Sunday Stamps | First Nations People

Geronimo or Goyaałé (1829 – 1909) was a leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. The stamp was issued in 1994, and it belongs to the USPS' series Legends of the West.

Standing Bear or Maⁿchú-Naⁿzhíⁿ (c. 1829–1908) was a Ponca chief and Native American civil rights leader who successfully argued in US District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans are "persons within the meaning of the law" and have the right of habeas corpus, thus becoming the first Native American judicially granted civil rights under American law. The stamp was issued by USPS on 12 May 2023.

This stamp (a favourite of mine!) belongs to the Truth and Reconciliation set, issued by Canada Post on 29 September 2022, in connection with the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on 30 September. The designer of this one is Inuit artist Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona, and this are her words explaining the artwork (taken from this article, where you can read more about this issue):

I believe each group within Canada has a different responsibility for reconciliation. For Indigenous People, our responsibility is to ourselves and to others within our communities: learning or passing on our language and culture that was attacked only one generation ago. I created a woman lighting a qulliq (QUL-liq), the traditional Inuit stone lamp used for heat and light to signify caretaking. This woman is carrying on in her culture as she has always done, taking care of herself and others and healing.

This is a post for Sunday Stamps. 

Happy 4th World Postcard Day!

Postcard sent by Bryon (the USA). As usual.

World Postcard Day (2022)

1st October will be World Postcard Day. Are you planning to send a lot of postcards?

Here you have a couple I got last year. From Imma (official design) and Heleen, who attended a meeting in Alkmaar (the Netherlands).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | The Lichfield Clock

The Lichfield Clock (18th century)
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK

Do you like getting unusual postcards? Of course, unusual might have a different meaning for everyone…

Laura (the UK) sent this one to me last month. I am adding it to Thursday Postcard Hunt. Today's themes is: Tourist Sites - Museums, art galleries, theatres.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

September theme: Tourist Sites

• Week 1 - Nature reserves, parks, gardens
• Week 2 - Castles, palaces
• Week 3 - Fun for kids
• Week 4 - Museums, art galleries, theatres

October theme: Seasons

• Week 1 - Autumn
• Week 2 - Summer
• Week 3 - Spring
• Week 4 - Winter

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Een kind kan de was doen

'A child can do the laundry'

Heleen (the Netherlands) sent this postcard for my little collection of Clotheslines. It is a cleverly reused postcard. Originally, it was sent in the 90s (the original stamp is from 1993), to notify the recipients that the sender's phone number had changed.

Heleen wrote over the first message. However, in order to keep the original stamp, she put the postcard in a transparent plastic bag, and stuck the new stamps on the bag. And it arrived safe and sound!

Collages. Greeting Stamps 1993

Vase of tulips & Narrow houses
Truly Holland, 1993

Peace from Cyprus

It seems the Peace Stamp Project has stopped now. But one more envelope arrived some days ago, this time, from Cyprus. 

Alphabet 2023 | I Is for Independence

So far, all the postcards of Bryon's project Alphabet 2023 had arrived more or less regularly. But I has revealed really independent. Sent some months ago (April, May?), it never landed in my mailbox. Bryon resent it in August. A bit battered, but it finally appeared! It seems it was a long way from Independence, Iowa.

If someone (apart from Bryon and myself) follow Alphabet 2023, you might have noticed that this postcard is different form the rest of the alphabet. Definitely... I wants to be the star of the project!

Anyway, it bears perfectly matching stamps:

Igor Sikorsky
Iowa Statehood centennial 1846-1946

Insulate the home

Independence

Sunday Stamps | Insects

Some beautifully depicted Insects for today's Sunday Stamps...

Bumblebee
Animals in their habitats 
Switzerland, 2022

Monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus)
Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
Beneficial Insects Definitives
Canada, 2007 & 2009

Elephant hawk-moth (Deilephila elpenor)
Brilliant Bugs
United Kingdom, 2020

Great Diving Beetle
Europa. Pond Life
United Kingdom, 2001

Stag Beetle (Lucanos cervus)
Insects
United Kingdom, 1985

Leaves

These two letters arrived together in June. But the leaves made me think of Autumn.

Sent by Volha (Czech Republic) and Catherine (France).

