Issued in 1966 by Denmark as Red Cross and Red Crescent charity stamps, they have the title in Latin “PER HUMANITATEM AD PACEM” (Through Humanity Towards Peace), the motto of the organisation, which was founded in 1919. Nowadays the slogan “Protecting Human Dignity” has been adopted and is more commonly used.
But the unique fact about the stamps is that they are inscribed with the name of the organisation in 32 tongues – the most languages ever printed on a postage stamp.
They are, in order of appearance: Danish, French, Icelandic, Dutch, Hindi, Malay, Russian, Magyar, Amharic, Greek, Armenian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Romanian, Thai, Czech, Albanian, Farsi, Polish, Finnish, (if you are still with me, congratulations), Arabic, Serbo-Croat, Turkish, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Gaelic, Punjabi, German, English, Italian and Swedish.
The 11th language is not Armenian.
The 18th is not Farsi.
The 28th is not Punjabi, it is Farsi (Persian).
Thanks for your corrections
It is the most confusing stamp ever made by Danish post
The 7th language is NOT Russian, it is SURELY Bulgarian.
The 11th language is NOT Armenian, it seems to be Corean.
The 12th language is NOT Ukrainian, it is SURELY Russian.
Hello all my freinds in here,
I have been talking to the postmaster from Danish Post and Telegraph museum
and the language is the following, notis that Red Cross is spelled in same way in Danish and Norwigen, so there are 33 different language many said there are 32
.Here they com in order
dansk – norsk
fransk
islandsk
hollandsk
hindi
indonesisk
bulgarsk
ungarsk
ethiopisk
græsk
koreansk
sovjetrussisk
kinesisk
rumænsk
thailandsk
chechoslovakisk
albansk
pasto (det afghanske sprog)
polsk
finsk
, arabisk
serbo-kroatisk
tyrkisk
japansk
spansk
portugisisk
irsk
iransk
tysk
engelsk
italiensk
how much is this stamp worth?
The CV is abort 1.00eur pr pices
Hello Mo, apologies for not replying sooner. A mint, never-hinged, example of this stamp is priced at 95 euro cents in PostBeeld’s freestampcatalogue.com. Used examples are also available and we have a first day cover priced at 1.50 euro