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Stamp Programme 2006 Sea Ice and Icebergs Page 3 Page 4

Norse Mythologi Page 6

Sisimiut – 250 Years Page 8

Stamp of the Year 2005 Page 12

Frimærker i Forum Page 13

Dear Reader PHOTO: Søren Rose

There is something magical over the last month of the year. In many ways, December is the most beautiful month of the year. Perhaps it is because people make an extra effort to take care of each other during the Christmas month. The magic of Christmas and New Year also gets many of us to make a mental appraisal of the past year, while at the same time looking forward to the coming year with great expectation.

In Greenland we have celebrated great jubilees during 2005 and have, through our stamps, commemorated great milestones. Our stamp issued on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the »Law on Church and School Systems« has been the subject of great cultural attention in our country.

The inclusion of the Ilulissat Ice Fiord in the »UNESCO World Heritage List« was another great event of which, throughout Greenland, we are very proud. This event was also featured on a stamp by POST Greenland, and it is also the main theme of our year pack 2005.

Finally I would like to draw your attention to our new series featuring the 100th anniversary of the

famous PARCEL POST stamps. The use of these stamps in Greenland was of the utmost importance to the development of our country and its position in the modern world. In connection with this new series of stamps, POST Greenland has issued a highly interesting and much praised book, telling the story of these stamps. Read more about this on the back page of the magazine and in our order form.

The 2006 philatelic year will offer many more interesting themes for Greenland stamps. I just want to draw your attention to part of the first issue of the year. Sisimiut, the second largest town of Greenland, is celebrating its 250th anniversary, while both the EUROPA series and the Norden series are celebrating their 50th anniversaries.

These three themes and others will be featured on stamps on 16th January. You will find information about our complete 2006 stamp programme inside the magazine.

Over the last years, POST Greenland has endeavoured to make subscriptions to Greenland stamps more attractive. Competitions and

philatelic prizes are only some of the initiatives we have introduced to give our faithful customers a better service. Response from our customers has been so positive that we intend to continue along this line. Therefore, we hope that in 2006 we shall welcome even more new customers into the exclusive circle of Greenland stamp collectors.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Søren Rose Philatelic Manager

Publisher: POST Greenland Customer Service: POST Greenland, Filatelia, P.O. BOX 121 3913 Tasiilaq, Greenland Phone +45 7026 0550, and +299 98 11 55 Fax: +299 98 14 32 Email: stamps@tele.gl Website: www.stamps.gl Editors: Søren Rose, Chief Editor; Lene Skov Meyhoff;

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2006 Stamp Programme In 2006 POST Greenland will present several commemoratives featuring jubilees, continuations of series as well as the conclusion of a stamp series. We are also presenting two new, very gifted stamp artists, of whom we hope to see a lot more in the future.

In 2006 there will be four issues, of which the March issue will be sent out on subscription together with our issue on 22nd May 2006.

16th January 2006. The first issue of the year commences with the first jubilee with a stamp issued on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Sisimiut, featuring a well-known landmark of Sisimiut, designed by Miki Jacobsen, who himself grew up in Sisimiut. The second jubilee is the 50th anniversary of EUROPA stamps, which we are commemorating with POST Greenland’s prize winning EUROPA stamp design of 2004, photograph: John Rasmussen. PARCEL POST stamp II, part of the stamp series commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first PARCEL POST stamp, issued in 1905, will also be part of this issue, artist: Gerhard Heilmann. The final jubilee of this first issue will be the 50th anniversary of the first Norden stamp, which, however, was not issued in the Faroes, Åland and Greenland, as they were not part of the co-operation of the Nordic Post Offices at the time. Artist: Julie Hardenberg.

On 29th March 2006 Post Greenland is issuing two new Norden stamps featuring Greenlandic mythic creatures, »The Mother of the Sea« and »Asiaq – the Mistress of the Weather«, artist: Linda Riber. The additional value stamp of the year will also be part of this issue. In 2006, the additional value will go to »Children in Greenland - Crown Princess Mary & Crown Prince Frederik«. Photographer: Knud Josefsen.

The two Norden stamps, a souvenir sheet with both stamps as well as the Norden souvenir folder will be sent out on subscription together with the subsequent issue in May. The same goes for the additional value stamp and souvenir sheet.

On 22nd May 2006 POST Greenland is issuing the final three stamps of the series »Edible Fungi«, Artist: Nina Spore Kreutzmann. Continuing our expedition series in 2006, we are paying tribute to a great and important explorer from Germany, Alfred Wegener. Artist and engraver: Martin Mörck. The Norden stamps as well as the additional value stamp of the March issue will be sent out on subscription together with this issue.

On 6th November 2006 we are continuing our science series of unique scientific phenomena and discoveries in Greenland, engraver: Lars Sjööblom. In addition, POST Greenland is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the introduction of sheep in Greenland with a stamp designed by our very gifted stamp artist, Naja Abelsen. Quite traditionally, we close the philatelic year with two Christmas stamps, artist: Julie Hardenberg.

We look forward to sending you our interesting stamps of 2006 and hope you will enjoy these small works of art, the many stories about them and the presentation of our artists.

Sincerely Per Svendsen General Manager.

The programme is provisional and subject to change.

Source: http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/index/viden/temaer/havis_og_isbjerge_omkring_groenland.htm

Sea ice & Icebergs

PHOTOs: Søren Rose

People travelling to Greenland for the first time will be astonished and enraptured by the white ice formations floating on the deep blue water. It is the inland ice which creates these white giants of the sea in endless shapes and sizes. At the same time, sea ice and icebergs constitute natural obstacles and dangers for navigation everywhere in Greenlandic waters.

The definition of sea ice and icebergs respectively is as follows: 1. S ea ice is formed when seawater near the surface freezes up.

2. IIcebergs are frozen fresh water containing small air bubbles and originate from the Greenlandic inland ice. Icebergs have a large vertical dimension compared to their width, as opposed to sea ice.

Sea ice There are mainly two ice regimes dominating the Greenlandic coasts and waters: • The East Greenlandic sea ice, locally known as »field ice« due to its thickness of 3 – 4 metres.

• The sea ice in Davis Strait near the west coast of Greenland, locally known as »west ice« – thickness: 0.5 – 1.5 metres.

The field ice is several years old, having survived several melting seasons. It is formed in the Arctic Ocean and drifts south along the east coast of Greenland.

