FINLAND – Cover from Kälviä, Finland to Braga, Portugal

First Day Cover of the Antiques IV: POP 1st class – the Golden time of plastic stamp issue, posted on September, 13 2010.
(Special thanks to my best friend Sini Linnanmäki)

The golden time of plastic!
60's and early 70's was the period when in the Nordic countries the main material for the innovative design products was plastic. Furnitures and even clothes were maid of different kind of plastic. Graphic designer Pekka Piippo has fitted this all in one stamp - a chair, a telephone, wall paper, Hifi Stereo by Salora, Go-go boots and the Palaset -shelf unit by Ristomatti Ratia.

Date of Issue: 13-09-2010
Type: Commemorative stamp
Denomination: 0.75€
No. of Stamp in Set: 1
Size: 34.5 x 24.5 mm
Perforation:
Color: Multicolor
Process of Printing: offset
Protection of the stamp:
Printer: Posti
Designer: Pekka Piippo
(Source: Posti)

Torronsuo National Park
Finnish new series of stamps depicting national parks will show different aspects of nature and the seasons of the year.
In the second issue in the series we travel to the Torronsuo National Park in the southern Finland.
Torronsuo Mire landscape has looked the same for thousands of years. Have a half-day hiking trip around Kiljamo or a one day trip to the southern parts of the park and outside the National Park in the traditional agricultural landscape of the village of Torro. Especially in the spring and the autumn, Torronsuo is a good place to observe the migrating birds, many of which stop to rest on the mire, for example cranes and geese.
In the stamp there is a wonderful, typical picture of a pine tree.
On the sheet there are ten (10) stamps.
The first issue in the series of Finnish National Parks was Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park representing the fjeld scenery.

Date of Issue: 13-09-2010
Type: Commemorative stamp
Denomination: 0.75€
No. of Stamp in Set: 1
Size: 34.5 x 24.5 mm
Perforation:
Color: Multicolor
Process of Printing: offset
Protection of the stamp:
Printer: Posti
Designer: Teemu Ollikainen
(Source: Posti)

Autumn
Miniature sheet of three self-adhesive stamps, depicting a well-cooked crab, a pair of mallard and the king of the Northern forests - an elk! On the background there is a typical Finnish lake landscape.

Date of Issue: 13-09-2010
Type: Commemorative stamp
Denomination: 2.25€
No. of Stamp in Set: 3
Size: 35.0 x 30.0 mm
Perforation:
Color: Multicolor
Process of Printing: offset
Protection of the stamp:
Printer: Posti
Designer: Asser Jaaro
(Source: Posti)