Denmark

Fundraising Poster Stamp

Issued by Bagsværd Asyl., a private children's shelter in the København suburbs, this stamp was sold for 2 øre each as a fundraising vehicle.
    According to Wikipedia:

    Bagsværd is a middle-class suburb approximately 12 km northwest of central Copenhagen, in the Gladsaxe Municipality.

    According to the website for the Gladsaxe Kommune, at www.gladsaxe.dk:

    Bagsværd was the first parish in the municipality to house an actual working class. These people still worked primarily on the farms, not necessarily with agriculture but often with gravel digging, which became a major occupation in Bagsværd. In working-class families, it was often necessary for both husband and wife to go to work, but what did you do with the children in the meantime?

    Mrs. Johanne Marie Madsen, who was married to the owner of Bakkegård in Bagsværd, took the initiative to establish the municipality's very first kindergarten / nursery. The place came to be called Bagsværd Asyl.

    The board of the asylum set out to raise money for the new asylum. It cost DKK 700 to build a house that could be used. In return, the board escaped to buy an expensive plot of land, because Mrs. Madsen's husband gave a lot of his land for the construction.

    Bagsværd Asyl was completed on 10 / 10-1861, and was inaugurated on the 18th of the same month.

    There were between 14 and 20 children in the asylum. It officially cost 25 øre per day, per child. But the asylum board knew full well that few parents could afford to pay, so instead of sending a bill, the board set up a collection box in the kitchen, and the parents put money in, if they had any. There was no control over the payment, and the vast majority of the money for the operation was collected from the area's wealthy farmers and homeowners.

    The children in the asylum were cared for by an asylum mother. They had tables and chairs, and when they needed to sleep, they could lie on a couch with woolen blankets over them. But it was not until 1866 that a few toys and blackboards were donated.

    Bagsværd Asylum was taken over by the municipality in 1935, ie the municipality took over the obsolete building. The kindergarten itself was closed by the health authorities as early as 1930. What the mothers did in the relatively long number of years before a municipal kindergarten came to Bagsværd in 1948, one can only guess.
This stamp features a photograph of some of the Bahsværd Asyl children, and it was printed in sheets of 10 stamps (2x5) with full margins all around. It is listed in A. Hartvigsen's "Illustreret Katalog 1885-1920 over Jule-, Velgørenheds- og Foreningsmærker samt Udstillings- og Lejlighedsmærker fra Danmark, Island, Dansk Vestindien, Sønderjylland, Norge, Sverige og Finland" as 1913 #7. The stamp was issued on June 23, 1913, during the annual Midsommerfest celebration in Bagsværd.
 
This example is F/VF, OG, LH.

Approximate Image Size: 40 x 28 mm.

* STOCK IMAGE


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