rod222
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Post by rod222 on Apr 7, 2015 14:55:52 GMT
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 12, 2015 16:17:12 GMT
Because the internet is made of cats, here's a stamp from the Åland Islands showing Randi, the winner of a cat photography contest (well, I suppose the photographer won the contest, not the cat). Randi took first prize - he and the runner-up were featured on stamps in 2003. At the end of the year, Åland Post held a vote to determine the most beautiful Åland stamps from that year and the cat set won first prize - more accolades for Randi. I don't think the stamp design is all that remarkable but hey, cats win everything on the internet.  Ryan |
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Nov 1, 2018 16:40:36 GMT
My first Åland stamps. Maybe I'll start with this as well. They do have nice stamps and a conservative issuing policy. |
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Feb 9, 2019 19:15:43 GMT
As I have some (few) stamps from Åland I will show some of them here. 1997 Mi:AX 125, Sn:AX 98, Yt:AX 121, Sg:AX 117, AFA:AX 125  |
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Feb 9, 2019 19:21:21 GMT
1994 Sunds Kyrka (Sunds Church) Mi:AX 91, Sn:AX 90, Yt:AX 91, Sg:AX 90, AFA:AX 91  |
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Jun 4, 2020 19:30:34 GMT
Åland is an autonomous part of Finland. Until the first stamps of the Åland Islands were issued on 1 March 1984, Åland simply used regular stamps of Finland. As such, Finnish stamps postmarked on Åland can be considered as forerunners. The population of Åland is quite small, about 28.000, which equals to about 0,5% the population of Finland. Therefore finding Finnish stamps used in Åland are not very easy, unless having large numbers to look through - or having some plain luck  I guess I had a little of both when I found this cutie yesterday, cancelled in Mariehamn:  |
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kasvik
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Post by kasvik on Oct 11, 2024 14:33:21 GMT
This thread needs some umpf.
I'm tickled by this one, showing Russia's Bomarsund fortress shortly after it was destroyed by after the Franco-British attack in the Crimean War. Based on series of comic engravings by a prominent Swedish artist/courtier, a book of cartoons about the misadventures of Swedish tourists visiting the battlefield..
Tickled because it was cancelled this day in 2005 about five minutes drive west of the fortress ruin, at the tiny grocery in Sund. The grocery closed, but there is a cute cafe next door, in the summer.
Expensive stamp, maybe for double weight domestic letters?
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Oct 12, 2024 0:58:44 GMT
Aland Mythology Cannot find anything on the LETESGUBBAR ? should we be afraid? Was spelling it incorrectly The Letesgubbe “Letesgubbar” were mythical beings, who lived in the archipelago, often in Kökar, and who warned people of oncoming storms or other occurrences by banging walls, jangling and throwing objects. linkLetesgubbar lived around fishing villages and were dressed in sealskin shoes, leather trousers, leather sweater and leather or knitted cap. They were short old men, who looked a lot like the ordinary elderly Kökar man. Letesgubbar were named after place where they were seen, for example the “Örgubben” or the “Skarvskärsgubben”. “Leten” are a kind of fl oats used for herring nets. The word “lete” has been generally used in Åland and even in the archipelago east and west of Åland. The word seems to derive from the old Swedish word “lätte”, which means to lighten or to lift up. Some sort of explanation is offered by the siblings from Storanna in Överboda in Ulla-Lena Lundberg’s book “Kökar”: "We believe in letesgubbar, we have seen as well as heard them", they comment and continue: "When our mother was a girl in Skarvskär, there was always a lot of commotion in the salt-house when we expected much herring. Barrels were rolled about and pots were creaking. We could hear the “leten” being thrown about."  Aland Propaganda / promotional.  Aland Klussendorf  Aland Tattoos  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Oct 12, 2024 1:27:52 GMT
Aland Islands
Floating Safe
Simmande Kassaskap
Source: Unknown.
Oops reposted from first post
Source : Linn's
Marine Insurance stamps were issued by the Netherlands and the Netherlands Indies in 1921 in
connection with a special service known as the DRIJVENDE BRANDKAST (floating safe). This
was a special steel container attached to the boat deck of ships plying between Holland and the Far
East. The safe was secured to the deck by four arms which were automatically released if the ship
sank. The safe then floated free, to be salvaged later. A special tariff for floating safe letters was
promulgated at the Madrid Congress of the UPU in 1920. This was proposed as a result of the loss
of ships from mines and torpedoes in the closing years of the First World War. The idea was
conceived by the Dutch firm of Van Blaadercn who constructed the safes. The service was little
used and postally used examples of the stamps arc very rare. The 1924 UPU Congress abolished the
floating safe tariff. A similar service known as Simmande Kassaskap, was provided by the Swedish
Post Office on ships plying between Grisslehamn in Roslagcn and Ekero in the Aland Islands, but
no stamps were provided for this purpose.
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I guess I had a little of both when I found this cutie yesterday, cancelled in Mariehamn:
