Sunday Stamps | Between Land and Sea

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Land and Sea. That makes me think of... lighthouses, of course!

I'm showing today some lighthouses sheets that I have got by snail mail, but inside envelopes. So, they remain mint.

Nieuwe Sluis is a lighthouse located near Breskens, a harbour town in the province of Zeeland, in the south-western Netherlands. It is the oldest remaining cast-iron lighthouse in the Netherlands. It was built in 1867 and became a monument in 1982. Since 2010 it no longer serves a nautical purpose and in October 2011 the light went out permanently.

The minisheet was issued on 27 April 2010. Have you noticed the high face value?

Argentinian minisheet issued on 18 March 2006, featuring four lighthouses:

-Primero de Mayo (in the Antarctica);

-Año Nuevo (1902);

-El Rincón (1925);

-Recalada a Bahía Blance (1906)

And a stamp booklet entitle Lighthouses of the Adriatic and of the Danube, issued by a country not longer existing: Yugoslavia. Most of these lighthouses are in Croatia nowadays.

Sunday Stamps | P(enguins)

When I thought I hadn't any stamp for the theme P of Sunday Stamps-II, I found some penguins...

French stamp dedicated  to the commemoration of the 150th birthday of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), medical doctor an polar explorer. Stamp issued on 24 April 2017.

Argentina issued this stamp on 2011, on a set dedicated to the XXXIV Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. The penguin here is a Pygnoscelis papua or gentoo penguin. (Here a better view of the set.)

Stamp issued for the 100th anniversary of Burger's Zoo in Anhem (the Netherlands), showing a pair of Spheniscus demersus or African penguin. It belongs to an interesting set issued in 2013.

I had already published this one, a Eudyptes chrysolophus or macaroni penguin, arrived from South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. This stamp was issued on 25 October 2015, and it belongs to a set of four penguins. 

The postmark makes it almost invisible, but there is a penguin on this Spanish stamp dedicated to the Spanish military shelter established on Deception Island in 1989. The shelter is named after the navigator and explorer Gabriel de Castilla. (More information and a bigger picture of the stamp)

Stamp issued by USPS on 1 June 2015, that pays tribute to the majestic Aptenodytes forsteri or emperor penguin. (More information)

The Money Is Watching You

Sent to Samuel Montalvetti (Argentina).
Collage. Add and return.
Also published here. 

Mail Art from Argentina

Received from Samuel Montalvetti (Argentina).
The envelope contained some mail art items. among them, I like specially the altered map card.

Mail Art from Argentina

Sent by Samuel Montalvetti (Argentina).
The mail contained a lot of artist items (artist books, add and return, etc.) like these:

Midnight Train

Sent to Samuel (Argentina) for the the mail art call "Trenes y vagones".
Collage made from an old calendar, some stickers and a song by the Catalan band SAU: El tren de mitjanit ('Midnight train').
Also published here.