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Another post  from more than one country is necessary to show small groups of stamps that are important to the conclusion of series or are somehow related to stamps I showed in previous posts..Denmark and Monaco were the chosen countries.. 

 Some more stamps of this beautiful series from 1891.. The personality represented is Prince Albert I of Monaco. the stamps were engraved by Eugene Mouchon , as we know one of the Engraving Masters of those days...

Monaco 1891 "Prince Albert I" (21) [Engr (Eugene Mouchon)][Typo] Sc(11,12,17,22)

in a previous post with Denmark stamps, I said that only 5 were missing to complete this great, great King Christian X series.. now only two of them are missing... it will be a happy day, when I finish this series..

Denmark 1913/1928 "King Christian X" (35) [frame Des (G. Hellmann)][Engr (Chr. Danielsen)][Typo (ore values] Sc(107,111,122a)

with other stamp I already had, the series is completed.. there are two posterior stamps with change in the colors ..

Denmark 1920 "Recovery of Northern Schleswig" (3) [Des (V. Andersen)][Typo] Sc(156,158)

 [Left] two more , and still one missing in this other King Christian X series... 
Denmark 1930 "60th Anniversary of King Christian X" (10) [Des (Axel Peder Jensen)][Engr (Johannes  Britze)][Recess] Sc(216,218)
[Right] The series is now completed..Denmark 1945 "75th Birthday of King Christian X" (3) [Des (Viggo Bang)][Recess (Sven Ewert)] Sc(294,295)

Let us now make a first pause to talk about this series... I have these stamps for a long time , but classifying them seem to me nothing that would give great amounts of pleasure..but when I thought of making a post with other Denmark stamps, classifying them was the natural step...
The 6 stamps presented above are from the [Typo] series of 1927.. some years later an Engraved and [Recess] Printed series was issued, now with some new particularities.. Unfortunately I have only a small number of these engraved stamps, but with time they will come...

I) Each one of the stamps of this 2nd Series, could be of Type 1 or type 2

Left) Type 1) there are two columns of points between the left frame and the main Sail...

Right) Type 2 ) there is only one column of points between the left frame and the main sail...

Left ) A) the number of Pearls in the Crown is (11,7) in each side of the Cross 

Right ) B) the number of Pearls in the Crown is (9,6) in each side of the Cross

C) there is no hook in the end of the main Sail arm (I do not know Sail terminology..)

D) there is a hook in the end of the main Sail Arm.. [ I don't have any stamp of this variety to show..]

All type 2 stamps are BC and all Type I stamps are A...(they could be C or D)

now I will show the small quantity of stamps I've got..(Type 1AC [5])(Type 2BC [2])

 The series could be much more appealing if all the options were open and we could combine type 1 with A,B,C,D and type 2 also with A,B,C,D... the number of combinations would be greater and also great would be the joy of the collectors...
I know that there are several of these ' projected ' series done for the Benefit of collectors , since early days , but my question is "Why they don't make them  anymore ???"..

Denmark 1927 "Caravel and Crown (Solid Background)" (6) [Des (Axel Peder Jensen)][Typo] Sc(192,...,197)

Denmark 1933/1940 "Caravel and Crown (Background with dots [.])" (17) [Des (Axel Peder Jensen)][Engr (Johannes Britze)][Recess] Sc(232,234,236,237,238,238D,238J)[ Type IAC][Type IIBC]

This is a series that works like a Showcase for engravers... in fact in this 15 stamp series, we can appreciate the work of 11 different Engravers...each one of them brings his own technical view of the 'business'... You can see clearly the differences in the Engraving of the Backgrounds and of the Cars themselves.....

the series is not complete (there are 2 stamps missing..) , and I want to highlight that I don't like Automobiles, I don't have one and I don't want to..! at the same time i know that this is one of the most famous Car series, and all the collectors of this Topic would like to have it...so I show them with the conscience that  some of these stamps are really Art works, in the Design and above all in the Engraving...[ it is a very accessible series...] 

starting from the Left/Righ, Up/Down:
1) Des/Engr (Hertenberger) 2)Combet  3) Béquet 4) Monvoisin 5) Charles Mazelin 6) Des (Spitz) Engr (Pheulpin) 7) Charles Mazelin 8) Des (Raoul Serres Engr (C. Halley) 9) Des (Raoul Serres Engr (C. Halley) 10) Des (P. Lambert) Engr (Guillame) 11) Des (Betemps) Engr (P. Lambert) 12) Des (B. Minne) Engr (Charles Mazelin) 13) Des (B. Minne) Engr (Bequet) 

