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Special collections

Our postage stamp collections contain special collections that have been acquired through donation or by other means. Here is a list and under it you can find short descriptions of these collections. Some of the collection pages are also published here.

  • The Antell and Granberg collections of postal stationery
  • 150 years of Finnish stationery postcards
  • Hans Lagerlöf, Finland
  • Hans Lagerlöf, Collection of revenue stamps and railway stamps
  • Hans Lagerlöf, Collection of newspaper revenue stamp reprints
  • Hans Lagerlöf, Collection of US postal stationery and cut squares
  • Rosenlew’s sheet collection
  • The Rosenlew/Wennberg reprint collection
  • The Excise Office Collection
  • E. A. Hellman, The figure cancellations of Finland
  • E. A. Hellman, Finnish sea mail cancellations
  • P. Grosfils-Berger, Finland collection
  • Model 1860 exhibition collection
  • Pehr-Edwin af Enehielm, Helsinki city mail
  • E. J. Nyström, The whole world postal stationery collection
  • Pellervo Savolainen, Zemstvo Post 1865-1917
  • W. Terichoff, Karelia 1922
  • Harry W. Walli, North Ingria
  • Matti Poutvaara, Collection of plate blocks of six
  • Aarre Salmenkivi, What do the stamps tell us about the mail from Russia that travelled through the Hämeenlinna customs in 1913-1917
  • Einar Palmunen, Finnish war censor stamps
  • Jorma Leinonen, Philatelic forgeries and counterfeits
  • E. Nikula, Finnish stamps for postal bus parcels
  • Vilho Railo, Flower-themed collection
  • Vilho Railo, Zeppelinpost
  • Collection of revenue stamps
  • Matti Poutvaara, Finnish post-1917 military mail
  • Matti Poutvaara, The model Saarinen
  • Mauri Fellman, The 1930 issue plate error collection
  • Jussi Itkonen, Postal wagons on the Finnish railways 1870–1918
  • Torsten Sandelin, Railway engines
  • Collection of President Urho Kekkonen
  • Pär Rundqvist, Franking machine label collection
  • Harri Sihtola’s postal stationery collection
  • Juhani Laipio, Collection of Estonian postal stationery
  • Eero Helkiö, Cancellation reference collection
  • Nikolaos Koroneos, Space collection
  • Heikki Aulanko, Palaeontology
  • Heikki Aulanko, The wrinkled, grooved face of our planet
  • Collection of President Martti Ahtisaari
  • Paul Tiililä’s mail art collection
  • Collection of President Tarja Halonen
  • Lauri Siivonen, The earliest history of Christmas seals
  • Finnish poetry through the centuries
  • Tapani Hirvenoja’s bird-themed collections

Special collections

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