Finland Mourning Stamp

The Finland Mourning Stamp was used on mail to protest the prohibition of Finnish stamps (with their coat of arms) on foreign mail beginning in August 1900. So, only Russian stamps could be used there, particularly on letters to Russia.

These etiquettes were backprinted "1 PENNI" in two different types. A workaround was to deposit letters with these in mailboxes aboard steamships going abroad. There was no prohibition in using the mourning stamp on domestic mail. That is, until the Powers That Be decided that that was a problem and made their use illegal in 1901.

Forgeries were made in the 1920s.  File:Finland Mourning Stamp.jpg 

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