Postal history and postage stamps of the Faroe Islands
Postal History and Postage Stamps of the Faroe Islands covers the history of the Faroese postal service and the history of Faroese postage stamps.
history
Skjútsur
When there were still no ferries in liner service between the 17 inhabited islands , special transport regulations were needed to enable the inhabitants of the various islands to exchange messages. This way of transporting travelers and mail was called skjútsur ( fär . Skjútsa = (passengers) to carry).
This transport regulation provided that a postman (so-called skjútsskaffari ) was to be appointed in every village . He was obliged to set up a team for the transport of people, letters and parcels from one village to another. This promotion scheme was introduced around 1865 when the first related law came into force.
The transport tariffs were always set by Løgting for five years. There were three types of transportation:
- Official mail and transport (embætisskjútsur)
- Parish mail and transportation (prestaskjútsur)
- Private mail and transport (almenningsskjútsur)
The transport fee was different. The lowest fee had to be paid for transporting official mail, while private mail was the most expensive. Before 1865 these transport services were provided free of charge.
All healthy men between the ages of 15 and 50 were required to perform under the promotion scheme; they could not refuse without paying a fine. Getting mail from one island to another through dangerous waters has not always been an easy undertaking, especially since the currents are often strong.
Peter S. Johannesen (Petur í Mattalág), one of the first mail carriers, reports on a letter delivery process from the time when the delivery regulations were still in force. The letter, which was to be brought from Tórshavn to Hvalba on Suðuroy , was marked with “KT” ( Royal Service ) and was marked “Immediately to be conveyed”, which means that the letter will be conveyed as soon as possible, depending on the weather should be.
- The letter was posted to the postman in Tórshavn, who immediately commissioned a man who was obliged to carry the mail with the matter. He walked from Tórshavn to Kirkjubøur , where he delivered the letter to the local post office. The latter, in turn, had the letter rowed by boat to Sandoy - where the village of Skopun is today . One of the men in the boat then had to walk to Sandur with the letter to hand it over to the post office owner there. Then he went back to the boat that was waiting for him. The postman in Sandur hired a man to wander to Dalur with the letter . From there the letter was taken by boat to Hvalba on Suðuroy. Here the letter was finally delivered to the pastor.
- Due to strong currents and unfavorable weather conditions, the crew entrusted with this transport could not row back to Dalur that same evening. As the night went on, the weather deteriorated, so the men had to stay on the island for two weeks.
The transport regulation remained in effect until roughly the First World War , but was no longer used as often at that time because the postal charges were relatively low, so that the post office was a sensible alternative.
Structure of the postal system
The first known letter from the Faroe Islands, which was provided with a Danish postage stamp, dated January 5, 1852 and was a mailing from Governor Carl Emil Dahlerup to his brother in Ærøskøbing . The letter went to the Shetland Islands, London and Hamburg-Altona and was auctioned in 2003 for 27,000 euros.
After the establishment of the steamship line Copenhagen - Scotland ( Shetland ) - Faroe - Iceland in 1870, a new postal law came into force in the Faroe Islands on April 1, 1871, repealing a total of 28 laws, ordinances, tariff rates and decrees from the period between 1694 and 1868 . On February 18, 1870, the postage was 8 shillings for letters up to 15 grams and 16 shillings from 15 to 250 grams. Already assigned to the Danish postage area in which the postage for letters up to 250 grams was 4 shillings.
Until 1875, the steamer came to the Faroe Islands 14 times a year, from 1876 to 1879 18 to 20 times. Tórshavn was given its own post office as the port of call for the steamer ( see below ), and three postal routes were set up from here in 1872:
- Tórshavn– Kirkjubøur - Skopun - Sandur - Hvalba - Trongisvágur (Tórshavn– Suðuroy )
- Tórshavn– Søldarfjørður - Syðrugøta - Gøtugjógv - Norðragøta - Leirvík - Klaksvík (Tórshavn– North Islands )
- Tórshavn– Kvívík - ( Vestmanna , weather permitting ) - Sandavágur (Tórshavn– Vágar )
These three routes were each managed by a mail carrier. Bailiff Hannes Finsen wrote on April 24, 1872:
- The mail that is delivered to the mail carrier is traveling at Sýslumaður replaced - or (at stations where no such lives, in the particular "skjútsskaffari" so ). The departures from Thorshavn take place the day after the arrival of the mail steamer from Copenhagen and the return journey to Thorshavn twelve hours after the mail deliverer arrives at the terminus.
