Special Danish block

I received a question from our USA club member Thomas Noonan, asking if we were aware of the issue of a Danish block containing a non-standard stamp. I already knew it myself, but the answer to the question seems to be of interest for more collectors.
It concerns the block issued on the occasion of the Hafnia stamp exhibition in 2024. A sheet was issued there with the theme "400 Years of Danish Post". It includes, among other things, a stamp issued on March 4, 2013, featuring a Nihola electric cargo bike. No petrol engine, but it does have a small motor, so it is a motorcycle after all. The same stamp was also issued in a block at the time, with a larger image of the Nihola on the edge of the block. The block and stamp from 2013 look like this:

At Hafnia 2024, held from October 17 to 20 in the Øksnehalls in Copenhagen, a special commemorative sheet was issued featuring the same Nihola, but a different value: not 12.50 but 25.00 kroner.
The anniversary sheet was presented on January 2. The sheet includes four stamps with a value Domestic / DKr 25.00, depicting various forms of postal transport.

For sale at the exhibition a special sheet was printed, in which the color of the airmail stamp is orange instead of green. A total of 5,000 copies were produced. Such a sheet was available to the first 1,500 buyers at the fair, or via a subscription with PostNord.

The sheet with no. 00001 was auctioned at the exhibition, and the proceeds were used to cover part of the organizational costs. This sheet was signed by the designer, while the other collectors could obtain a signature on an envelope franked with the block. The stamp (lucky us) also features the Nihola tricycle.

Hans de Kloet

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