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
- Tybjaerg.herred.jpg
Tybjærg