Later, Tvøroyri (more precisely Trongisvágur) and Klaksvík received their own mail handling points. A mail steamer, the Smiril I. , operated from 1896 between the three nodes Tórshavn, Klaksvík and Trongisvágur. The Faroese postal reform of July 1, 1903, made these three mail handling offices subject to eight further letter collection points in the larger towns of the country. There were now six main routes with the respective new post offices as the terminus:
- Tórshavn-Sandur
- Tórshavn-Vestmanna- Miðvágur
- Tórshavn- Strendur - Eiði
- Klaksvík- Fuglafjørður
- Trongisvágur- Hvalba
- Tróngisvágur- Vágur
On May 1, 1908, the Faroe Islands were recognized as an independent postal area under the General Directorate of the Danish Postal and Telecommunications System. As a result, the post office in Tórshavn became a real post office and the cheaper Danish local tariffs were now in force in intra-Faroese mail (such as within Copenhagen).
Over the next 25 years, post offices were set up in almost all localities. Most of them, 15 pieces, opened in 1918. From the end of 1969 several post offices were closed. The postal connection with the residents of these localities was maintained with country messengers.
After the Løgting elections in 1974, the autonomous government decided to take over the Faroese postal system from Denmark and entered into negotiations with the mother country.
On June 1, 1962, the Danish place names on the postmarks were replaced by Faroese.
Postverk Føroya
On April 1st, 1976 Postverk Føroya was officially founded and started operating. The postmaster of Tórshavn was the post director of one of the smallest postal administrations in the world.
On April 1, 1998, the international country code changed from FR to FO to avoid confusion with France.
In 2002 the Løgting passed a law to standardize addresses in the Faroe Islands. It was planned to give every Faroese household a delivery code. So far, only Tórshavn and Klaksvík had street names and house numbers. At the beginning of the 21st century Sandavágur , Hósvík , Fuglafjørður , Runavík and Vestmanna were added. Most of the other addresses so far only consisted of the name and the place with its three-digit postcode .
Posta
In 2005 the company was finally converted into a stock corporation under public law. For the beginning of 2006, the employees should decide whether and how they want to be represented on the three-person board of the new P / F Postverk Føroya. At the same time, new, fashionable service uniforms were introduced for staff working at the counter.
In the law that made the conversion, it was decided that some post offices would only run until the end of 2010. With regard to technological developments, the law contained the passage that by the end of 2010 there should only be 21 post offices and that in 2011 only eleven post offices would be required.
In 2008, four PostSelv machines were installed in different locations. In 2009 the Posta Heima service was introduced, a rolling post office that comes to customers. In addition, a cooperation agreement was signed with the business chains Samkeyp and Merko under the name " Posta Her ". In these shops you can buy postage stamps, take care of smaller postal transactions and post mail. So the post offices were essentially left with the ever decreasing money business and the parcel service.
As a result of this development, the post offices in Eiði, Fuglafjørður, Gøta, Hvalba, Kollafjørður, Leirvík, Sandavágur, Skopun, Strendur, Sørvágur, Toftir, Vágur and Vestmanna were closed with effect from December 31, 2010. On January 1, 2011, the following post offices existed with day cancellation: Tórshavn, Kirkja, Klaksvík, Miðvágur, Mykines, Nólsoy, Oyri, Sandur, Saltangará, Skúvoy, Svínoy and Tvøroyri, as well as acceptance points in Hattarvík and Skopun. Registration numbers for registered letters were only available in Tórshavn, Klaksvík, Miðvágur, Sandur, Saltangará and Tvøroyri. A roller stamp was used in Tórshavn, Klaksvík and Saltangará and a machine stamp was also used in Tórshavn.
The post offices
In autumn 2016 there were permanent post offices ( posthús ) in the Faroe Islands : Tórshavn, Nólsoy, Klaksvík, Kirkja, Hattarvík, Svínoy, Vágar Airport, Mykines, Oyrarbakki, Saltangará, Sandur, Skúvoy, Hestur, Tvøroyri.
List of postcodes see: List of cities and towns in the Faroe Islands
Selected post offices and their branch offices are described below.
