Many of
these attacks - and the political "War" shows in philatelic material. Here
are some examples :
private cover with
additional map in upper right corner.
Removing the Finnish arms
from the stamps and forbidding it invoked a number of protests,
patriotic Finns issued a "mourning stamp" - which right away was
prohibited.
this card is with
imprinted Mourning stamp - card is dated in Helsinki but with Swedish
stamp and sent from Sweden to Germany.
Rubberstamps in
different designs exist - with a text like "Gran-Duche de Finlande *
Storfurstendömmet Finland * Suomi" these were put under / around the
stamp.
cover with extra 2p
m/1889 (showing Finnish Arms) added as political protest - this is a
commercial cover from Helsinki City's Water-supply-office 2. March 1901
sent to company in Copenhagen
note the underlined
FINLAND
as above with extra 2p
m/1889 this time on Russian 10k PS sent to Sweden 26. Apr. 1901
Many other kinds of
protests do exist, like Russian stamps often are placed on back of cover
or upside down, or like this 4k Postal Stationary card of the Ring-type
- Address is written upside down and sender wrote FINLAND above the
stamp.
Nedergaard in Skive
was a famous Danish stamp-dealer
another fine example
of a card upside down and the Russian text crossed out
card sent from
Orismala 18. VIII 1902 to Ilmajoki
Different steps was
taken to identify Finland and not Russia as the country of origin - such
as banks and other businesses envelopes were imprinted with the Finnish
coat of arms or the text "Gran-Duche de Finlande"