The annual supply of sea ice along the coast of Eastern Greenland is 2,400 – 2,800 cubic kilometres, but varies from year to year. The southbound sea ice, carried south by the East Greenlandic Sea Current, is generally 3 – 4 times larger during the

winter months than during the summer months.

An important reason for this is the occurrence of frequent and deep depressions near South-East Greenland during the winter season, causing long periods with northerly winds over the Greenland Sea. Also variations in freshwater supplies to the Arctic Ocean contribute to the changeableness in the southbound drifting ice along the east coast of Greenland.

Normally the field ice retrogrades to around Scoresbysund at the beginning of September; but in the autumn the ice quickly drifts south with the East Greenlandic Sea Current and normally reaches the Cape Farewell area around the end of December.

As a rule, the several-year old ice culminates in the South Greenlandic waters during the months of May and June and melts at the beginning of August. Due to melting and breaking up, only a very small percentage of the ice, drifting from the Arctic Ocean with the East Greenlandic Sea Current along the east coast of Greenland, gets as far south as the Cape Farewell area, and on its way southwards average floe diameter is decreased from several kilometres to less than 100 metres. The thickness of the ice is, however, only marginally reduced, and even in the Cape Farewell area the average floe thickness is over two metres.

In the spring and summer, the ice then drifts round the southern point of Greenland and even north along the west coast, occasionally north of 62° northern latitude. The South Greenlandic ice season and its northernmost area of distribution vary a lot from year to year. Normally the field ice will have left the Cape Farewell area between the beginning of August and the end of December; but in extreme cases, can remain in the area all the year round.

The formation of sea ice in Davis Strait on the west coast of Greenland, west ice, starts at the end of October in the north-western part of Baffin Bay, and during November the ice quickly covers most of Baffin Bay and the western Davis Strait. At the beginning of January, Disko Bay also freezes up, and for the rest of the winter and a major part of spring, the waters north of Sisimiut will be characterised by very large winter ice floes (thickness: ½ - 1 metre), drifting southwards.

The sea south of Sisimiut is normally open all the year round, due to the comparatively warm West Greenlandic Sea Current. Periodically, these nearshore waters will freeze and be covered by young ice. The sea ice near the west coast of Greenland is, however, sensitive to winds.

Often atmospheric depressions move north into

Davis Strait, forming easterly winds near the west coast of Greenland, this factor contributing to keeping the sea open near the coast as far north as Sisimiut. Only during very cold winters the whole of Davis Strait will freeze, so that the open-sea-towns of Nuuk and Sisimiut cannot be reached by ship. The west ice normally melts away completely during July and August every year.

During the Arctic winter, compact ice is formed in bays and fiords. Further off the coast the drifting sea ice is found.

Icebergs Greenlandic glaciers produce a variety of icebergs, fragments of icebergs and floes. Icebergs are normally described according to size. The classification below is used internationally: The glacial production of icebergs is, as far as quantity is concerned, presumed to vary very little from year to year.

There are icebergs everywhere in Greenlandic waters but in some areas they are very rare, for example near Sisimiut.

Type Floes Fragments of icebergs Small icebergs Medium sized icebergs Large icebergs Very large icebergs

Height (above sea level under 1 metre 1 to <5 metres 5 to 15 metres 16 to 45 metres 46 to 75 metres over 75 metres

In other areas, for example in Disko Bay, there are always hundreds of icebergs. Several thousand icebergs are produced in this area every year. A similar amount is produced by several debouchments of glaciers into the Uummannaq Fiord, north of Disko Bay. The eastern Baffin Bay near Upernavik is also an important source of icebergs and here 19 large glaciers produce more than 10,000 icebergs every year. Some of these icebergs are about 1000 metres in height.

The estimated glacial calving into Baffin Bay and the northern Davis Strait every year is approximately 150 cubic kilometres of ice or 25,000 – 30,000 icebergs.

Hardly any icebergs are formed south of Disko Bay. The fiords are longer, narrower and shallower than in the northern parts of the Greenlandic west coast and calving usually takes place as floes and fragments of icebergs rather than real icebergs; these nearly always melt before reaching the open sea.

Most icebergs are disintegrated or run aground close to their sources but many icebergs still manage to drift far away. Icebergs which have run aground can act as small islands, which again can influLength ence the formation of under 5 metres sea ice.

5 to <15 metres Most icebergs from Baf15 to 60 metres fin Bay drift southwards 61 to 120 metres into the western Davis 121 to 200 m metres over 200 metres

Strait and the Labrador Current and even further south. In the spring and early summer these icebergs constitute great danger to transatlantic navigation near Newfoundland.

Many icebergs in and north of Disko Bay are normally 200 – 300 metres in diameter with a mass of 5,000,000 – 20,000,000 tons and a draught of 100 – 150 metres; but icebergs of 100,000,000 tons and a draught of approximately 250 metres have also been observed.

Several glacier debouchments on the Greenlandic east coast, for example near Scoresbysund or south west of Ammassalik, produce thousands of large icebergs every year. Many icebergs freeze fast in the compact ice of the coast, from where they do not drift away until the beginning of the melting season.

When these icebergs reach the open sea, they drift southwards with the East Greenlandic Sea Current, which at the same time transports vast amounts of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean most of the year.

Often sea ice controls the movements of icebergs.

Icebergs near the south-western coasts have their source on the east coast and are often severely eroded by waves, positive water temperatures, sea ice, the seabed etc., all factors causing a considerable disintegration of these icebergs. Typically only small icebergs will occur in this area. Normal dimensions are 50 – 100 metres in diameter with presumed typical draughts of 75 – 125 metres.

Norse Mythology - Joint Issue, Part 2 NOTE! The Norden stamps featured below will not be issued until 29th March. They may be preordered as supplementary orders for despatch on the date mentioned, but will not be sent out on subscription until 22nd May.

Text: PERTTI FRANDSEN

The issue date of 29th March has been determined together with the other Nordic Postal Services, who have one joint issue date for the whole of part two of the series »Norse Mythology«.

As for POST Greenland, the issue date of 29th March will comprise the following items: • The Mythology Stamp »The Mother of the Sea«, item no. 01100362 • The Mythology Stamp »Asiaq«, item no. 01100363.

• The Mythology Souvenir Sheet, item no.

01106362, with both the above stamps • The Souvenir Folder »Norse Mythology II«, containing one mint sample each of the eight Norden souvenir sheets issued in 2006.

