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Croatia

Hungary

Italy

Portugal

United Kingdom

Sunset

Postcard sent by Ximo (Croatia).

Flowers Are for the Spring

Folded card sent by Petra (Croatia)

Envelope with pressed flowers sent by Daria (Russia). First time I get something like that!

European Capitals (Postcrossing)

Vienna (Austria)

I got this postcard from Vienna last November, through the Postcrossing site. I like to read postcrossers profiles and know about their preferences. Sometimes people are quite specific, and funny. There are also some people who are not, but they ask for postcards like "a view from the capital city of your country". 

Browsing among my received postcards, I have found that getting postcards from the capital cities is not as common as you might think. Maybe is just that I do not ask for them. But these are almost all the European capitals I have got as Postcrossing postcards.

I think it is curious that I have never received postcards featuring Berlin, Lisboa, Madrid...

Zagreb (Croatia)

Tallinn (Estonia)

Helsinki (Finland)

Rome (Italy)

Riga (Latvia)

Vilnius (Lithuania)

Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Warsaw (Poland)

Bratislava (Slovakia)

Pace · Paix · Mir · Taika

This year there is not EUROPA stamp contest, because all the participant countries are issuing a stamp with the same design, dedicated to Peace - the highest value of humanity.

I thought it would be nice to get the stamp from as many countries as possible. So I arranged some swaps that are ongoing. The latest batch of peace has landed: from Croatia, France, Italy, Lithuania and Slovenia. Some countries, as you can see, have issued more than one stamp.

But there are still a lot of missing countries in my collection-to-be! If you wish to swap the Peace stamp (or swap it for a postcard, envelope, etc.), just let me know!

Sunday Stamps | Fairy Tales

Your choice is possible the most difficult theme in Sunday Stamps!  Today, I have chosen some stamps featuring legends and fairy tales:

Finland, 1990. This stamp belongs to a series that features the work of the illustrator Rudolf Koivu. I have found that the illustration belongs to the tale Lamb Brother.

Germany, 2020. The legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin (above) and a tale collected by the Brothers Grimm: The Wolf and Seven Young Goats (below).

Croatia, 2009. Svarožić, the small god of fire (left) and Bjesomar, an evil spirit (right), characters in Priče iz davnine ('Croatian Tales of Long Ago'), by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić.

Sunday Stamps | Typefaces

The Annaberger Kät is a folk festival that takes place annually for 14 days after Pentecost in the town of Annaberg-Buchholz in East Germany. The Kät is known well outside the region and is one of the oldest folk festivals in Germany, having begun in 1520. This stamp was issued last year to commemorate its 500th anniversary.

These stamps are a Croatia-China joint issue from 2007, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. On the left, you can see a stone with the word China carved in the Glagolitic script; on the right, a papyrus with the word Croatia (Hrvatska) written in the Chinese script.

Las Palmas

These stamps belong to a series featuring the Spanish provinces. I had already shown some of them (here, here...). If you know a bit of Spain, maybe you can recognise some of the typical things depicted. Or maybe not, becacuse the stamps are far too small for so many details!

Ávila

Barcelona

Girona

Huesca

Sevilla

València

To see more interesting Typefaces and Fonts, go to Sunday Stamps!

Sunday Stamps | Fruits

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Harvest. I am introducing some fruits on stamp, although they do not belong all to the same season!

Gooseberry (Ribes grossularia)
 (From a set of 3 Garden Berries)
Finland, 2013

Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.) & Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.)
(From a set of 3 Fruits)
Croatia, 2010

Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)
(From a set of two Wild Berries)
Iceland, 2007

Pomelo (Citrus maxima) & Egg fruit (Pouteria campechiana)
(From the series Popular Fruits of Philippines)
Philippines, 2017

Pineapple
(From the series Gifts of nature)
Russia, 2003

Pear
(From the series Gifts of nature)
Russia, 2003

Definitive - Red Pears
The United States, 2017

Fruit definitives - Grapes
The United States, 2017

Sunday Stamps | T(extile)

Today Sunday Stamps-II is dedicated to the letter T. I have chosen stamps related to the textile world.

Self-adhesive stamps dedicated to a theme that I find curious: Flowers and artistic professions (Fleurs et métiers-d'art), issued by La Poste (France) the last spring, as a 12-stamps set (See here the complete set). They show details of artistic objects from museums. On the stamp in the left you can see an embroidered flower made of cotton and silk yarn.

Stamps from Croatia, issued on 30 September 2008. They are dedicated to the Croatian Ethnografic heritage. See here the 5 stamps of the sheetlet.

Traditional Portuguese Embroideries. I have received two of the six stamps (see here), issued in 2011.

One of the latest country definitives issued by Royal Mail, issued on 21 March 2017, symbolising Scotland.

Self-adhesive stamp from Brazil, issued on 30 December 2005, designed by Hector Consani. Dedicated to different professions, this one for the dressmakers.

Christmas Stamps Received

From Canada

From Croatia

From Denmark

(Christmas stamp and Christmas postmark)

From Latvia

 From the Netherlands

(December stamps)

From Palestine

(But received last June!)

 From the UK

(More of the first set published last year)

From the USA