Tórshavn
As early as March 1, 1870, the first mail handling in Tórshavn was opened in connection with the mail steamer from Copenhagen . The first head of the post office was Sýslumaður Hans Christopher Müller , who held this position until his death in 1897. This first post was in Müller's private house on Tinganes in the main street Gongin .
Under his successor, CC Danielsen, the post office moved to the Sjóbúðin house on Tinganes, where two rooms were rented. With the postal reform of 1903, the mail handling in Tórshavn was subject to newly established letter collection points: Sandur on Sandoy , Miðvágur on Vágar , Vestmanna in the north of Streymoy, Eiði in the north of Eysturoys and Strendur in the south of the same island. In addition to delivering to these collection points, mail was delivered directly from Tórshavn to customers in the following locations:
- On the way to Sandur: Kirkjubøur , Velbastaður and Skopun .
- On the way to Vestmanna: Kollafjørður , Leynar and Kvívík .
- On the way to Eiði: Morskranes , Selatrað , Hósvík , Hvalvík , Streymnes , Gjánoyri, Langasandur and Haldarsvík . Arrived in Eiði, we continued to Strendur via Ljósá , Svínáir , Norðskáli and Oyri
Deliveries were made to each of these routes once a week. In addition to this delivery to the subordinate letter collection points, the core responsibility of the Tórshavner Post was reduced to the following locations: Argir , Hoyvík , Hvítanes , Sund , Kaldbak and Nólsoy .
On December 1, 1906, the Tórshavner Post received its first own building. With the transformation of the Faroe Islands as an independent postal area in Denmark in 1908, the post office became a real post office , and CC Danielsen could call himself postmaster. He was the highest post office worker in the Faroe Islands. In 1910 the post office got its first municipal mail carrier. Until then, the citizens of Tórshavn had to pick up the mail themselves. Until 1975 this, later expanded, building on Tórsgøta was the center of the Faroese postal service.
On December 1, 1922, Danielsen's son Johan Danielsen began his post as postmaster in Tórshavn. He was to hold the office until June 30, 1953, longer than anyone else before or after him.
In 1955 the Vestmanna post office became independent.
On July 1, 1967, the postmaster Esbern Midjord began , with the establishment of Postverk Føroya in 1976 he became postal director of the Faroe Islands and held the post until 1998.
With the takeover of the postal service it became necessary to set up new departments in the Faroese Post. The post received an administrative department, an accounting department, a stamp department and a postal giro department. For a temporary solution to the space problem, a house in the Dr. Jakobsensgøta rented in Tórshavn. Later, in 1982, some of the functions were relocated to the new post office in Argir .
In 1990 the new building at Óðinshædd 2 was rented (and later bought). It is the main post office of Tórshavn and the headquarters of the entire company. The old post office in the center of town still exists and there is another one in the SMS shopping center. The stamp department is now located in Argir (Traðagøta 38).
Suðuroy
The post office in Tvøroyri (then Trongisvágur ) on Suðuroy dates back to 1877 when a separate mail collection point became necessary after the steamship route was changed. On March 1, 1884, this became a post office with its own bookkeeping. After the postal reform of 1903, the newly established mail collection points of Hvalba in the north of the island and Vágur in the south were under her control .
The postman, who was on the way from Trongisvágur to Vágar every Tuesday, delivered the post in Øravík and Hov at the same time . The mail collection point in Vágur organized the delivery to Nes , Porkeri and Sumba .
On Friday we went to Hvalba in the north, whose mail collection point Sandvík took care of.
The mail to Froðba and Fámjin was delivered directly from Trongisvágur. In the first case immediately and in the second case once a week.
Vágur
The 1903 letter collection center was converted into a post office on August 31, 1904, and the Dane Anders Olsen was the director until 1933. The mail was in his house. His successor was Andreas Frederik Djurhuus (known as a politician). This time the post was housed in his house (í Tippunum). He was in service until 1980 and was only called "Andreas Post" by the local people. His successor was called Peter Vilhelm. He had worked for the post office since 1935 when he was 15 and was on duty until 1990. Accordingly, they only called him “Peter Post”.
It was not until April 1, 1983 that the post office moved from Djurhuus' house to its own building - 80 years after the Vágur post office was founded. It was the old bank building in Fløðulið, where the post office existed until the end of 2010.
