GREENLAND Collector Subscription magazine for collectors of Greenland stamps • Vol. 24 • No. 3 • September 2019 Last ever PRINT issue. Read more on page 10. UN Day of Indigenous The environment Coal bag Tags in 2019 Christmas stamps Languages in Greenland Greenland with attractive effects 2 5 – part III 6 7 Indigenous Peoples and their languages By Pertti Frandsen Private photo 01100660 – The UN Day of Indigenous People – Year of Indigenous Languages Artist: Paninnguaq Lind Jensen Denomination: DKK 14.00 Date of issue: 9th August 2019 10 stamps per sheet Exterior dimensions: 58.00 mm x 32.00 mm Format: E 09082019A Typography: Lowe-Martin Group Print method: Offset Paper: TR4 To mark the UN’s International Day of the World’s an alarming rate. Bearing this in mind, the United Na- Drums are a tool for com- Indigenous Peoples, while also celebrating 2019 as tions declared that 2019 would be the ’Year of Indig- munication in numerous the UN’s International Year of Indigenous Languag- enous Languages’ (IY2019). The UN took this initiative ways. This is a tradition es, POST Greenland issued this beautiful stamp on to generate awareness of these languages, not just to that goes far beyond song 9th August. benefit the people who actually speak them, but for competitions, being a strong everyone else too, so they can value the important tool for expression. The drum This is young artist Paninnguaq Lind Jensen’s very first contribution that languages make to the rich cultural was originally used to express joy, stamp design and what a debut this is! The stamp de- diversity in our world. love, grief, anger and to maintain a bal- picts a mother and her daughter, spending time to- ance and cleanse, no matter what feelings and words gether around a traditional drum. The two are ’speak- The young artist had this to say: were blossoming or growing within. ing’ to each other in the language of drum song. “I am so proud and honoured to work with POST I am also aware of how much understanding and Language has an important role in people’s everyday Greenland on this project and to design a stamp to knowledge about our Tunniit and Kakiornerit have life; not just a means of communication, education, celebrate the UN International Year of Indigenous Lan- been lost. This is a language we need to relearn. Just social integration and development, but also as a re- guages. as the daughter is learning from her mother, I see source for every person’s unique identity, cultural his- When asked if I would help to create this stamp, I many people learning and reflecting upon our culture tory, traditions and memories. knew right away that I wanted to contribute towards to bring it back and keep it alive and in motion in our However, despite the incredible value that lies in lan- spreading awareness about languages and tools for modernised, globalised society.” guage, languages are disappearing from our world at communication from within our own culture. 2 | Greenland Collector 2019 Sepac Folder – Historic Homes of Europe By Pertti Frandsen SEPAC is an abbreviation for ’Small European Postal Administration Cooperations’. This is a network of thirteen small European postal services, encompassing: the Fa- eroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Liech- tenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Åland and Vatican City. These thirteen small postal administrations all have small domestic markets for posta- ge and logistics and, at the same time, major export markets for postage stamps for collectors. The Sepac countries therefore share largely the same challenges and the Sepac network is therefore an important forum for all member countries. Nine times in the past from 2007 to 2018, Sepac members have released stamps that followed a common annual theme. This year, the common Sepac theme is ‘Historic Homes’. Eleven of the thirteen Sepac member countries have chosen to issue a stamp in the Sepac series. In June, POST Greenland issued this year’s Sepac stamp for Greenland. This reproduces 01303089. a very nice photograph of the home of missionary and tradesman Poul Egede, which Souvenir folder was built in 1751 in the settlement of Ilimanaq, between Qasigiannguit and Ilulissat. Sepac 2019 – Historic Homes of Europe Price: DKK 125.00 On 12th September, the Sepac – Historic Homes of Europe souvenir folder was issued, Date of issue: 12th September 2019 with a single example of each of the eleven Sepac stamps for the year. This is the tenth joint souvenir folder that the Sepac countries have issued together. The folder can be The 2019 Sepac folder contains a mint copy of the Sepac stamps from eleven of ordered from our Customer Service or from our website, www.stamps.gl. the thirteen member countries. Souvenir folder subscribers will receive