel the stamp with the most of the cancel on the stamp itself.

Air Mail service erected due to frozen waters at Storebælt on 7th February to Aarhus. Letter sent from Copenhagen 7 February 1922 to Aarhus bearing two 20 øre Christian X issue, paying 20 øre letter rate and 20 øre surcharge for the Air mail surcharge. The plane flew between Aarhus-Samsø and Kalundborg. The Air Force established a tent camp at Gisseløre near Kalundborg and an “Airport” was made directly on the ice, Airmail label 87x13 mm. First Day of Ice Air mail service. The flights from Kalundborg-Aarhus-Kalundborg made a stop at Samsø, flown by pilot Bjarkov.

Parcel letter (Adressebrev) 7,80 kg. from Copenhagen Railroad station 26 May 1906 to Taasinge. Pair 15 øre lilac wavy-line, tied by 3-ring 'K 2' Esrom type alongside swiss type 'KJØBENHAVN 26.5.06 11-5-E *B.* ', parcel label 'Kjøbenhavn B 209.' and backstamped 'TAASINGE 27.5.06 7-8F'. Vagn Jensen recorded from 3.3.1910 - 5.10.1916, this letter is postmarked June 1906.

Foot Post letter, with inside date Copenhagen 17 May 1806 - with manuscript '125' ledger number and foot post mark in italic 'FP' Type 1 - This is the earliest documented use of the FOOT POST mark and in an astonishing and rarely clean impression like seen on this cover. Besides, this is also the EARLIEST RECORDED letter with a Copenhagen Foot Post mark. The Copenhagen Foot Post commenced operations on 1 March 1806. A truly great rarity the DANISH FOOT POST service.

Letter sent from Aarhus 25 November 1949 to Roskilde, prepaid with 20 øre for an ordinary domestic rate letter. The postal service assumed that the letter contained coins, then endorsed by “Formodes at indeholde Penge” and stamped “Kassebrev Aarhus Postkontor”. As such, the letter were opened and proved to contain 12 1/2 øre, fined and charged with registration fee. In reply to a copper wedding invitation - and a set of coins glued as symbolism to 12 1/2 years, in copper coins !

Red Cross envelope 'HOSPITALSKIBET JUTLANDIA' under Dansk Røde Kors sent by the dentist onboard Jutlandia, postmarked in Copenhagen 29 September 1952. Jutlandia was contracted as hospitalship during the Corea war from January 23, 1951.

Østerbro in Copenhagen 30 June 1851 to Toulon, France. Samped cds 'KIØBENHAVN O.P.E. 30 /6 1851', with boxed 'Aus Daenemarck. / d. Meckleburg' greenish blue ink. Backstamped TPO 'MAGDEBURG-WITTENBERGE 1.7', 'BERLIN-HAMBURG' and 'BERLIN-MINDEN' and on front French due and border crossing mark in Valenciennes. Rare.

Letter from stamp dealer N.S. Nedergaard, Skive 25 July 1946 to Berlin-Lichtenrade, Germany. Censored, resealed and censor's mark '666 DANMARK', returned and stamped 'Fra Udlandspostkontrollen / retur Afsenderen', backstamped 'Retur i Henhold til / indlagte Meddelse' - message 'Denne Forsendelse kan ikke befordres uden Tilladelse fra Direktoratet for Vareforsyning, Vognmagergade 2, København K. / Udlandspostkontrollen'. Rare