Item no. 01303027 The Nordic countries are jointly issuing a stamp series in three parts on Norse Mythology. The first part was issued in 2004. The second part will be issued on 29th March 2006. The joint theme of the second part is »Mythical Creatures«.

Mythical creatures, which have frightened and fascinated people, have always existed within Nordic popular belief. They were part of popular tradition to explain natural phenomena and were also used

in the upbringing of children. These creatures were frightening – but at the same time contributed to strengthening the connections of humans with the unknown forces of nature. Mythical creatures are very similar to humans in some ways, but always have a special distinguishing mark without familiar human features. In previous times the appearance of a mythical creature was believed to be a warning.

Greenlandic mythology is rich in mythical and fascinating creatures. Several of them have previously been featured on stamps, i.e. »The Mother of the Sea« in 1957, »The Boy and the Fox« in 1966, »The Great Northern Diver and the Raven« in 1967, »The girl and the Eagle« in 1969 and the »Bear of the Sea« in 1997.

The present joint series »Norse Mythology« started, as mentioned, in 2004, when POST Greenland issued two stamps: »Northern Lights« and »Moon Man«.

We are, therefore pleased to present two more stamps featuring Greenlandic legends of mythical creatures to our customers and collectors. The first legend is the previously mentioned »Mother of the Sea«, which deserves a philatelic recurrence. The second legend is about »Asiaq – the Mistress of the Weather«.

The Mother of the Sea There are different variations of the creation story

of the Mother of the Sea. In one version, the one we narrate here, she was married as a young girl to a huge fulmar. They settled on a small island.

After about a year she received a visit from her brothers and her father because her family missed her. She thought it was too lonely, so the family wanted to bring her back to the humans. The fulmar discovered that she had fled. It chased their boat - an umiaq - and made the sea rough. Then her father lost his nerve and threw his daughter into the water so that the bird could get her back.

The daughter struggled vigorously and held on to the rail. Her father then took the violent step of cutting off her fingers and she sank to the bottom.

Later on, her father was overtaken by deep despair over his misdeed and lay down on the beach, where he finally allowed himself to be swallowed by the sea.

The Mother of the Sea was an important force in the old Greenlandic sealing community because she was said to control marine mammals – the animals constituting the most important source of food of the humans.

When the humans misbehaved, her house and her hair would fill up with dirt and filth. She had no fingers and, therefore, could not prevent the dirt from piling up. Therefore, she got angry and pulled the marine animals away from the sealing grounds. The catch failed and the humans starved.

There was only one thing to do: The humans sent a shaman, Uitsatagángitsoc (The Blind

Linda Riber was born in 1967 and lives in Svendborg, Denmark.

She is a trained occupational therapist, but in 1999 she seriously began working as a pictorial artist.

Linda recounts: «My heart and my soul belong at home in my Greenlandic origins, and themes like the original people, their spirit and pride, as well as the connections of Inuit with the magnitude and force of nature, are often my inspiration and motivation. The Inuit identity is in my view a strongly recurring theme because today it is so subtle in its development and meaning.

I try to paint the pride and importance of Inuit roots – in an expressive style.

I believe that in the work with identity – in pain and development – there are »gifts« which can give strength and force to both people and society.

One), to the Mother of the Sea. He could make her happy again by cleaning up and promising that the humans’ behaviour would improve. At the beginning, when the Mother of the Sea was very angry, the shaman had to be very careful. If he was hurled down into a black hole behind the couch, he was lost. Therefore, it was a matter of life and death for him to hold on to her hair until he had calmed her down and combed her hair. Then all the dirt would turn into animals for food and life was again smiling on the humans.

Asiaq – The Mistress of the Weather It is in the nature of the wind to turn everything upside down. Therefore, everything is also upside down on her.

It is said that in the dim and distant past Asiaq, the mistress of the weather, was walking about from settlement to settlement to find herself a husband.

As she was in control of wind and weather, she always made sure she had good weather for her wanderings. But however much she looked, there was no man who wanted her.

Then one day she stole a little boy whom she wanted to bring up to be her future husband.

It was a little boy who was being looked after by his blind grandmother. They were inside the house.

When a woman came into the house and wanted to take the boy, the grandmother thought it was the boy’s mother and let her take him. Shortly afterwards, the boy’s mother came and asked for him but

General Information: Issue date: 29.03.2006 50 stamps per sheet Format: B horizontal Printing method: Offset Paper: TR8 STAMP PAPER PVA Design: Linda Riber Layout: Dorit Olsen Outside measurements: 31.08 mm x 23.60 mm

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the boy was gone. They looked everywhere, but did not find him, and the mother was grief-stricken.

In her strange house Asiaq now reared the boy to be her future husband and, when he was big enough, she took him for her husband. But as she was ashamed of having taken a boy for a husband, she never again left her house.

From now on she let the weather remain bad all the time. Hunters could not go hunting and she deliberately made the humans starve.

Asiaq looked terrible, and nobody could get near her, except the shamans. They visited her to ask her to provide good weather so it was possible for the humans to go hunting and get food.

The humans’ forefathers always said that in the days of old the weather was better. That was probably when Asiaq was incessantly walking to find herself a husband and, therefore, made sure that the weather was always good.

»The Mother of the Sea« has many different names among the different Inuit tribes. The Inughuit (Polar Eskimo) call her »Nerrivik«, which translated means »dish of meat«. Some Canadian Inuit called her »Sedna«, which translated means »she who has no husband«. In Eastern Greenland she is called »Imap Anaanaa« and in Western Greenland »Sassuma Arnaa«, meaning »The Mother of the Sea

01100362 Norden Mythology I/1 »The Mother of the Sea« DKK 7.50

01100363 Norden Mythology II/2 »Asiaq« DKK 13.50

01106362 Souvenir Sheet Norden Mythology II »Mythical Creatures« DKK 21.00

01303027 Souvenir Folder Norden Mythology II »Mythical Creatures« DKK 120.00 Contains one mint sample each of the eight Norden souvenir sheets issued in 2006

Sisimiut - from whaling lodge to modern education and industrial town.

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01100358 Sisimiut - 250th Anniversary DKK 9.75 Issue Date: 16.01.2006 40 stamps per sheet Format: B horizontal Printing method: Offset Paper: TR8 STAMP PAPER PVA Artist: Miki Jacobsen Outside Measurements: 31.08 mm x 23.60 mm

In 1926 a new church was opened in Sisimiut. Subsequently the Blue Church was used for a while as both primary and technical schools.

