Thursday Postcard Hunt | Wij sturen jullie...

Bears & red post boxes seem to be a classic combination! It is very difficult to take pictures of lenticular objects, so I am afraid you cannot appreciate how nice this postcard is. It was sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

I am afraid this is not "children with(out) toys" but "toys without children"!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
December theme: CHRISTMAS

• Week 1 - Children (with or without toys)
• Week 2 - Christmas trees
• Week 3 - Tree ornaments
• Week 4 - Christmas

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sunday Stamps | Pneumatoraptor & T. Rex

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Dinosaurs, Dragons, or Mythical Beasts. I thought I would have nothing to share, but then I remembered this stamp which I got a month ago:

This Hungarian stamp was issued on 3 September 2018, and belongs to a 6-stamps set entitled Prehistoric Animals - Dinosaurs. I have only got the Pneumatoraptor fodori.

From the Wikipedia:

The type species is Pneumatoraptor fodori, named for Géza Fodor, who provided funding for the dig. The genus name Pneumatoraptor refers to the pneumaticity of the bone, the hollow spaces that would have been filled with air sacs in life. The holotype specimen is identified by the catalogue number MTM V.2008.38.1. and housed at the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest.

And only few days ago I received the four stamps depicting the fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex, issued by USPS on 29 August. It has been quite difficult to take a proper picture of these, because they are lenticular.

One design illustrates a face-to-face encounter with a T. rex approaching through a forest clearing; another shows the same young adult T. rex with a young Triceratops — both dinosaurs shown in fossil form.

The third and fourth stamps depict a newly hatched T. rex covered with downy feathers and a bare-skinned juvenile T. rex chasing a primitive mammal.

Boldly Go...

The stamps I showed yesterday are not the only ones I have received related to the space. Lilli (Canada) sent me this letter in November. It is a pity that the picture cannot show how wonderful the envelope is, and also the stamps. Especially, the lenticular one (Star Trek again!).

The same month, David (the USA) sent me his Inspired by Stars letter. What a wonderful gift! You can see here most of the contents (and the rest of the Posted Letter projects, of course!).

I like a lot the slogan on the back: Boldly go where no one has gone before. That is what I say to all my departing letters...