Teapots

Received from Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

Botanical Postcards

Ackee Fruit
(aka Spanish lime)

Watercolour on vellum by James Bolton
(c. 1735-99), depicting an
extravagantly patterned Iris persica, and
Leucojum aestivum.

Three Crocomia cultivars or montbretias:
from the top. 'Star of the East', 'Vesuvuis' and
'Queen of Spain'. By Graham Stuart Thomas

Postcards sent by Naoko (Japan) and Laura (the UK).

Dennis Stamp

Letter sent by Alan (the UK). Ar first sight, the stamp looked like a drawing on the envelope! It belongs to this series.

Sunday Stamps | Emilio Sánchez

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Art/Paintings. I have chosen these stamps I got last week.

The stamps on the right feature two works by the artist Emilio Sánchez. You can read more about this issue here. It includes two more stamps.

I am afraid the sender did not pay attention when he stuck the stamps on the envelope. The artworks  make much more sense in the right way:

Untitled (Ventanita entreabierta)
Lowe Art Museum

En el Souk
Syracuse University Art Museum

Update 24/Oct/2021: I got more stamps from this series.

Update 04/Jan/2022:

Fancy a Beer?

How to be British No. 44
Artwork by Martyn Ford

Budweiser retro ad

 Postcards sent by Laura (UK) and Gosia (the Netherlands).

Now This Is a Good Idea!

Postcard sent by Bryon (the USA),

A Bit of Japan and Japanese in My Mailbox

"A pinch of sweet pleasure"

Gion Festival in Kyoto

"Fly high"

Ukiyo-e art by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Collage on envelope

Rouleau en tissu de brocart (nishiki) du Dit du Genji, livre XLVIII
Les Pouses de fougères (détail). Itarô Yamaguchi
Musée national des arts asiatiques
Guimet, France

Pieces of mail sent by Naoko, Nana, Ikue and Michiko (Japan), Fabienne (France) and Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Oil Platform

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Work, Industry. 

I do not know why, but this is the first stamp that came to my mind. It features the Prirazlomnaya oil platform, in Russia. The stamp was issued in 2015.

Heritage Breeds

I showed here two of these stamps with original postmarks (chicken & turkey). Later, I received some more of the Heritage Breeds series, issued by the USPS on 17 May 2021.

Thanks to Bryon & Phillip!

Pompeii

And another Postcrossing coincidence: I had never got a postcard from Pompeii, and I got two (from Germany), the same day. They depict a couple of Dionysus masks and a basilique.

From John (the UK), I got another postcard for the Roman Empire collection:

The Roman villa at Bignor, West Sussex, discovered in 1811 during ploughing, has some of the finest preserved mosaics from Roman Britain. The mosaic featured on the stamp, laid in an apsed room on the villa’s north side, probably dates to the early 4th century AD. It depicts a female head usually identified as the Roman goddess Venus.

I had got it as a stamp, like more from this Roman Britain series.

Studio Ghibli

I had never received any postcard featuring Studio Ghibli films. And, suddenly, thanks to Postcrossing, I got two the same day. They feature scenes from The Wind Rises and Pom Poko and were sent from different countries: Canada and the USA. 

One of the postcards was decorated by a 5-years-old artist :)

Sunday Stamps | Endangered Plants

For today's theme in Sunday Stamps, Endangered species, two endangered plants: Dwarf Milkwort (Polygala amarella) and Marsh Saxifrage (Saxifraga birculus). These UK stamps were issued in 2009, and belong to this set.

Frida's Portraits

The high number of Frida Kahlo's self-portraits never ceases of amazing me...

Self-portrait Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser, 1940 

The Frame (self-portrait), 1938

Postcards sent by Bryon (the USA) and Amelie (Germany).

Sunday Stamps | Beneficial Insects

A letter I got last week from Rosemary (Canada) bring one of the Bugs and creepy crawlies I needed for today's topic in Sunday Stamps. 

Convergent Lady Bettle 
(Hippodamia Convergens)

The stamp belongs to the Beneficial Insects series issued by Canada Post between 2007 and 2014. I have got more stamps of the series:

Monarch Caterpillar (Danaus plexippus)
Cecropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia)

Canada Darner (Aeshna canadiensis)

If interested, you can see here all the stamps.

Reusing or Recycling?

Is framing the bag and
hanging it on the wall 
reusing or recycling?

And what about repurposing it for writing another small letter inside and send it across the ocean?

Sent by Bryon (the USA).

Lighthouses on Postcards

The latest lighthouses on postcards I have got...

Pellworm, Germany

La Jument, France 
(But postcard sent from Germany)

Morris Island, South Carolina, the USA

Niechorze, Poland

Westerheversand, Germany
(But postcard sent from Serbia)

Marshall Point Lighhouse, Maine, the USA