Finnish Christmas postage stamps: Santa bringing gifts
December 12th, 2009 admin
The 1984 Christmas postage stamp is interesting mixture of something new and something old. The stamps design continues to seek out new style with a pinch of old. And after four years of double-stamp issues, the Finnish post returned back to give final experiment with single stamp christmas issue. The topic of the stamp is
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