Saturday 22 December 2018

INDIA

A nice Fauna cover from India, depicting a complete set issued in 2005 on topic "Indian Breeds of Dogs".

TURKEY

A nice UNESCO cover from Turkey, featuring a miniature sheet issued in 2018 celebrating the Archaeological Site of Troy.
Troy, with its 4,000 years of history, is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. The first excavations at the site were undertaken by the famous archaelogist Heinrich Schliemann in 1870. In scientific terms, its remains are the most significant demonstration of the first contact between the civilizations of Anatolia and the Mediterranean world. Moreover, the siege of Try by Spartan and Achaean warriors from Greece in the 13th or 12th century B.C., immortalized by Homer in the Iliad, has inspired great creative artists ever since. Troy is inscribed at UNESCO list of world heritage sites since 1998.
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Monday 17 December 2018

BHUTAN

An amazing cover from Bhutan, featuring a beautiful miniature sheet issued in 2018 on topic "Peaks of Bhutan".

LUXEMBOURG

A beautiful cover from Luxembourg, featuring a complete set issued in 2018 on topic "Birds".

Sunday 16 December 2018

BELARUS

A Fauna cover from Belarus, depicting a stamp issued in 2012 on topic "Bird of the Year".

Monday 10 December 2018

INDIA

A beautiful cover from India, featuring a miniature sheet issued in 2009 on topic "Heritage Monuments Preservation".

POLAND

A nice UNESCO cover from Poland, depicting a a joint issue with Ukraine (from year 2015) on topic "Wooden Churches of the Carpathian region".
Situated in the eastern fringe of Central Europe, the transnational property numbers a selection of sixteen tserkvas (churches). They were built of horizontal wooden logs between the 16th and 19th centuries by communities of Orthodox and Greek Catholic faiths.
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JAPAN


Thursday 6 December 2018

FRANCE

A nice UNESCO cover from France, featuring 2 stamps issued by the Unesco in Paris, in relation with World Cultural Heritage. The right stamp shows the Florida Panther and the left stamp celebrates the historic town of Samarkand, in Uzbekistan.
The historic town of Samarkand is a crossroad and meltinng pot of the world's cultures. Founded in the 7th century B.C. as ancient Afrasiab, Samarkand had its most significant development in the 14th to the 15hn centuries. The major monuments include the Registan Mosque and madrasas, Bibi-Khanum Mosque, etc.
The site is inscribed at UNESCO since 2001.
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BELARUS

A nice UNESCO cover from Belarus, depicting a miniature sheet issued in 2008 celebrating the 425th anniversary of Nesvizh Castle.
The Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh is located in central Belarus. The Radziwill dynasty, who built and kept the ensemble from the 16th century until 1939, gave birth to some of the most importante personalities in European history and culture. Due to their efforts, the town of Nesvizh came to exercise great influence in the sciences, arts and architecture. All the complex, including the castle, palaces and church, became importante prototypes marking the development of architecture in Central Europe and Russia.
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TAIWAN

A nice Birds cover from Taiwan, featuring a miniature sheet issued in 2017 on topic "Conservation of Birds - Pheasant tailed jacana".

TAIWAN

A nice Birds cover from Taiwan, featuring a miniature sheet issued in 2017 on topic "Conservation of Birds - Pheasant tailed jacana".

Tuesday 27 November 2018

CYPRUS

My first cover from Cyprus, featuring a complete set issued in 2018 on topic "EUROPA - Bridges".

BRAZIL

A beautiful cover from Brazil, with 8 different stamps affixed on it, including a complete set issued in 2011 on topic "Marine Life".

Saturday 24 November 2018

INDIA

A beautiful Fauna cover from India, featuring a complete set issued in 2012 on topic "Endemic Species".

ALGERIA

An interesting cover fom Algeria, depicting a complete set issued in 2018 on topic "Honey Production".

Monday 19 November 2018

POLAND

A nice cover from Poland, depicting a miniature sheet issued in 2014 celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising, during the II War.

