Sunday 25 December 2016

BOSNIA (Croat Post of MOSTAR)

A WWF Fauna cover from Bosnia (Croat Post of Mostar), showing the "Balkan green lizard" (Lacerta trilineata). This species of lizard is found in Albânia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, CRoatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Israel, Syria and Turkey. Its natural habitats are Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, plantations and rural gardens. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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TAIWAN

Another beautiful cover sent by Jerry Weng, with another miniature sheet showing a deep sea creature called cock-eyed squid. It goes by this common name of "cock-eyd squid", because in all species the right eye is normal-sized, round, blue and sunken;whereas the leaf eye is at least twice the diameter of the right eye, tubular, yellow-green, faces upward, and bulges out the head. 




TAIWAN

An amazing Fauna cover from Taiwan, showing a 2012 miniature sheet with Deep sea creatures. It was sent by my friend Jerry Weng and has some peculiar things: to highlight the bioluminescente characteristics of these deep sea creatures, the luminescente parts of these animals are printed in luminous ink, giving the stamps a charming effect under darkness. Furthermore, in order to illustrate the color of the Silver Hatchetfish, it is hot stamped with holographic foil.




MYANMAR

This is my 4th. cover from Myanmar. I received it from my local philatelic friend Tun Myint from Yangon (Rangoon), capital and main city of Myanmar.

Friday 23 December 2016

CZECH REPUBLIC

A beautiful Fauna cover from Czech Republic, showing a big sheetlet with Animals from 4 zoo parks of Czech Republic.

Thursday 22 December 2016

SLOVENIA

Another nice cover from Slovenia, showing a miniature sheet issued in 2016 with Marine Life theme. The minisheet depicts a dolphin species ("Short-breaked commeon dolphin") diving.

SLOVENIA

A nice Fauna cover from Slovenia with Marine life theme. It shows a complete set issued in 2016 with three different species of whales and dolphins: "Common bottlenose dolphin" (1,00 euro stamp), "Fin whale" (the other 1,00 euro stamp) and "Striped dolphin" (on 1,26 euro stamp).

VIETNAM

A perfect Birds cover from Vietnam, showing a complete set issued in 2002 with 6 Song-birds.

ISRAEL

A birds cover from Israel with a complete set of 2 stamps issued in 2012. This set celebrates 20 years of Israel-China diplomatic relations.

Wednesday 21 December 2016

NORWAY

An interesting cover from Norway with 2 stamps from a set of 3 (year 2006).

VIETNAM

Another Fauna cover from Vietnam, showing a complet set (year 1998) with Moths from Vietnam.

FRANCE

A nice Fauna cover from France, showing a miniature sheet (year 2015) with 4 different french roosters: Houdan rooster, Gallic rooster, meuse Cock and rooster of Marans)

ISRAEL

A Fauna cover from Israel, with a sheetlet showing several animals and their offspring: chicken, cat and domestic rabbit.

Tuesday 20 December 2016

VIETNAM

Another UNESCO cover from Vietnam, with the miniature sheet showing again the Trang An scenic landscape complex and its related festivities.

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VIETNAM

A very nice cover with UNESCO theme, with a set of three stamps depicting the beauty of UNESCO-recognized Trang An scenic landscape complex.
Located in Ninh Binh Province in northern Vietnam, the complex was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage in 2014.
This set of three was issued in 2015.


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JORDAN

Another beautiful Fauna cover from Jordan (my 3rd. one from this country), depicting a 2013 complete set with Migratory Birds.

Monday 19 December 2016

CZECH REPUBLIC

An interesting cover from Czech Republic (year 2016), showing 2 historical places registered in the list of monuments protected as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO: The 16 kcs stamp shows Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, a big complex of 109,30 km2 in the Lednice and Valtice areas of the South Moravian Region; the 27 kcs stamp shows the historical centre of Prague, capital and main city in the Czech Republic.


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SLOVENIA

Another Fauna cover from Slovenia, showing a complete definitive set (year 2016) with Birds of Slovenia: European green woodpecker, European honey buzzard, Hazel grouse, Common firecrest and European bee-eater.

SLOVENIA

A Fish cover from Slovenia, showing 3 stamps with the European pilchard.

ISRAEL

Another beautiful cover from Isarel, showing a sheetlet with 4 species of israeli anphibians: Syrian spadefoot, Near easter fire Salamander, Southern banded newt and Hula Painted frog.
              

Sunday 18 December 2016

LUNDY Island (local post)

A nice cover/postcard from Lundy Island.
Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel. It lies 12 miles (19 km) off the coast of Devon, England,
The face value of the Lundy Island stamps covers the cost of postage of letters and postcards from the island to the Bideford Post Office on the mainland for onward delivery to their final destination anywhere in the world. Lundy stamps are a type of postage stamp known to philatelists as "local carriage labels" or "local stamps".