By the early 1980s, six post offices were subordinate to the Post in Vágur: Víkarbyrgi , Sumba , Akrar , Lopra , Porkeri and Hov . On January 1st, 1982 the post office in Lopra was closed. On January 1, 1983 the post office in Akrar followed and on August 31, 1993 the post office in Hov closed. In 1996 it was the turn of the post office in Víkarbyrgi. Thus there were only two subordinate post offices, Sumba and Porkeri.
The other villages in the extreme south of the Faroe Islands are supplied by land messengers.
With effect from December 31, 2010 the post office was closed.
Klaksvík and North Islands
On May 1, 1888, Klaksvík (at that time it was still called Vágur or Norðuri í Vági, so as not to be confused with the place of the same name on Suðuroy) its own post office, which was responsible for the entire north islands (and is still today). The head was the Sýslumaður (community leader) Klæmint Olsen . After the postal reform of 1903, the new letter collection point at Fuglafjørður (Eysturoy) was under her control . Every Friday the post should be carried there from Klaksvík via Leirvík . It is likely that the mail for Leirvík was delivered directly in this way.
When mail arrived in Klaksvík, the items had to be brought immediately to the then not yet merged districts of Klaksvík, Vágur, Vágsheygum, Biskupstøð, Uppsølum, Gerðum, Myrkjanoyri and Norðoyri , once a week to the Fagralíðer school, where the folk high school was to 1909 found that was inhabited all year round.
Every Monday the mail had to be delivered to the northeastern villages of Norðtoftir , Depil , Norðdepil , Hvannasund and Viðareiði .
On Wednesdays the places Syðradalur , Húsar and Mikladalur on Kalsoy and Kunoy on the island of the same name were supplied.
Hvannasund probably served as a sort of post office box for the residents of Múli further north, while Mikladalur performed the same function for Trøllanes . How the residents of Haraldssund , Skarð and Skálatoftir got their mail back then is not clear. Presumably they would pick them up in Klaksvík when one of them was there.
After the First World War, the situation changed. From 1920 to 1970 there were 14 post offices that were subordinate to the Klaksvík Post. Each village had its own post office, like Kirkja and Hattarvík on Fugloy and Svínoy on the island of the same name.
In 1911 the Klaksvíker Post moved to a new building. As before, she shared the house with the office of the mayor, who got his own house in 1927. In 1947 the post office was rebuilt. On June 24, 1966, the post office got a new, ultra-modern building near the old Tingstätte des Vártings of the North Islands, where it is still today.
In addition to the post office in Klaksvík, there are only three other post offices today: Viðareið, Kirkja and Svínoy, as the most remote outpost in the north and east. Around 20 people work for the post office on the northern islands, half of them are mail carriers.
Eysturoy
As already described above, with the postal reform of 1903, three letter collection points were initially set up on Eysturoy : Eiði in the north, Strendur in the south and Fuglafjørður in the east. While the first two were taken care of from Tórshavn, Fuglafjørður was subordinate to the post office in Klaksvík.
Fuglafjørður
The postal history of Fuglafjørður began with the establishment of the letter collection point in 1903. The villages Hellur , Oyndarfjørður and Elduvík were also supplied from here.
The first head of the post office was Tummas Juul Petersen, Sýslumaður, Eysturoy. In 1910 he moved to Klaksvík, where he took over the post of mayor of the North Islands and at the same time that of post office manager in Klaksvík. His successor as head of the post office in Fuglafjørður was his brother Hans Jacob Petersen.
He owned two cutters that were used for moving mail, cargo, and passengers. The boats were called Alma and Ragnhild , and they were named after his daughter Alma and her sister. Ragnhild drove north from Fuglafjørður to Hellur, Oyndarfjørður, Elduvík, Funningur and Gjógv . Alma was on the line between Fuglafjørður and Klaksvík, and on the way she ran to Leirvík . After the Second World War , the trips were stopped. One cutter was built for this purpose, while the second was acquired in Norway in 1930.
In 1926 Hans Jacobs daughter, Alma Rustin, took over the management of the post office in the village, and when she left the post on October 31, 1975, it was taken over by her daughter, Margretha Rustin Johannesen, who remained in the post until November 30, 1994 . The family held this position in Fuglafjørður for 91 years.
