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Postcards & stamps sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Postcard and stamps sent by Bryon (the USA). Notice the matching stamps and the pictorial cancellation:

And other ones, clearer:

Sunday Stamps | Vilains

Sunday Stamps is today dedicated to Stories and folk tales. This is a recurrent theme on this blog, and I have used it for recent Sunday Stamps (here and here). So, I thought I was run out of stamps, but I remembered these Disney vilains. I am sure you recognize most of them!

Honest John (Pinocchio)
Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Captain Hook (Peter Pan)
Scar (The Lion King)

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
Lady Tremaine (Cinderella)
Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Cruella De Vil (One Hundred and One Dalmatians)
Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland)

Sunday Stamps | Fables & Tales

Four stamps from the Hong Kong 2015 series Chinese and Foreign Folklore:

The Tortoise and the Hare
The Wild Swans

The Old Man Who Moved Mountains
The Little Engine That Could

From Hungary, a 2021 stamp celebrating the 400th anniversary of Jean de La Fontaine:

The Ant and the Grasshopper

A 2003 stamps about Aldar Köse, a Kazakh folk fairy tale and name of main character:

Strega Nona, a children's picture book written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola, on a 2023 USA stamp:

Princess Aurora and the fairies Flora, Fauna and Sunshine: a Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. on a 2008 USA stamp:

From the 2025 UK series Myths and Legends, the Loch Ness Monster:

See more Illustrated/Engraved stamps on Sunday Stamps!

Laundry Day!

Mail sent by Heleen (the Netherlands) and Laura (the UK).

Leap Year's Day

I like to post every piece of mail in the due day... But I cannot wait four years to show you the Leap Day postcards sent by Heleen (the Netherlands). With leaping frogs also on the back!

She sent two postcards, hoping that at least one would get a "29 February 2024" postmark. The post office made a great job here, and both of them are beautifully postmarked in the due day.

By the way, this girl is very fond of weird days...

Let's Celebrate

I got two letters from Phillip (the USA), with the theme of celebration.

Piñatas and mariachis make really cheerful stamps!

But, you know, in every celebration an uninvited character appears...

Halloween Time

Tonight, upon your pillow
Close your eyes and hide your head,
For the fairies and the goblins
Will be hovering round your bed.

A traditional Halloween postcard sent by Bryon (the USA). I am glad it arrived on time!

And another one sent by Phillip (the USA). The stamps with the vilains are perfect for a scary card!

If you want something really frightening... What about these real mummies? The postcard show a mummies museum in Guanajuato (Mexico). On the picture, there is supposed to be the smallest mummy in the world. 

As a curiosity, the postcard arrived with this paper attached (with a staple). I had never seen a customs declarations form for a postcard.

The postcard was sent on 11 August, and arrived on 26 October.

The Vanishing Light of the Summer

September has a special light. It made me already dream of the next summer...

Godrevy Wagtail, by Matt Johnson

... And the past ones. 

Sent by Laura (the UK), Heleen (the Netherlands) and Bryon (the USA).

Mickey Stamps

Tell me the odds of two Mickey stamps landing together in my mailbox. 

One was posted in the USA on 29 July, and the other one was posted in Germany, on 1 August. Both arrived on 10 August.

Mickey Mouse as steamboat Willie, 2008

Disney 100 Years, 2023

Yellow & Black & Red Postcards Apparently Unconnected

Jump Jump
Jennifer Bachelder Design

Donald's Lucky Day

Joan Fuster in front of his house:
10, Sant Josep Street, Sueca
december 1963

By Samin Nosrat & Wendy MacNoughton

Sent by Phillip (the USA), Bryon (the USA) and Bruno (PC).

Sunday Stamps | Summer

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is... Summer!