Sheet of fifty — fleur-de-lis and Danish flag
Piece details
Identity
- Piece codeStamp code YYYY.ENT.SS-PP — series code plus stamp order (e.g. 1900.CGH.01-02).
1970.DNK.01-01- SeriesThe set this stamp belongs to.
- Good Turn — Sct. Georgs Gilderne
1970.DNK.01· piece 1 of 1 - EntityPostal authority that issued the stamps (country, territory, or historical entity).
Denmark (DNK)- Year / date
- 1970
- Face valueDenomination on the stamp; +n is a charity surcharge when present.
- No face value
- Format
- Full pane
- TypeIssue kind. Charity issue = postage + voluntary surcharge (e.g. 6+4), not an overprint.
- Cinderella
- Colors
- Red, white, blue and black
- CollectionIn collection if you have it; Purchased if it is bought but not yet received (do not buy again); Wanted otherwise.
- ○ Wanted
Production
- Process
- Offset
Notes
Pane of fifty charity labels (5×10), tête-bêche: two composite fleurs-de-lis built across 5×5 blocks, with Dannebrog fragments at the edges. Inscribed GOOD TURN 1970-71 / 70-71 and SCT. GEORGS GILDERNE I DANMARK. Top margin I.F.O.F.S.A.G.; bottom 3. SILKEBORG GILDE. Serial Nr. 006895 on the illustrated sheet. Offset; no face value.
Series history
Sct. Georgs Gilderne i Danmark issued an annual Good Turn charity seal from 1968. The labels had no postal validity. They were sold through local guilds and Scout groups; the surplus supported Danish Scout work (with priority to disability sections), work among Greenlandic children, overseas youth work, humanitarian relief, and the national guild's other social purposes.
The 1970–71 sheet is a pane of fifty labels in five columns of ten, printed in offset in red, white, blue and black. The pane is tête-bêche: the lower twenty-five labels are inverted relative to the upper half, so that two large composite fleurs-de-lis, each built across a 5×5 block, stand crown to crown. Individual labels show fragments of the fleur-de-lis, the Danish Dannebrog, or a blue field, and are inscribed GOOD TURN 1970-71 or GOOD TURN 70-71 and SCT. GEORGS GILDERNE I DANMARK.
The top margin names I.F.O.F.S.A.G., the International Fellowship of Former Scouts and Guides. The bottom margin names the issuer and 3. SILKEBORG GILDE, the Silkeborg guild that produced and distributed the seals. Sheets carry a serial number; the example illustrated is Nr. 006895.
Niels Johansen proposed a guild Christmas seal at 3. Silkeborg's 1965 Christmas guild hall, originally to fund the Sct. Georgs troop's work with disabled Scouts. After two years of formalities, including with the Ministry of Justice, the first national Good Turn seal appeared in 1968. 3. Sct. Georgs Gilde in Silkeborg continued to print and distribute the issue. The designer is not named on the sheet.