1954 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate

Product Description

1954 Bing & Grondahl Christmas plate,
designed by Børge Pramvig,has the title
Birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen.
Bing & Grondahl's Christmas plate from 1954
depicts Hans Christian Andersen's house in
Odense. This house was the birth place of
Hans Christian Andersen, and the place
where he lived with his mother, until he, in
1819, moved to Copenhagen.
Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2nd
1805, as the son of a poor shoemaker and
his wife, but his father died when Hans
Christian was 11 years of age.
The family lived and worked in one small
room in the little house in Munke Mølle
Stræde.
Hans Christian Andersen's house was opened
as a museum in 1930, and today the two small
rooms, of which only one was occupied by
Hans Christian Andersen and his family,
are furnished exactly as Hans Christian
Andersen described in his diaries.
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are
well known all over the world.