Behind the Whale Jaw Gate the oldest wooden church of Greenland, The Blue Church /Bethel Church from 1775 is seen.

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Text: Anne Mette Olsvig

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PHOTOs: Sisiminu Museum

Kilde: Frantz Wendts «Nordisk Råd 1952-1978«

Et fælles In 2006 the second largest town of Greenland, Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg) will celebrate its 250th anpostvæniversary, and POST Greenland is very pleased to mark this important event with a special stamp. sen var blandt de opgaver, postvæsenerne i alle fem lande frimærker med The Whale Jaw Gate and the Blue Church beneath the time, Count Ludvig Holstein. Further During the first half of the 19th century a train oil som allerede i 1840’erne stod de mest fremsyfælles motiv (de nordiske svaner) i anledning af the symbol of Sisimiut, the mountain »Kællingemissionary stations and whaling lodges were production works was built in Sisimiut near the nede skandinavers ønskeseddel. Dette ønske Nordens Dag i 1956. Postvæsenet i Danmark, hatten« (Crone’s proud monuments in the district; amongst others the lodge entrance to Paaraarsuk. Navigation conditions meant er ikke blevet opfyldt; menHood), der er are efterhånden Norge ogestablished Sverige markerede SAS’s 10-års jubitown with traditionssamarbejde of initiative, drive and of Amerloq on the northafside »Ulkebugten« (The that at the end of the 19th century the buildings tilvejebragt of et ameget vidtgående læum i 1961 med udsendelse et of frimærke courage over i250 Bay of Sea Scorpions) near udsendtes the present-day were relocated at the quay of the present-day inner mellem postvæsenerne de years. forskellige nordiske med fly-motiv.

Norden-mærker i alleairport. lande. fem lande i 1969 i anledning af 100-året for harbour. postsamarbejdet (vikingeskibsmotiv), i 1973 Whaling lodges around Amerloq Holsteinsborg relocated De første resultater noteres alleredewhalers i i Reykjavik) Since the kunne 17th century, European have(NordensatHus its present locationog i 1977 (åkander, Production changed from train oil to fish 1869. I dette år afsluttedes tosidede overenssymboliserende miljøsamarbejdet). passed through the present-day Sisimiut district in In 1764 the lodge buildings from South Bay and In the middle of the 19th century the number of komster mellem Danmark, Norge og Sverige connection with whaling of large baleen whales.

Amerloq were gathered in a small plain south of »Ulwhales decreased and train oil production in the om udveksling af brevforsendelser, postanvisThe first attempt to establish a whaling lodge in the kebugten«. Around these old buildings the colony of district was nearly exclusively based on train oil ninger, postopkrævninger, pakker og avisabonIntroduktion af Julie Hardenberg, samt hendes district was made in the island stiftedes of Nipisat in 1724.

Holsteinsborg extracted from seal blubber and shark liver. Sealing nementer. Da Verdenspostforeningen beskrivelse af motivet emerged.

Competition withfratheden Dutch for whaling in the The Danish mission had quickly gathered a faithwas conducted traditionally by Greenlanders from i 1874 , med ikrafttræden 1. januar a few years later in favour of ful congregation in the area and, in 1771, they kayaks and, to a certain degree, as private net fish1875 kunnearea de ended, danskehowever, repræsentanter derfor meddele, atthe derDutch. allerede en faktisk Thefandtes Danes left the lodge, which was wrote to the Missionary College in Copenhagen, ing by traders. postunion mellem deburnt nordiske øvrigt soon after downlande. by the IDutch. requesting a meeting house (Ed.: church). They Towards the end of the 19th century the catch of sanktionerede verdenspostkonventionen, at founded 01100364 25 years later – in 1756 – the Danes a offered to pay in blubber. Materials for church seals and sharks diminished, concurrently with the de til Verdenspostforeningen tilsluttede lande Norden-frimærker - despatched 50-års Jubilæum new lodge in the district. This time further north building were and on Epiphany in diminishing demand for train oil. havde ret til at danne mindre foreninger og ind- Valør: DKK 19,50 near the locality of South Bay, approximately 40 1775 the Blue Church – Bethel Church – was When fishery research – the so-called Tjalfe Expedibyrdes træffe aftaler med det formål at indføre Udgivelsesdag: 16.01.2006 kilometres north of present-day Sisimiut. consecrated. tions, from 1908 – 1910, established large amounts lavere posttakster eller på anden måde forbedre 50 mærker pr. ark Here a grocer’s whaler’sDenne house with a mission Whaling for large whales was the economic of cod in the fiords and halibut on the banks near postforbindelserne landeneand imellem.

Format: B – liggende attachedlande was built and it was foundation of the Danish colonisation of the area.

Sisimiut, parts of the population changed over to tilladelse harstation de nordiske i udstrakt gradfrom here Trykkemetode: Offset Whaling was well organised and – apart from fishing. Many strong-willed fishermen have left their benyttet sigthat af. for some years rather unprofitable whaling Papir: TR4 gult fluorescerende Kunstner:Danish Julie crews Hardenberg was conducted. The lodge was named Holsteins– more and more Greenlanders marks on the development of the town ever since.

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MARE BALTICUM Text: Birgitte Rostoft Photo: Kjell Söderlund

In not quite a century Sisimiut developed from being a group of peat-walled houses Photo: Arnold C. Rasmussen

to a modern town with varied housing Photo: Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat

A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE STAMP ARTIST

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Miki Jacobsen was educated at the Art School of Greenland in 1983 - 84. After a basic course in graphics he studied drawing, graphics, design and photography in, among other places, Copenhagen and later the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada.

Miki Jacobsen, who has illustrated several children’s books , has also participated in several exhibitions both in and outside Greenland, e.g. in Scandinavia, Ireland, the USA and Canada.

effect in the 1920’s with the construction of a canned food factory in Holsteinsborg..

Factory and shipyard leave their marks on the town Fishing for halibut was lucrative up until the end of the 1920’s. Then the catch decreased considerably and the factory was converted for prawn production in 1935.

Not least many women participated in the lucrative prawn production.

