Latvijas Pasts releases a stamp featuring the historical four-mast motor-sailing ship Eurasia build in Engure Municipality
28.01.2020
Latvijas Pasts has released a new stamp in the series Historical Ships of the 19th Century, featuring the four-mast motor-sailing ship Eurasia built in Engure Municipality in 1925. The first day cancellation of the stamp is scheduled to take place in Riga post office No. 10 at 41/43 Elizabetes Street from 8 AM to 8 PM on the 31st of January 2020.
The face value of the new stamp is €1.27, which corresponds to the postage of letter-post items in the weight class from 21 to 100 grams within Latvia. The release of stamp is accompanied by the issue of a special cover with a print run of 1,000 copies. The philatelic releases have been designed by the artist Elita Viliama.
The new stamp in the series of historical ships depicts the four-mast motor-sailing ship Eurasia built in Plieņciems, Engure Municipality in 1925 and constructed by the renowned Latvian shipbuilder Mārtiņš Morgenšterns. Eurasia was the last largest wooden ship built in Latvia, with a length of 45.5 metres and deadweight of 513 tonnes. In 1933 the ship was wrecked and sunk while transporting cargo across the Atlantic Ocean.
The new stamp and the cover
Four-Mast Motor-Sailing Ship Eurasia can be viewed
here.
Latvijas Pasts launched the series of stamps
Historical Ships of the 19th Century in 2016 in honour of the period of the rapid development of Latvian seafaring and shipbuilding in the 19
th century. The first stamp in the series of historical ships features the sailing ship
Andreas Weide, which was built in Ainaži in 1891. In turn, the second stamp depicts the four-mast gaff schooner
Abraham built in Ventspils in 1891. All stamps in the series can be seen
here.
The next philatelic release is scheduled for the 14th of February.
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 over 3,500 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by Kantar TNS, 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 Kantar TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.
Additional information:
Vineta Danielsone | Senior Public Relations Project Manager
