NORWAY

NORWAY / NORGE - NOREG.

2nd centenary of the Norwegian Geographical Service.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 14.12.1973.
Face value: 1 Norwegian krone.
Design and engraving: Sverre Morken (b. 1945).
Printed by Norges Bank's Printing Works.
Printing: Recess.
Print: 10,000,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 24 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 688.
- Michel No. 674.
- Norgeskatalogen No. 722.
- Scott No. 629.
- StampWorld No. 690.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 712.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 630.

The Norwegian Geographical Service (Norges geografiske oppmåling, NGO) was founded by Heinrich Wilhelm von Huth on December 14, 1773. Norwegian prospecting began with scientifically based triangulation in 1779, maritime and coastal prospecting, in 1785, and his own map printing and reproduction facility, in 1854: the first published map was a marine map of the Trøndelag coast, from Halten to Leka, in 1835.