Støt Universitetet i Jylland — scout with bugle
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1930.DNK.02-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- K.F.U.M.-Spejderne i Aarhus — Støt Universitetet i Jylland
1930.DNK.02· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Denmark (DNK)- Year / date
- 1930s
- 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
- Multicoloured
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ✓ In collection
Notes
Perforated fundraising label. Scout sounding bugle before a church steeple; yellow sun; blue band with «STØT UNIVERSITETET I JYLLAND». Top: K.F.U.M. Spejderne i Aarhus Distrikt / D.D.S. Midtjyske Division.
Series history
In the early 1930s Danish Scouting helped public causes as well as its own camps. This perforated plakatmærke (poster stamp) was issued for K.F.U.M.-Spejderne i Aarhus Distrikt together with Det Danske Spejderkorps, Midtjyske Division, to raise support for a university in Jutland — «Støt Universitetet i Jylland» (“Support the University in Jutland”). Aarhus Universitet grew out of that campaign: teaching began in the late 1920s and the university was formally established in 1933.
The design shows a boy scout in uniform sounding a bugle (or trumpet), a church spire rising behind him, under a yellow sun. Across the lower half a blue band carries the slogan in yellow letters. A thin legend at the top names the two scout bodies. It is a classic Danish scout cinderella of the period: no franking value, sold or distributed as a charity seal, and catalogued among 1930s mærkater with scout motifs.
KFUM-Spejderne (YMCA Scouts) and DDS were already mature national corps by then; district labels like this one document how local troops turned the Scout image — readiness, service, the bugle call — into civic fundraising for education in western Denmark.
