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GREENLAND Collector Subscription magazine for collectors of Greenland stamps • Vol. 24 • No. 2 • May 2019 2018 GREENLANDIC 2 STAMP OF THE YEAR 2019 EUROPA stamps 4 featuring sounds More Unesco World Heritage First ten years Sites in Greenland of Greenlandic 7 8 Self-Government Our 2018 Stamp of the Year has been announced The DKK 10,000 prize was won by a Danish collector By Allan D. I. Streymoy and Pertti Frandsen Our G634 stamp was chosen as the 2018 Greenlandic Stamp of the Year. A total of 3,120 stamp collectors from all over the world voted for their favourite among the 24 stamps that were issued by POST Greenland in 2018. The 2018 Greenland Stamp of the Year was issued on 25th May last year and featured a panoramic photograph taken by Erwin Reinthaler. The Winning Stamp: G634. This Austrian photographer, artist, ski instructor and teacher is new to the world of stamps. Despite that, he has previously produced works of art and published a book about Greenland. The winner of the DKK 10,000 main prize was Lillian Køhler from Denmark. Lillian has been collecting Greenlandic stamps for a long time and has participated many times before in this annual vote to select the Greenlandic Stamp of the Year. POST Greenland congratulates Lillian on winning the first prize, which she has already received. The ten lucky winners of our runners-up prize - a 2018 Year Pack - are: The winner, Lillian • Allan Whitrod, Canada Køhler, Denmark. • José Ortega Flores, Spain Private photo. • Igor Tonzetic, South Africa • Massimo Marescotto, Italy • Jens Bachlechner, Germany • Hans Gebhardt, Germany • Victoria Schaal, Italy • Colin Seymour, Denmark • Ronald Leroux, Canada • Felipe Pin Rinaldi, Brazil 2018 Year Pack. We congratulate all the winners and, in addition, we thank everyone who took part. The ‘2018 Greenlandic Stamp of the Year’ competition was conducted from 1st December 2018 to 1st March 2019. The vote took place here in the Greenland Collector, at www.stamps.gl, at www.facebook.com/stamps.gl and through our email newsletter. 2 | Greenland Collector 21062019 Old Greenlandic banknotes - part three By Pertti Frandsen At the beginning of the twentieth century, KGH (Kongelige Grønlandske Handel – Royal Greenland Trading) started using special banknotes. These were printed in stone presses and were valid currency in Greenland’s trading posts. All the stamps in this series were drawn and engraved by artist Bertil Skov Jørgensen. Historical material and original old banknotes stored in Denmark’s National Bank, at the National Museum in Copenhagen and in POST Greenland’s archives in Nuuk, were used as source material for the artwork. The stamps, which reproduce the banknote designs, are printed in combined offset and laser etching and will be issued as full sheets and souvenir sheets. 01100652 01100653 In 2017 and 2018 we issued a total of four postage Old Greenlandic banknotes III 1/2 Old Greenlandic banknotes III 2/2 stamps, reproducing banknotes that were issued in Denomination: DKK 26.00 Denomination: DKK 56.00 1911. Our stamp series now continues with two addi- Date of issue: 21st June 2019 Exterior dimensions: 53.00 mm x 46.00 mm tional stamps that reproduce banknotes from the se- 10 stamps per sheet ries of banknotes that was issued in 1953. Exterior dimensions: 53.00 mm x 46.00 mm Artist and typography: Bertil Skov Jørgensen Banknote series from 1953 Printing method: Combined laser gravure/offset Money as a modern phenomenon was pretty much Paper: Swiss Stamp Paper dropped onto Greenlandic society. This happened as a 01106652 01106653 means of discouraging the trade in tusks. Souvenir sheet Souvenir sheet Credit notes, as they were then known, were not always Old Greenlandic Old Greenlandic regarded as legitimate or desirable means of payment, banknotes III 1/2 banknotes III 2/2 however. For example, German mineralogist Karl Ludwig Price: DKK 26.00 Price: DKK 56.00 Giesecke noted to his consternation during an expedition in 1809 that the local population refused to sell fish and game to the starving Europeans. “When we ourselves began to suffer shortages and were no longer able to series of banknotes that were issued after the 1953 Con- has been a frequent satisfy their wishes and claims, the indigenous people stitutional amendment, after which Greenland ceased participant at many became very nonchalant and unpleasant to us and would to have the status of a colony. Our account of the old exhibitions in Den- no longer take into account that we used money as a Greenlandic banknotes will continue in 2020, when we mark since 1992. means of payment.” issue the next postage stamp and souvenir sheet in the He made his stamp Giesecke’s description illustrates the general problem series. début in 2000 for that can arise when modern money is introduced to an Post Danmark. His Source: ”Penge og national identitet i Grønland – et first stamp for POST exchange-based