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ALAND (ÅLAND) PHILATELY
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First Day Covers

This section features the most beautiful Aland FDCs issued. While the FDCs in the early years of Aland stamps were rather simple in design they started to get more sophisticated and colorful with the millenium. That, however, does not hold true throughout since then. Therefore this page includes those only which are subjectively regarded as the outstanding FDCs is design and colorfulness. Mostly the latter were color would be applied to the complete cover are outstanding. In addition in later year, there would also be sketchings at the rear of the cover. These are exemplified with some of the covers shown.
1998
UNESCO - International year of Oceans
Scouting


Stormy ocean and UNESCO logo
Knots, compass and sailing ship
Lighthouses

Marhällan lighthouse (left)
Gustav Dalén lighthouse (middle left)
Bogskär lighthouse (middle right)
Kökarsören lighhouse (right)
Equitation


Young rider on horse
Booklet with eight self-adhesive stamps
Flip side
Astronomy
Scuba diving


Big Dipper
Scuba diver approaching wrecked barque "Plus"
Ferries
Natwest Island Games


SS Viking (INRIKES)
Viking line ferry (EUROPA)
Staring sprinter on Aland's granite rocks
My Aland VII

Martti Ahtisaari and Aland
Children's books
Ferries


Characters from children's book
"Zackarina and the sand wulf"
M/S Skandia (0.75 €)
M/S Prinsessan (3.50 €)
Sailing
Church windows


Sailing with Laser Radial sports boat
Church window of Jomala church
Church windows (Joint issue with Macao)

Church window of Jomala church.
The Macao stamp is imprinted without perforation and no face value
200th Anniversary of Abd-al Wali
The Forest


Georg August Wallin (1811-1852)
Forest edge (Painting from Anette Gustafsson)
American comic heroes
Champagne discovery


The Arrow (left)
The Fantom of the Fair (middle)
Alias the Spider (right)
Diver's discovery in 2010 of 145 champagne bottles dated 1840 on a ship wreck
Aland apples
Aland crisps


Apple variety: Strömma
Aland's international company Chips Ab
100 years Titanic
The man at the rudder


Historical ad poster
Sculpture "The man at the rudder" (1936)
Dragonflies
Architecture


Blue hawker (Aeshna cyanea), LOKALPOST
Ruddy darter (Sympetrum sanguineum), EUROPA
Miramar (Top)
Spa building (Middle)
Spa hotel (Bottom)
Welfare: Pink ribbon

Aland's cancer organisation
Aland cheese
Music festivals


Cheese brand "Kastelholm"
Rockoff (LOKALPOST)
Island in the Sun (VÄRLDEN)
Ferry (Joint issue with Russia)
Butterfly (SEPAC)


M/S Princess Anastasia
Peacock butterfly (Virtual reality augmented)
The blue ribbon
Christmas (Joint issue with Vatican)


Garden sculpture (created by Håkan Sandberg)
Birth of Jesus (0.65 Euro)
Kings' worshipping (JULPOST)
Folk music instruments
Flowers (SEPAC)


Concert pianist Alie Lindberg (1849-1933)and her Berlin-made piano
Nettle-leaved bellflower (Campanila trachelium))
Power lifting


Kenneth "Kenta" Sandvik (Front)
Kenneth "Kenta" Sandvik (Rear)
Boxer Robert Helenius
Pop music golden years


The Nordic Nightmare
Hitch Hikers (Top)
Stockdoves (Middle)
Anacondas (Bottom)
The Åland sheep

Historical toys
My Aland (Tarja Halonen)

Toy monkey with tin drum
Serafina Wilhelmina "Mimmi" Widbom
and Tarja Halonen's signature
150 years Julius Sundblom (1865-1945)
Aland hunting dogs

Finland Parliament member
Finnish Hound (Left)
Norwegian Elkhound (Middle)
Wire-haired Dachshund (Right)
Traditional jewelry (Joint issue with Switzerland
Christmas

Silver buckle for woman's Aland folk costume (EUROPA)
Silver brooch of Suisse woman's sunday costume of Kanton Bern (2.00 EUR)
Bullfinch with message in beak (JULPOST)
Night sky Christmas sledge with presents (EUROPA)
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