The Finnish postage stamp 150 years in 2006

Jubilee of the Finnish postage stamp

The year 2006 marks a jubilee of the Finnish postage stamp. The first Finnish postage stamps were issued in March 1856. At that time some 60 countries had issued national postage stamps. The first, so-called oval, stamps, 5 kopecks blue and 10 kopecks red, were printed one at a time using a manual stamp. The design of the postage stamps was identical to the value stamps printed on envelopes. Finland had started issuing these pieces of postal stationery, sold with postage paid, as early as in 1845, as the second country in the world.

Nordic philatelic exhibition

Finland Post and the Philatelic Federation of Finland have decided to arrange the Nordic philatelic exhibition NORDIA 2006 as part of the Jubilee Year celebration. The exhibition will be arranged on 27-28 October 2006 at the Helsinki Fair Centre in connection with the annual Stamp Fair. NORDIA 2006 will be the seventh grand exhibition of Nordic philately in Finland.

Post Museum

The Post Museum will celebrate the Finnish stamp throughout 2006 with exhibitions on the theme, and with several other events for the public. The publishing activities of the Museum will also focus on Finnish stamps.
Finland Post will start publicising the jubilee year in 2005 with, among other activities, the issue of a miniature sheet comprising two stamps.

More information

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