• Definitive issue. Views of Alands

    Alands  1985.09.16

    In issue: Stamp(s): 3   

    Printing: on phosph. paper

    Issued in: on sheets of 40 stamps in 2 blocks 4x5

    Printable Version

  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 13   Yvert: 13   Scott: 19  

    Perforation type: 13x13

    Subject:

    8 marks. Farm & windmill

    Additional:

    This is the typical Aland islands windmill. Nowadays these windmills are undergoing thorough restoration and serve Automat stamps decoration for private farms, museums and simply wheat fields. The home-bred windmill restoration expert travels around the archipelago. He brings ruined and neglected object into good and original order, having already done more than 50 renovations.

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    Topics: Mills within the landscapes Windmills