The Danish Western Indies

See also: the Western Indies (homonymy)

The the Danish Western Indies , or the Danish Antilles, are an old colony of the Denmark in the the Antilles today, known under the name of the United States Virgin Islands.

The Danish Company of the Western Indies and Guinea is established on the island of Saint-Thomas in 1672, extending until the island Saint-John in 1683 (a conflict annexation with the the United Kingdom until in 1718), and repurchased Holy-Cross with the French Compagnie of the Western Indies the June 15th 1733. In 1754, the islands were resold with the king of the Denmark, becoming Danish royal colonies.

During the Napoleonean Wars, the islands were occupied by the British; initially of March 1801 until the March 27th 1802, then of December 1807 until the November 20th 1815 where they were returned to the Denmark.

The December 12th 1916, the islands were sold against 25 million US dollars with the the United States of America, which were interested because of strategic position close to the Panama Canal. The Danish administration finished officially the March 31st 1917.

Philately

The first Postage stamp of the Danish Western Indies, or the Danish Antilles, date of 1856. It represents same the Armoiries as the stamps of the metropolis, but being worth 3 then öre (hundreds) and had a color Carmin sunk on a yellowish paper. A Burelage yellow of line corrugated recovers the stamp. An impression of 1866 was on blank paper with a change of management of the burelage and in 1872 the stamps were perforated. In 1873 a new facial value of 4c in blue chechmate was produced.

1874 saw the first series like those in Denmark of the 1c until the 50c; all were two-tone. Certain small facial values are Head-digs S.

Inevitably for remote small colonies, the Danish Western Indies missed popular values periodically, and the colonial administration had to improvise. A Surtax of 1 C.A. thus printed on the 7c in 1887, and a surtax of 10c on the 50c in 1895. An additional provisioning of series with new colors arrived between 1896 and 1901.

The 1c and 5c of only one color were produced in 1900 to satisfy the payments of the Universal postal union. Lacks of 2c and 8c led to more overloads in 1902, corrected the following year by a series of value using the drawing of 1900. Stamping due appeared in 1902.

Into 1905, the Monnaie changed for the bit S and the frankly, which involved new stamps. The values since 5b until 50b had the Profil of the king Christian IX, while the 1fr, 2fr and 5fr representing the Sailing ship Ingolf with the port of Saint Thomas. New rights of stamping were also required. Additional 5b were produced by overload of the old stamps.

A final series of 1907 represents Frederic VIII, followed in 1915 by a series of Christian X.


See too

Danish Colonization of Americas --> Danish India -->

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