Front side of the gift folder
Issue date: 05. September 2002
Official code of Icelandic Post: G 27
Mini sheet included in the booklet
Size (when closed): 165 x 95 mm
Size of the mini sheet: 164 x 95 mm
Design: Ragnheiður I. Ágústsdóttir
Printer: Cartor Security Print, Canada
Total quantity: 10000 gift folders
Price of the booklet: 750 ISK
Face value of the stamps: 450 ISK
Michel-Catalogue: MH 13 (1012-1016)
Facit-Catalogue: GM 1 (BL 39; 1047-1051)
Rear side
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The booklet was issued in three printings (according to Jay Smith)
- 1. printing (5000 booklets): the rouletting between the souvenir sheet and the binding tab is very fine and the binding "tape" is coarser
- 2. printing (3000 booklets): the rouletting is coarser and the binding "tape" is smooth
- 3. printing (2000 booklets): the rouletting is very fine and the binding "tape" is smooth
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The booklet has 16 pages with text and photographs in 4 sections, bilingual icelandic and english
- A national treasure (page 2)
- Lake Thingvallavatn (pages 3-4)
- Biology of Lake Thingvallavatn (pages 5-9)
- History (pages 10-15)
- The stamps are between pages 6 and 7
- Stamps issued as block only in the booklets, otherwise issued separately as 5 sheets of 10 stamps each (with different perforation; see table above).
face value | sheet | booklet | ||
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ISK | perforation | quantity | perforation | quantity |
20 g | K 13¼:12¾ | 200000 | K 13¼:12½:13¼:13 | 10000 |
50 g | K 12¾:13¼ | 200000 | K 13¼:12½:13¼:13 | 10000 | <
60 | K 13¼:12¾ | 200000 | K 13¼:13 | 10000 |
90 | K 13¼:12¾ | 200000 | K 13¼:13 | 10000 |
200 | K 13¼:12¾ | 100000 | K 13¼:13 | 10000 |
Left: Tape of the 1. printing; right: Tape of the 2. und 3. printung (enlarged)
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Note: The stamps were also issued in sheets of 10.
Normal sheet: face value at issue date 45 ISK
Facit-catalogue: 1047
Normal sheet: face value at issue date 55 ISK
Facit-catalogue: 1048
Normal sheet 60 ISK
Facit-catalogue: 1049
Normal sheet 90 ISK
Facit-catalogue: 1050
Normal sheet 200 ISK
Facit-catalogue: 1051