Greenland polar Bear 2015

On 17th September 1938 a notice No. 326 was forwarded, which was published in the Official Gazette on 31st October 1938. By Executive Order, inter alia, “From this provision it comes into force that the assessors of Greenland’s Governing post record that messages sent from Greenland to Denmark and abroad shall be stamped with Greenland stamps”.
With effect from December 1st 1938 The Greenland Post Office became a member of The Universal Postal Union. The Postal Service’s sales office for stamp collectors, Bernstorffgade 32, Copenhagen K, started selling the new Greenlandic stamps on 1st December 1938.
The first stamp series of The Greenland Post Office were housed in a presentation folder which was handed out during the UPU Congress in Buenos Aires on 23rd May 1939. The front of the folder showed a picture of King Christian X, greeting Greenland’s population during the first Royal Visit in 1921.
The stamps were issued in denominations of 1, 5, 7, 10 and 15 ore bearing the image of Christian X and 0.30 kroner and 1.00 Danish krone featuring the design of a polar bear. These are the motifs of the sovereign and the polar bear which have formed the basis for the stamps in whole sheets and souvenir sheets now created by Bertil Skov Jørgensen as a distinguished commemoration of the 75th anniversary of The Greenland Post Office.
The issue of these first Greenlandic stamps in 1938 has since been followed by over 500 stamps, each of which reflects the development of Greenland, its history, nature and culture, from Independence, culture in prehistoric times, right up to today’s modern Greenland.
POST Greenland is very pleased that today we have collectors in all parts of the world. In recent years, we have even had the pleasure to welcome new collectors in China into the collector circuit. It makes us proud that people across the globe take an interest in what we are featuring on our stamps. We take pride in the fact that every time we issue new stamps we tell a new and unique story of Greenland.
Source: WOPA Stamps
published March 26th, 2015