Sunday Stamps | D Is for Different Shapes

Most stamps are rectangular, but some have other (odd) shapes...

Update: I see in the comments that the Dutch stamp is a winner. I have only got one of these stamps, but it belongs to a sheet of odd-shaped stamps:

Picture taken from here

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Official & Unofficial Mail Labels

Austria

Finland

Netherlands

United Kingdom

United States of America

Women on Postcards | M Is for Murray

Anne Murray in Nova Scotia

The Canadian singer Anne Murray (born 1945) was a huge star in the 70s/80s. The first solo female singer to reach #1 on US chart.

Postcard sent by Violet (Canada).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Illustrations of Northern European Cities

Cologne (Germany)

London (United Kingdom)

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The London Eye on the South Bank of the Thames

is 135 metres high and gives a spectacular view of London by night.

Text and illustration: Jason Brooks

Canterbury (the UK)

Postcards sent by Bruno (PC) and Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
February theme: CITIES

• Week 1 - Asian
• Week 2 - Southern European
• Week 3 - Northern European
• Week 4 - North American

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Mail Made out of Packaging (Outgoing)

Packaging tuned into postcards, sent to Heleen (the Netherlands) and Bryon (the USA).

Hello, Year of the Horse!

Bye, Year of the Snake!

Sunday Stamps | C Is for Circus

France, 2024. Booklet of 8 stamps on the theme of Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin and the theater of the same name. 

Netherlands, 2011. From a set of stamps commemorating the 100 Years of Circus Herman Renz.

Spain, 2018. Stamp commemorating 250th anniversary of the circus. The stamp reproduces an engraving from 1768 entitled: Horse Riding Exercise, by Bernardo Albiztur y Tornaria, currently held in the National Library of Spain.

USA, 1980. 100th birthday of William Claude Dukenfield - W.C. Fields (1880 - 1946).

USA, 1993.

A comment on this post made me think of circus as the C theme for this round of A-Z Sunday Stamps. 

This is a favourite theme, and I had already published some circus stamps. For example, here (EUROPA stamps 2002), here (Barnum and Bailey Circus), here (White clowns) and here (Circus stamps and postcards from Monaco).

Or Send Someone a Love Postcard

Postcards & stamps sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Postcard and stamps sent by Bryon (the USA). Notice the matching stamps and the pictorial cancellation:

Another one, clearer: