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150th Anniversary of Sailing Around Cape Horn. Date of issue: 18th February 2004 Designer: Riho Luuse Paper: ordinary Printing process: offset Perforation: comb 13 3/4 : 14 Size of the stamp: 27,50 x 33 mm Size of the Miniature Sheet: 165 x 99 mm Miniature Sheet composition: 10 (5 x 2) stamps Printing run: 340.000 stamps or 34.000 Miniature Sheets Michel catalogue number: 480 8.00 (Kr) multicoloured. Steering-wheel of the ship and map of movement from Estonia in Peru. The bark Hioma became the first known Estonian ship to have sailed round Cape Horn from the Atlantic into the Pacific in February 1854 Miniature Sheet Klb.479 First Day Cover

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