COVER N. 706 - NORWAY

Postmark: Søgne A 4640 13.04.2026  

Posted on the 13th April;  Received on the 24th April 2026

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A warm and friendly cover from the cold north of Europe.

Tusen takk, Kjell, I'll do my best to correspond, but as I said in my email message, I'm afraid it might not be much of a help anyway....

- Contrary to the majority of the Nobel Prizes, which, under the general supervision of the Nobel Committee are awarded by several Swedish institutions in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Economics, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in accordance to the written will of Alfred Nobel.

Norway's postal administration  has issued several stamps honouring Peace Prize laureates although not in a systematic manner.

The 5 krone stamp on the cover was issued in 25NOV1981, and it honours the 1921 recipients of the prize, awarded in acknowledgment for "their lifelong contributions to the cause of peace and organized internationalism":

Karl Hjalmar Branting (1860 - 1925), a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister on three occasions from 1920 to 1925 and led the Swedish Social-Democratic Party until his death in 1925;

Christian Lous Lange (1869 – 1938)  a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist, who was the Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee between 1900 and 1909 and  also Norway's delegate or alternate delegate in the league of Nations, until 1938, amongst other public service commissions.

 

- the 5 krone stamp illustrated with the image of a sextant over a map was issued on 14NOV1985 as part of a two stamp set (2,5 and 5 Kr.) celebrating the 250 years of Norway's Port Authority and, I presume,  the 200 years of the first hydrographic map elaborated in Norway.

The 4.5 (Kayaking) and 7 (climbing) krone stamps constitute a set issued on 20APR2001 dedicated to adventure sports.

the 80 øre stamp is part of a set of three (.80; 1; 1.25 Kr) stamps issued on 22NOV1979, which although themed on wild flora constitute the year's Christmas issue. 

The stamp is illustrated with an image of a Glacier Buttercup (Ranunculus glacialis), an arctic-alpine member of the Ranunculaceae family, which can be found in the mountains of Southern Europe and the Scandinavia Peninsula as is said to be one of the highest-ascending plants in the Alps, flowering at over 4,000 m.

The 15 krone stamp illustrated with an image of a DC-3 is part of a part of a three stamp set (14; 15; 27 krone) issued on 18MAY2012, celebrating the centenary of aviation in Norway, which began in 1912 with a Rumpler Taube flight piloted by Hans Dons.

Postmark from Søgne, in the very south of Norway.