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Danish Søllested-stamp?
I am currently gathering information on the so-called Danish
Søllested-stamps: imperforate 15 øre violet coat of arm type stamps from 1906: http://www.tha.dk/Default.aspx?doc=W...lested&c1=1000 In a Danish magazine (Nordisk Filatelistisk Tidsskrift) from 1970 the author mentions that a W. Foulk from New York owns a copy of the (to me) 15 known copies. Have any of you heard of Mr. Foulk? and can guide me to someone who knows what happened to that copy? Eventually provide me with a photo of it? Thanks in advance! -- Mvh Toke Se den mærkelige historien om "UPUs fader" Joseph Michaelsen og hans mindemedalje: http://www.norbyhus.dk/artiklermm/ |
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Danish Søllested-stamp?
Toke Nørby wrote:
I am currently gathering information on the so-called Danish Søllested-stamps: imperforate 15 øre violet coat of arm type stamps from 1906:..snip Now I've finished my story about the Søllested Stamps and the 6 year and 48 days long (short) employment of the Danish postal clerk Ejnar Hans Peter Hansen Olsen. You can, if you like, read it he http://www.norbyhus.dk/artiklermm/ (first article in the menu to the left)) Let Google translate the pages if you don't like the Danish language ;-) Enjoy and let me know if your have corrections/addidtions, please. Thank you. -- Mvh Toke Se den mærkelige historien om "UPUs fader" Joseph Michaelsen og hans mindemedalje: http://www.norbyhus.dk/artiklermm/ |
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Danish Søllested-stamp?
"Victor Manta" wrote:
...snip You can, if you like, read it he http://www.norbyhus.dk/artiklermm/ (first article in the menu to the left)) Let Google translate the pages if you don't like the Danish language ;-) Congratulations! Based on my experience with Google translations from a less common language, I can imagine that the possible corrections will refer not to the original article but to the translation itself... Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP Thank you, Victor. "A less common language"? We all speak that language in Denmark and we are MORE than 5,000,000 people here! Corrections. I meant that you hopefully could increase the number of known stamps! but there are actually some of you who speaks and read Danish! One even with the same given name as yours. :-) -- Mvh Toke Se den mærkelige historien om "UPUs fader" Joseph Michaelsen og hans mindemedalje: http://www.norbyhus.dk/artiklermm/ |
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Danish Søllested-stamp?
"Victor Manta" wrote:
Thank you, Victor. "A less common language"? We all speak that language in Denmark and we are MORE than 5,000,000 people here! ...snip Mvh Toke Please don't take it as a critic or something similar. It is normal that 5M in DK speak their native language. Victor - I was just joking :-) I have a certain experience with Google translations from and to Romanian, another less common language, spoken by about 30M only. I have noticed that these translations are rather bad. You're perfectly right! ....snip On the other hand, the translations between English, German, French and Russian, languages spoken by a far superior number of persons, are better in Google. The reason could be that the users contribute by themselves to the improvement of translations, and it seems obvious that the translations in languages written by larger number of people have better chances for being faster improved. My given name is really quite common. In Denmark, in 2004, Victor was on the place 12 but Toke wasn't in the first 50 ;-) Yes, that's right! Toke is not a common name in Denmark. I have found that some Danes don't know if it's a girls or boys name. ...snip -- Mvh Toke Se den mærkelige historien om "UPUs fader" Joseph Michaelsen og hans mindemedalje: http://www.norbyhus.dk/artiklermm/ |
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Danish Søllested-stamp?
"Victor Manta" wrote:
Just found on the Web: "Toke is a very curious old name. It seems to mean the mad or raging, and, YES - that's me - Grrrr ;-) growing into Tyke or Tyge in Denmark, was the name that was Latinized into Tycho by the celebrated astronomer Brahe, who did not leave his madness behind him with his name... (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)." http://www.20000-names.com/origin_of..._name_toke.htm The astronomer Tycho Brache was celebrated for the first time on a Denmark stamp that was issued on Dec 14, 1946, 400th Birth Anniversary, Michel 294. Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP Thank you - amusing reading. It's obviously a viking's name and we have several stories including persons named Toke. Toke is a common name on runic stones, I'm told - and we have to grow up before we can prove that we (men named Toke) are mad and raging. But my friends will probably tell you that I'm an exception and a peaceful white haired old man :-) -- Mvh Toke Se den mærkelige historien om "UPUs fader" Joseph Michaelsen og hans mindemedalje: http://www.norbyhus.dk/artiklermm/ |
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Danish Søllested-stamp?
Toke Nørby wrote:
"Victor Manta" wrote: Just found on the Web: "Toke is a very curious old name. It seems to mean the mad or raging, and, YES - that's me - Grrrr ;-) growing into Tyke or Tyge in Denmark, was the name that was Latinized into Tycho by the celebrated astronomer Brahe, who did not leave his madness behind him with his name... (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)." http://www.20000-names.com/origin_of..._name_toke.htm The astronomer Tycho Brache was celebrated for the first time on a Denmark stamp that was issued on Dec 14, 1946, 400th Birth Anniversary, Michel 294. Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP Thank you - amusing reading. It's obviously a viking's name and we have several stories including persons named Toke. Toke is a common name on runic stones, I'm told - and we have to grow up before we can prove that we (men named Toke) are mad and raging. But my friends will probably tell you that I'm an exception and a peaceful white haired old man :-) I will say that despite the ravages created by the Google translation service I found it an interesting article about a classic rarity of which I knew nothing beforehand. Thankyou -- -- Tony Clayton |
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Danish Søllested-stamp?
"Tony Clayton" wrote:
...snip I will say that despite the ravages created by the Google translation service I found it an interesting article about a classic rarity of which I knew nothing beforehand. Thankyou Dear Tony. I'm glad you liked it - even with the strange Google translation! As you can see from the auction prices the Søllested stamp is extremely popular in Denmark - even we have an economic bad situation. -- Mvh Toke Se den mærkelige historien om "UPUs fader" Joseph Michaelsen og hans mindemedalje: http://www.norbyhus.dk/artiklermm/ |
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Danish Søllested-stamp?
Toke Nørby wrote:
"Tony Clayton" wrote: ..snip I will say that despite the ravages created by the Google translation service I found it an interesting article about a classic rarity of which I knew nothing beforehand. Thankyou Dear Tony. I'm glad you liked it - even with the strange Google translation! As you can see from the auction prices the Søllested stamp is extremely popular in Denmark - even we have an economic bad situation. Despite the recession, or possibly because of it, scarce stamps are still popular as investments. -- Tony Clayton |
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