Denmark test stamp 1980 (The stamp shows an imaginary view of Copenhagen.)

Denmark test stamp 1980

 In 1980 the Danish Post Office bought a new printing press, called ‘M4’, and the Danish Stamp Printing Office produced a test stamp designed by the Danish illustrator Mads Stage, and engraved by Czeslaw Slania. Using the same motif as on the test stamp the Stamp Printing Office printed a preliminary test label on Danish printing paper. 

The stamp shows an imaginary view of Copenhagen, with the equestrian statue in front of the Royal Palace in the centre.  To the left is a small fragment view of Christiansborg Palace (Parliament Building), and to the right a partial view of the Royal Residential Palace (Amalienborg). In the upper right selvedge is printed the word PRØVE (= TEST).