Monaco 1967 "25th Motor Grand Prix, Monaco" (15) 

 Now , I want to present you some of the work of Jakub Obrovsky . He is the designer of all these Czechoslovakia stamps from 1919...the 1st 3 stamps represents in an allegorical form the Independence of Czechoslovakia, with the bohemian Lion, breaking the chains to freedom....The mother and child stamps are from a series about the Legion's Orphan child's... Obrovsky was the designer of one more series from 1920  , representing the Days of Reconstruction after the War, with Agriculture and Science working side by side (all of this again in a Allegorical form...) The 2nd series is [Photo] printed and the printing work is very bad with a great lack of detail and great general blurriness....
Czechoslovakia 1919 "1st Anniversary of the Independence" (3) [Des (Jakub Obrovsky)][Typo] Sc(B124,B125,B126)
Czechoslovakia 1919 "Czechoslovak Legion Orphan Child's" (3) [Des (Jakub Obrovsky)][Photo] Sc(B127,B128,B129)

hope you like this post... I am not in one of those 'talking' days, so it is a smaller than usual post...

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Some more stamps from another series of King Christian X.. this time a right profile.. series (6) 1934/1941; I already talked about these 4 series of definitive stamps , that in my opinion are really beautiful and without doubts "must have" items (this is not a frequent classification , when we are talking about relatively long series with the repetition of just one design...) .

Perf: 13

SG(283,283a,283b,284) Sc(239,240,240a,241)

[Engr]

something more about King Christian X [ specially for fan's of Royal Postcards and Photos]

Now , we have some stamps of King Frederik IX.. ; to study these series , we must divide the stamps in 3 different varieties..

1) background just with horizontal lines..

2) background with Horizontal and Vertical lines (1st little square..) and King's Uniform with parallel lines (2nd little square..)

3) same background and King's uniform with perpendicular lines creating a "chess" pattern ( 3rd little square..)

This series had 4 emissions [(9) 1948/1950,(9) 1950/1951,(9) 1952/1953,(1) 1955 ]

These varieties are only important in the 1st emission , because the other one's have only stamps of the type 3)

The 3 stamps presented above, belong to the 1st emission of 1948/1950..the 1st 3rd stamps are type 3 and the 2nd is strange.. it seems to me that it is a type 2 but it cannot be , according to the catalogs. The perforation is 13 , for the all 4 emissions..

SG(357a,359a,363) Sc(306,307a,309a) [Engr]

these are stamps from the 2nd emission 1950/1951

the first two stamps have the same SG code and different codes in Sc.

SG(358,360,366) Sc(319,319a,320,323) [Engr]

stamps from the 3rd and 4th emission of 1952/1953 and 1955..

SG(363b,369,371,371b) (362b) Sc(335,336,337,338) (354) [Engr]

SWEDEN

from a series (3) 1939 "Death Centenary of P. H. Ling (creator of "Swedish Drill")"

Perf: 12.5 Vertical

SG(228,229) Sc(290,291) [Engr]

[Left] from a series of (3) 1938 "250th Anniversary of the Birth of Swedenborg"

Perf: 12.5 Vertical

SG(201) Sc(266) [Engr]

[Right] from a series (3) 1942 "150th Anniv of National Museum, Stockholm"

the stamp represents King Gustav III of Sweden

Perf: 12.5 Vertical

SG(258) Sc(330) [Engr]

from the Series (4) 1965 "Nobel Prize Winners of 1905"... because of this stamps , I remembered that last month I had the opportunity of buying a beautiful thematic collection, mostly MNH stamps, of Nobel Prize Winners , with stamps from various countries.. of course , I didn't buy it because of my current financial problem... it is very difficult to be a stamp collector without money to buy stamps.!!.. I have to restrain myself of seeing stamps, auctions and those kind of things , because or I don't have the money or I'll end spending money I will need for more urgent matters in the future..

The personalities in the stamp are Philipp Von Lenard and Adolph Von Baeyer.

