Show Christmas Seal Idea Conceived By Danish Clerk Credit for conceiving the Idea for Christmas seals belongs to a Danish postal Einer who in the holiday season of 1903 was sorting mail in the postoffice of As he went through the stacks of Christmas it occurred to him that if each sender bought a sticker and attached It to each the proceeds would aid in fighting tuberculosis and add color to the He mentioned it to some of his fellow The scheme appealed to them and it was passed along through the The clerks discussed it with The idea spread about and eventually King Christian heard about The ruler approved and decided in favor of trying it with Queen Louise's likeness on each It was too late to put the idea into execution that but in four million seals were sold in the Copenhagen So popular did the stamps become that heard of one old woman who returned some letters without Christmas declaring emphatically that she didn't want to know people who didn't use A Miss Emily who worked with the Red started the sale of seals in this She was seeking for a little open air hospital for tuberculosis She designed a stamp and persuaded friends to help with the printing and sale of When the campaign bogged she went to Philadelphia where she met Leigh Mitchell a columnist for the Philadelphia North He heard Miss Bissell's plans and discussed them with E. A. Van city Van Valkenburg gave full approval and told Hodges to give the project his entire He also asked for seals to be sold in the newspaper's The campaign brought startling Miss Bissell found she had Instead of she had started to And the Christmas seal campaign became a nationwide |