Sunday Stamps | Green Creatures

 Sunday Stamps is featuring today Green stamps. I found some green creatures in my collection...

Green birds

 The USA, 2016

Green reptiles

The USA, 2019
(More information about these stamps)

Green insects

Belarus, 2016

Green Flowers

The USA, 2007

Green Superheroes

The UK, 2019

Women on Stamps | X for Incognito

Wonder Women had already appeared on this blog, but I think it is the first time for Elektra and Spider-Woman.

They were among the ten Marvel characters on a set of Marvel Comics Super Heroes commemorative postage stamps that were issued by USPS in 2007.

Captain Marvel is one of the two (super)women among the Marvel superheroes set issued by Royal Mail in March.

The stamp arrived, along with two more. on this fab envelope send by John (the UK), made of the stamps catalogue.

Back of the envelope

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For the current round of Sunday Stamps A-Z I am showing stamps dedicated to women. You can see here all the Women on Stamps featured on this blog.

Go to Sunday Stamps to enjoy more X-stamps.

Women on Postcards | Wonder Woman

In 2016, USPS celebrated the 75th anniversary with stamps that depicted the superhero during four eras of comic book history: Golden Age (1941–55), Silver Age (1956–72), Bronze Age (1973–86) and Modern Age (1987–present).

You can read here all the information about this issue, and see two more stamps dedicated to her, in 1988 and 2006.

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For the new edition of Sunday Stamps-II A to Z, I have decided to show some of the stamps I have got on letters and postcards, related to one topic: women. This is the post for the letter W.

More women on stamps.

Inspiring Mail-Related Drawings

Sent by Phillip (the USA). It is one of the postcards of the #Write_On Campaign, that began in 2014 with the challenge of writing 30 letters in 30 days.

Sent by Rosemary (Canada). It was created for the Letter Writing Club of The Regional Assembly of Text. If you happen to be in Vancouver the first Thursday of a month, you are welcome there!

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I added this post to Maria's link Postcards for the Weekend, that just started its second year. The theme this week is Monochrome. 

Talking in Superheroes

Batman is not the only superhero appearing on stamps, of course. I received these stamps of long time ago, and the ones below two weeks ago. They belong to the same set, issued on September 10, 2013 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Superman.

Batman Stamps

I received this letter from Bryon (the USA) some months ago. I think these Batman stamps are just perfect for Halloween mail, don't you?

At first sight I thought that the round ones were not real stamps (And I am not the only one...See the comments).

And I have just remembered that I had got more Batman stamps. These ones were issued in 2006 as a part of a comic series.

Air Transport on Stamps

The theme for this week in Sunday Stamps (Viridian's Postcard blog) is Airplanes and air trasport. This is one of my favourite themes, so you can see in this album some postcards and stamps about planes and airports.

I don't want to forget the most important planes: mail planes, of course!

From Germany

Or funnier planes like the following ones:

From Hungary

From the Netherlands

However, when I read air transport I immediately thought in some alternative systems...What do you think about?

From Canada

From Canada

From the Netherlands

From the Netherlands

Women on Stamps

**UPDATED**

This is was a post for Sunday Stamps. The theme is was Women on Postcards, because of March being Women's History Month. This celebration is quite unknown in Morocco and Spain; but we celebrate more or less the International Women's Day on March 8.

My collection of received stamps is very little, so no representative at all. But anyway: when I started to search among my received stamps the ones featuring women... I discovered is you are more likely to appear in a stamp if you are a bird or a flower than if you are a women. OMG. But don't desperate, women of the world. We have still some possibilities. Postal services will be happy to dedicate a stamp to us if we become...

1) Queens & Princesses. This is the easiest way. There aren't postal services who can't resist issue stamps with queens; and they look for your better picture! 

Netherlands / UK / UK

Denmark

A little inconvenient is that sometimes you need a prince (who will also appear on your stamp, of course). This stamp dates from 2004, and it was issued on the occasion of the marriage of Letizia with Felipe.

Spain

2) Moms. 

The UK

For instance, in Spain we have a Mum on a stamp almost every Christmas. 

Spain

3) 1 & 2.

Canada
In fact, this stamp is dedicated to the baby...

4) Symbols. As you have noticed, the postal services like to emphasize the symbolic role of women. So congratulations if you are a symbol, because you might appear in one or several stamps (this is more likely to happen if your country has no queen).

France

Portugal

Italy

5) Muses. Marianne, shown in the last stamp, belongs also to this section. If you have inspired a masterpiece, it is probably that you will appear on beautiful stamps. Women are very useful to show the work of... men.

The Netherlands / Austria / Denmark

The first one is a picture by the famous Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (Woman in blue reading a letter). In the second one you can appreciate Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. And I am sure you recognise The Little Mermaid created by Edvard Eriksen who happens to be a man, as well as Vermeer and Velázquez. Sometimes, like the Danish one, you will be also a symbol. So category 6) is 4 & 5. 

7) Cartoons. Maybe because, as symbols, cartoons are harmless. don't take me wrong: I do like these stamps, as most of stamps on this post. But, for once, I would like to see a real superwoman on a stamp. 

The USA

8) Artists. Maybe I am being unfair: not just muses but also some artists appear on stamps. It is difficult if you are a scientist (except for Marie Curie and a few more exceptions). But if you are an author, an actress or even a singer, they would give you a chance. Here you can find a lot of examples:

The Netherlands
Belle van Zuylen and Hella Haasse

The USA
Edna St. Vincent Millay and Harriet Beecher Stowe

The USA / Spain
Katharine Hepburn and Rachel Weisz
(but the second stamp was issued because of the film, not the actress)

Portugal
Hermínia Silva

9) International Women's Day. Sometimes postal services remember that women exist on March 8. 

Italy

France

10) Anonymous Working Women. International Women's Day used to be known as International Working Women's Day. Anonymous... because if you have a name, as you have just seen, it is far more difficult that you appear on a stamp.

USA / Malaysia

Brazil / The UK

Hungary

I wish you a happy Women's Day and I wish us the same number of women on stamps as men on stamps. Thanks for reading this long post.

Superheroes

It is funny when the same week, or even the same day, we receive three pieces of mail related to the same theme. And almost in the same colours? What is the connexion between these three superheroes? My mail box?

Sent by Michel (France).

Sent by Micu (Hungary).

Sent by Kilmeny (Canada).

Sent by Donna (the USA).