The Golden Pin

Presented on 21nd March 2007 to Toke Nørby at the annual meeting
of the Danish stamp club KPK (Kjøbenhavns Philatelist Klub)

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Here is what The Danish Philatelic Federation DFF wrote on their home page in April 2007 about the ceremony:


(A screenshot only - showing an old photo from 1970 (!) of me in the lower left corner)

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Below: The president of the Danish Philatelic Federation, Erik Vermeij, presented the Golden Pin to me and explained what I've done for Danish and international philately during a bit more than 30 years. The people on the photo are the president of KPK: Morten Pieper, Erik Hvidberg Hansen (secretary of the KPK), Heino Jørgensen (chairman at the annual meeting), me, Holger Carstensen (treasurer of KPK) and Erik Vermeij:


(Thanks are due to DFF's webmaster Søren Christian Jensen for permission to use the two screenshots).

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The Danish Philatelic Federation's Medal of Honour for outstanding Service:

THE GOLDEN PIN

This award was introduced in 1988 and is intended for persons who have: 1. Served for a long time in the Danish Philatelic Federation - 2. Served as president for one of the Federation's clubs in an outstanding way and have done work for the Federation - or 3. Done an outstanding job at the international level for philately in general.

The award is be recommended by a member of the board of the Danish Philatelic Federation or one of the Danish Federation's  contact persons. (The recipients are from Denmark unless otherwise stated). Awards have been made to date to the following:

  • 1988  Tage Buntzen*, Hans Bernhard Sørensen*, Karlo Lindskog
  • 1989  Arne Dahl*, Knud Mohr, Palle Laursen*
  • 1990  Knud Juul*, Jesper Haff, George B. Lindberg* (S), Leon Larsen, Kaj Vagnkjær*
  • 1991  Ib Eichner-Larsen*
  • 1992  Sven Lund*, Ingvar Larsen*, Tom Plovst*
  • 1994  Ladislav Dvoracek (Cz), Anneliese Møller*, Jens Peter Jørgensen*
  • 1996  Ib Kristensen*
  • 2002  Tage Bøcher Knudsen
  • 2004  Niels Valdal
  • 2006  Lis Birkedal
  • 2007  Toke Nørby
  • 2008  Erik Vermeij
*deceased

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