Today, November 10 2006, is a very busy day for stamp releases by Post Danmark. Both definitives and commermoratives are being issued in a variety of formats. Single stamp, mini sheet, and FDC’s can be purchased for most of these issues.

Definitives
There are two definitive stamps being released with the image of Queen Margrethe II. One bearing the denomination of 7.25 and the other 8.25. These sheets of 100 abd FDC’s are in advance of the rate change that will be happening in Denmark on January 2, 2007.

Commemoratives
Four commemorative stamps are also being issued this day, feating artwork from COBRA. COBRA is the name of an international group of artists that was founded in Paris in 1948. Founding members for this organization included the Danish painter Asger Jorn, the Dutch painter Constant and the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont.

The reason COBRA was created was to establish a basis for co-operation between painters and writers from Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. The acronym “COBRA” was formed from the first letters of Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. It later grew into ten countries, but was disbanded in 1951.

Post Danmark has featured artwork from COBRA in the past. Carl-Henning Pedersen’s glass mosaic in Ribe Cathedral in 1987, along with a work by Ejler Bille. Carl-Henning Pedersen and Ejler Bille were also in the “Stamp Art” series in 1998. Painter Henry Heerup created a number of Danish stamps, such as the 1977 charity stamp issued for the benefit of the LEV association for the mentally handicapped.