Danmarks Herreds-, By og Birke Vaaben
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Series information :
- Series : Arms of the former towns and Herreds ('hundreds'), a former Danish administrative unit
- Number of stamps : ?
- Variations: ?
Background
The stamps were probably issued in the 1940s-1960s, but I have no information on the origin or organisation that issued them.
A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in Denmark and regions that have been under Danish control (Southern Sweden, England, Northern Germany) as well as in Sweden and areas under Swedish control (Länsi-Suomi). They may once have referred to an area liable to provide a hundred men under arms, or containing roughly a hundred homesteads, or to a small parcel (thus loosely a hundredth) of a territory. It was a traditional Germanic system described as early as AD 98 by Tacitus (the centeni). In Denmark the hundreds remained an active administrative unit from around 1000 to 1919.
Stamps
I have no idea how many stamps were actually issued, some examples are shown below.
Towns and regions
Herreds
Aasum
Baag
Børglum
Dronninglund
Fakse
Framlev
Gerlev
Gudme
Gørding
Haderslev
Hasle
Hassing
Hids
Hindborg
Hjælmslev
Horns J.
Langeland
Lø
Middelsom
Mols
Merløse
Morsø Nørre
Musse
Nim
Nørhald
Nørlyng
Revs
Ringsted
Rovsø
Rødding
Sallinge
Skovby
Slagelse
Støvring
Sunds
Sønderhald
Tuse
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Tybjærg
Tønder
Vends
Vester-Lisbjærg
Vore
Øster Horne
