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Jahn Teigen turns 60 - and gets a stamp


Norwegian Eurovision legend Jahn Teigen turned 60 last month and Norske Posten celebrates the event with two stamps. But this is not the first time a Nordic Eurovision star gets a stamp: Lena Philipsson had one already in 1991! Teigen has participated in the Norwegian final 14 times between 1974 and 2005, winning 4 times but represanting Norway only 3 times, once scoring the flat zero.

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Jan1964 said…
This is not an official stamp issue of Norway Post but a personalized stamp Tønsberg post office ordered.
Ilkar Blogilkar said…
It's in the post's webpages...
Jan1964 said…
This is the official programme :
http://www.posten.no/Produkter+og+tjenester/Frimerker+til+samling/Frimerkeprogram+2009

These stamps are personalized stamps ordered by the Tønsberg post office. There is a lot of discussion among philatelists about the status of these stamps.
These stamps are somewhere between the official programme and personalized stamps of private people.
Jan1964 said…
ABBA got already a stamp in 1983.
Other ESC artists at stamps are : Linda Martin, Monica Zetterlund, Jetty Paerl, the artists at the Finnish ESC 2007 sheet and even the song Volare got a San Marinese stamp.
Ilkar Blogilkar said…
Finnish ESC 2007 stamps were only a gift to the delegations and used by them. You couldn't buy them so there were "private stamps". I never saw one but in the posters.
Jan1964 said…
I got numerous of letters especially with the Lordi-stamp.
The sale of these stamps ended last summer at Postimerkkikeskus.
They are normal stamps.

https://verkkokauppa.posti.fi/PublishedService?file=page&pageID=9&itemcode=07025
Ilkar Blogilkar said…
Oh that sheet! Yes, that one was normal stamps with Lordi, Marion, Laila Kinnunen etc. I have featured that on my blog when it was news. I mean the stamps of each 2007 artist, like Hanna Pakarinen, Edsilia Rombley, Sarbel and every other act of ESC 2007.

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