STAMP NEWS JANUARY 2017
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2017 Stamp Program
for Sweden and Denmark
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News from the Customers Club
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PostNord’s 2017 Stamp Program for Sweden and Denmark
If you need some inspiration to raise your
point balance and reach the next membership
level, here are the Christmas gifts we sent to
Club members this year. The gifts were based
on the stamps from the Bridges booklet.
• Gold. Black cylinder impression of the
stamp engravings and a cancelled booklet.
The cylinder impression is signed by
stamp engravers Lars Sjööblom and Piotr
Naszarkowski.
AUGUST
January 2 (Denmark)
August 24 (Sweden)
• Shellfish
EUROPA 2017 - Frederiksborg
Castle
• Lars Lerin
January 12 (Sweden)
• Apples
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT
TO MAKE CHANGES TO
THE STAMP PROGRAMS.
• Medicinal Plants
• Retro
Nordsøreje
SEPTEMBER
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• Bronze. Black cylinder impression of the
stamp engravings.
March 16 (Sweden)
• Winter Flowers
P.DAM/ E.CLAUSEN/B.S.JØRGENSEN
• EUROPA 2017 - Wanås Castle
• Butterflies
• Per Anders Fogelström 100
Years
NOVEMBER
November 16 (Sweden)
• Christmas - Angels
March 30 (Denmark)
• Aarhus Capital of Culture
• Winter Flowers
• Digital Innovations
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• Queen Silvia 2017
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June 15 (Denmark)
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• Classic Cars
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Unfortunately, we made a mistake when we
changed the accrual period for Customer Club
points (announced in Bulletin 3/2016). We are
therefore going back to a calendar year, just
like it has always been. All purchases that you
make in a year are now included. For those of
you who are members of the Club, this means
that all of the purchases you made in 2016 will
determine your membership level for 2017.
You will be able to see how many points
you earned in 2016 on the order form that will
be included in the Bulletin March 2017.
You need 12,000 points to be a Gold Member, 6,000 points to be a Silver Member and
1,500 points to be a Bronze member.
The points you collect in Customer Club
serve as a source of inspiration and stepping
stone to reach the next membership level.
How many points up to Silver, how many
points up to Gold? When do I become a
Bronze member? These are questions we are
asked a lot.
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Henning Trollbäck is the artist behind the poignant
Christmas in Storskogen stamps from 2013. This time he
is conveying another emotional state, namely “retro”.
He writes exclusively for Bulletin’s readers about his
work on the stamps and his relationship to the retro phenomenon.
Old objects
that speak
to us today
Within the area of design, retro means returning to older styles. New products are made
in a retro style, but the term also includes old
products that become popular again. One
good example of this is the string shelf that is
depicted on the coil stamp.
Before working on the stamp, I researched
what had been written about the retro
phenomenon. I noted in particular a quote
by William Morris, from England, who was a
designer and author during the second half of
the 1800s.
Morris said that “the past is not dead, it is
living in us, and will be alive in the future which
we are now helping to make”. His point is that
we do not live our lives today in isolation from
the past, and this stamp series shines a spotlight on things we created before.
The word “retro” has modern connotations,
despite it being anchored in the past. We are
not referring to the Middle Ages when we call
something “retro”. But what products can be
considered retro, and why? I think it refers
to objects that in some way still speak to us
today.
Name: Henning Trollbäck.
Lives in: Stockholm.
Education: Graduated in 2012 from the
University College of Arts, Crafts and Design’s
Department of Graphic Design & Illustration,
participated in PostNord’s and the University’s
special course on stamp design.
Assignment: Stamps, book illustrations, book
covers, children’s books with own illustrations
and texts, design products.
Family: Married, two children.
Contemporary objects
Many young families are passionate about
retro, and my own family is no exception. Both
string book shelves and classic porcelain from
Gustavsberg can be found in our home. The
sideboard with the red desk lamp that is depicted on the stamp belongs to us.
The home office is one of the environments
that was included in my assignment for the
stamps. Depicted from top to bottom are a
hall with vintage clothing, a kitchen where the
cabinet with sliding doors is filled with 1950s
porcelain and this same porcelain set out on
the table. The living room lamp, coffee table
and TV furniture are period pieces.
TV furniture, yes. As you can see there is
a flat-screen TV there. The presence of the
flat-screen TV, bike helmet, stovetop, mobile
telephone and laptop illustrates the dialogue
between old and new that can be found in
most modern homes.
