Thursday Postcard Hunt | Halloween

Two postcards from last Halloween sent by Heleen (the Netherlands) .

With a terrific hand-drawn stamp!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: COLOURS OF AUTUMN

• Week 1 - Orange
• Week 2 - Yellow
• Week 3 - Red
• Week 4 - Brown
• Week 5 - Halloween or Black

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Reading a Letter on a Letter

Illustrated envelope sent by Imma (PC).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Yellow Autumn

A view of Ithaca Falls (Finger Lakes, New York, the USA) from the East Shore Drive Bridge. Sent by Phillip (the USA).

Up Ahead, by Marc Todd. Card sent by Laura (the UK).

Segonzano Castle (Italy). Sent by Alberto.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: COLOURS OF AUTUMN

• Week 1 - Orange
• Week 2 - Yellow
• Week 3 - Red
• Week 4 - Brown
• Week 5 - Halloween or Black

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Autumn Colours

This envelope made a long trip. It was sent by Phillip (the USA) on 2 December 2024. It arrived more than two months later, on 10 February 2025, well after the Autumn... and almost after the winter!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: COLOURS OF AUTUMN

• Week 1 - Orange
• Week 2 - Yellow
• Week 3 - Red
• Week 4 - Brown
• Week 5 - Halloween or Black

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Orange Letter

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Famous Women

Rosalyn Yallow (1821-2011)
Medical Physicist

Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, 1879
By Edgar Degas

Postcards sent by Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
September theme: LEARNING

• Week 1 - Legends, Children's Stories
• Week 2 - Famous People
• Week 3 - National Parks
• Week 4 - History (Could Be Historical Buildings)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sunset

Postcard sent by Ximo (Croatia).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Illustrated Fruits

Postcards with botanical illustrations sent from Germany and the USA through the Postcrossing site. I just love citrus!

Let me add more non-illustrated oranges that I have recently got from Florida:

But one can live only on oranges (especially in the summer!). So... What about these mirabelles sent by Fabienne (France)? It seems that the mirabelles from Lorraine are especially good!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: ILLUSTRATIONS

• Week 1 - Maps
• Week 2 - Art
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Food (or Plants)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Outgoing Summer Mail: Sun

Sent to Pedro (Portugal).

Sunday Stamps | Chequered

Chess is a common topic for philatelists, but I found only these among my received ones. Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Patterns on stamps!

United Kingdom, 1976

France, 1966

And the same pattern in a stamp belonging to the series The Secret of Life. And also apt for the Year of the Snake!

United Kingdom, 2003

Sunday Stamps | Les Rencontres d'Arles

The EUROMED postal theme in 2023 was Mediterranean Festivals. France issued a stamp about the photographie festival Les Rencontres d'Arles.

The stamp is based on a photograph by Alessandro Mosalini. It shows a visitor looking at a photograph by Mitch Epstein, exhibited at the Montmajour Abbey during the summer of 2022.

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Warm Vacation Locations. I hope it looks warm enough to you!

Sunday Stamps | Grouse

Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Birds. I have quite a few in my collection, so today I chose two cousin birds from different countries, whose illustrations I really like.

Western capercaillie
(Tetrao urogallus)
Switzerland, 1968

Sharp-tailed grouse
(Tympanuchus phasianellus)
Canada, 2016

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Cave Paintings

This orange hind belongs to the Cave of Altamira, a cave complex in the Nort of Spain, renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied around 36,000 years ago. 

In 1985 it was declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The cave can no longer be visited, for conservation reasons, but there are replicas of a section at the site and elsewhere.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
January theme: COLOURS

• Week 1 - Blue
• Week 2 - Green
• Week 3 - Orange
• Week 4 - Pink
• Week 5 - Red

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Never Too Busy

 Collage on envelope sent by Laura (the UK).

Extraordinary

Envelope sent to Phillip (the USA).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Magere Brug

This folded card shows a bridge over the river over the river Amstel in Amsterdam (Netherlands). 

The central section of the bridge is a bascule bridge made of white-painted wood. The present bridge was built in 1934. The first bridge at this site was built in 1691 as Kerkstraatbrug and had 13 arches. Because this bridge was very narrow, the locals called it magere brug, which literally means "skinny bridge".

There are some legends associated to the bridge. If you feel curious, you can read about them in the Wikipedia.

I have got two more postcards of the same bridge. An advertisement one...

Luchtje scheppen?

... And another one where you can see the same bridge made of  ontbijkoek (gingerbread)!

Finally, let me share this stamp issued on 26 March 2012, and  presented by the Netherlands for the theme Visit... of Europa Stamps.

All this mail was sent by Heleen (the Netherlands), some years ago.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
September theme: BRIDGES

• Week 1 - Stone, Brick
• Week 2 - Long, Curvy
• Week 3 - Iron, Rail
• Week 4 - Wooden, Covered, Swinging

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

First Day of Autumn

Фея на улитке ('Fairy on the snail')
by Анна Злобина

Postcard sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Refreshing Letter

Letter sent by Fabienne (France), with summery stamps.

Saint-Vaast-La-Hougue, Normandie
2020

Les 4 coins du ciel, Jean Messagier
1984

Navigation de plaisance, Fête du timbre
2024

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Schiphol

These views of  Schiphol airport sent by Heleen (the Netherlands) years ago cover almost all the topics of this month's Thursday Postcard Hunt: sunset, seasonal, departures...

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

June theme: TIME

• Week 1 - Sunrise/Sunset
• Week 2 - Seasonal
• Week 3 - Ancient (geology, buildings, artefacts)
• Week 4 - Clocks or daily rituals (eating, working, arrivals/departures...)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Il fallait oublier le confort

This postcard was made out of an old advertisement of Renault. It reads: Il fallait oublier le confort ('We had to forget about comfort'). And it is really big. Just look at the size of the pen!

Sent by Fabienne (France).