ESTONIA

ESTONIA / EESTI.

Estonian lighthouses.
Vergi lighthouse.
Stamp issued on 02.06.2011.
Face value: 0.35 euro.
Design: Roman Matkiewicz (b. Tallinn, 27.02.1966).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 50,000 copies.
Size: 33 x 27.5 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 731.
- Michel No. 699.
- Scott No. 674.
- StampWorld No. 740.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 652.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 649.

Vergi is a village of about 80 inhabitants in the municipality of Haljala, on the shores of the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea), in the Lääne-Viru County. It was formerly a fishing village: its Fishermen's Association was founded in 1905. When the USSR occupied Estonia, between 1940 and 1941, fishing was prohibited and an observation and watchtower of the Soviet border guard was installed in the town. The lighthouse was built in 1936.