The post was initially in the office of the head of the office and later in Alma Rustin's house. It was not until November 1, 1975 that the post office moved into its current premises in a separate building.
Country messengers
In contrast to their predecessors in the first half of the 20th century, today's country messengers travel by car. As is customary everywhere in the Faroe Islands, these land couriers deliver and receive letters, parcels and money.
Working as a messenger in the country harbored many dangers. Faroese postal history includes reports of postmen killed in accidents. The first accident happened to the 52-year-old Jacob Eliassen, called Jakki í Vági. In 1887 Jakki was traveling over the mountains between Klaksvík and the village of Árnafjørður . It was a winter's day with bad weather, but the mail still had to be transported. Jakki was never supposed to reach his destination that day. When he was later found dead, his body was lying on a ledge under the ridge from which he had fallen.
It wasn't until 2003 that the last remaining postman route over a mountain path became superfluous when the tunnel to the isolated village of Gásadalur was pierced. No less a person than the postman himself had the honor of the first demolition. He was the first person allowed to walk through the tunnel.
Mailboxes
Postverk Føroya is the inscription on the Faroese mailboxes, which are held in a bright blue. When the Faroe Islands were still served by Denmark by post , they were - as usual in the motherland - red.
philately
An interesting period in Faroese philately history is the time immediately after the First World War, when the so-called makeshift postage stamps had to be used. On December 8, 1918, the Tórshavn post office received a message from Copenhagen about the following postage increase:
- Local fee for letters up to 250 g: from 5 ore to 7 ore
- State fee for postcards up to 250 g: from 4 ore to 7 ore.
The postage increase should come into effect on January 1st, 1919.
Because of the poor shipping connection to the Faroe Islands, it was not possible to supply the Tórshavn post office with the new 7 ore postage stamps for use in letters on the islands and postcards to Denmark. The increasing demand for 1, 2, 3 and 4 Öre supplementary brands meant that stocks were no longer sufficient. The Tórshavn Post Office was therefore authorized to cut the 4 ore stamps in half and use the two halves as 2 ore stamps.
When these stocks were almost exhausted, the Tórshavn Post Office was authorized to overprint the required number of 5 ore stamps so that they could serve as 2 ore stamps. For this purpose, a hand stamp with the text "2 ØRE" was made, which was called the chair leg stamp because a part of a turned chair leg was used for its shaft.
A similar situation arose in 1940/1941. The German occupation of Denmark - as well as a harsh ice winter in the Skagerrak and Kattegat - prevented regular connections between the British-occupied Faroe Islands and occupied Denmark , which in turn resulted in a shortage of stamps with the current fee rates. Therefore, overprints were made again for use until new consignments were received from Denmark.
The Danish postal administration issued the first stamps with the country designation Føroyar (Faroese for Faroe Islands ) on January 30, 1975 . The Faroe Islands came into the field of vision of the international philatelic community.
On April 1st, 1976, the Postverk Føroya started operations as an authority of the autonomous government. The 18th stamp with the country name Føroyar is also the first to be issued under the direction of the Faroe Islands. Since then, the stamp department has taken over all stamp work. The department organizes the entire production, issue and sale of stamps.
The Faroe Islands developed into a popular collecting area and thus contributed significantly to the popularity of the island world in the North Atlantic. For example, the German-Faroese Circle of Friends was founded specifically as an association of Faroe Islands stamp collectors.
Stamp motifs
Faroese postage stamps reflect the state of Faroese art and society. Non-Faroese topics are largely avoided. Exceptions are occasionally the all-Nordic or all-European editions (Northern editions and Europe CEPT editions). Popular topics are:
- Faroese bird life , marine fauna, flora, etc.
- Authors of Faroese literature
- History of the Faroe Islands
- Faroese painting
- Shipping , fishing and related industries
- Landscapes, villages and churches, e.g. B. Faroese wooden churches
- norse mythology
- The life of Jesus
- and other motifs from the everyday life of the islanders.
Postage stamp artist
Postverk Føroya's two most prolific stamp artists were Faroese painter Bárður Jákupsson (91 stamps) and Polish-Swedish master engraver Czesław Słania (100 stamps). Both often worked together, and both had a decisive influence on the image of Faroese postage stamps up to the turn of the millennium.
