SWEDEN

SWEDEN / SVERIGE.

Tricentenary of the first Swedish nautical chart, made by Johan Månsson (1644).
Partial map of the Baltic Sea.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 15.04.1944.
Face value: 5 öre.
Print: 42,000,000 copies.
Size: 24 x 22 mm.

Catalogues
- Facit No. 351 and 351BB.
- Scott No. 348.
- StampWorld No. 306.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 271 and 271a.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 305 and 305a

Johan Månsson (? -1659), captain of the Swedish Admiralty and in charge of training the Crown pilots, designed in 1644 the first Swedish nautical chart (where the Baltic Sea was represented without the Gulf of Bothnia), known as Een siö-book som aconhåller om siöfarten i Östersiön, at a scale of 1: 2,500,500, which was engraved by Sigismund Vogel and published in 1645. The map was dedicated to Queen Kristina, but was hardly helpful in navigation due to its large scale.