Finland 1995 Christmas

• Label : "Postimerkikeskus" (Post of Finland); 1995; commemorative stamps of the issue "Christmas 1995";
  

(issue of 2 stamps therefrom 1 small sheet from a stamp booklet)

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 1317+1318; Yvert & Tellier: No. 1283+1284: Scott: No. 979+980: AFA: No. 1306+1307; LaPe: No. 1312+1313

- small sheet : LaPe: No. 1312PA (only Michel No. 1317 = 2.00 FMK x 10)

• Color : multicolored
• Watermark : none
• Nominal values : 2.00 – 2.80 (FMK)
• Postage validity : 03 November 1995 – 31 December 2011
• Designed by : Pekka Loiri (* 1946)
• Printed by : "Setec Oy", Vantaa (Finland) (a subenterprise of the "Genalto Group", Amsterdam (in Finland: "Thales DIS Finland Oy", since 1990)
• Print process : Offset printing on luminescating CPL-paper with 96 g/m²
• Perforation : Comb perforation, K 14
• Print runs :

- 2.00 (FMK) : 36,000,000, therefrom 10,000 small sheets, each à 10 stamps (2x5)

- 2.80 (FMK) : 7,000,000 (no small sheets)

• Stamo size :

- 2.00 (FMK, vertical format) (printed area of a single stamp as distamce between the inner tangents of the perforation lines) : 23.5 x 33.5 mm

- 2.80 (FMK, horizontal format) (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 30.5 x 21.0 mm

Commemorative stamps of the issue "Christmas 1995";
(issue of 2 stamps therefrom 1 small sheet from a stamp booklet)

Stamps, mint

Michel No. 1317, mint

Michel No. 1318, mint

Stamps, postmarked

Michel No. 1317, postmarked

Michel No. 1318, postmarked

FDC

FDC to this issue

Stamp booklet

(small sheets with Michel No. 1317 from stamp booklet LaPe No. 1312PA)

Stamp booklet, LaPe No. 1312PA, mint

Stamp booklet, LaPe No. 1312PA, postmarked

Covers, cards, and philatelic souvenirs

Souvenircard as Christmas greetings of the Post of Finland with Michel No. 1317+1318; pstmarked at „Helsinki“, 03-11-1995

To the stamp motives:
- 2.00 (FMK) : drawing "Santa Claus skating" by Pekka Loiri (*1946)
- 2.80 (FMK) : drawing "Christmas flowers in snow" by Pekka Loiri (* 1946) (= the plant "Euphorbia pulcherrima" (English: "Poinsetta"; German: "Weihnachsstern" or "Adventsstern")