FINLAND

FINLAND / SUOMI.

Winter landscape in Haminalahti. Painting by Ferdinand von Wright (1856).
Stamp issued on 24.01.2007.
No face value: 1 lk/kl [0.70 €].
Design: Päivi Vainionpää.
Printed by Joh. Enschendé Stamps, Haarlem (Netherlands).
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 3,000,000 copies.
Size: 34.5 x 24.5 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 1819.
- LaPe Finland No. 1815.
- Michel No. 1827.
- Scott No. 1278.
- StampWorld No. 1839.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1850.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1802.

Haminalahti is a small village located west of the city of Kuopio, birthplace of the painter and ornithologist Ferdinand von Wright (1822-1906), of Scottish descent, author, among other, of the work represented on this stamp, entitled Talvimaisema Haminalahdelta (‘Winter landscape from Haminalahti’), dated 1856, painted on the shores of Lake Kallavesi.