When the prawn population failed at the end of the 1940’s, subsequent experimental fishing for crabs was carried out for some years and fish manufacture was resumed, but now based on cod as a raw material.The cod population on the west coast of Greenland fluctuated and the present-day business ‘Royal Greenland’ again bases production on prawns using modern high-technological manufacturing processes, supplemented by the production of crabs. Fishing and the general modernisation of society demanded maintenance and building of large wooden vessels. In 1931, when Greenland was to have its first building yard for the production of wooden ships, it was naturally located in Holsteinsborg. The shipyard as a repair yard has now closed down, but the beautiful shipyard buildings will again be in the front of development when, in years

to come, they are to house one of the new Greenlandic innovation centres.

With two major workplaces in the town, development gathered speed. To many families this meant the possibility of a permanent job and a steady income and career prospects.

With both a shipyard and fishing industry, the town attracted further employment and opened the possibility of strengthening education and association activities.

From the tentative start of instructing shipyard apprentices at the technical school, in the rooms of the primary school in the Blue Church, at the end of the 1940’s, Sisimiut has provided the setting for an ever-developing system of technical education. Today Sisimiut is the home town to fundamental education of the Building and Construction School, Technical Upper Secondary School, College of Arctic Engineering as well as the Interpreter’s Education of the Language School, language courses and the first folk high school of Greenland Knud Rasmussen’s High School.

This year, the Mare Balticum, a joint exhibition for the regions around the Baltic Sea, was held for the 5th time. Mare Balticum 2005 was held in the Aland Islands in connection with the 60th anniversary of the Aland Philatelists’ Society. A total of 178 exhibitors from 19 different countries were represented and approximately 4000 people visited the exhibition.

The President of Finland - Tarja Halonen - was Protector of the exhibition and she evinced great interest and spent over an hour at the exhibition on Saturday before the official opening for visitors.

At the stand of POST Greenland the President was very pleased to be presented with a card with stamps and coins, issued on the occasion of Crown Prince Frederik’s and Mary’s wedding in May 2004 As Finland is a republic and has no royalty, this gave rise to some amusement, as can be seen from the photograph.

The exhibition also received a visit from Bjorn Borg who, for the Ålandic Post Office, signed First Day Covers, where he himself was featured on a stamp so, for a while, the queue was a kilometre in length at the entrance.

Source: http://www.fgb.dk/Pressemeddelelser/Pressemeddelelser. asp#Pressemeddelelse%2024.5.05

THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF EUROPA STAMPS 10 text Søren Rose

In Europe, the idea of a »joint stamp issue« was first conceived in 1952. The motivation was to symbolise the harmonisation of the interests and objectives of the different communities.

Six countries, which were already linked in the Coal and Steel Community (namely Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France, West Germany and Italy), decided to issue stamps with a common design, consisting of the letters E U R O P A in the shape of a tower surrounded by scaffolding.

These stamps were issued in 1956.

The idea caught on and, by 1958, eight countries (now including Turkey) were releasing common-design EUROPA stamps.

During the summer of 1959, an assembly of 23 European postal administrations took place in Montreux, Switzerland and the Confederation des Postes et des Telecommunications (CEPT) was born.

1960 saw the first official EUROPA - CEPT stamp issues in 23 countries.

Throughout the next decade, more and more countries joined the CEPT organisation. Gradually the emphasis on a common design was abandoned; instead a common theme was chosen, on which each participating country (currently numbering upwards of 35) produced its own stamps in its own unique interpretations.

A particular milestone was 1984 when twenty-five years of active co-operation was celebrated.

The success of the entire enterprise has been appreciated by many postal administrations outside Europe and several are preparing to celebrate the forthcoming anniversary »Fifty Years of European Philatelic Cooperation, 1956-2006«.

01100360 EUROPA stamp »EUROPA« - 50th Anniversary DKK 26.50 Issue Date: 16.01.2006 50 stamps per sheet Format: G horizontal Printing method: Offset Paper: TR8 STAMP PAPER PVA Artist: John Rasmussen Outside Measurements: 39.52 mm x 28.84 mm

POST Greenland Donated DKK 200,000 to the Society of Greenlandic Children Neglected Greenlandic children and juveniles received an appreciable helping hand, when POST Greenland presented the President of the Society of Greenlandic Children with a cheque for a total of DKK 200,000. Every year POST Greenland issues an additional value stamp for the benefit of humanitarian work in Greenland, and the DKK 200,000 were the proceeds of the sale of POST Greenland’s additional value stamp 2004.

General Manager Per Svendsen presented the President of the Society of Greenlandic Children, Frank Senderovitz, with a cheque for the total proceeds of the sale of POST Greenland’s additional value stamp 2004, which were donated entirely to the Society’s important projects for neglected Greenlandic children and juveniles.

Frank Senderovitz was both touched and grateful for the generous contribution to the work of the Society and at the same time conveyed his thanks to Aka Høegh, the artist who designed the beautiful stamp. In the course of his speech of thanks he said: »With such a large sum of money it really will be possible to make a difference to many neglected children and juveniles.

The money will benefit the children at our drop-in centre “Sikkersoq” in Alluitsup Paa, South Greenland. To many of the children the drop-in centre is a secure fixed point - a breathing space from a difficult everyday life. Here the staff is always ready to talk about what hurts. If passions run high at home, it is always possible to spend the night, with the parents’ permission. At Sikkersoq the children can have a warm meal, they can take part in exciting activities and have fun with the other children.

The proceeds from the additional value stamp will also become important to juveniles in Ittoqqortoormiit on the east coast of Greenland. Here the Society inaugurated its first youth centre last year, where the juveniles are very much responsible for the activities taking place at their new centre. There are, among other things, excursions, weekly food days, music and singing, a friendly atmosphere and games. The house was completely empty when the juveniles took over the place, and they have worked hard, cleaning, swinging paint brushes and doing repairs. They have scavenged and manufactured furniture and other equipment – all this to get as much out of a tight budget as possible.

With these proceeds, the juveniles will get the opportunity to fulfil some of the many wishes on their long wish list.

So once again I would like to express my great gratitude on behalf of the many children and juveniles in need of our help and support.«

Norden – Postal Co-operation Source: Frantz Wendt’s »Nordisk Råd 1952 – 1978« (Nordic Council 1952 – 1978)

Common Post Office services were amongst the tasks which were already, in the 1840’s, on the most far-sighted Scandinavians’ ’wish list’. This hope was never fulfilled; but, gradually, a very far-reaching co-operation has been established among the Post Offices of the respective Nordic countries.

