Denmark 1998 "Drawings of fossil animals from old books"
| Issue Date | 05.11.1998 |
| ID | Michel: 1195-1198 Scott: 1106-1109 Stanley Gibbons: 1153-1156 Yvert: 1198-1201 UPU: N/A Category: pF |
| Author | Designer: Keith Bassford, British Engraver: Arne Kühlmann |
| Stamps in set | 4 + Block |
| Value | 3.75Kr Ammonite Parapuzosia by Ole Worm 4.50Kr Fossil shark teeth Glossopetre by Niels Stensen 5.50Kr Fossil sea urchin Echinocorys by Soren Abildgaard 15.00Kr Fossil snail Pleurotomaria by Erich Pontoppidan Block: Fossil Turritella from Pontoppidans Danske Atlas (in margin) |
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| Layout | 4 MS of 50 stamps (10x5) |
| Products | FDC x2 MC x1 Booklet x1 PP x1 |
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| Perforation | 12 x 12 |
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The stamp designs are reproductions of original
drawings / engravings from books on the geology of the individuals
listed below. Title and date of publication of the books also emerged
from the stamps.
The geographic position of Denmark in the "top" of the
European continent, surrounded on almost all sides by the sea, has a
special significance in geological studies. The four themes of this
series of stamps with fossils (fossils of prehistoric animals and
plants) show an interesting piece of history of geology in Denmark and
at the same time tell of four renowned Danish researchers in this
field. Four researchers who have all contributed to the development of
modern geology as a science.
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Ole Worm (1588-1654) |
Niels Stensen (1638-1686) |
Soren Abildgaard (1718-1791) |
Erich Pontoppidan |
| In the area northeast of Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden, there were formerly many exposed layers with many fossils from the late Cretaceous period. Here the stream sink at Rödmölla be seen. | These shark teeth from the Miocene in Gram Lergrav date from about the same time as the shark's teeth from Niels Stensen from Malta. Stevns Klint is also expressed as international interest, not least because there is the boundary layer between the Cretaceous and Tertiary age are explored. Limestone quarry at Fakse as it looks today (May 1998). Here, the screw slot lived 62-63 million years ago. |
Soren Abildgaard "Description of Stevns Klint and its natural curiosities" in 1759 includes among other things this beautiful engraving of the cliff profiles.
Ole Worms cabinet of natural curiosities with different natural history, ethnographic and historical objects, etc. The illustration is from Ole Worms "Wormianum Museum" from 1655.
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