Autumn Mail

Pieces of mail sent by John (the UK), Bryon (Canada), Laura (the UK) and Heleen (the Netherlands), and arrived all together in the middle of this strange Summer-Fall.

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin,
by Beatrix Potter

Six species of mushroom
Illustrated Mushrooms,
by Jean-Jacques Paulet, 1855

Year of the Rabbit

I wish you a Happy New Year with a small collection of rabbits and hares on stamps!

Belarus

Canada

France

Hungary

Japan

The Netherlands

Taiwan

The United Kingdom

The United States of America

Very Different Drawing-Style Postcards

The Tale of Petter Rabbit
By Beatrix Potter

The Senses
Samin Nosrat & Wendy MacNaughton

Berzsenyi Dániel Emlékház

Postcards sent by Morag (the UK),  Bryon (the USA) and Micu (Hungary).

Birthday Wishes

Created by Heleen (the Netherlands)

Today is Mail Adventures' 10th anniversary! I hardly can believe it.

I wanted to do something special in order to celebrate the date with you... But it happens that I am especially busy these days. So I just posting some birthday cards and saying you a really, really big THANK YOU.

Sweet Tales on Postcards

The Tale of Tom Kitten

These two postcards arrived together last week. One from Bryon (the USA), and the other one from Esther (the Netherlands), through Postcrossing. 

Both are Beatrix Potter illustrations, and both are more or less related to clothes. What a coincidence!

The Tailor Mouse

Slower Than a Tweet

But undoubtedly more interesting! Mail art envelope sent by John (the UK), with the nice addition of Beatrix Potter stamps.

The Dreamy Dormouse and Other Tales

I received this nice envelope from John (the UK) for my birthday. The stamp is the only one I lacked for completing this set!

Inside, the Dreamy Dormouse apologised for forgetting things, or being late remembering them. Well, I was also a bit late in posting, so maybe I need to try his system...

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK). Cover of the Ladybird book Jack and the Beanstalk (1965), by Vera Southgate, illustrated by Eric Winter.

And More Reading People on Postcards

From The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck,1908
Beatrix Potter
Sent by John (the UK)

Hot line, Wiktor Najbor
Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands)

Ivan Khrutsky, In the room, 1855
Sent by Eduard (Russia)

David Dubinsky (1920 - 1960)
Illustration Arkadi Gaidar's story
The Blue Cup (1958)
Sent by Eduard (Russia)

*Too ink on the back of the postcard. Besides that, my Russian skills are inexistent...

#AtoZChallenge | L is for Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood is a character I love. I had not seen this version by Fiep Westendorp until Heleen (the Netherlands) sent it to me in the shape of a postcard. The same illustration appears on the selvage of this wonderful (wonderful, wonderful!) sheet of stamps issued last year. Can you spot her?

And there is another version on the following postcard, also sent by Heleen:

But, besides Little Red Riding Hood, the Fairy Tale Wood, by Molly Brett (1902-1990) includes A LOT of fairy tales characters on one single illustration:

Puss in Boots

Hansel & Grethel

Cinderella

Snow White

The Twelve Swans

The Three Piglets

The Ugly Duckling

The Red Shoes

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Petter Rabbit 

The Chinese Nightingale (Thanks, Heleen! Again)

Sleeping Beauty (Thanks, Donna!)

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs (Thanks, Phillip!)

The Golden Bird (Thanks, Eva!)

Dick Whittington and His Cat (Thanks, Anne!)

Saint George (Thanks, Anne!)

...

Are other characters on the postcard that I have missed?

Real Lighthouses

On this wonderful envelope sent by John (the UK), made of a page of a magazine (I guess), you can see the Ardnamurchan lighthouse, in Scotland.

And inside, among other things, I found some vintage postcards depicting more lighthouses:

Bidston lighthouse and signal station,
from an original print,
drawn,engraved and published about 1795
by H. F. James of Liverpool(the UK)

Storm at Great Yarnouth (the UK)

The Coast to Coast Walk (the UK)
The picture top left is St Bees lighthouse.

Goury lighthouse (France)
48 m high

And let me add a very interesting postcard sent by Phillip (only that at first I thanked another person for it...!). It is only my second piece of mail from Puerto Rico, I had never seen a postcard like this: every picture is a sticker; so you can use it, for instance, for you travel notebook. As it says on the back: perfect for scrapbooking!

Centre and down right: San Felipe del Morro (Puerto Rico)