RED CROSS HOSPITAL SHIP Finland 1964

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RED CROSS HOSPITAL SHIP Finland 1964

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:03 pm

On the Finland Red Cross Issues of 1964 is given by Mr. Albert Meliberg of Finland in Watercraft Philately.
Mr Meliberg gives that the stamp designer’s intention was only to illustrate the Red Cross Convention, and so drew a very ordinary passenger ship (looks more like a cargo vessel) with Red Cross emblems. Mr Meliberg has discussed the ship design with a colleague of the stamp designer and with the author of Effos – Finland Steamship Line’s book “The Ship of Our First Centenary 1883-1983”, and both agree that the ship design is not intended to represent a named ship.

Source: Watercraft Philately 1990 page 11
Finland 1964 25 + 4p sg 694, scottB170.
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