the folder with the year’s final subscription of 21st October 2019. Final Sale on 30th November 2019 Product Title Item No. Issue date Denom. Watercolours by the Queen DKK 14.00 The following stamps and philatelic products will be deleted from our range on Stamp of Denmark. The Greenlandic 01100629 16.04.2018 30th November 2019 unless sold out beforehand. Any remaining stocks will be Children’s Society + 1.00 destroyed. Copper Wedding Anniversary, Souvenir sheet 01106595 17.10.2016 DKK 20.50 Frederik & Mary Product Title Item No. Issue date Denom. Sport in Greenland III. Dene Souvenir sheet 01106620 22.01.2018 DKK 43.50 Sports in Greenland I 1/3. Games Stamp 01100585 12.05.2016 DKK 0.75 Arctic Circle Race Watercolours by the Queen Souvenir sheet of Denmark – The Greenlan- 01106629 16.04.2018 DKK 52.00 Copper Wedding Anniver- Stamp 01100595 17.10.2016 DKK 20.50 dic Children’s Society sary, Frederik & Mary Mini sheet EUROPA 2018. Bridges 1/2 01107623 22.01.2018 DKK 144.00 Greenlandic Music I. Stamp 01100600 23.01.2017 DKK 24.50 Mini sheet EUROPA 2018. Bridges 2/2 01107624 22.01.2018 DKK 153.00 Choirs Golden Wedding Anniversary Greenlandic Music I. Souvenir folder of Queen Margrethe and 01303080 15.05.2017 DKK 150.00 Stamp 01100601 23.01.2017 DKK 27.00 Harmonica music Prince Henrik Watercolours by the Queen Sepac 2017. Local arts Stamp 01100612 15.05.2017 DKK 15.00 Souvenir folder of Denmark – The Greenlan- 01303083 16.04.2018 DKK 52.00 and crafts dic Children’s Society Greenland Collector | 3 50th anniversary of the UN’s World Post Day By Pertti Frandsen Post delivery systems have been operating for many stamp-collecting displays in post offices. Other places centuries. At first letters would be delivered on foot organise workshops about the history of the post. UPU and then on horseback by special messengers. The first also arranges international letter-exchange competitions national postal systems began to appear in the 17th for youngsters. century. This year, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of The world’s first postage stamp was issued in 1840, the first World Post Day. POST Greenland is therefore which made postage far more practical and user-friend- very proud to celebrate this occasion, in the form of this ly. Gradually, countries began to reach agreements on creative stamp that was designed by multi-artist Miki the exchange of international post. There was already Jacobsen. a global postal service by the end of the 19th century, About the artist but it was slow and complicated. The formation of UPU (Universal Postal Union) in 1874 saw the groundwork for Miki Jacobsen was born in 1965 in Paamiut. He has il- the effective postal service as we know it today. lustrated several children’s books and exhibited in lo- cations which include Greenland, Scandinavia, Ireland, UPU was the opening shot that started the global com- the USA and Canada. He attended residential art courses munications revolution, which then gave people the at: Greenland’s School of Art, the Danish Design School opportunity to write and send letters to anyone else, and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. worldwide. UPU became a special agency under the aus- Miki Jacobsen is skilled in several different techniques pices of the United Nations in 1948. and means of expression, which he usually combines in his projects: painting, graphics, photography, computer 9th October was declared ’World Post Day’ at the To- graphics, sound and performance. Miki has designed a kyo UPU congress in 1969. Ever since, World Post Day total of 24 stamps for POST Greenland during in the peri- has been celebrated worldwide, as a way of promoting 01100661 od 1992 - 2018. This is Miki’s 25th stamp altogether. Read the importance of our postal services. For half a centu- 50th anniversary of the UN’s World Post Day more about the artist here: ry so far, countries all over the world have participated Artist: Miki Jacobsen in the festivities towards promoting how important our www.nuukkunstmuseum.com/da/maanedens-vaerk/ Denomination: DKK 17.00 postal services are. In some countries, there are special miki-jacobsen Date of issue: 9th October 2019 Stamps per sheet: 10 Exterior dimensions: 28.80 x 40.00 mm Photo: Camilla Nielsen Format: G – vertical 09102019 Artist: Miki Jacobsen Typography: Lowe-Martin Group Print method: Offset Paper: TR4 4 | Greenland Collector 21102019 The Environment in Greenland – part III By Allan D. I. Streymoy and Pertti Frandsen We have reached the third part of the ’Environment Luckily a lot of people in Greenland’ series that we launched in 2017. On this are taking up the fight occasion the artist is Naja Rosing-Asvid, whom we also for cleaner nature in future know from her ’Greenland during the Second World years.