Photo: PostNord
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Retro
String Shelf
Booklet/10 stamps
5 motifs
Art no.: 243262
Coil/10 stamps
1 motif
Art no.: 243263
SEK 65
SEK 19.50
First Day Cover
Retro
Collector’s Sheet
Retro
Art. no.: 243290
Art no.: 243291
SEK 99.50
SEK 79.50
Final day for purchase:
July 31, 2017
Final day for purchase
July 31, 2017
String shelf a
design classic
New!
When the book publisher Bonnier announced a competition in 1949
to create a mountable and expandable book shelf, designer couple
Kajsa and Nisse Strinning leapt at the opportunity. Their submission,
the String bookshelf, won the competition and went on to become very
popular.
The String bookshelf consists of veneered shelves that are hung on
plastic-covered metal gables. The shelf originally hung on the wall, but
subsequently evolved to include a series of standing models, including
a secretary. The String bookshelf is one of the great Swedish design
classics of the 20th century.
The Souvenir Sheet was designed by Henning Trollbäck, who also
designed the Retro stamps.
Souvenir Sheet
String Shelf
Number issued: 10,000
Number of stamps: 6
Number of motifs: 1
Art. no.: 243264
SEK 125
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New maximum cards
introduce a retro feel
Artist Henning Trollbäck has designed the new maximum cards with a
wonderful retro feel. He is also the designer behind the current Retro
stamps.
I am amused by retro, but I am not
nostalgic. We look upon older objects
with affection and reverence, but
they do not belong in a museum.
They should be used, be part of our
immediate surroundings and create a
pleasant atmosphere.
Maximum Cards
Retro
Number of cards: 6
Art. no.: 243292
SEK 150
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Three depictions
of the 2016
Stamp Year
Buy your gifts
at PostNord
Limited
edition!
2016 Year Set
– All the stamps from the year 2016
• Specially designed folder.
• 64 mint stamps.
• Text in Swedish and English.
2016 Year Set
Art. No.: 243200
SEK 628
Swedish Stamps Narrate 2016
• Limited edition.
• All stamp motifs from 2016, mounted
and grouped in seven chapters.
• Selected illustrations.
• Specially written text in Swedish
and English.
• 87 pages.
2016 Booklet Year Set
- All booklets and mini sheets
from the year
• Specially designed folder.
• 49 motifs.
• Text in Swedish and English.
2016 Booklet Year Set
Art. No.: 243201
Yearbook 2016
Art. No.: 243202
SEK 599
SEK 642
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Last sales: final day for purchase February 28, 2017
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Last sales: final day for purchase February 28, 2017
Issue Set August 25, 2016
Last
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Art. No.: 243180
SEK 128.50
Cancelled Issue Set August 25,
2016
Art. No.: 243181
SEK 160.50
Autumn Glow - Maximum Cards
Art. No.: 243177
SEK 120
Birds - First Day Cover
Art. No.: 243178
SEK 97.50
Autumn Glow - First Day Cover
Art. No.: 243175
SEK 58.50
Autumn Glow - Collector’s Sheet
Art. No.: 243176
SEK 47
King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia
2016 - Collector’s Sheet
Art. No.: 243261
SEK 27.50
King carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia
2016 - First Day Cover
Art. No.: 243260
SEK 34
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Last sales: final day for purchase March 31, 2017
Last sales: final day for purchase March 31, 2017
Last
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Royal Anniversaries - Mini Sheet
Art. No.: 243117
SEK 19.50
Food in Sweden - Booklet
Nordic Food Culture - Coil Stamp
Art. No.: 243115
Ar. No.: 243116
SEK 65
SEK 130
Pink Magnolia
- Coil Stamp
Bridges - Booklet
Art. No.: 242990
SEK 60
Art. No.: 242980
SEK 65
Carl Michael Bellman - Coil Stamp
Art. No.: 242792
SEK 100
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Bee Hives - Coil Stamps
SEK 65
Art. No.: 243118
BULLETIN JANUARY · 2017
International Security Printers
Secures future quality
& product development
PostNord’s Instagram competition, #mittfrimärke (My Stamp), has
been a success and proves that Swedes are very interested
in stamps. The competition links the power of a physical
letter to social media and digital communication.
Stamps by Swedes
- presenting the
seven winning
motifs
Photo: Carsten Andersen
We announced in the previous issue of Bulletin
that production of the Danish and Swedish
stamps will be moved during the first six
months of 2017 to an external printing works.
The agreement has been signed with
Cartor Security Printers, a sister company
to Walsall Security Printers (WSP), under the
International Security Printers Ltd group (ISP).