economy. In contrast to payment meth- blikpå den grønlandskepengehistorie”, (“Money and ods such as gold or silver coins, banknotes are highly Greenland was is- National Identity in Greenland – a look at the history of sued in 2009. He dependent on the user’s confidence in them as a means Greenlandic money”) by Anders Ravn Sørensen. of payment. Bertil Skov Jørgensen. produced the 75th About the artist Private photo. anniversary stamp Although the administrative conditions and Greenland as for POST Greenland a whole underwent a continuous process of change, KGH Bertil Skov Jørgensen was born in Kolding in 1968. in 2013. This series continued to issue the credit notes that were used as He trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts about old Greenlandic banknotes is the first series of currency. The two banknotes which are reproduced on and has been learning the art of engraving since 2006 stamps that Bertil Skov Jørgensen has designed for these two new postage stamps both originate from the with the legendary Martin Mörck. Bertil Skov Jørgensen Greenland. Find out more at www.bertilskov.dk. Greenland Collector | 3 21062019B Greenland’s 2019 EUROPA stamps – featuring the birdsong of national birds By Pertti Frandsen ’duck people’. The Ptarmigan is a sedentary bird and is biologically a land fowl. The Mallard is a common bird that breeds at lakes in Western Greenland, out to the North at Upernavik. It breeds more sparsely in South-East Green- land. The Mallard winters in the open water areas off Western Greenland at coasts, shallow fjords or in coves. 01100654 The second stamp depicts the Snow Bunting and the EUROPA 2019 Common Raven. The Snow Bunting is the messenger National birds 1/2 of the great sun. According to various myths, the Raven Denomination: DKK 15.00 helped to create the sun. When it arrives and begins to Date of issue: 21st June 2019 sing, it means that Spring and the return of the sun are 10 stamps per sheet drawing near. The Snow Bunting and the Raven also ap- Exterior dimensions: 28.80 mm x 40.00 mm pear alongside each other in some myths, such as ’The Format: G – vertical Raven that was desperate to get married’. Biologically, Artist: Naja Abelsen both species are passerines, or perching birds.” Typography: Lowe-Martin Group Printing method: Offset Paper: TR4 NEW 01100655 As something new for this year, you can use a free app EUROPA 2019 Stamps with sounds! This is the first time we have to scan the EUROPA stamps and hear the birdsong of the National birds 2/2 tried this innovation at POST Greenland. Read the birds that are depicted on the stamps. This is a feature Denomination: DKK 17.00 ’NEW’ section below to find out more. But, first of all, common to both the POST Greenland EUROPA stamps we would like to present this year’s EUROPA stamps and the corresponding stamps from various other mem- from POST Greenland. bers of PostEurop. The app here is a Cee-app. As has become a tradition, our two annual EUROPA Install the Cee-app on your smart phone. It is available stamps will each be issued as full sheets, printed on for both iOS and Android. When you have downloaded gummed paper and as a self-adhesive booklet, con- the Cee-app and opened it, you will need to personalise taining six of each of the two EUROPA stamps your Cee-app by entering a few pieces of information. The Cee-app will then be ready to use. Remember to In Greenland we have no official national bird as such. activate the GPS function. You can then scan the stamps. We do, however, have a number of birds that are both You will then be able to hear the birdsong coming out of common and familiar. Some of them even appear in var- the speaker on your mobile phone. You can read more ious Greenlandic myths: Rock Ptarmigan, Mallard, Snow about the Cee-app here: http://cee-platform.com and Bunting and the Common Raven. EUROPA-frimærkit 2019: Nunatta timmiai Frimærkinut mappersagaq nr. 27 http://europa-stamps.blogspot.comFrimærkip aappaani aqisseq qeerlutoorlu assiliartaapput. Taamaammat ukiumi inunngortut aqqissit inuinik, aasakkullu inunngortut qeerlutuut inuinik taaneqartarput. Aqqissip kukkukuut ilaqutarai, nunanullu allanut ingerlaqqissanani. Qeerlutooq nalinginnaasumik piaqqiortarpoq tatsit eqqaani, Kalaallit Nunaata kitaani, avannamut Frimærkehæfte nr. 27 Kalaallit Nunaat Upernavik tikillugu. Kalaallit Nunaata kujataani siammasinnerusumik piaqqiortarpoq. Qeerlutooq Kalaallit Nunaata kitaata sineriaani sikuneq ajortumi, kangerlunni, Grønland kangerliumanernilu ikkattuni, ukiisarpoq. DKK 192,00 Few artists are better at depicting animal subjects than Frimærkip aappaani qupaloraarsuk tulugarlu assiliartaapput. Qupaloraarsuk seqinersuup oqariartortoraa. Tulugaq oqaluttuani arlalinni seqinermik pilersitseqataasarpoq. Takkukkaangat qarlulerlunilu, upernaap, seqernullu takkunnissaat qallisarpoq. Qupaloraarsuk tulugarlu aamma oqaluttuat ilaanni marluullutik ilaapput, soorlu uani “Tulugaq katikkusuttoq”.