Rainbows

[kyrasantae]

Wow, I'm glad you guys quit it with the rainbow colours thing. I suspect that all of the ones with the same denomination but different colours are from different years, but I don't have a guide to check.

Finnish stamps are very hard to find, and I think they're always so old because they all date from back when there were still Finns settling around here.


(I also got a pack of Austrian stamps because the packages were 'buy one get one free' and they looked kinda nifty, what with the WW1-era 'Deutschösterreich' ones.)



Edit: I just made my scrapbook more awesome by mounting appropriate old stamps on some of the pages :)

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[nord-licht.livejournal.com]

'Deutschösterreich' - haha, sweeeet!especially given long Austrian tradition of anti-German sentiment:)
btw there are some Russian stamps in the third row from the right.seem to be pretty old as well. did you get them in Finland?

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

The Deutschösterreich ones are from right after WW1. It was basically the part of Austria-Hungary that was more ethnically German. But Austria in the mid-19th to early 20th century was pretty messed up in terms of identity anyway.

The stamps with Cyrillic letters on them are from when Finland was governed by the Russian Tsar (i.e. before 1917).

I got these at the stamp store at WEM, there's a bin where they sell packages of stamps either grouped by country or by theme. I've gotten a pack of them before (http://kyrasantae.livejournal.com/231027.html), but the previous pack had a lot of duplicates and had more... um... post-1970s stuff in it.

I like the older stamps. The engraving is insanely detailed, but back in those days they didn't print the year onto the stamp, so it's sometimes hard to figure out when it was made.