Saturday, October 31, 2015

Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron

Another fine Star Wars novel cover on postcard.

The X-wing fighter is a fictional starfighter from the original Star Wars trilogy and the expanded universe. They are depicted as the primary interceptor and dogfighter of the Rebel Alliance and the New Republic.

Stamps:

American Design - Navajo Jewelry, issued on 2004-08-20
George Washington, issued on 2011-04-11
Charlie Brown Christmas: Charlie Brown frustrated, issued on 2015-10-01
Charlie Brown Christmas: Charlie Brown with sapling, issued on 2015-10-01


Thank You Shannon!


Friday, October 30, 2015

Russia: I love Postcrossing

This is maxicard I love postcrossing, issued on 2015-01-27. More and more countries have stamps dedicated to Postcrossing, and this is the most beautiful of all.

I have received another postcard in this envelope. This is illustration Morning. Dreams. Coffee by artist Moryachok. Very nice work.

This stamp and this cute custom postmark was on the back side of postcard. Stamp is Fox, issued on 2008-08-29.

Stamps on envelope:
Moscow Kremlin, issued on 2009-10-01
Novgorod Kremlin, issued on 2009-10-01
World Cultural Heritage, Centre of St.Petersburg, Admiralty, St. Isaac's Cathedral, issued on 2013-04-26


Thank You very much Darya!



USA: Westside Tattoo

Ad card for Westside Tattoo in Colorado Springs.

Stamps:
American Design - American Clock, issued on 2003-01-24
Patriotic Waves, issued on 2015-01-12


Thank You Tammy!


Russia: Be always on guard!

This is poster by Mikhail Solovjov from 1956. Propaganda posters were employed for manipulating public consciousness in the USSR as widely as nowhere else in the world. Originals for posters were created by the best Soviet graphic artists, so quite often the best examples of poster art, remarkable for their expressive and concise artistic idiom and easily understood content, became veritable masterpieces of this genre


Stamps:
Bear 6.00, issued on 2008-08-29
Fox 0.50, issued on 2008-08-29
Khabarovsk, City of Military Glory, issued on 2015-02-24


Thank You very much  Denis!



Germany: Meissen (Meißen)

Meissen is a town of approximately 30,000 about 25 km northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic Meissen Cathedral and the Meissen Frauenkirche.

The city grew out of the early Slavic settlement of Misni, named for the small river Misna today Meisabach, inhabited by the Slavic Glomacze tribe and was founded as a German town by King Henry the Fowler in 929.

Stamp is Ludwigslust castle, issued on 2015-01-02


Thank You Guenter!


Old posters from Paris

Very nice collection of old posters from Paris. Retro artworks are always painted by hand.

This beautiful stamps are:
Army Bicycle "Leitner", 1917, issued on 2008-12-11
I love postcrossing, issued on 2015-01-27


Thank You very much Katerina!



Thursday, October 29, 2015

Serbia: Davorin Jenko - Joint issue with Slovenia


Davorin Jenko, was a Slovene and Serbian composer. He is sometimes considered the father of Slovenian national Romantic music. Among other songs, he composed the melody for the Serbian national anthem Bože pravde ("God of Justice"), the former Slovenian national anthem Naprej, zastava Slave ("Forward, Flag of Glory!"), and the popular Serbian and Montenegrin anthem Onamo, 'namo!


Jenko was born as Martin Jenko in the Upper Carniolan village of Dvorje, in what was then the Austrian Empire. After graduating from high school in Trieste, he went to Vienna, where he studied law. During his Viennese stay, he founded the Slovene Choir Society in Vienna, which was sponsored by the national liberal politician Valentin Zarnik.


In 1862, he moved to the town of Pančevo in southern Vojvodina, where he worked as the choirmaster of the local Serbian Orthodox Church. He later moved on the other side of the Austrian-Serbian border to Belgrade, where he worked as a composer in the Serbian National Theatre. Jenko was named among the first four members of the Academy of Arts of the Royal Serbian Academy of Sciences, named by King Milan I of Serbia on 5 April 1887.

He lived in Serbia until 1897, when he moved to Ljubljana in his native Carniola. He died in Ljubljana, and was buried in the Žale cemetery in the Bežigrad district. Release date of this stamp is 2015-11-09.



Serbia: Children's stamps - Fairy Tales


Princess and the Frog

Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs)

Beauty and the Beast

Sleeping Beauty




Artistic realization of the stamps: Anamari Banjac, academic painter 


In fairy tales that found their place in this year’s edition of the Children’s Stamp, as a thread that connects them, a kiss stands out – an act that reversed the course of action and brought to a happy ending.



Motives on stamps: Princess and the Frog, the Grimm Brothers; Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) the Grimm Brothers; Beauty and the Beast, Charles Perrault; Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers.


Release date is 2015-11-04