Beiträge von Aabenraaer

  • Postzensur

    Hi

    Censorship was abandoned and freie Meinungsäußerung was introduced in the Danish constitution in 1849, so a "denial of service" seems doubtful for that reason.

    However, considering the tensions after 1848, it is not difficult to imagine, that some laws and regulations was introduced, to counter, what was considered an insurgency, by the Danish government.

    In other words: I do not know the answer to your specific question about the post law - but, I would agree with Nils, that I also find it difficult to imagine, that such a decision could be taken locally.

    Do you know, if the Hannnover-letter was also denied in Aabenraa ?

    A very decorative cover, by the way!

    Cheers

    Ole

  • Dänische Nummernstempel in Schleswig-Holstein benutzt

    Hi nordlicht,

    I think the Glücksburgers had to use the regular NS 16 Flensburg canceller. It seems like: "no King, no canceller" :)

    Btw, as far as I know, there a no known letters sent by the king himself - the three letters can all likely be attributed to his close family (including one "sorrow-letter", which I think was sent by one of his princess daughters).

    Cheers

    Ole

  • Dänische Nummernstempel in Schleswig-Holstein benutzt

    Numeral 183 Glücksburg on 4 skilling 1863-issue.


    Glücksburg was originally assigned number 212, but the canceller stranded in Flensburg. In 1863 Gĺücksburg was reassigned number 183.

    "According to legend", numeral 183 was only used when king Christian IX was present on Glücksburg castle, which was only few times in 1863-64. There are 3 known covers with NS 183 and a few lose stamps, like this. NS 183 is along with 213, 214 and 230 among the four rarest numerals.


    Cheers

    Ome

  • Bordesholm - CPH w/ town manuscript

    Hi

    I recently acquired below set of letters from 1858, both sent from Bordesholm to Copenhagen via steam boat. The first letter is triple cancelled, as it was first attempted cancelled with Bordesholm numeral "155", but then re-cancelled with ink and endorsed with town manuscript "Bordesholm". Arriving in Kiel, the letter was additionally marked with Kiel's numeral "121" (plus antiqua mark, with same date as in Bordesholm) - the other letter with steam boat numeral "190". The letters originates from the Borch Jensen collection.

    Cheers, Ole

  • Inlandsbriefe

    Grazie - thank you for sharing!
    I am duly impressed - I know how difficult this is to learn. 1800 century German and Danish handwritings are on my list of topics I hope to get time to look deeper into.
    After a couple of years, I am only able to decipher around 10% of of a letter written in Danish language before 1875, where we switched from gothic to latin letters. And 10% is too little to gather any meaning..
    Oh well, I will keep trying - it is indeed possible to learn😊

    Kind regards
    Ole

  • Inlandsbriefe

    Dear Dieter,

    Very interesting material - I am fascinated by the Reinbek letter. The 1855 people's count ("Folketælling") is actually a very rich source of information - I have used this on several accounts, to identify senders and receivers of letters - I can even find my great-grandfather 😊

    The Danish National Archives digitized this some years ago, and it is searchable at:

    Dansk Demografisk Database

    Have you learned the art of reading gothic handwriting?

    Cheers Ole

  • Slesvig Plebiscit 1920: C.I.S. stamps and postmarks

    Apart from managing the two referendums, the C.I.S. commission was also the governing body in Slesvig in the first half of 1920, and was in charge of administrative tasks such as issuing passports and driver’s licenses. This was all handled by the staff on Flensburger Hof.

    Stamps used to document payment for issuing a driver’s license (3 kroner.). As the fee is paid in Danish Kroner, the payment has taken place in Denmark, likely at the police station in Haderslev. Then the document was sent to the commission in Flensburg, who approved and issued the license. Notice also the neatly written “Flensburg”.


    Payment for issuing two passports. The normal fee was 4 kr, which was first written, but corrected to 8 kr. The Plebiscit stamps with Danish currency were not released until May, so until then, there were situations, where the staff had to make handwritten provisional stamps, by changing the value from Mark to Kroner.


    Visa document, issued at Slesvig’s northen border, Frøup, allowing for stay in Slesvig for one week. The fee for a visa was 1 kr or 5 Mark. The stamp is notably cancelled with the signature of the border official.

  • Slesvig Plebiscit 1920: C.I.S. stamps and postmarks

    As the C.I.S. administration was seated in Hotel Flensburger Hof, almost all C.I.S. stamps are cancelled in Flensburg. However around 50 stamps are known to be cancelled in Bov. I have confirmed, that at least 10 of these 50 are philatelisticly provoked usages, and this number is likely higher.

