Although the Christmas season finishes today, I think it is the right time to upload this postcard received by Heleen (the Netherlands) last year. It shows the Three Wise Men, pictured by Anton Pieck.
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06 January 2025
Star of Light
Although the Christmas season finishes today, I think it is the right time to upload this postcard received by Heleen (the Netherlands) last year. It shows the Three Wise Men, pictured by Anton Pieck.
22 December 2024
Sunday Stamps | Christmas
For today's Sunday Stamps, dedicated to Christmas, here you have a variety of old and new Christmas stamps I have got in 2024*:
*Most of them received in January 2024!
04 December 2024
Snow Globes
Hand made envelope made by Phillip (the USA). It was sent on 16 November 2023, and arrived on 29 December 2023, bearing the First Day of Issue Postmark.
This is what USPS says about the stamps:
Christmas snow globes are miniature holiday celebrations. One shake and snow covers the scene. Your holiday mail can assure a small snowfall for everyone on your list.
I cannot but agree.
I got more of those stamps. The first one sent from... Rudolph (Ohio)!
03 December 2024
December Stamps (2023)
Each year, PostNL issues new December stamps, (Decemberzegels) which can be used by everyone to send each other Christmas and New Year cards at a reduced rate. The illustrations for the 2023 December stamps were created by illustrator Linde Faas from Tromsø, Norway.
More information about the December set here.
Heleen sent to me the complete series last year, on the back of different postcards --I uploaded to the blog only the first.
24 November 2024
Sunday Stamps | Life Magnified
| Zebrafish / Mouse brain neurons / Acon barnacle |
When I published this post, I wrongly thought that I had already got all the Life Magnified Stamps. But the rest of stamps arrived later.
| Oak leaf surface / Read blood cells / Starling bone tissue |
| Macaw parrot feathers / Moss leaves / Human hair |
| Freshwater protozoans / Blue button organism / Mold spores |
| Moth wing scales / Flame lily pollen / Arranged diatoms |
| Diving beetle front foot / Freshwater snail tongue / Moth antenna |
| Mushroom gills / Barnacle legs |
Although not all of this are strictly Small Animals, I thought I could add this post to Sunday Stamps.
20 November 2024
150 Years of the UPU
On 9 October 1874, 22 countries gathered to sign the Treaty of Bern, creating the General Postal Union, which would later become known as the Universal Postal Union. A century and a half later, the UPU now unites the postal networks of 192 member countries, having realized its founders’ vision of establishing a single postal territory to serve people everywhere.
The UPU’s theme for its 150th year – “150 years of enabling communication and empowering peoples across nations” – recognizes this accomplishment, and reinforces its commitment to serve all peoples for the decades and centuries to come.
(From UPU's website)
Throughout 2024, the UPU has been rolling out a series of events and campaigns in celebration. Among them, the issue of commemorative stamps by country members.
Bryon sent me this one from the New York UN's post office, printed by himself.
19 November 2024
States Project | The Great Lakes State
I know Michigan is a big state but... 129 lighthouses? That sounds like paradise to me!
17 November 2024
Sunday Stamps | Underground Railroad
| The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Cincinnati, Ohio |
From the time slavery was introduced to the Colonies until it was abolished in 1865, enslaved people tried to escape. This stamp issuance commemorates the Underground Railroad, as their resistance efforts became known. The pane of 20 stamps features 10 sepia-toned portraits of men and women who escaped slavery and/or helped others escape: Catharine Coffin, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Garrett, Laura Haviland, Lewis Hayden, Harriet Jacobs, William Lambert, Jermain Loguen, William Still and Harriet Tubman. Below each portrait are eight lines of text: BLACK/WHITE; COOPERATION; TRUST/DANGER; FLIGHT/FAITH; COURAGE/RISK; DEFIANCE/HOPE; UNDERGROUND; RAILROAD/USA. On the pane’s verso is a map showing the general routes freedom seekers followed and a list of individuals pictured on the stamps with a few words of biographical information about each. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps using existing images.
| Catharine Coffin / Lewis Hayden |
| Jermain Loguen / Harriet Tubman |
| William Still / Harriet Jacobs / Jermain Loguen |
| Catharine Coffin / Laura Haviland / Harriet Tubman |
Mail sent by Phillip (the USA). I added it to Sunday Stamps, today's theme being Headshots.
29 October 2024
Halloween Meetup
Heleen (the Netherlands) sent this postcard from a Postcrossing meeting held in Breda last year, with a Halloween theme. It got its own personalised stamp matching with the postcard design:
And an upside down pictorial postmark!
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