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18.02.2017
To supplement the series of postage stamps Unique Exhibits of the Latvian Museum of Natural History, Latvijas Pasts has released a new stamp Herbarium of the 19th Century. The first day cancellation of the stamp is to take place in the Latvian Museum of Natural History, 4 Krišjāņa Barona Street, Riga, from 10 AM to 5 PM on the 17th of February 2017. A special presentation of the stamp, which is scheduled to start at 11 AM, will see the participation of representatives of Latvijas Pasts and the Latvian Museum of Natural History.
The new stamp depicts the Dog Rose (Rosa canina L.), an exhibit from the Museum’s Botany Collection. The print run of the stamp is 200,000 copies, and its face value is €1.42, making it suitable for sending a registered Class A letter within Latvia. The release of the stamp is accompanied by the issue of a special cover with a print run of 1,500 copies. The stamp and the cover have been designed by the artist Ģirts Grīva.
The holdings of the Latvian Museum of Natural History include vast holdings of botanical materials, which amount to a total of 26,000 units and are grouped into 18 collections. The Dog Rose depicted on the stamp is an exhibit from the oldest Botany Collection, which was plucked by the first Latvian botanist Jānis Ilsters at the end of the 19th century. This herbarium collection consists of 139 herbarium sheets.
This is the third stamp released in the series Unique Exhibits of the Latvian Museum of Natural History. The first stamp was issued in 2015 and it was dedicated to the unique specimen in the Palaeontology Collection of the Museum – the placoderm fish. In 2016 the series was supplemented by the stamp Aberrant Birds, which was ranked third in the contest for the most beautiful Latvijas Pasts stamp of 2016. All the stamps issued in the series are available for viewing here.
The stamp and the cover Herbarium of the 19th Century – Dog Rose can be viewed here.
The next new philatelic release is scheduled for the 3rd of March 2017.
About SJSC Latvijas Pasts
Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with more than 4,200 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by TNS Latvia, one of the leading market, social and media research agencies in Latvia. In turn, the quality measurements of the cross-border deliveries are provided within the framework of the International Post Corporation through the intermediary of the research companies TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.
Additional information:
Vineta Danielsone
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