Henrik Mouritsen's pages Stamps and postal history - introductory page Welcome to my stamps and postal history pages.

Click here to see Karsten Jensen's registration of Danish letters sent to foreign destinations 1851-1906. How rare are your Danish covers?

I have been interested in stamps since I was eight years old. First I collected Denmark, Greenland and the Faroes Islands in the traditional way. In 1989, I bought 7,000 bi-colored 8 øre stamps of the 1875 and 1896 edition. This was the initiation of my main area of interest ever since: 'The bi-colored issues of Denmark and the Danish West Indies 1870-1905'. I have exhibited this collection several times as a junior and once as a senior (internationally). Currently, I have two competitive exhibits. One is 'The bi-coloured stamps of Denmark 1870-1905'. This exhibit focusses on classic philately. Postal history is shown via covers franked with stamps of the issue. The second exhibit, which is a postal history exhibit that I developed recently, is called 'Danish Postal Rates 1875-1906'. This exhibit focuses completely on the postal history, which can then be treated in the detail it deserves. This exhibit under a slightly different title got a gold medal at its exhibition debut: ROPEX2000, a national WSP show in Rochester, New York. This was followed up by another gold medal and the GRAND AWARD at INDYPEX2000, another national WSP show. Over the years I have got quite a lot of excess material for trade. If you are interested in trading (buying, selling or exchanging), please contact me via e-mail.

Registered letter showing the special conversion rules from skilling to øre that were used from 1/1-1875 to 31/3-1875. Six known examples.

A survey of Domestic Danish covers Recently, I initiated a survey of domestic Danish covers franked by Danish stamps 1851-1906. If you have ANY special domestic Danish covers from this period, please send me a photocopy or scan. This survey is inspired by fellow collector and researcher Kasten Jensen, Denmark, who has been surveying foreign destination covers for 20 years. It has recently been put onto the web here. If you have any special Danish covers to foreign destinations, you can also send photocopies/scans to me. Then, I will forward them to Karsten Jensen.

In 1994 I initiated an alternative collection. The stamps and postal history of Haiti pre 1920. This country is a fasinating collecting area, due to the cronic political unrest, which show itself in nummerous overprints etc. Furthermore, the extremely poor economy led to frequent stamp shortages and 'alternative' contracts with stamp dealers and printers. Genuinely used copies of many of Haiti's issues are a great challenge to locate. Click on the stamp or on the link above to learn more about the philately of Haiti.

If you have any interesting material related to one of my collections, I am a very serious buyer! Please e-mail me on the address below.

Links to my friends in philately.

• Dansk Posthistorisk Selskab's nye fremragende hjemmesider
  

• Morten Lintrup STAAP Editor of NFT (the leading journal on Danish Philately) and creator of a great program for making exhibition pages. This is the programme I use to make my pages. So far, all exhibitors using his programme have got maximum points for presentation! You should try it. It cost only 30 US$!!!
  

• Bjarne Heck - Fyn's Frimærkeservice Very friendly, knowledgeable, and fair-priced dealer with specialty in worldwide postal history. If you are seeking great postal history, give him a try!
  

• Toke Nørby Skilful stamp collector, web-site producer and postal historian. International Philatelic Judge.
  

• Lars Engelbrecht Denmarks leading researcher and expert on Danish postal Stationery 1870-1905. Great homepage, which enables you to identify your own items.
  
  
  

Links to the links-pages of Philately.

• List of Danish Online collectors Created and maintained by Toke Nørby.

• The Danish Philatelic Federation.