Jákupsson once admitted that at the beginning of his career he needed a lot of advice from people like Słania and other professionals. In the end, as an Art Creative Director (artistic director) of the stamp department, he independently mastered the creation of a stamp from the first sketches to the artwork with all the necessary color information. Jákupsson's motifs depict people in everyday situations, legends and fairy tales. As a distinguished book illustrator, he drew plants and birds. His watercolors from the last editions are particularly striking.
Słania's work for the Faroe Islands resulted in many postage stamps that can be seen as particularly typical of his own life's work and of the Faroese postage stamps themselves. First and foremost the 25-crown ram from 1979, which is still today (2005) as a definitive stamp in normal counter sales. The two series with a total of eight Faroese writers are also part of his works, as are the depictions of Faroese everyday life based on old photos and paintings or based on sketches by the great Faroese artist Ingálvur av Reyni , who drew them especially for some postage stamps.
Other Faroese painters such as Sámal Joensen-Mikines , Zacharias Heinesen , Steffan Danielsen , Ruth Smith , Hans Hansen , and most recently Jógvan Waagstein were immortalized in a variety of ways with their pictures, while graphic artists such as Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen and Elinborg Lützen created works especially for postage stamp issues.
Jákupsson's pioneering work has been carried on since the mid / late 1990s by now firmly established stamp artists, such as Astrid Andreasen (flora and fauna) and Anker Eli Petersen (mythological and religious motifs). While Andreasen's art is designed for the greatest wealth of detail and scientific accuracy, Petersen put the Faroese postage stamp in a new light of striking, almost comic-like collages.
Edward Fuglø is more diverse in his range of topics. In addition to birds and whales, he has already produced illustrations of popular children's songs, and most recently Faroese cuisine . His Merlin from 2002 was chosen as the most beautiful Faroese postage stamp of that year and as the second most beautiful stamp in Europe in 2004.
In 2005 Eli Smith made his debut as a stamp artist with bold landscape watercolors.
In addition to the "classic" postage stamps, which are based on drawings and watercolors, are reproductions of paintings, or implementations of photographic originals engraved in steel, the first postage stamps were added in the 1990s that directly used the photo as a form of art and, above all, of documentation. The artist often takes a back seat here. Names like Rúni Brattaberg and Per á Hædd are known from other contexts.
The photo postage stamps with landscapes of the Faroe Islands are very popular with international audiences. Such stamps have been chosen several times as the most beautiful stamps in the Faroe Islands. There were also stamps with historical black and white photos aimed at the public interested in history.
Collecting
| year | St. | # | Face value | Average Face value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 14th | Ø 001-014 | 24.35 kr. | 1.81 kr. |
| 1976 | 3 | Ø 015-017 | 10.85 kr. | 3.62 kr. |
| 1977 | 7th | FR 018-024 | 14.85 kr. | 2.12 kr. |
| 1978 | 11 | FR 025-035 | 18.80 kr. | 1.71 kr. |
| 1979 | 6th | FR 036-041 | 32.80 kr. | 5.47 kr. |
| 1980 | 11 | FR 042-052 | 19.00 kr. | 1.73 kr. |
| 1981 | 11 | FR 053-063 | 29.60 kr. | 2.69 kr. |
| 1982 | 9 | FR 064-072 | 22.70 kr. | 2.52 kr. |
| 1983 | 14th | FR 073-086 | 51.50 kr. | 3.68 kr. |
| 1984 | 19th | FR 087-105 | 65.70 kr. | 3.46 kr. |
| 1985 | 18th | FR 106-123 | 69.00 kr. | 3.83 kr. |
| 1986 | 15th | FR 124-138 | * 78.40 kr. | 5.23 kr. |
| 1987 | 17th | FR 139-155 | * 78.80 kr. | 4.63 kr. |
| 1988 | 17th | FR 156-172 | 78.90 kr. | 4.64 kr. |
| 1989 | 15th | FR 173-187 | 78.70 kr. | 5.25 kr. |
| 1990 | 17th | FR 188-204 | 77.90 kr. | 4.58 kr. |
| 1991 | 16 | FR 205-220 | 79.50 kr. | 4.97 kr. |
| 1992 | 14th | FR 221-234 | 68.60 kr. | 4.90 kr. |
| 1993 | 13 | FR 235-247 | 78.50 kr. | 6.40 kr. |
| 1994 | 16 | FR 248-263 | 76.60 kr. | 4.78 kr. |
