Finnish Christmas postage stamps: Se-tenant angels
December 14th, 2009 admin
In 1986 the Finnish Post issued their first, and so far also the last, se-tenant Christmas postage stamp issue. At the same time Christmas postage stamps returned back to use of two separate face values: discounted rate for early domestic mail and regular rate stamps for normal and international delivery. The discounted se-tenant stamps feature
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