The first results could be noted as far back as 1869. That year bilateral agreements were concluded between Denmark, Norway and Sweden about the exchange of letters, postal orders, trade charges, parcels and newspaper subscriptions. When the Universal Postal Union was founded in 1874, coming into force from 1st January 1875, the Danish representatives were, therefore, able to announce that an actual postal union already existed among the Nordic countries. The Universal Postal Convention actually sanctioned the right of the member countries of the World Postal Union to form smaller unions and make mutual agreements with the purpose

of introducing lower postal rates or otherwise improving postal services among the countries. The Nordic countries have profited extensively by this authorisation.

At the suggestion of the members of the Nordic Union, the Post Offices of these five countries issued stamps with a common design (the Nordic Swans) on the occasion of the Nordic Day in 1956. The Post Offices in Denmark, Norway and Sweden celebrated the 10th anniversary of the SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System) in 1961 with the issue of a stamp featuring an aeroplane. Nordic stamps were issued in the original five countries in 1969 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the postal co-operation (featuring a Viking ship), in 1973 (the Nordic House in Reykjavik) and in 1977 (water-lilies, symbolising environmental co-operation).

Julie Edel Hardenberg Julie Edel Hardenberg is one of the most interesting young Greenlandic artists.

She was born in Nuuk in 1971 and has an MA degree in Art Theory and Communication from the Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Her educational background also includes studies in Finland, Norway and England, and she already has an impressive curriculum of exhibitions, scenography and decorating projects, acknowledgements and honorary offices.

Also internationally, she has drawn attention to herself. Lately she was nominated as one of the 50 most promising photographers of the world and participated in a major exhibition »ReGeneration« at the Musee de l’Elysées, Lausanne, Switzerland, subsequently in Galleri Carla Sozzani in Milan, the Apertures Gallery in New York, and finally the autumn exhibition 2005 at Charlottenborg, Denmark.

Below Julie Hardenberg explains her stamp design:

01100364 Norden - 50th Anniversary DKK 19.50 Issue Date: 16.01.2006 50 stamps per sheet Format: B horizontal Printing method: Offset Paper:TR8 STAMP PAPER PVA Artist: Julie Hardenberg Artist: 31.08 mm x 23.60 mm

My inspiration for the design of the stamp was drawn from the previously issued joint Norden stamp from 1956, which then featured five swans.

I decided to use the snow bunting as an exponent of the common Nordic theme, as the bunting is a migratory bird and especially visible in northern regions. In this way, it also acts as a parallel to the earlier stamp featuring swans, as the bunting is also represented in all eight Nordic countries.

Julie Edel Hardenberg

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POST Greenland is Helping Children in Greenland

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In 2006 POST Greenland’s additional value will be donated to children in Greenland through Crown Princess Mary

children and juveniles in Qaanaaq.

The royal couple will devote the additional value of 2006 to projects helping children

and Crown Prince Frederik.

Representatives of the Danish royal family regularly visit Greenland and we are very happy about this in Greenland. The Greenlandic population was also delighted to receive a visit by the new Danish Crown Princess Mary and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik in connection with the 25th anniversary of Greenlandic Home Rule in 2004.

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik has earlier contributed to drawing attention to special areas of Greenland, among others Qaanaaq, where POST Greenland in 2001, together with the Crown Prince, contributed to the donation of 1 million DKK for the benefit of the centre for

in Greenland. The size of the amount will depend on the sale of additional value stamps and we therefore encourage all our customers to buy additional value stamps to help children in Greenland.

POST Greenland is very pleased to contribute to the support of royal projects and good initiatives to help children in Greenland.

Please note: The additional value stamp and souvenir sheet featured below will not be issued until 29th March. They may be pre-ordered as supplementary orders for despatch on the date mentioned and will subsequently be sent out on subscription on 22nd May..

01100359 Additional Value Stamp »Children in Greenland - Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik« DKK 5.50 + 0.50 Issue Date: 29.03.2006 50 stamps per sheet Photograph: Knud Josefsen Layout: Dorit Olsen Format: F horizontal Printing method: Offset Paper: TR8 STAMP PAPER PVA Outside Measurements: 33.44 mm x 28.84 mm 01106359 Additional Value Souvenir Sheet »Children in Greenland - Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik« DKK 24.00 Issue Date: 29.03.2006 Printing method: Offset Paper: TR8 STAMP PAPER PVA

Greenland Stamp of the Year 2005 In 2005 the result of the vote for the Greenland Stamp of the Year 2005 turned out to be quite exciting. But finally G 347, POST Greenland’s commemorative stamp issued on the occasion of the inclusion of the Ilulissat Ice Fiord in the »UNESCO World Heritage List«, turned out winner with 20.6 % of all votes. The winning stamp, in E horizontal format, is in offset using a photograph by Jacob Lautrup with layout by Morten Stürup.

Runner-up of the competition was the beautiful ship stamp G 343, featuring the Royal Yacht Dannebrog. The stamp received 15.3 % of the votes.

Third place with 14.2 % of all votes went to the commemorative stamp G 341, issued on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the church law of Greenland. This beautiful stamps has also been the subject of great attention in Greenland during the year and has obviously also appealed to many collectors.

The first prize of the draw, a very beautiful East Greenlandic drum, manufactured by a local Tasiilaq artist, has already been despatched to the lucky winner, D. Møller from Aalborg and POST Greenland herewith offers our congratulations.

The winners of the 10 consolation prizes in the form of our souvenir folder »Edible Plants in Greenland II« are: 1. Manfred Kohlenberg, 47800 Krefeld, Germany 2. Flemming Olsen, 4600 Køge, Denmark 3. Brent Farrand, Sacremento, California, USA 4. John Pedersen, 5500 Middelfart, Denmark 5. Mrs O A Wyatt, Doncaster, S. Yorkshire, England 6. Bodil Storm Kristiansen, 4180 Sorø, Denmark 7. Kim Skou Jensen, 3000 Helsingør, Denmark 8. Steve Sansom, Jackson, MS, USA 9. Alain Peraldi, 76200 Thanon, France 10. Jean Claude Anscombre, 78121 Cresspieres, France

More

than

7000

Co»Frimærker i Forum« November 2005.

people visited the

penhagen exhibition from

11th

to

13th

This year the themes of the exhibition were »Fairy Tales« and »Gastronomy«. POST Greenland had decided to focus on gastronomy along with great emphasis on the 100th anniversary of the first PARCEL POST stamp of Greenland and the inclusion of the Ilulissat Ice Fiord in the »UNESCO World Heritage List«.

