While sifting through a few envelopes’ worth of stamps, I came across a small number of issues from a place called Ã…land. Naturally, I wonder where the place is. Its stamps all depict fish, boats, or stretches of coastline. Here’s a neat one:
So it was dated around 1994, with what appears to be an interesting postmark, which has value in itself. Could be that if the existing postage was insufficient, the sender would pay a little extra – which would be reflected in the cancellation instead of the postage stamps.
Anyhow, it turns out that Ã…land is “an autonomous, demilitarised, monolingually Swedish-speaking administrative province of Finland. The Ã…land Islands consist of a Main Island, Fasta Ã…land, with 90% of the population, and east thereof an archipelago of more than 6,500 skerries and islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia” (from Wikipedia). Hmm.
Ã…land
While sifting through a few envelopes’ worth of stamps, I came across a small number of issues from a place called Ã…land. Naturally, I wonder where the place is. Its stamps all depict fish, boats, or stretches of coastline. Here’s a neat one:
So it was dated around 1994, with what appears to be an interesting postmark, which has value in itself. Could be that if the existing postage was insufficient, the sender would pay a little extra – which would be reflected in the cancellation instead of the postage stamps.
Anyhow, it turns out that Ã…land is “an autonomous, demilitarised, monolingually Swedish-speaking administrative province of Finland. The Ã…land Islands consist of a Main Island, Fasta Ã…land, with 90% of the population, and east thereof an archipelago of more than 6,500 skerries and islands at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia” (from Wikipedia). Hmm.