Postimerkit # 2001-01
Title: Postimerkit # 2001-01 Year: 2001 Publisher: Post Finland Code: fi/PM2001-02 (entire sheet) Size: 20.0 cm  x  14.0 cm (first day cover) 13.0 cm  x  8.0 cm (sheet) 2.6 cm  x  3.6 cm (each Don Rosa stamp) Published: Finland: March 13th 2001 Comments: The Don Rosa art on two of the five stamps published by Post Finland in 2001, wasn't drawn specially for those stamps. The art was taken from "The Quest for Kalevala" story which was done for the 150th anniversary for the Finlands national epic - Kalevala in 1999. On March 13th 2001 Post Finland published a sheet with five stamps to celebrate the Aku Ankka magazine's 50th anniversary. The sheet has been designed by Susanna Rumpu and Ari Lakaniemi. They also designed the Aku Ankka first day cover and postmark. Over the years more than 4600 stamps showing Walt Disney characters, have been published in 40 countries. Most of these are purely commercial and published without any permission from Walt Disney Co. This sheet published by Post Finland was given such permission. All stamps in the sheet are 1st class stamps with a fixed value. Two million copies of the sheet were printed. The sheet's prize was FIM 17.50. The two stamps with motives by Don Rosa (the most popular Donald Duck artist in Finland for the moment) are: Stamp 4 from the left showing Donald Duck singing traditional songs. Väinämöinen in the background is taken from panel 1 on page 31 of "The Quest for Kalevala". Stamp 5 from the left showing the ducks as exponents of local Finnish culture. Since 1998, the ducks have been talking different Finnish dialects. Isoon taloon ankka ("Duck in the big house") was in southern Ostrobothnian dialect, Kui, sanos Aku ("Come again, said Donald") in Turku dialect and Rotsi on mut byysat puuttuu ("I've got a jacket but no trousers") in Helsinki dialect. Donald's comment on the stamp is from the last-mentioned. The church in the background is the Helsinki Cathedral. This drawing is taken from panel 1 on page 27 of "The Quest for Kalevala". Note that Swedish (the second official langauge in Finland) are also used on the sheet.	Scan of "Postimerkit # 2001-01".
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