The major attractions were lectures by Flemming Petersen, who gave a very vivid and detailed account of the 100th anniversary of the PARCEL POST stamp of Greenland and by Henrik Højmark Thomsen from GEUS (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland), who gave a lecture about the inland ice in the Disko area on the west coast of Greenland. Both lecturers attracted large crowds of visitors who wanted to learn something about these interesting subjects.

In addition, there was also a visit by Santa Claus, who distributed Christmas sweets to the children and visitors around the stand of POST Greenland.

POST Greenland had also hired a multi-artist, who was both responsible for the preparation of samples of Greenlandic lamb and redfish, as well as for the even more exotic part – the Greenlandic mask dance.

The 2005

subscribers

draw postponed

The annual draw from all subscribers of POST Greenland, Filatelia, for a piece of beautiful East Greenlandic handicraft has been postponed until 31.12.2005. In 2005 the main prize will be a beautiful East Greenlandic ice bucket. In addition there will be 10 consolation prizes in the form of Greenland philatelic gifts. The winners will be announced in Greenland Collector no. 2 to be issued in April 2006.

During »Frimærker i Forum« POST Greenland arranged two competitions.

The winner of the exhibition draw for a watercolour painting by the famous Greenlandic artist, Buuti Pedersen, was Svend Andersen from Copenhagen SV. 167 people took part in the draw.

The competition in the Forum catalogue for a slightly smaller watercolour painting by the same artist was won by Grethe Chandler from Ballerup, who is a keen collector of Greenland stamps.

There were 143 participants in this draw.

We are pleased to have the opportunity to meet many of our customers during »Frimærker i Forum« – here we often have a good talk about Greenland and our philatelic products. Many customers have, however, complained that it takes a long time to queue before it is their turn to be served. We cannot avoid a wait, but at the next »Frimærker i Forum«, we shall try to make it a bit simpler for our customers with a ticket numbering system, so that they do not have to spend their time queuing.

We look forward to seeing our customers again and also to greeting new visitors, eager to try samples of Greenland and get a glimpse of the far North.

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Customer satisfaction survey We have received great response to our customer satisfaction survey. We shall now carefully go through all the answers and publish the result of the survey in the next Greenland Collector, to be issued in April 2006. Among all participants we have made a draw for Greenlandic philatelic gifts and, the lucky winners will receive their prizes at the beginning of the new year.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all participants in the survey.

Text: SØREN ROSE

Frimærker i Forum 2005

Juullimi ukiortaassamilu pilluaritsi We would like to express our thanks for the year, now coming to a close, and wish all our readers, faithful customers and partners a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

News from POST Greenland

Final sale on 31st March 2006 The following stamps and philatelic products will be withdrawn from our sales list on 31st March 2006, provided they are not sold out prior to this date. Any remaining stock will be shredded.

On Monday 16th January 2006 POST Greenland will start using the so-called roller cancellations at the Post Offices of 3911 Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg) and 3950 Aasiaat (Egedesminde) respectively. Envelopes to be datestamped with first day cancellations must be received by POST Greenland, Filatelia, no later than Friday 13th January 2006.

Exhibition Cancellations Up until the beginning of May 2006, POST Greenland will participate in the following stamp exhibitions: • »Jysk Frimærkemesse 2006«, Fredericia, 3rd – 5th March • »16. Internationale Briefmarkenmesse«, Essen, 4th – 6th May

01100145.

05.09.1991 Hans Lynge DKK 50.00

01100326. 14.05.2004 Edible Plants I/1 «Angelica« DKK 5.00

01100238.

20.08.1998 Refuelling DKK 25.00

01100327. 14.05.2004 Edible Plants I/2 «Arctic Thyme« DKK 5.50

New Rates for Letters and P arcels from 16 th J anuary 2006

01100321.

26.03.2004 Ekspeditions II »Otto Sverdrup« DKK 17.50

01100328. 14.05.2004 Edible Plants I /3 «Crowberry« DKK 17.00

On 16th January 2006 POST Greenland will change the postal rates for letters and parcels.

As an example, the rate for an A-letter under 20 grams within Greenland will go up from DKK 5.25 to DKK 5.50 and the rate for a similar letter for Europe will go up from DKK 6.00 to DKK 7.00.

The new rates for letters as of 16th January 2006 can be seen in the list below.

01100322.

26.03.2004 Home Rule - 25 Years DKK 11.00

01100332. 18.10.2004 Navigation III /2 »Disko« DKK 8.75

01100323.

26.03.2004 Polar Air Service 50 Years DKK 8.75

01100333. 18.10.2004 Navigation III/3 »Julius Thomsen« DKK 14.00

01100324.

26.03.2004 Norden -Mythology I/1 »Moon Man« DKK 5.50

01100334. 18.10.2004 Navigation III /4 »Misigssût« DKK 21.75

01100325.

26.03.2004 Norden – Mythology I/2 »Northern Lights« DKK 6.50

Special Greenland cancellations will be produced for both exhibitions. Envelopes to be datestamped with these two special cancellations must be received by POST Greenland, Filatelia, no later than the day before the opening of the respective exhibitions..

Information about the new prices may also be found on www.stamps.gl

01106329. 14.05.2004 Additional Value Souvenir Sheet »The Society of Greenlandic Children« DKK 22.00

Letters – Airmail (A – Prioritaire) Max weight

Greenland

Europe*)

20 100 250 500 1000 2000

5.50 9.75 19.50 36.50 58.50 91.00

7.00 13.50 26.50 51.00 83.50 158.50

g g g g g g

Overseas**) 7.50 29.00 66.00 113.75 217.50 399.25

*) Including Denmark, Iceland and The Faroes **) Including Canada

Letters – by ship (B – Economique) Max weight

Greenland

20 100 250 500 1000 2000

5,25 8,00 13,50 22,00 31,00 44,00

g g g g g g

*) Including Denmark, Iceland and The Faroes **) Including Canada

Europe*) 6.00 10.00 20.75 33.75 54.50 95.50

Overseas**) 6.75 15.50 42.50 84.00 153.50 280.00

kort&kontant Please send your orders / amendments to: POST Greenland, Filatelia P.O. Box 121, 3913 Tasiilaq, GREENLAND Phone: (+45) 7026 0550 and (+299) 98 11 55 Fax: (+299) 98 14 32 Email: stamps@tele.gl Any change in name, address and/or subscription must be received by POST Greenland, Filatelia, no later than 5 weeks prior to an issue.

NOTE: On payment - please, make sure you always state your name and your customer number.

