Maxicard from Moldova

My first postcard from Moldova is wonderful maxicard! Stamp on this card is from set of two stamps Zoological Gardens in Chişinău: Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia), issued on 18.05.2013.

The snow leopard is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Fewer than 2,500 individuals may be reproducing in the wild. As of 2016, estimates for the size of the global population vary from at least 4,080 to about 8,700 individuals.

 Stamp on backside is EUROPA - Think Green (from set of two), issued on 05.04.2016.


Thank you Alex!

Austria: Vienna Independent Shorts

This unusual postcard comes from Austria. From different angle you can read on postcard: State of the art, slogan of 12th festival. Vienna Independent Shorts is an international short film festival held annually in May in Vienna. It is the largest short film festival in Austria.

Stamp is St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, issued on 01.03.2015.

Thank you Michael.

Le Chat Noir

This is Théophile Steinlen's 1896 poster, advertising a tour to other cities of Le Chat Noir, a nineteenth-century entertainment establishment, in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. It opened on 18 November 1881 at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart by the impresario Rodolphe Salis, and closed in 1897 not long after Salis' death (much to the disappointment of Picasso and others who looked for it when they came to Paris for the Exposition in 1900).

Le Chat Noir is thought to be the first modern cabaret: a nightclub where the patrons sat at tables and drank alcoholic beverages while being entertained by a variety show on stage. The acts were introduced by a master of ceremonies who interacted with well-known patrons at the tables. Its imitators have included cabarets from St. Petersburg (Stray Dog Café) to Barcelona (Els Quatre Gats).

Stamps on postcard:
Centaurium, issued on 03.07.2014.
Obelix, issued on 01.09.2015.


Thank you Ute!

Boy From Treasure Island

I have received this nice postcard in cover from Poland. Author of Boy From Treasure Island, 1914. John Rea Neill (1877-1943), was a magazine and children’s book illustrator. John Rea Neill reigned as the Royal Illustrator of Oz for forty years - 1904 to 1944. In that time he illustrated 39 of the 40 Oz books most scholars accept as the “canonical set.” His imaginative and finely crafted pen and ink drawings impressed a vivid image of the fairyland of Oz on generations of people.

 Stamp on cover is Christmas, issued on 16.11.2016.

Thank you Paulina!

My stamps from vacation in Croatia

I've been this summer on vacation in Croatia, in island Hvar, in historical city Stari Grad. I've bought all stamps I've found in local post office! :)

Stamps:
Croatian Undersea World II, issued on 15.06.2015.
Pets (from set of four), issued on 21.02.2012.
Mercedes-Benz, issued on 02.02.2016.
Croatian Ethnographic Heritage, issued on 03.09.2008.
Greetings to the Sun (from set of two), issued on 01.06.2016.
The 90th Anniversary of Croatian Radio and the 60th Anniversary of Croatian Television , issued on 26.04.2016.
800th Anniversary of the Dominican Order, issued on 24.05.2016.
The 25th Anniversary of The Croatian State, issued on 23.06.2016.

Children's World - Pets, issued on 22.02.2016.
Art (from set of three), issued on 01.12.2015.
Domestic Animals - Dogs, issued on 21.02.2013.
Faros Marathon, issued on 05.11.2013.
Famous Croats XV (from set of four), issued on 20.04.2016.
Croatian Intangible Cultural Heritage (from set of four), issued on 27.07.2015.
Flora - Orchids (from set of three), issued on 11.04.2014.
Croatian Ethnographic Heritage (from set of four), issued on 15.03.2010.
Croatian Ethnographic Heritage (from set of four) issued on 20.10.2014.
150th Anniversary of the Battle of Vis (joint issue with Slovenia), issued on 18.07.2016.
Croatian Inventions, issued on 27.04.2016.

Europa 2016 - Think Green, issued on 09.05.2016.
Croatian Flora, issued on 21.03.2016.Offset Printing with the addition of fragrance!

 I have also collected Croatian coins

Back side is much better

One of Croatian banknotes

And one beer coaster :)

Christmas cover from Estonia

I received a Christmas cover from Estonia with really nice set of Christmas stamps, issued on 18.11.2016. First stamp is designed by Indrek Ilves. Print run is 600.000. Stamp is scented to smell like gingerbread. Second stamps is designed by Riho Luuse. Print run is 200.000. Both stamps are printed in offset printing process by Cartor Security Printing. Size of both stamps is 40,0 x 30,0 m, and perforation is 13½ : 1.

