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".

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".

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".

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

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".

LITHUANIA

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

CHILE

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.

INDIA

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.

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".

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.

POLAND

A nice cover from Poland, depicting a joint issue with Portugal, Slovakia and Luxembourg issued in 2017.

BULGARIA

A nice UNESCO cover from Bulgaria, depicting a miniature sheet issued in 2018 that celebrates "The Nestinarstvo fire-dancing rite".
The Nestinarstvo fire-dancing rite is the climax of the anual Panagyr ritual on the feast of Saints Constantine and Helena (3 and 4 June) in the village of Bulgari, in the Mount Strandzha, region of south-east Bulgaria. The festival culminates in a fire-dance in the evening as the highest form of veneration of the Saints. People silently form a circle around the burning embers led by the sacred drum, and the Nestinari, who are spiritual and physical leaders through whom the saints express their will, begin entering the circle and treading the embers. Formerly celebrated in some thirty nearby Bulgarian and Greek Villages, Nestinarstvo remains today in Bulgari, a avillage of only a hundred persons.

 

BULGARIA

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