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1869 - København - International Archaeology Congress

Official title: Congrès International d'Archéologie à Copenhague 1869.

The 4th Congress of the CIAAP was held in 1869 in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 28 August to 3 September. There was an adhesive label prepared for use on correspondence from the organizing committee. The illustrated example is used as an envelope seal on the back of an envelope addressed to Society member N. M. Mandelgren, of Stockholm, Sweden, who appeared at the event. The cover was mailed on August 22nd, 1869 and has two postmarks on the back of August 22, and August 23, 1869, one of which ties the label to the cover. The cancel on the front tying the two postage stamps is the same as the cancel on the back tying the label - It appears to be a P.K.X.P. (Postkupéexpeditioner) from the TPO collecting mailbags from the Copenhagen-Malmö ferries. This particular cancel looks like "P.K.X.P. Nr. 2" which would have been on the Falköping-Malmö route.
The International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences has its roots in an 1865 meeting of the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali (English: Italian Society of Natural Science) that led to the creation of the Congrès paléoethnologique international (CPI; English: International Paleoethnologic Congress). The first meeting of the CPI was held in 1866 and in 1867 the name was changed to Congrès international d'anthropologie et d'archéologie préhistoriques (CIAAP; International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology).
A permanent council of the CIAAP was founded in 1880, and in 1930 a merger with the Institut International d'Anthropologie led to the creation of the Congrès international des Sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques (CISPP). In 1954, the permanent council decided to affiliate the CISPP with a member organisation of UNESCO, the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences. This required a change of name, and the CISPP became the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (IUPPS) in order to gain access to UNESCO funds.

Nils Månsson Mandelgren was born July 17, 1813, on a farm in Ingelsträde in the Väsby parish in Skåne, Sweden. His parents, shoemaker Måns Svensson and Kerstin Jönsdotter, died early and his childhood was characterized by poverty. He displayed skill in drawing and painting at an early age.
In Höganäs, where Mandelgren received an education as a portrait painter, he was discovered by Count Jacob Magnus De la Gardie, who placed Mandelgren at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Academy in Stockholm. After school in Stockholm, he moved to Copenhagen and studied archeology and art history. Here he became interested in medieval churches and medieval church art. He would keep this interest throughout his life, and spent most of his life saving Swedish medieval churches and art treasures.
He was one of the first to actively begin to document "ordinary" people during his own time. Even the poor and the ordinary citizens had a story, he realized.
He traveled extensively and documented his contemporary environment, people, and archaeological artifacts. Mandelgren planned to release "Atlas till Sveriges Odlingshistoria" in the 1860s, where all of his discoveries would be arranged chronologically. There were to be 40 booklets in all, but the project was canceled when only four booklets were made. National Antiquities Secretary Bror Emil Hildebrand, who had stood in the way of the project, said "Mandelgren is an upstart, only interested in "small things" that are "rude and unpleasant to look at". Mandelgren struggled to be recognized as a researcher and scientist, but was often looked down on in academic circles because of his lack of formal education. Hildebrand's criticism should be seen in that light.
Mandelgren lived at Svartensgatan 14 on Söder in Stockholm next to the Mosebacke square between 1864 and 1894, and died in 1899.
(Above information is from Wikipedia)

1888 - København - Nordic Industrial, Agricultural and Art Exhibition

Size: 43 x 30 mm.

The Nordic exhibition of Industry, Agriculture, and Art of 1888 (Den Nordiske Industri-, Landbrugs- og Kunstudstilling i Kjøbenhavn 1888) was an exhibition that aimed to feature the best of art, industry, and agriculture from the five Nordic countries. It was a joint-venture between 29 organisations and institutions, with the weight on the private side, represented foremost by the Association of Copenhagen Industrialists. The exhibition was located in Copenhagen, Denmark.
(From Wikipedia)

The text on the left side of the stamps translates to:
The Deeds of Peace Bear Fruit.

Size: 63 x 34 mm.

This stamp shows a rare doubling of the embossing die - most prominent on the right side of the stamp.

Size: 63 x 34 mm.