At last it has happened!
Just the other day I received a wonderful airy light ship from Finland. Its journey took 2 months! It was indeed worth waiting for !
I love such images of ships. They remind me something, though I can't say what - childhood or an old tale or something else.
Its size isn't large at all, but it's elegant.
This picture was sent by Tarja (Vehkotar), I wrote to her and offered a swap, so we succeded!
She told me the history of the ship:
"The ship is "Suomen Joutsen" (Swan of Finland in English) and it´s a three-mast, steel hull, full rigged ship, built in 1902 in St. Nazaire, France, and she served in the trade between Atlantic and Pacific ports. Government of Finland bought it in 1930 for Finnish Navy to be a training ship. From 1956 she was a stationary Seamen's School for the Finnish Merchant Navy. Since 1991, she has been a museum ship owned by City of Turku. The artist is from Turku, Håkan Sjöström, who is one of the foremost marine painters in Scandinavia today."
Tarja also put WWF stickers - they are wonderful and I've never seen such ))
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(Wow! What a size!)
And that is the stamp
Thank you, Tarja, for your magnificent card!
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