Future stamps will be printed at both Cartor
and WSP.
ISP prints valuable documents and has
specialized in stamps. It delivers stamps and
security printing to 180 customers throughout
the world.
Booklet markings will disappear
The stamps from ISP’s printing presses will
have the same level of quality as stamps from
our own printing works in Kista. For collectors,
the transfer to ISP as a supplier means that the
markings on the booklets will disappear.
The stamp booklets we print today in Kista
have several different markings, such as gray
wedges and numbers. The purpose of these
markings is to control the printing process and
stamp volumes. WSP uses a different system
to do this, so all of the markings will disappear from the booklets once ISP takes over
production.
The agreement with Cartor Security
Printers for stamp production is one way for
PostNord to adapt its operations to a changing
market and create better conditions for developing its stamp issues.
The motifs for the stamps that will depict photos from the Swedish people have now been
decided. Seven motifs were selected from the
20 finalists, which in turn had been selected
from a record number of submissions. More
than 20,000 photographs were uploaded to
Instagram. The stamps and the photographers
behind the winning motifs will be presented in
more detail in a future issue of Bulletin.
Our launch of the #mittfrimärke photo competition on Instagram in the middle of May
generated a massive response. In just a few
days people uploaded thousands of photos
with the #mittfrimärke tag.
After the submission period closed, the
jury - PostNord’s Stamp Advisory Committee
- went through all of the more than 20,000
submitted photos to select the 20 finalists. The
finalists and their photos were announced in
September and voting was opened.
Contemporary depiction of Sweden
The jury primarily looked at the submissions’
originality and how the photo composition
would work as a stamp. The small format of
a stamp places special requirements on the
motif’s clarity and ability to communicate its
content.
The jury also strove during the selection
process to select photos that would fulfil the
objective of Swedish stamps to provide a
diverse reflection of contemporary Sweden.
Date of issue set for May
Three of the seven winners were selected
through an open vote on mittfrimärke.se and
the remaining four were selected by the jury
following a discussion and an internal vote.
The results were announced in the middle of
November. The work to design the stamps and
find suitable typographical solutions started
immediately.
On May 11, the stamps of the Swedish people will be available for purchase in a booklet
of ten stamps with five motifs and two stamp
motifs in a coil.
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PRODUCT
DESIGNER
PROOF
MOTIF
PRINT
TECHNIQUE
SIZE
Retro
Booklet
Henning Trollbäck
Henning Trollbäck
Contemporary
environments with
old-fashioned objects.
Hall, kitchen, dining room,
home office, living room.
Offset
36.6 x 26.5 mm
Classic String
Shelf designed by
Kajsa and Nisse
Strinning.
Offset
String Shelf
Coil
Henning Trollbäck
Henning Trollbäck
26.25 x 26.5 mm
Retro
First Day Cover
Henning Trollbäck
Henning Trollbäck
Four ceramic
vases
Offset
180 x 125 mm
Retro
First Day Cover Cancellation
Henning Trollbäck
Henning Trollbäck
Cutlery
Cancelled
21 x 30 mm
Retro
Collector’s Sheet
Henning Trollbäck
Retro
Maximum Cards
Henning Trollbäck
Henning Trollbäck
Henning Trollbäck
Wall of pictures
where mounted
stamps are some
of the pictures.
Offset
Details on the
stamps are given
their own space on
the cards.
Offset
A4
A6
Retro
Maximum Cards Cancellation
Henning Trollbäck
Henning Trollbäck
Handcrafted wire
trivet
Cancelled
29 x 30 mm
String Shelf
Souvenir Sheet.
Henning Trollbäck
Henning Trollbäck
Classic String
Shelf designed by
Kajsa and Nisse
Strinning.
Offset
130.0 x 157.5 mm
(minisheet)
26.25 x 26.5 mm
(the stamp)
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Issue Set, January 12 2017
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Ar. No.: 243294
Art. No.: 243295
SEK 71.50
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Final day for purchase: July 31, 2017
Final day for purchase: July 31, 2017
Correction
A sketch of the Lund University memorial letter that was
published on page 10 of the November issue of Bulletin
showed the wrong denomination on the stamps in the mini
sheet. The printed stamps have a denomination of SEK 13.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
The sketch for the memorial letter was made before the
change in VAT, when the denomination for international
was SEK 1 higher. To the right is a picture of the memorial
letter with the correct denomination on the stamps.
The next Bulletin will arrive at the end of February
Tryck: Ineko 2016
Issue Set, January 12 2017