Drawing the Summer | Angry Wine

Drawn envelope sent to Bryon (the USA), following his request.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | British Beaches

Broadstairs

Looking for postcards that fit in today's Thursday Postcard Hunt theme: Tourist Sites - Fun for Kids... I think the beach is always fun for kids!

Upturned boats made into fishermen's huts
Holy Island harbour, Northumberland

Postcards sent by Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

September theme: Tourist Sites

• Week 1 - Nature reserves, parks, gardens
• Week 2 - Castles, palaces
• Week 3 - Fun for kids
• Week 4 - Museums, art galleries, theatres

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Alphabet 2023 | R Is for Romance

Some Alphabet2023 postcards arrive from really cool places. Like R, sent form Romance (Arizona).

About the matching stamps, you will say if they are or are not cool: Redhead Decoy, President Theodore Roosevelt, Raccoon, Rings. Roanoke logperch.

Lighthouses from Germany

This port lighthouse stood on the head of the north mole, the entrance to the Geeste. In the night from August 17 to 18, 2022, the head of the north mole in Bremerhaven sagged and the lighthouse on it got into an extremely dangerous lopsided position. There was a risk that he would fall over completely, so the structure was completely demolished by the end of 2022. The tower is to be rebuilt true to the original as part of the new construction of the pier.

This is the Kleiner Preuße ('Little Prussian') lighthouse at the harbour in Wremen (North Sea). Actually, it is a replica of the original dismantled in 1930. The sender wrote that people can get married in the lighthouse. 

Lighthouses on Lower Saxony's North Sea coast, including Helgoland, located on Germany's only offshore island. It was constructed during World War II as an anti-aircraft tower, and turned into a lighthouse in 1952.

The stamp was issued on 6 July 2023.

Postcards sent by Sabine, Hanna and Kathleen (Germany), through the Postcrossing site.

The Vanishing Light of the Summer

September has a special light. It made me already dream of the next summer...

... And the past ones. 

Sent by Laura (the UK), Heleen (the Netherlands) and Bryon (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | Modern Buildings

Today's Sunday Stamps is dedicated to Modern Architecture. I think I found a handful of buildings that can fit:

United Kingdom, 1987

This stamp belongs to the set British Architects in Europe, and features the Neue Staatsgalerie ('New State Galerie') in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by James Stirling. It was constructed between 1979 and 1984.

Canada, 1999

The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The museum was officially founded in 1947. In 1976, its new building, designed by renowned Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, opened. 

Poland, 2005

Silesian Theatre (Teatr Śląski) is the largest theatre in Silesia. It is located on the market square in Katowice. It was built in 1905–1907, from plans by German architect Carl Moritz.

Netherlands, 2013

These stamps belong to the multi-year series Grenzeloos Nederland, dedicated to Belgium in 2013. At left, the MAS (Museum aan de Stroom) in Antwerp (Belgium), executed by the Dutch firm Neutelings Riedijk Architecten. At right, a sketch of Museum Hoenderloo (1923), the unexecuted design for a museum on the Veluwe by the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde.

United Kingdom, 2017

Two stamps from the Landmark Buildings set. Above, the Library of Birmingham, opened in 2013. It has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe.

Below, the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. It was closed in 2011 to be completely rebuilt, and reopened in 2014. The Stirling Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects for the best British building of the year was awarded to Haworth Tompkins for their work on the new Everyman.

United Kingdom, 2017

Slovakia, 2018

Všeobecná úverová banka, a.s. (abbreviated as VÚB or The Bank) is a retail and commercial bank domiciled in Slovakia with its registered office at Mlynske Nivy 1, Bratislava. The 23-floors building was completed in 1996.

France, 2021

This stamp features the French pavillon in the Expo 2020, which had the theme Lumière, Lumières ('Light, Enlightment'), created by Atelier Perez Prado et Celnikier & Grabli Architectes. Afterwards, it had to be removed and relocated to Toulouse.

Postbox Saturday | La Fresneda

This is the tiny post office in the village of La Fresneda (Teruel, Spain). 

I like the fact that there are two mail slots on the door. One of them is for posting your letters in (picture below). The other one... is it for getting letters addressed to the post office?

I cannot ask it, because the post office was closed. Actually, it is quite difficult to find it open. The opening hours (?) are from 13:45 to 14:00.