Please do not write your order on a giro transfer form as these are processed by computers.

How to pay: Your payments can be made by giro to one of the accounts mentioned below, by credit card, by international reply coupons or by cash in Danish Kroner, Euro or US Dollars only. It is no longer possible to pay by cheque.

Switzerland: Postscheckamt, Office de cheques postaux, Ufficio dei conti correnti postali, 4040 Basel. Account No.: 40-6773-5.

IBAN: CH37 0900 0000 4000 6773 5, BIC (SWIFT code): POFiCHBE Germany: Postbank, Niederlassung Hamburg, Überseering 26, 22297 Hamburg.

Account No.: 541414200, BLZ 200 100 20.

IBAN: DE03 2001 0020 0541 414200, BIC (SWIFT code): PBNKDEFF United Kingdom: Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank plc., Bridle Road, Bootle, Merseyside, Liverpool GIR 0AA. Account No.: 358 7118.

IBAN: GB69GIRB72000003587118 Luxembourg: Postes et Telecommunications, Division des Postes, Service des Cheques Postaux, Secretariat, 38 Place de la Gare, 1090 Luxembourg.

Account No.: 26606-28.

IBAN: LU18 1111 0266 0628 0000, BIC (SWIFT code): CCPLLULL

Giro: Denmark: BG Bank A/S, Girostrøget 1, 0800 Høje Taastrup, Account No.: 1199-940 4120 IBAN: DK98 30000009404120, BIC (SWIFT Code): DABADKKK Sweden: Postgirot Bank AB (publ), Vasagatan 7, 105 06 Stockholm. Account No.: 41 45-9.

IBAN: SE9795000099602600041459, BIC (SWIFT code): NDEASESS Norway: Postbanken, Kunderegister Bedrift, 0021 Oslo. Account No.: 7878.06.55312.

IBAN: NO44 78780655312, BIC (SWIFT code): DNBANOKK Finland: SAMPO BANK, UNIONINKATU 22, 00075, SAMPO. Account No.: 800016-70617928.

IBAN: Fi2580001670617928, BIC (SWIFT code): PSPBFiHH

France: La Poste, Centre Régional des Services Financiers, de la Poste en ile-de-France, 16 rue de Favorites, 75900 Paris. Account No.: 250.01 F020.

IBAN: FR51 3004 1000 0100 2500 1 F02 022, BIC (SWIFT code): PSSTFRPPPAR If you are not resident in Denmark and use our account 1199-940 4120, you will be charged a handling fee for each transaction by Euro Giro.

Credit cards: Dankort, Eurocard/MasterCard, JCB, VISA Cash: - DKK, Euro or US Dollars only - to be sent by registered mail

One-year deadline for claims Any claims concerning stamps or philatelic items purchased from POST Greenland must reach POST Greenland, Filatelia, no later than one year from the last day of the month in which the items were despatched. The date of the postmark, or possibly the invoice, indicates the date of despatch.

Fees for registered letters and parcels despatched from Greenland The fee for registered letters within Greenland or to Europe (including Denmark and the Faroes) is DKK 45.00. E.g.: Postage for a registered letter stamped with DKK 7.00 (max. 20 g) amounts to DKK 52.00. For surcharge on mail to overseas, see: www.post.gl Payment within 30 days Payment of our invoices is to be made within 30 days from the date of the invoice.

We kindly ask you to note that the registration of your payments will take approximately two weeks or more. Therefore, you may receive an invoice with a balance which does not include your recent payments.

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Exchange of Stamps POST Greenland, Filatelia, exchanges only old stamps (stamps no longer on our sales list) into new stamps (stamps on our sales list) at the customer's choice. No more than 3 exchanges free of charge at maximum DKK 100.00 each, per customer per year. When exceeding a total of 3 x DKK 100.00, POST Greenland, Filatelia, will charge a fee of 45% of the total value. The fee of 45% must always be paid in cash and is not payable by other stamps. The maximum annual value of stamps for exchange per customer cannot exceed DKK 50,000 in nominal value. For further information, please contact POST Greenland, Filatelia.

All information on prices, fees etc. is subject to printer's errors.

Postal order IRC (IBRS) - International reply coupons: - value DKK 6.00 each.

The Netherlands: Postbank NV, Account No.: 3487172. IBAN: NL92 PSTB 0003 4871 72, BIC (SWIFT code): PSTBNL21

We are the people you reach whenever you write, fax, email or telephone POST Greenland. We look forward to offering our continued assistance with your philatelic enquiries.

Silvia Dix Sales Assistant Danish, English, German.

Lene Skov Meyhoff Correspondent Danish, English, German.

Helene Tukula Trainee Danish, English.

Kristian »Karé« Pivat Assistant Clerk Greenlandic, Danish.

Moses Utuange Senior Clerk Greenlandic, Danish.

Holger Amelung Acting Head of Sales German, Danish, English.

Pertti Frandsen Head of Production Danish, English, German.

EXCLUSIVE JUBILEE BOOK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Special Issue Parcel Post Stamps While other countries are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the introduction of their stamps these years, Greenland in 2005 celebrated the 100th anniversary of the PARCEL POST stamp, first issued in 1905.

Stamps were introduced for practical and economical reasons but, with the issue of the PARCEL POST stamp in Greenland, much more was at stake, as it played a part in the political events regarding Greenland, whose future was being shaped during those years.

POST Greenland is celebrating the 100th anniversary with a stamp issue in three parts. The first stamp was issued on 31st October 2005 and the second stamp in the series will be issued on 16th January.

In connection with this jubilee, POST Greenland has also issued an exclusive Jubilee Book, containing the first stamp at a value of DKK 50.00 with space to insert the two subsequent stamps in the series and a souvenir sheet with all three stamps.

The author of the book is Flemming Petersen, Greenland stamp collector and President of the Frederiksberg (in Copenhagen) Philatelic Society.

Flemming draws on his enormous knowledge of both history and stamps.

The result is an extremely interesting account in text and illustrations.

This exclusive Jubilee Book of 64 richly illustrated pages can be ordered as item no. 01303024. Price: DKK 400.00

01100361 PARCEL POST stamps 100th Anniversary II DKK 25.00 Issue Date: 16.01.2006 20 stamps per sheet Format: E horizontal Printing method: Offset Paper: TR8 STAMP PAPER PVA fluorescent Artist: Gerhard Heilmann Outside Measurements: 50.50 mm x 43.26 mm