COVER N. 627 - NORWAY  

Postmark: Stathelle 1 3960 - 01.07.2025

Posted on the st July; Received on the 7th August 2025

_________________________________________________________________________________

Another cover with quite a few stamps on it from up North, and a country not very much represented in my collection,  Tusen takk, Kai Arne!

Stamps;

Musk oxen (Ovibos moschatus) are synonimous with the arctic, so it is fitting that an issue dedicated to Norwegian fauna should include a photo of such a distinctive dweller of the arctic regions.

The fauna issue for 2011, dated of 03JAN2011, which concluded an annual series initiated in 2006, comprised two stamps (17 and 27 Krone). The animal depicted on the 27 Krone companion stamp in the set was the quintessential arctic dweller, the Polar bear (Ursus maritimus).

Sigrid Undset (1882 – 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian writer who was the recipient of the 1928 Nobel Prize for Literature.

She is featured on a portrait painted by Norwegian painter Anders Castus Svarstad (1869 –1943), replicated on a 2 Krone stamp issued on 01OCT1982 as part of a two stamp set dedicated to writer's birth anniversaries. The companion stamp in the set features a painting of another Norwegian Nobel Literature Prize winner (1903) - Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (1832 — 1910), painted by Erik Werenskiold (1855 – 1938).

The CEPT/EUROPA 1977 theme for the common issue was "Landscapes".

Norway's entry comprised two stamps (1.25 and 1.80 Krone), issued on 02MAY1977. The 1.80 Krone stamp on the cover, featured a photograph of Huldefossen waterfall, located in the. Sogn og Fjordane county

The Lion Rampant 40 Ore definitive stamp is probably the 31MAR1941 reprint of this stamp, which was first issued in 1927, bu I am not sure about this.

Postmark from Stathelle 1, a town in Telemar county, on the South of the coutry.