Finland 1996 Christmas

• Label : „Postimerkkikeskus“ (Post of Finland); 1996; commemorative stamps of the issue „Christmas 1996“;
  

(issue of 3 stamps)
Stamp datas:

• Catagogue numbers : Michel: No. 1365-1367; Yvert & Tellier: No. 1331-1333; Scott: No. 1023-1025; AFA: 1355-1354-1356; LaPe: 1360-1362
• Colors : mulicolored
• Watermark : none
• Nominal values : 2.00 – 2.80 – 3.20 (FMK)
• Postage validity : 01 November 1996 – 31 December 2011
• Designed by : Mauri Kunnas (* 1950)
• Print process : Offset printing on luminescent CLP1-paper with 96 g/cm²
• Perforation ; Comb perforation, K 14
• Print runs :

- 2.00 (FMK) : 45,000,000

- 2.80 (FMK) : 7,960,000

- 3.20 (FMK) : 3,250,000

• Stamp size :

- 2.00 (FMK, horizontal format) (printed area of a single stamp as distamce between the inner tangents of the perforation lines) : 33.5 x 22.5 mm

- 2.80 (FMK, horizontal format) (printed area of a single stamp) : 32.5 x 22.5 mm

- 3.20 (FMK, vertical format) (printed area of a single stamp) : 22.5 x 31.0 mm

Commemorative stamps of the issue „Christmas 1996“;
(issue of 3 stamps)

Stamps, mint

Michel No. 1365, mint

Michel No. 1366, mint

Michel No. 1367, mint

Stamps, postmarked

Michel No. 1365, postmarked

Michel No. 1366, postmarked

Michel No. 1367, postmarked

FDC

FDC to this issue

Covers, cards, and philatelic souvenirs

Souvenir card as greeting card to Christmas 1997 of the Post of Finland, franked with Michel No. 1365-1367, postmarked at „Helsinki“, 01-11-1996

To the stamp motives:
all drawings by Mauri Kunnas (* 1950)
- 2.00 (FMK) : drawing „Snowman, Santa Claus, and gnom playing musical instruments“
- 2.80 (FMK) : „Reindeer and hare watching Northern lights“
- 3.20 (FMK) : „Santa Claus reads letters of children“