Stamps: Finland

1998, Owls
Perforated sheet, 3.00 stamps, Suomi.
Great Horned (Bubo bubo), Boreal Owl (Aegolius funereus), Great Grey (Strix nebuloso), Snowy (Nyctea* scandiacus). Nonvalue sections show Snowy feathers. 
*The Greek Nyctea has been replaced with Bubo taxonomically. 

Canceled sheet, with wingspan of Snowy Owl. Cancelation is a stylized owl face, reading Helsinki 1998.


2020 
Klaus Haapaniemi has designed stamps that take place in an enchanted forest of the Polar Byzantine collection. The mystical barn owl with butterfly wings. Based on a poetic animal story, the Polar Byzantine collection includes clothes and interior items. (Adapted from Posti.com
I recieved this beautiful stamp through Postcrossing in 2023 September!


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