Saturday, January 29, 2011

Cover from Chile ...


















Many thanks Pablo Guerra for this nice registered cover, sent from Antofagasta, Chile :-))) This cover was transit at Hong Kong as seen at the registered label of Hong Kong.

Chile's 1000 Pesos of Infantry Captain Ignacio Carrera Pinto ...




Chile's 1 and 5 Peso(s) ...




Friday, January 28, 2011

Another Kellerwald-Edersee National Park cover (with postmark from Bonn) ...















Many thanks Wolfgang Beyer for another cover and this time with cancellation from Bonn :-))) I show here both cancellations from Bonn and Berlin for comparison and admiration!

Christmas cover from Poland ...
















Many thanks Roman Sudzik for this nice cover with Christmas stamps ;-))) The stamps were cancelled with special cancellation of new year philatelic gathering in Koszalin, in Northwestern Poland.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Welcome to Mongolia ...




Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church of Berlin ...























This postcard shows the Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche), located in the centre of Breitscheidplatz, Berlin. The original church on the site was built in the 1890s. It was badly damaged in a bombing raid in 1943. The present building, which consists of a church with an attached foyer and a separate belfry with an attached chapel, was built between 1959 and 1963. The damaged spire of the old church has been retained and its ground floor has been made into a memorial hall.

Special thanks to Volodymyr Sulyma for this nice postcard!! Thanks for remembering me !!! :-) The special postmark was from Museum für Post und Kommunikation (???)

Return-to-sender cover ...


Another rabbit cover from Latvia ...


Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Year of the Rabbit from Latvia ...















I have Juris Tarvids and Oleg Skleinov to thank for the nice rabbit covers :-))) Both were sent from Riga the capital on the day of issue. It is interesting to know that Latvian Post to have issued stamp on Year of the Rabbit. Also, it is nice to see different breed of rabbit from this Baltic country, on stamp :-)

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Nigeria's 50th Independence Anniversary (1960-2010) from the British ...




Cover from Nigeria ...











Many thanks Abbas for this nice cover, sent from Lagos the capital :-)))

N50: Monkey colony in Lagwa-Mbaise, IMO state
N50: 2000 years of Nigerian arts - Nok Terracotta, Kaduna (500 BC - 200 AD)
N50: 2000 years of Nigerian arts - Lander brothers anchorage, Asaba, Delta state

Jeux Olympiques da la Jeunesse (Singapour 2010) ...



















Many thanks Olivier Szerbowski for this nice YOG cover, with philately cancellation from Strasbourg Post Office, located at Avenue de la Marseillaise :-)))

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in north-eastern France.

The postcard shows the Christmas market in Alsace.

Deutsche National und Naturparke : Kellerwald-Edersee















Many thanks Wolfgang Beyer for this nice registered cover, sent from Berlin on the day of issue :-)))

The Kellerwald is a low mountain range reaching heights of up to 675 m in the western part of northern Hesse, in West-Central Germany.

Its assets include Germany's largest contiguous beech woodland and it contains Hesse's only national park, the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Cover from Germany ...















Many thanks Gerhard Esders for this nice cover, sent from Langen, Hesse, Germany :-)

55 + 25 Euro cents : From series of "Für die Wohlfahrtspflege" (For the public welfare), with motive from Loriot, a German humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer. He is most well-known for his cartoons, the sketches from his 1976 television series Loriot, alongside Evelyn Hamann, and his two movies, Ödipussi (1988) and Pappa ante Portas (1991).

On the television series Unsere Besten (Our Best), Loriot was ranked the 54th best German ever. In a special comedy episode of Unsere Besten, he was ranked as the most famous German comedian ever.

Happy Holidays ...












Many thanks Shah M. Rahman for this cover :-)

Scouting












Many thanks Renate for this nice FDC on scouting !

Lalit Kala Akademi of India ...











Many thanks S. Swarup Rath for this FDC sent on the last day of 2010 :-)

Cover from India ...

























Many thanks Elton for these nice covers and minisheet :-)))

Season's Greeting from Greece ...























Many thanks Anthony Gangas for this nice Christmas card :-)))

Cover from Israel ...












Many thanks Yair Timor for this nice cover sent from Haifa on 2 Jan :-))) The stamps on cover include Shofars (a horn used for Jewish religious purposes) and Israeli Animation.