Many of
these attacks - and the political "War" shows in philatelic material. Here
are some examples :
In 1889 the Finnish
arm-type stamp was changed - the name of Finland was included in
Cyrillic.
The postal manifesto
dated St.Petersborg May 31st 1890 (Julian calendar) made the Russian
Minister of Interior the highest leader of the Finnish Post.
essay for 1889 stamps
with Finnish map
Map of Finland on 10p
double Postal Stationary card
click image to see
full size
In 1888-89 2-ring
postmark were substituted with FINLAND postmarks.
In march 1891 the
ministry announced that new stamps were to be issued May 1st, 1891 - the
Ring-stamps with value in kopec and rubles - and that Russian currency
and all Russian stamps were valid in Finland - and had to be used on
mail to Russia from January 1st, 1892.
New years greetings
from Fredrikshamn to Saint Petersburg - note this is a last day rate to
Russia
During 1893
FINLAND-postmarks was replaced with bi- and trilingual postmarks.
The R-labels is a
whole chapter - first label with FINLAND above the R - only in Swedish
followed by label
with FINLAND written in 3 languages
Later on a special
label for mail to Russia was introduced with city name written in
cyrillic - this one is from Helsinki - only found from bigger towns
click label to see
whole cover
Later on August 14th
1900 Russian stamps were to be used on all foreign mail - and 5 month
later on January 14th 1901 Russian type stamps - in Finnish value - were
to be used on domestic mail as well.
The Finnish Arms were
now forbidden to show so here some of the margin from stamp-sheet has
been used for hiding.
