Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America
- Label : "Postverk Føroya" (Post of the Faroe Islands) and "Postphil" (Iceland Post); 1992; commemorative stamps of the joint issue of the Faroes and Iceland of the issue "EUROPA-CEPT 1992 - Discovery of America";
(issue of 2 stamps and 1 block à 2 stamps, each by Island and the Faroes)
Note:
The normal desktop stamps show a white frame, the block stamps not. ("CEPT" = "Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications")
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue numbers :
- - Faroe issue : Michel No. 231, 232 (block No. Bl5, block stamps: No. 233, 234 (stamps without white frame)); Yvert & Tellier : No. 225, 226 (no block listing); Scott: No. 236, 237 (block No. 238, block stamps No. 238A, 238b); AFA: No. 225, 226 (block stamps: 225a, 226a)
- - Iceland issue : Michel No. 762, 763 (block No. Bl13, block stamps No. 764, 765); Yvert & Tellier: No. 715, 716 (block No. BF13, block stamps No. 717, 718); Scott: No. 749, 750 (block No. 751, block stamps No. 751A, 751b); AFA: No. 755, 756 (block No. A757, block stamps No. 755a, 756a)
- Color : multicolored
- Watermark : none
- Nominal value :
- - Faroe issue : 3.70 - 6.50 (DKK)
- - Iceland issue : 55.00 – 55.00 (IKR)
- Postage validity : since 06 April 1992 (both issues)
- Designed by : Thöstur Magnusson (Ϸöstur Magnússon)
- Printed by : "N.V. Grafische Inrichting Johann Enschede en Zonen", Haarlem (Netherlands) (probably)
- Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
- Perforation :
- - desktop stamps : Comb perforation, K 13¼ : 13¾
- - blocks : Harrow perforation, Ks 13¼ : 13¾
- Print runs :
- - Faroe issue :
- - 3.70 (DKK) : 611,000
- - 6.50 (DKK) : 521,000
- - blocks (10.20 DKK) : 500,000
- - Iceland issue :
- - 55, 55 (IKR) : 800,000 (both)
- - blocks (110 IKR) : 500,000
- - Faroe issue :
- Stamp size :
- - printed area of a single line without frame but with frame insriptions (single desktop stamps): 42.0 x 22.5 mm
- - printed area of a single stamp as distance between the inner tangents of the perforation lines (block stamps) : 44.0 x 25.5 mm
Commemorative stamps of the joint issue of the Faroes and Iceland of the issue "EUROPA-CEPT 1992 - Discovery of America";
(issue of 2 stamps and 1 block à 2 stamps, each by Island and the Faroes)
Contents
Stamps
Faroe issue
mint
postmarked
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 2a1.jpg Michel No. 232, postmarked |
Iceland issue
mint
postmarked
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 3a1.jpg Michel No. 762, postmarked |
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 4a1.jpg Michel No. 763, postmarked |
Block issue
Block with se-tenant of 2 stamps
Faroe issue
mint
postmarked
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 6a1.jpg Michel Block No. 5, postmarked |
Iceland issue
mint
postmarked
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 5a1.jpg Michel No. 13, poatmarked |
Block stamps
Faroe issue
mint
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 1a7.jpg Michel No. 233, mint |
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 1a6.jpg Michel No. 234, mint |
postmarked
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 1a5.jpg Michel No. 233, postmarked |
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 1a4.jpg Michel No. 234, postmarked |
Iceland issue
mint
postmarked
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 1a3.jpg Michel No. 764, postmarked |
File:Faroe Islands 1992 Europa - Discovery of America 1a2.jpg Michel No. 765, postmarked |
To the stamp motives;
- 3,70, 55.00 (DKK, IKR) : the Viking ship of Leif Erikson before a map of the Atlantic Ocean with Great Britain, the Faroes, Iceland, the southern part of Greenland and a part of the Canadian East coast
- 6.50, 55.00 (DKK, IKR) : the caravel "Santa Maria" of Christopher Columbus with cross sails before a map of the Atlantic Ocean with South western Weuope, North western Africa a prt of the US-East coast, the Caribbean, and a part of the northern South American coast
