Norway 1996 Christmas

• Label : „Postens frimerketjeneste“ („Norway Post – Stamp Bureau“) of the Post of Norway; 1996; commemorative se-tenant from 1996 to the issue „Christmas 1996“;
  

issue of 1 se-tenant à 2 stamps

Stamp datas:

• Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 1228/1229 (ST); Yvert & Tellier: No. 1185/1186; Scott: No, 1137/1138; AFA: 1226Cv/1227Ch
• Color : multicolored
• Watermark : none
• Nominal value : 2 x 35 NOK
• Postage validity : since 21 November 1996 (without limitation)
• Designed by : Bruno Oldani (* 1936) (Swiss living in Norway)
• Printed by : „Emil Moestue AS“, Oslo (probably)
• Print process : Offset printing
• Perforation : 3 sided Comb perforation, K 13¼ : 13 or K 13¼
• Print run : 4,369,380 se-tenants
• Stamp size :

- single stamps (printed area of a single stamp as distance between the inner tangents of the perforation lines) : 23.5 x 29.0 mm

- entire se-tenant (printed area of a single se-tenant as distance between the inner tangents of the perforation lines) : 48.5 x 29.0

• Postcard :

a) souvenir postcard Michel No. PN_519_1228/1229 from 1996 to the issue „Christmas 1996“;

- obverse : painting „Woman at the Loom“ by Adolph Tidemand (1814-1876); This painting was created in 1874 in the style of the Norvegian National romanticism and is contemporary located in the „Nasjonalgalleriet“ in Oslo (Norvay); photo of the painting by the firm „O.Vaering Eftf. AS“, Oslo (est. 1868)

- reverse : stamp Michel No. 1228/1229 (se-tenant) + imprinted inscrption + lineless special cancellation (30.0 mm diameter) at Oslo, 21-11-1996

Se-tenant of the issue „Christmas 1996“;
(issue of 1 se-tenant à 2 stamps)

Se-tenant

Se-tenant, Michel No. 12281229ST, mint

Se-tenant, Michel No. 12281229ST, postmarked

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Christmas-postcard of the Norway Post 1996 with se.tenant Michel No. 12281229ST, postmarked

Obverse of this postcard