Vær beredt — red
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1920.DNK.01-02- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Vær beredt — Til fordel for spejderlejrene
1920.DNK.01· piece 2 of 2 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Denmark (DNK)- Year / date
- 1920
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- No face value
- Format
- Stamp
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Cinderella
- Colors
- Red
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Notes
Red (carmine) printing of the same design. Scout motto «Vær beredt» on a ribbon; camp scene with tent and Dannebrog; scout salute in the foreground. Bottom legend: «Til Fordel for Spejderlejrene!!»
Series history
Scouting reached Denmark in 1909. Within a decade Det Danske Spejderkorps (DDS) was large enough to join the founding of the Boy Scouts’ International Conference in 1920 — the body that became today’s World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). Denmark has been a continuous member ever since.
In that same year Danish scouts issued these fundraising labels (plakatmærker / mærkater). They are not postage stamps and have no franking value. They were sold «til fordel for spejderlejrene» — for the benefit of the scout camps — so that troops could keep running summer camps and outdoor programmes. The design carries the scout motto Vær beredt (“Be prepared”) on a flying ribbon, a fleur-de-lis, a camp scene with tent and the Dannebrog, active scouts in the field, and a boy scout in campaign hat giving the scout salute in the foreground.
The set is known in at least two monochrome colour printings of the same design: blue and red (carmine). Catalogues list them under the English series title “Scout Camps Charity.” Four years later Denmark hosted the 2nd World Scout Jamboree at Ermelunden near Copenhagen (August 1924) — the first world jamboree held outside England — underlining how central camping and international gathering had already become to Danish scouting.