In 1988, a set of five postage stamps was issued to celebrate the Finnish Postal Service. The key stamp that I'm interested in for my on-going series of 'telephone boxes on stamps', is the one depicting a man in a brightly patterned yellow shirt posting a letter in a post box that's right next to a public telephone box (or 'Puhelin' in Finnish).
The designer was Victor Torsten Ekström (1926 - 2015), an illustrator of many postage stamps in Finland.
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| 1.80 mk - Finnish markka |
It's a wonderful touch that Ekström had not only chosen to include the phone box in his artwork, but he's also illustrated someone who is in mid-conversation inside the box. The stamp was available to buy in a booklet with the other stamps in the set, where it was issued as a se-tenant pair.
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| Finland de-activated its very last public telephone box back in 2007 |
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