Perf: 12.5 Vertical

SG(488) Sc(689) [Engr]

Air stamp from the series (2) 1930 "Airplane over Stockholm"

Perf: 10 Vertical

SG(175g) Sc(C7) [Engr]

from the series (3) 1967 "World Handball Championships"

Perf: 12.5 Horizontal

SG(526) Sc(715) [Engr]

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Today I have some Nordic stamps to present..

Some new additions to the set "King Christian X (1942/1946)" ..As I said before, these long series of King Christian X are a pleasure to collect...I have much more to offer in what is concerned with this series , but ... they are not new additions to the collection! I don't know if I already talk about this aspect, but this set is UnWaterMarked...

Let me explain my way of viewing stamp Topics... what information's can I get from this stamp?.

I would classify it in:

1) Known Personalities 2)Military Uniforms 3) Crowns 4) Royal Personality 5) Heraldry 

This is a very personal subject , and there is no way of telling that We have the right view of things and the others don't... Like in life , everyone has it's one..

Now let us walk North to Norway

This is a series with beautiful stamps... We must view them in detail , because the background pictures are somehow "fainted" 

It is a set of 11 1947 "Tercentenary of Norwegian Post Office" .. It is without doubts, my last addition to the "Most Wanted" folder...

Perf: 13

SG(385,386,387,389,392) Sc(280,281,282,284,287)

Great Ocean Landscape ruined by a Letter Postmark...it is very good the perspective and design of the Cirrus clouds, giving us that sense of depth..it is really a good picture!!

it is from a set 2 1965 "Centenary of Norwegian Red Cross"

Perf: 13

SG(580) Sc(474)

from a set 3 1939... there are two issues of these set.. One , the Original , of 1938, with Wmk and the other , this one of 1939, without Wmk.;  the set is called "Tourist Propaganda"

Perf: 13.5 x 13

SG(262) Sc(184)

To finish this post , I have a set from Sweden... We must consider it by two different ways.1) it is a complete set of stamps with vertical perforation.. 2) it is a incomplete set , if We mix the perforated stamps ( and there is one missing...)  with those of vertical perforation.. I prefer to classify it the second Way , because the pictures are the same and the Name of the series also ( the theme of the series..) remains..

The personalities represented are J.J.Berzelius (10;30) and Carl Von Linne (15;50;15)

From a set 6 1939 "Bicentenary  of the Swedish Academy of Sciences"

Perf: N/A x 12.5 and 12.5

Sc(293,294,295,296,297)

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A Flock of Northern Birds

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This daily task of putting together one more post in the Blog, is not a easy one , as I said before ... it requires time , many time... the fact that I'm unemployed gives me a lot of this precious "ingredient".. concentration is also needed ... investigating a casual historical event present in a stamp , to understand catalogs and their unique way of arranging stamp information ( each one has it's own..) and the work itself of classifying stamps, complete the picture... The flexibility and the space to "customize" the information your own way, are important requirements in a Stamp Software.. to choose one is perhaps the most important thing to do, shortly after You start buying or exchanging stamps.. if you don't act swiftly , you could end up like me , with thousands of stamps to classify... and Without time to do it (until more recent times...!)

Today, I have some stamps from Denmark ... King Christian X , due to his long reign , is related to a significant number of series..the 1913/1928  set is spectacular , and I am trying to complete it for 3 years.. still 5 (from 35.!.) stamps missing...
These stamps are from a set 10 1930 "60th Birthday of King Christian X"
Perf: 14.5 x 14
SG(255,258,259,261,262,264) Sc(210,213,214,216,217,219)

from a set 5 1936 "400th Anniversary of Church Reformation in Denmark" 
This set show us a Church, a Cathedral and a man... I think that knowing the role of this particular personality in this event is necessary..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Tausen 

Perf: 13
SG(298,299,300) Sc(252,253,254)

set 11 "King Christian X (1942/1946)"
The King doesn't seem to have 72 years... in these stamps!
Perf: 13
SG(327,329) Sc(280,282)

from the set 3 "60th Birthday of King Frederik IX"
Perf: 13
SG(414,416) Sc(366,368)

from the set 2 1956 " Northern countries Day"
This stamp was issued , commemorating the friendship and solidarity between the Northern countries ( Denmark,Sweden,Norway and Finland)
Perf: 13
SG(408) Sc(362)





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