And inside was this nice Christmas postcard.

Thank you Tiina!

El Salvador: Lake Ilopango

This is my first postcard from El Salvador! Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills a scenic volcanic caldera in central El Salvador. Four major dacitic - rhyolitic eruptions occurred during the late Pleistocene and Holocene, producing pyroclastic flows and tephra that blanketed much of the country. The caldera collapsed most recently, sometime between 410 and 535 AD (based on radiocarbon dating of plant life directly related to the eruption),which produced widespread pyroclastic flows and devastated Mayan cities.

Stamps:
Native People (from set of two), issued on 04.11.2015.
Friendship with Taiwan, issued on 14.10.2016.


Thank you William!

Venezuela: El Ávila visto desde el Country Club

Ma first postcard from Venezuela is painting by Manuel Cabré - El Ávila visto desde el Country Club. Manuel Cabré (January 25, 1890 – February 26, 1984) was a noted Spanish-Venezuelan landscape painter who is remembered as "the painter of El Ávila".

Stamp is Sebastián Francisco de Miranda Rodríguez, 1750-1816, issued on 15.10.2009.


Thank you Alejandro!

Postcard from Belarus

I have received this nice old-timer from Belarus. Good photography.

Big and very clean nice postmark. Stamp is Ice Hockey World Championship in Minsk, issued on 08.02.2014.


Thank you Maks!

Indonesia: XIX National Sports Week

I have received cover from Indonesia with big and unusual shaped mini sheet XIX National Sports Week. Mini sheet have one stamp, and next to a stamp is replica of golden medal printed with golden foil and embossed. Mini sheet is issued on 09.09.2016. In bottom right corner you can see another stamp in usual shape ans size: Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), from set Flora and Fauna, issued on 05.11.2014.

Here is a different angle. Medal almost looks like real object.

The National Sports Week is a multi-sport event held every four years in Indonesia. The participants of this event are the athletes from all provinces of Indonesia.

Indonesia was unable to participate in the 1948 Olympic Games because Indonesian independence had not been recognized, and Indonesia was not a member of the International Olympic Committee. At an emergency conference in Solo on 1 May 1948 to discuss Indonesia's failure to compete in the Olympics, it was decided to organize the first National Games, which ran from 8–12 September 1948.

Thank you Martha!

Cat postcard from Germany

What a lovely cat from Germany! We are big cat lovers, a we love cat postcards!

Stamps are Wild Germany - Saxon Switzerland National Park, issued on 02.06.2016.


Thank you Melanie!

Koenigsegg CCR

Very nice supercar postcard from Czech Republic! The Koenigsegg CCR is a world famous sports car manufactured by Swedish high performance car design expert company Koenigsegg. A total of 14 cars were built in the company’s Ängelholm factory in Sweden. For a very brief duration in 2005, it held the honor of being the fastest car in production in the world by clocking a top speed of 388 km/h. Currently it is in the top five list of cars with the highest speed. It carried the price tag of $650000 when it was first launched in the market. It can now cost more than $ 1 million.

Stamp is from set of two stamp Historical Vehicles 2016, Paddle Steamer Vyšehrad, isued on 17.02.2016.


Thank you Tana!

Postcard from Germany

Nice postcard from Germany, with car in a style of old formulas.

Stamp is The 100th Anniversary of the Möhnetalsperre Dam, issued on 04.04.2013.


Thank you Inga

France: Planetary Correspondences

What a fantastic artwork! I received this stamp set from France called Planetary Correspondences.

This set of 12 stamps is designed by Guy Coda. Size of this booklet is 234 x 74 mm.

 Stamps are issued on 01.10.2016. Print run is 2.200.000.

This is backside of booklet.

Stamp used on this cover was issued to commemorate Birth centenary of  François Mitterrand. Yves Beaujard has designed and engraved this portrait that represents him as we saw at official meetings: serious, distant looking. Issue Date: 26.10.2016.

Thank you very much Axel!

Cover from Pakistan

I have received registered cover from Pakistan with a lot of used stamps from various countries, mostly from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Kuwait, India, Saudi Arabia...

All stamps on this picture are from Afghanistan

Most of this stamps are 40-50 years old

Stamps on cover: Mohammad Ali Jinnah (two from set of twelve), issued on 11.09.1994.

Thank you Asim!