Post by sforgca on Oct 8, 2019 9:08:19 GMT -5
A stamp that is actually a label with a listing in main catalogs??
Above Finland Facit catalog
Above Finland Norma Catalog
The Finnish "Mourning Stamp" is actually a privately produced label without franking value. It had a purchase price of 1 penni, and "1 PENNI." is printed on the backside. It was designed by the famous Finnish artist Akseli Gallén (Gallen-Kallela) and used in protest of the Russification of Finnish stamp designs. Starting 14 August 1900, the previous Finnish stamp designs could no longer be used on mail sent abroad; instead Russian design stamps had to be used. (Previously on 1 January 1892 Finnish design stamps had been banned from mail addresssed to Russia.) On 14 January 1901, Finnish design stamps were banned from domestic mail use, completing the Russification of stamp designs.
A popular way, in spite of being forbidden, to use the mourning stamp was to put letters and postcards in the mail-boxes of steamers bound abroad (especially ships to Sweden). Mail with mourning stamps or even with Coat ofArms stamps as a rule were delivered without postage due. Such covers were canceled upon arrival at the next (foreign) port of call, usually Stockholm, Sweden. These covers are very scarce. Used singles of Mourning stamps with readable town and date are very desirable, though it is usually very difficult to read the cancellation due to being black on black.
The original and five different re-printings of the mourning stamp are known. All reprintings were made for commercial purposes because the stamp generated much interest.
Re-print may not be the correct description because new plates were made for each printing.
The original stamp was printed at the Gust. Arvidssons Lithogaphy Atelier in Helsinki. Each whole sheet contains two sheets of 50 to the left and two sheets of 100 to the right The second stamp - type II - was printed in Tampere in 1914, at the Syren Lithography Co. and are printed in sheets of (8 x 9) 72 stamps
Further four known specimens are all presumed to have been printed abroad - dates of printing and locations unknown.
Type I:
Arch on crown rounded; inner frameline consistent; chain of pearls connected by line.
Crown base 4 1/2 mm wide, with two thin black lines on yellow background space between lines thicker than the lines.
Sword hand shield toward blade.
Back: Dot after penni - horizontally elongated.
Type II:
Arch on crown broken up and lower than on Type I. In place of pearl chain irregular short lines. Sword handshield arched toward hilt.
Colored spot on sword blade in front of paw. Crown base 4 1/2 mm wide; yellow background between two black lines only a narrow streak.
Letter "A" inner triangle larger than and with more pointed corners than any other type.
Back: Letter "N" middle line in "penni" arched up and beak on 1 straight and short.
Type III:
Black color is dull grayish.
Arch of crown half of regular circle and bigger than all other types.
Back: serif on 1 is wider than type I.
Size of sheet 5 x 4 + 5 x 4 with 7 mm horizontal base. Sheet has black margins.
Type IV:
Black color has dull brownish tinge.
Top of crown arch elongated past 2-3 pearls at sommit both sides.
Pearls separate without connecting line and their bottom innerline has almost disappeared with only a smitten discernible by the left-side arch.
The sword handle (at lion's foot) is only thinly visible.
Back printed similar to type I, but with middle horizontal line in letter E lifted and pointround, gumless.
Size of sheet 12 x 7 - 84 stamps
Type V:
Stamp color deep black and on coat-of-arms bright. Crown arch are formed solely by separate dots, no support lines. Ornaments in coat-of-arms around the lion are circles with dot in middle. Back without print. Size of sheet unknown.
Back is without number or gum
Type VI:
Stamp approx. 3mm shorter and narrower than other types
Letters are smaller.
Perfs have more white print.
Back with gum but without print.
Above Finland Facit catalog
Above Finland Norma Catalog
The Finnish "Mourning Stamp" is actually a privately produced label without franking value. It had a purchase price of 1 penni, and "1 PENNI." is printed on the backside. It was designed by the famous Finnish artist Akseli Gallén (Gallen-Kallela) and used in protest of the Russification of Finnish stamp designs. Starting 14 August 1900, the previous Finnish stamp designs could no longer be used on mail sent abroad; instead Russian design stamps had to be used. (Previously on 1 January 1892 Finnish design stamps had been banned from mail addresssed to Russia.) On 14 January 1901, Finnish design stamps were banned from domestic mail use, completing the Russification of stamp designs.
A popular way, in spite of being forbidden, to use the mourning stamp was to put letters and postcards in the mail-boxes of steamers bound abroad (especially ships to Sweden). Mail with mourning stamps or even with Coat ofArms stamps as a rule were delivered without postage due. Such covers were canceled upon arrival at the next (foreign) port of call, usually Stockholm, Sweden. These covers are very scarce. Used singles of Mourning stamps with readable town and date are very desirable, though it is usually very difficult to read the cancellation due to being black on black.
The original and five different re-printings of the mourning stamp are known. All reprintings were made for commercial purposes because the stamp generated much interest.
Re-print may not be the correct description because new plates were made for each printing.
The original stamp was printed at the Gust. Arvidssons Lithogaphy Atelier in Helsinki. Each whole sheet contains two sheets of 50 to the left and two sheets of 100 to the right The second stamp - type II - was printed in Tampere in 1914, at the Syren Lithography Co. and are printed in sheets of (8 x 9) 72 stamps
Further four known specimens are all presumed to have been printed abroad - dates of printing and locations unknown.
Type I:
Arch on crown rounded; inner frameline consistent; chain of pearls connected by line.
Crown base 4 1/2 mm wide, with two thin black lines on yellow background space between lines thicker than the lines.
Sword hand shield toward blade.
Back: Dot after penni - horizontally elongated.
Type II:
Arch on crown broken up and lower than on Type I. In place of pearl chain irregular short lines. Sword handshield arched toward hilt.
Colored spot on sword blade in front of paw. Crown base 4 1/2 mm wide; yellow background between two black lines only a narrow streak.
Letter "A" inner triangle larger than and with more pointed corners than any other type.
Back: Letter "N" middle line in "penni" arched up and beak on 1 straight and short.
Type III:
Black color is dull grayish.
Arch of crown half of regular circle and bigger than all other types.
Back: serif on 1 is wider than type I.
Size of sheet 5 x 4 + 5 x 4 with 7 mm horizontal base. Sheet has black margins.
Type IV:
Black color has dull brownish tinge.
Top of crown arch elongated past 2-3 pearls at sommit both sides.
Pearls separate without connecting line and their bottom innerline has almost disappeared with only a smitten discernible by the left-side arch.
The sword handle (at lion's foot) is only thinly visible.
Back printed similar to type I, but with middle horizontal line in letter E lifted and pointround, gumless.
Size of sheet 12 x 7 - 84 stamps
Type V:
Stamp color deep black and on coat-of-arms bright. Crown arch are formed solely by separate dots, no support lines. Ornaments in coat-of-arms around the lion are circles with dot in middle. Back without print. Size of sheet unknown.
Back is without number or gum
Type VI:
Stamp approx. 3mm shorter and narrower than other types
Letters are smaller.
Perfs have more white print.
Back with gum but without print.
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