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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:

Send Someone a Love Letter

Letter sent by Phillip (the USA).

Letter sent by Bryon (United Nations).

Letter sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Lucca & Lisboa

Lucca (Italy). Postcard sent by Bruno (PC).

Lisbon (Portugal), illustrated by Inna Korneeva. Postcard sent by Pedro (Portugal). 

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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!

Little Joys

Mailasmile's newest mail-art challenge. You can find all the details here.

Women on Postcards | C Is for Carnival

The Marlborough House fancy ball, 22 July 1874
Saint James's Palace, London, UK

Sent by Laura (the UK) and Bruno (PC).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Winter Collage

Front and back of a collage made by Fabienne (France). Perfect theme for these days!

In case you want to see better the snowy stamps from different countries that she used on the front part:

The snowflakes (all different, of course!);

And the stamps on the back, on the same topic:

Sunday Stamps | B Is for Bikes

It is not the first time that I have used bikes for Sunday Stamps... It seems to be a very common topic on stamps. Did you know that cyclophilatelia is a thing? (See the Bicycle Stamps Club.)

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more B-stamps!

La Lanterna di Genova

The Lanterna di Genova is the main light serving the Port of Genoa. Rebuilt in its current shape in 1543 replacing the former lighthouse, it is the world's fourth oldest lighthouse.

Between 1543 and 1902, it was the tallest lighthouse in the world. It is now the world's fifth tallest lighthouse, the second tallest lighthouse built in traditional masonry after Île Vierge and the tallest lighthouse of the Mediterranean Sea. When measured as a whole with the natural rock on which it stands, as it is commonly perceived and represented, its total height is 112 m, which makes it the second tallest lighthouse in the world, the tallest in Europe, and the tallest in the world when only traditional lighthouses are considered.

This postcard was sent by Stefano (Italy), with a matching stamp on the back.

Last year, I received an illustration of the same lighthouse sent by Ania, whre the rock is better appreciated: (but not the light!):