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Welcome the first 2000th Visitors
Aqui ficam as melhores saudações Filatélicas,
para os visitantes de todo o mundo, que diariamente visitam o meu blog.
(English version)
Here are the best Philatelic greetings to
visitors from all over the world who daily visit my blog.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Long-tailed Duck decoys
The issue of a 3-part series of franking labels
featuring old style wooden duck decoys began in 2012.
First out was the Common
Eider; the 2013 motif is the Long-tailed Duck.
Wildfowl decoys are lifelike dummies used by hunters
to encourage birds to land nearby.
The oldest decoys were made from plants such
as bulrush, and the first decoys carved from wood were unpainted. Decoys are
now mostly made from plastic.
The Long-tailed Duck belongs to the order
Anseriformes.
It reaches a length of between 39 and 47 cm and can weigh up to
almost one kilo.
It has a rounded head and a short sturdy bill. The all-dark
wings are quite sharp and pointed. Their flight is smooth and rapid, with a
characteristic wing-beat dipping low below the horizontal.
Technical Details
Issue Date: 19.02.2013
Designer: Juha Pykäläinen
Printer: The Lowe Martin Group
Process: offset
Size: 4.00 x 30.34 mm
Values: €0.65, 0.80, 1.00, 1.10
Passenger ferries- Ålandsfärjan
Many
Ålanders associate the name Ålandsfärjan with the ship servicing between
Mariehamn and Kapellskär 1987-2008. However, the ship featured on the 2013
stamp is the very first ferry named Ålandsfärjan.
Following
a disagreement between the founders of Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen, the shipping
company that pioneered passenger traffic between Åland and Sweden in 1959, a
group of owners started the competing shipping company Rederi Ab Ålandsfärjan.
S/S
Ålandsfärjan was built in Scotland in 1933 and named S/S Brittany. Ålandsfärjan
was the first ferry in service for the newly started company. Operations
between Roslagen on the Swedish coast and Mariehamn in Åland began on 20 June
1963. The ferry was originally owned by the British Railways and in service on
the British Channel.
S/S
Ålandsfärjan was withdrawn from service in 1972 and demolished in Teijo,
Finland, after having run aground and been damaged.
Technical
Details
Issue
Date: 19.02.2013
Designer:
Håkan Sjöström
Printer:
Cartor Security Printing, France
Process:
4-coloroffset
Colours:
4 colour
Size: 35,4
x 26 mm
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