Denmark 1951 Naval Officers College - 250th Anniversary

• Label : "Post- og Telegrafvaesenet (P&T)" (Royal Post of Denmark, official name 1927-1991); 1951; commemorative stamps of the issue "250 years of the Naval Offieciers College on the Island Holmen";
  

(issue of 2 stamps)

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 323, 324; Yvert & Tellier: No. 338, 339; Scott: No. 327, 328; AFA: No. 328, 329
• Colors :

- 25 (Öre) : brownish red to red

- 50 (Öre) : blue

• Watermark : none
• Nominal values : 25 – 50 (Öre)
• Postage validity : since 26 February 1951
• Designed by :

- Viggo Bang (1885 – 1967) (= "V.B.") (design

- Bent Jacobsen (= "J.B.") (engraving)

• Printed by : "Postvaesenets Frimaerketrykkeri", Copenhagen (Denmark)
• Print process : Recess printing on normal paper
• Perforation :

- Comb perforation, K 12¾ (the depicted stamps)

- Comb perforation, K 12 (other source)

• Print runs :

- 25 (Öre) : 8,992,500

- 50 (Öre) : 3,111,250

• Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without signature line) : 20.0 x 28.0 mm

Commemorative stamps of the issue "250 years of the Naval Offieciers College on the Island Holmen";
(issue of 2 stamps)

Stamps

mint

Michel No. 323, mint

Michel No. 324, mint

postmarked

Michel No. 323, postmarked

Michel No. 324, postmarked

To the stamp motives:
- 25, 50 (Öre) : the war ship "Hakon" around of 1700 (other source: a ship of the line "Fredericus Quartus" around 1700) (3-mast-barque of the 17th century) beside inscriptions and the monograms of King Frederick IV of Denmark (reign 1699-1730) and King Frederick IX of Denmark (reign 1947-1972)