Christmas Mail 2015 3 - Finland

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Christmas Mail 2014 11 - Finland

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Christmas Mail 2013 - 1

First Christmas cover this year. And this FDC from Finland is just beautiful. Its already beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Thanks a lot Kimmo Liljeroos for this lovely cover.

These Finnish Christmas stamps were released on November 4, 2013. The three stamps are:
Christmas Hug - 0.65 euro
Christmas Tree Boy - 1st class
Angel - 2nd class

I am just hoping to get a mint or used set of these for my Christmas stamps collection too.

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Angry Birds on Cover - Finland

Received this unique FDC from Finland. The cover and stamps feature characters of the very popular game, "Angry Birds". Kimmo was kind enough to send me this lovely FDC from Finland. As you can see, it was sent on the day of issue, 9th September 2013. Received it here on 25th September 2013.

With this sheet of self-adhesive stamps, Finland post officially launched the world's first "angry birds" stamps. This set of stamps was personally designed by "angry birds" game developer, Rovio's art director Toni Kysenius. It features six of the popular game characters - five birds and one pig.

Rovio entertainment is a Finland based mobile phone software development company, founded in 2003. In 2009 the company developed the famous touch-screen smart mobile phone game software "angry birds". The game as we all know was a great success, and soon swept the world. The game has been called as "one of the most mainstream games out right now", "one of the great runaway hits of 2010", and "the largest mobile app success the world has seen so far".

There is a pattern on the stamps that is visible only under UV light. Here's the image of the sheet under UV light. What you see now under the light are these little pigs on the corners of each of the stamps.

Also if you look closely, an irregular perforation follows the shape of the characters. The sheet of six 1st class stamps also includes Priority labels fitting the appearance of the stamps.

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Cover - Finland

Kimmo Liljeroos sent me this beautiful cover from Finland. I received it last week or so. Though I have a few covers of Finland already, this one by far stands out among them all and has gone straight into my cover allbum. The cover has got eight odd shaped stamps and a mini-sheet with a hologram on it.

In 2008, Finnish post issued two sheets containing strips of three self adhesive stamps depicting ripples in water and a beautiful view of the archipelago of Gulf of Finland. All six stamps are here on the cover. The stamps are plus sign shaped. Also on the cover are two similar plus sign shaped stamps issued in 2011 depicting the bud and leaf of a birch tree.

The beautiful and intricate mini-sheet was issued in January 2007 to mark the start of the International Polar Year. The sheet was perforated to create two overlapping stamps. One stamp encompasses part of the background image of an aurora arcing over a snowy landscape, while the other features a close-up of a snowflake. A glittering hologram of a snowflake fills the square where the two stamps overlap. The background picture of the aurora was taken by Finnish photographer Pekka Luukkola in Kittila, northern Finland.

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Cover - Finland

Received a lovely cover from Finland yesterday. All odd shaped stamps on it with the recent self adhesive stamps from the January 2012 release of the very interesting sheet featuring the Sami cultural center, Sajos.

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Super Awesome Cover - Finland

My first cover with only odd shaped stamps on it. This one from Raahe, Finland with recent self adhesive stamps on it is  a great addition to my collection.

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Cover from Finland

A friend from Finland sent me this cover. This one comes from the city of Hameenlinna. I love the SS on it. Its the Hong kong, China - Finland joint issue on woodcraft.

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Cover - Finland, Country #8

And one from Finland.

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