| 1995 | 19th | FR 264-282 | 97.50 kr. | 5.13 kr. |
| 1996 | 19th | FR 283-301 | 117.00 kr. | 6.16 kr. |
| 1997 | 18th | FR 302-319 | 120.00 kr. | 6.66 kr. |
| 1998 | 20th | FR 320-339 | 129.00 kr. | 6.45 kr. |
| 1999 | 20th | FR 340-359 | 126.50 kr. | 6.33 kr. |
| 2000 | 19th | FR 360-378 | 137.00 kr. | 7.21 kr. |
| 2001 | 27 | FR 379-393 FO 394-405 |
196.00 kr. | 7.25 kr. |
| 2002 | 22nd | FO 406-427 | 189.50 kr. | 8.61 kr. |
| 2003 | 37 | FO 428-464 | 226.00 kr. | 6.11 kr. |
| 2004 | 40 | FO 465-504 | 253.00 kr. | 6.33 kr. |
| 2005 | 34 | FO 505-538 | 250.50 kr. | 7.36 kr. |
| 2006 | 39 | FO 547-585 | 265.50 kr. | 6.81 kr. |
| 2007 | 40 | FO 586-625 | 286.00 kr. | 7.15 kr. |
| 2008 | 33 | FO 626-658 | 281.00 kr. | 8.52 kr. |
| Ges. | 658 | 3,729.55 kr. | ||
| O | around 19 | 109.69 kr. | 5.66 kr. | |
| * Note: In 1986/87 two pads were issued for the HAFNIA '87 stamp exhibition in Copenhagen, the price of which was higher than the face value of the stamps. The proceeds went to the exhibition. | ||||
Faroese postage stamps (with the exception of two blocks from 1986/87) are issued and sold at their face value in Faroese kroner (= DKK ). This face value corresponds to the most frequently used postage levels in the Faroe Islands, i.e. mostly for standard letters within the Faroe Islands and to Europe with air or ship mail . In addition, there are sometimes higher values for heavier items.
The stamp department sells the stamps directly from the Faroe Islands by subscription or by individual order. German collectors can purchase the magazine NPosta Stamps , which provides information about new issues and the end of sales for older issues and brings articles about the country and postal history. This information sheet is thus also one of the very few periodicals in German that has to do with the Faroe Islands.
The stamps are offered mint and canceled (for the same price), optionally as single stamps or as a block of four. Entire sheets are also sold. Until 2001, blocks were rather the exception. Since a change in the issuing policy, they have been part of the standard program of every year. There are also the stamp booklets, which appear once or twice a year. These are all postage stamps that are also available in sheet format
First day letters are only sold within the first six months of their publication. The stamps and envelopes are designed by the respective stamp artist. For certain issues there are postcards and sometimes posters as an additional area to collect.
The annual folder and the yearbook are an alternative to subscribing or ordering the new editions individually . The annual folder is sold at the nominal value of the year and is in A5 format. Here are all mint single stamps and blocks. The annual folder is often used to take out the stamps and put them in the album.
The yearbook, on the other hand, is a bit more expensive and represents its own album in the A4 magazine format. As this format suggests, the individual issues are lavishly provided with texts and accompanying illustrations. The individual stamps are placed in pockets on the glossy pages of the yearbook. The yearbook is published in two editions: Faroese / Danish and English / German.
Both the yearbook and the annual portfolio are on sale around 2-3 years after publication. The publication date is always together with the last stamp issue of a year.
See also
literature
- Don Brandt: More stories and stamps from the Faroe Islands. Tórshavn: Postverk Føroya 2006
Web links
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Postverk Føroya stamp department (Faroese, Danish, English, German and French)
- Stamp catalog 1975-2013 , faroestamps
- Faroeartstamps.fo (geography, nature, history and art)
- Tjatsi.fo (sagas, myths and folklore)
- Top of the World - Portal of the Postal Services of the Nordic Council
- nordische-staat.de
- nordische-staat.de: Chronicle
Individual evidence
- ↑ Posta Her ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , posta.fo (address list)
- ↑ Avgreiðslutíðir , posta.fo
- ↑ Religious in the Far North: stamp series depicting scenes from the life of Jesus , Idea Spectrum 42.2016, p. 5
