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First Day Cover (FDC) from the Faroe Islands; 2017; FDC to the commemorative series "EUROPA-CEPT 2017 - "Castles and Palaces"" (CEPT = "Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications"), stamps Michel No. 892 + 893; Stamp motives as illustration to the Faroe Saga "The Princess of Nólsoy" because on the Faroes Islands it's not giving some castles and palaces from historical times. The saga reports from a Scottish Princess and daughter of a local king with name "James" (it has given 6 Scottish kings which would come into consideration), which fled with her Lovest in a boat to the Faroe Islands, where one came on the island Nólsoy and where one found an old abandoned house (abandonned because the Pest-pandemy) and which one choiced for a new domicil. Her father found his daughter in the end... and from this place it's giving several variants of this story. This house is contemporary a museum. The stamps were postmarked with a round lineless first-day special cancellation with 30,0 mm diameter from Tórshavn, as first day of the issue of the stamps and and the drawing of an old castle ruin as central motive.
Stamps: Michel: 892 + 893; Yvert & Tellier No. 888 + 889; AFA: 885 + 886
Color: multicolored
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 9.50 - 17.0 (FKR) (fix exchange rate: 1 FKR = 1 DKK) (stamps)

Postal validity: from 15 May 2017
date QS:P,+2017-05-15T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+2017-05-15T00:00:00Z/11

Stamp picture size: 18.0 x 38.0 mm (printed area of a single stamp)

Postmark: Tórshavn, , round lineless First-day special cancellation with 30,0 mm diameter
Date (first issue day of the stamps + date of postmark)
Source scan of original
Author "Postverk Føroya"
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Picture description Drawed (color-) illustration to the saga "The Princess of Nólsoy"
First day of issue
Publisher "Postverk Føroya"
Design Janus D. Guttesen
Printer "Österreichische Staatsdruckerei", Wien (Austria)
Printing technique Offset printing on normal paper
Perforation Comb perforation, K 13½
MICHEL Nr. Dänemark (Färöer), Nr. 892 + 893

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