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Faeroe Islands
1975, 1976
The Faeroe Islands are an autonomous region of Denmark which were granted their independent postal authority since 30th January 1975. When the first Faeroese stamps were issued in 1975, the Faeroese Post was an integrated part of the Danish Post Office, and it is thus Denmark that has issued the first 14 Faeroese stamps. Slania has engraved 11 of these first 14 stamps. Slania's engravings were printed in the Danish Post Office's Printing House, and the last three stamps, not engraved by Slania, were printed in the Finnish Banknote Printing House.
A few months later, on 1st April 1976, the Faeroese Post Office was established, and the event was celebrated with the issuance of a set of three stamps, of which Slania engraved the two. The third stamp from the set shows the Faeroese national flag "Merkid". The two stamps are shown at the bottom of this page.
1975-1976 1978-1981 1983-1985 1986-1987 1988-1989,1995, 1997 2001 & 2003
Scott # 7 |
Scott # 9 |
Scott # 13 |
Scott # 8 |
Scott # 10 |
Scott # 12 |
Scott # 14 |
Faeroes 1975. Issued 30th January. Second postage stamp showing a fragment of the Nordic Countries, engraved by Czeslaw Slania after an ancient map (1573) by Abraham Ortelius. The original map by Ortelius has been issued on a souvenir sheet by Iceland in 1984, for the benefit of the stamp exhibition Nordia '84.
Scott # 11 |
Scott # 15 |
Faeroes 1975. Issued 30th January. Third postage stamp showing a view of Vidoy, engraved by Czeslaw Slania after a painting by Eyvindur Mohr.
Scott # 16 |
Scott # 17 |
On 1st April 1976 the Faeroese Post Office was established as an independent body, and the first Faeroe stamps issued by the islands themselves were Scott # 20, 21 and 22, of which Czeslaw Slania has engraved numbers 20 and 20, shown below. These stamps are inscribed "Postverk Føroya 1 April 1976" (Faeroese Post Office).
Scott # 23 |
Scott # 21 |
Faeroes 1976. Overland postman of yesteryear, engraved after a photograph by Otto Blehr. The postman's name was J.P. Henriksen.
Faeroes 1976. Faeroese boat, engraved by Czeslaw Slania after a drawing by Fridtjof Joensen.
1975-1976 1978-1981 1983-1985 1986-1987 1988-1989, 1995, 1997 2001 & 2003
A special thank you to Mr. Knud Wacher (Tórshavn) from the Faeroese Post Office, for proof reading the Faeroese section of this site.
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