BELARUS

A Fauna cover from Belarus, featuring 2 stamps (from a set of 3) issued in 2018 on topic
"Reptiles - Lizards".

BELARUS

A Fauna cover from Belarus, featuring a single stamp (from a set of 3) issued in 2018 on topic
"Reptiles - Lizards".

Saturday 17 November 2018

ESTONIA

An interesting cover from Estonia, featuring a miniature sheet issued in 2018 on topic "Tallin-Monte Carlo Electric Car Rallye". On the top of this miniature sheet we can see some pictures of Tallinn. Tallinn is the capital, the most populous and the primate city of Estonia. Located in the northern part of the country, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of about 440,000. Tallinn, first mentioned in 1154, received city rights in 1248, but the earliest human settlements date back 5,000 years. The first recorded claim over the land was laid by Denmark in 1219, after a successful raid of Lyndanisse led by King Valdemar II, followed by a period of alternating Scandinavian and Teutonic rulers. It was known one of the most important medieval port city centers in the Gulf of Finland together with Turku; due to its strategic location in the Baltic Sea, the city became a major trade hub, especially from the 14th to the 16th century, when it grew in importance as part of the Hanseatic League. Tallinn's Old Town in Kesklinn is one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.

TURKEY

A nice Fauna cover from Turkey, depicting a miniature sheet issued in 2018 on topic "Sultan Sazligi National Park, in Kayseri Province"

TURKEY


Wednesday 14 November 2018

BHUTAN

A beautiful cover from Bhutan, featuring a miniature sheet on topic "Birds - Pheasants of Bhutan".

BHUTAN

A nice FAUNA cover from Bhutan, featuring a miniature sheet on topic "Insects - Dragonflies of Bhutan".

HONG KONG

An amazing cover from Hong Kong, with many stamps and a miniature sheet issued in 2018 on topic "Year of The Dog". The miniature sheet was affixed in the front side and all the other stamps on the back side of this beautiful cover.

BULGARIA

A Fauna cover from Bulgaria, featuring a single stamp issued in 2018 (from a set of 4) on topic "Extinct species".

BULGARIA

A Fauna cover from Bulgaria, featuring a single stamp issued in 2018 (from a set of 4) on topic "Extinct species".

Monday 12 November 2018

LITHUANIA

A nice Fauna cover from Lithuania, featuring a complete set issued in 2018 on topic birds.

CHILE


Wednesday 7 November 2018

MALDIVES

My german friend Silvia sent me this very beautiful cover from Maldives, the first one from this exotic country in Indian Ocean. Unfortunately the people at local post office didn't cancel the stamps, but cover is amazing anyway.

Sunday 4 November 2018

ESTONIA

A nice Unesco cover from Estonia, depicting a miniature sheet issued in 2011 on topic "Struve Geodetic Arc".
The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black sea, through 10 countries (including Moldova, of course) and over 2,820 km. These are points of a survey, carried out between 1816 and 1855 by the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, which represented the first accurate measuring of a long segment of a meridian. This helped to establish the exact size and shape of the planet and marked an important step in the development of earth sciences and topographic mapping. It is an extraordinary exemple of scientific collaboration among scientists from different countries and of collaboration betweeen monarchs for a scientific cause.
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ESTONIA

A nice cover Fauna from Estonia, depicting 2 stamps of same type (issued in 2018) featuring the Golden Jackal.

NETHERLANDS

A nice cover from Netherlands, featuring a complete set issued in 2017 on topic "Beautiful Netherlands - Small rivers of Netherlands".

Thursday 1 November 2018

ANTARCTICA - McMurdo Station (USA)

A marvelous cover that I've prepared to myself, posted at the McMurdo South Pole Station, Antarctica.
The McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research center on the south tip of Ross Island. The station is the largest community in Antarctica, capable of supporting up to 1.250 residentes, and serves as one of three United States Antarctic science facilities. All personnel and cargo going to or coming from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station first pass through McMurdo.
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