Aland 2010 Victor Westerholm

From Stamps of the World
  • Issue date: 4th January 2010
  • one value
  • Design: from painting by Victor Westerholm
  • Printed by: Cartor Security Printing
  • Print process: offset lithography
  • Perforations: 12.9 x 12.9
  • Width : 40.0 mm
  • Height : 25.5 mm
  • Format : Sheet of 32

Åland Artists. Victor Westerholm, 1860-1919


(0.80€) ~ Mail Jetty at Eckerö, painted 1883
Non-denominated, inscribed 'Europa' for European 20gram rate


Notes. Westerholm, a Swedish-speaking Finn, founded the Önningeby Artists Colony in Lemland, Åland, in 1886
Eckerö in the far west of the Åland archipelago, used to be the mail shipment point for carriage to Sweden and elsewhere in Europe. At the time, in 1886, it was the western extremity of the Russian empire

Sheet stamp

Europa

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