    The known genuine uses originates from May 26th, where a batch of documents had to be signed by Secretary General Brudenell-Bruce, who was out of office in Flensburg and resided in Kollund on the Danish side of the border. The documents were posted with postmark from Bov in violet ink color.

    C.I.S.-stamps cancelled with violet ink in Bov on May 26t,h, 1920.

  • Slesvig Plebiscit 1920: C.I.S. stamps and postmarks

    The C.I.S. commission’s constitution was to Danish advantage, as the Norweigian member was considered Danish friendly and the French member was outspokenly hostile towards Germany.

    The consequence was, that one of the commission’s first actions, was to replace the German top officials in Flensburg, Tønder, Haderslev, Aabenraa and Sønderborg with Danish “Landråd” (later “Amtmænd”).

    Covers from C.I.S. to Danish Landråd. Covers like these, sent to Landråd, police, army and other people from the administration, is the largest source of genuinely used C.I.S.-stamps.

  • Slesvig Plebiscit 1920: C.I.S. stamps and postmarks

    As a result of the Versailles treaty, it was decided that two referendums (Plebiscites) were to be held in the northern part of Slesvig to determine the nationality of the region. The referendums were in held in Zone 1 (Sønderjylland) and Zone 2 which was an area in a belt immediately south of the current border including Flensburg. A planned referendum, further south in Zone 3 was cancelled.

    In order to govern the referendums, an international commission was seated in hotel Flensburger Hof, Flensburg. The Commission Internationale de Surveillance du Plebiscite Slesvig (CIS) also governed the mail service in the referendum period.

    The members of the commission were:

    Oscar von Sydow (Sweden)

    Thomas Heftye (Norway)

    Paul Claudel (France)

    Sir Charles Marling (UK), commission president.

    Charles Brudenell-Bruce (UK) was the General Secretary of the commission.

    It was planned that USA should also be represented with a member in the commission, but that seat was never taken, as USA never ratified the Versailles treaty.

    Cover sent to commission member Oscar von Sydow (Sweden, Swedish Primeminister 1921).Except Brudenell-Bruce, the commission left Flensburg in April 1920, when the elections were completed. The General Secretary stayed until summer 1920, along with all the administrative staff in the C.I.S. HQ in Flensburger Hof.

    Only 17 of the red 10 Mark-issue was ever used. I assume most, if not all, were used on similar foreign REC letters to commission members. It is notable, that the CIS-issues were only available for use by the entire C.I.S.staff until beginning of February, thus below letter is sent from the General Secreatary’s office,

  • Slesvig Plebiscit 1920: C.I.S. stamps and postmarks

    One of the reasons for the large variety is, that the CIS-commission, to a large extent sold stamps and also used stamps to document payment for various charges - it is estimated, that around 50% of the commission's income was related to stamps. In this connection, it should be noted, that a large part of the income, originated from stamp sales to philatelists - which means, that today there exist an abundance of philatelisticly provoked usages of the plebiscites (especially many from the two voting days 10.2.20 and 14.3.20).

    Philatelisticly provoked usage of the 40pf C.I.S-overprinted issue. I am reluctant to include philatelistic cancellations in my collection. However, below cover (and a very few similar), is the only access I know to the “Secretaire General” strike on the left.


  • Slesvig Plebiscit 1920: C.I.S. stamps and postmarks

    Since I started collecting philately from the 1920 Reunion period (Genforeningen), I have been surprised how much variation there is in this small area, consisting of only 3 x 14 stamps and only a six-month validity period for the Plebiscit stamps.


    The Slesvig Plebiscit-issues come in four series:

    - Plebiscites with German values

    - Plebiscites with Danish values and "1. Zone" overprint

    - Official stamps (Dienstmarken) used by the commission, with "C.I.S." overprint

    - Unperforated plebiscites with MAK overprint. Only a few unused sheets were marked MAK for destruction (makulering), while most unused sheets stayed in the market without the MAK overprint. Also, a large part of the unused sheets were burned in a garden, after the commission had finally concluded their task and transferred power to Denmark in Zone 1.

    Set of unused C.I.S. overprints

  • Dänische Nummernstempel in Schleswig-Holstein benutzt

    Hi DSBerliner

    The writing on the back indicates the cover is (inside-dated?) late 1863, but the stamp looks like (with all reservations😊) to be 3rd or 4th print of dk#7 from 1859/1860, which indicates a late usage. Not a super rare or illegal phenonema, but a quite interesting detail, which is sometimes seen from the smaller post offices like Büchen, with less turnaround in stamps sales. Could also just be a coincidence. Nevertheless, a nice cover in all respects.

    Kind regards


    Ole