The stamps on this cover from Helsinki are from a 2016 booklet of six that commemorate wooden paupers and the churches that maintain them. Wooden paupers are carved wooden statues containing a collection box for collecting donations for the less fortunate. They were commonly seen outside Lutheran churches in Finland between the 17th and 19th centuries. Of the 145 surviving statues, only the one at the church in Soini is a woman and it's shown on the stamp on the left.
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