Stamp Order from Croatia

Visit Ukraine

Received: 31st December 2020

Thank You very much Natalia!

Dragons from Singapore

Last Tuesday I got my stamp order from Singapore.

This is one stamp set I ordered:

Year of the Dragon (issued 05-01-2012)

Seven Wonders of Ukraine

Last Wednesday I got my first mint stamps from Ukraine in a cover.

This is one souvenir sheet I got:

Seven Wonders of Ukraine - Castles, Fortresses and Palaces (issued 29-11-2012)

Thank You very much Alexander!

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Last Tuesday I got my stamp order from New Zealand.

This is one stamp set I bought:

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (issued 01-11-2012)
- Bilbo Baggins
- Gollum
- Gandalf
- Thorin Oakenshield
- Radagast
- Elrond

Konjic Mithraeum

On Wednesday I got my stamp order from the Croatian Post Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina with my first stamps of this postal administration.

This is one stamp I ordered:

Archaeological Treasure - Konjic Mithraeum (issued 12-05-2012)

Erasmus

Last Friday I got my stamp order from Portugal.

This is one stamp I bought:

25 years Erasmus (issued 17-04-2012)

I also bought the associated souvenir sheet.

Friedrich Cander

Last Thursday I got my stamp order from Latvia.

This is one stamp I ordered:

125th birthday of Friedrich Cander (issued 23-08-2012)

Opening of the Accession Negotiations with the European Union

On 28th August I got my stamp order from Montenegro, which included my first mint stamps from this country.

This is one FDC I bought:

Opening of the Accession Negotiations with the European Union (issued 29-06-2012)

Royal Engagement

This is the 700th post on my blog! Thank You everybody for the nice stamps I got mint, on postcards and on covers!

Today I got my stamp order from Luxembourg.

This is one stamp I ordered:

Engagement of Prince Guillaume and Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy (issued 25-09-2012)

European Court of Justice

Today I got my stamp order from Luxembourg.

This is one stamp I ordered:

60 years European Court of Justice (issued 05-11-2012)

Visit Croatia

On Saturday I got my stamp orders from Croatia, Hungary and the United Kingdom.

This is one Croatian stamp set I bought:

EUROPA (issued 09-05-2012)

Bram Stroker and Dracula

This is the 600th post on my blog! Thank You everybody for the nice stamps I got mint, on postcards and on covers!

On Tuesday I got my order from An Post, the postal operator of the Republic of Ireland, with my first mint Irish stamps.

This is one souvenir sheet I ordered:

Centenary of the death of Bram Stoker (issued 19-04-2012)

Krapina Neanderthal Museum

Last Tuesday I got a stamp set from Croatia on a postcard.

This is it:

Krapina Neanderthal Museum (issued 07-11-2012)

The Krapina Neanderthal Museum was opened in 2010 near the site in Krapina where the Neanderthals remains were discovered. It focuses on the prehistory and protohistory of the humanity and the Neanderthals of Krapina. It is considered to be one of the most interesting evolutionary museums in Europe.

Thank You very much Antonella!

Snowflake and Ray of Light

On Thursday I got a souvenir sheet from Russia in an envelope.

This is it:

Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi (issued 27-02-2012)

Thank You very much Ekaterina!

Covers and International Stamps about Little Red Riding Hood

On Thursday I got a FDC from Germany, which I sent to myself. On it there are three different varieties of the new Little Red Riding Hood stamp. The left stamp is self-adhesive and from a booklet, the stamp in the middle is self-adhesive and from a coil and the right stamp is gummed from a sheetlet. The three stamps all have different First Day Special Postmarks.

In 2012 I created a special cover for my collection with a special postmark, which uses exactly the same picture as the left postmark on the FDC I got on Thursday. The postmark celebrated the Children's Day.

The four stamps I used on the cover were all related to children and fairy tales:
500 years Till Eulenspiegel (issued 07-07-2011)
For Children (issued 13-09-2012)
200 years Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (issued 14-06-2012)
Rubbish is a Resource (issued 02-05-2012)

In my collection I also have some other stamps that feature Little Red Riding Hood.
One set was issued on 15th March 1968 in Poland and consists of eight stamps, which all show different children's stories. The stamps show Little Red Riding Hood together with the Puss in boots, the Fox and the Raven, Pan Twardowski, the Fisherman and the Fish, Cinderella, Thumbelina and Snow White.

Another set in my collection comes from Switzerland and shows Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and Cinderella (issued 26-11-1985).

Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Pinocchio and the Puss in boots are shown on a stamp set from San Marino issued on 20th August 2004.

French Lunar New Year stamps

On Thursday I got a cover from France. Inside were two philatelic collectibles.

One of them is a stamp pack of the Lunar New Year stamps. It includes three souvenir sheets, which include twelve French stamps about the Chinese New Year.

Front Side:

Back Side:

First Sheet
- Year of the Rooster (issued 29-01-2005)
- Year of the Dog (issued 23-01-2006)
- Year of the Pig (issued 27-01-2007)
- Year of the Rat (issued 26-01-2008)

Second Sheet
- Year of the Ox (issued 10-01-2009)
- Year of the Tiger (issued 15-01-2010)
- Year of the Rabbit (issued 14-01-2011)
- Year of the Dragon (issued 09-01-2012)

Third Sheet
- Year of the Snake (issued 09-01-2013)
- Year of the Horse (issued 31-01-2014)
- Year of the Goat (issued 02-02-2015)
- Year of the Monkey (issued 01-02-2016)

Thank You very much William!

The Brothers Grimm and their Fairy Tales

On Thursday the new Welfare stamps will be issued and lucky for me they feature, like the last years, my favourite theme, fairy tales. The series of Welfare stamps has the Fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm as theme. Hansel and Gretel and the Sleeping Beauty were already featured, this year the stamps will show motives about the Little Red Riding Hood.

In my collection I already have many stamps about the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales, so it is now time to show some of them.

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were born in Hanau. Jacob Grimm was born in 1785, Wilhelm Grimm in 1786. They are especially known for their collection of fairy tales, although they published also other works like the German dictionary. Wilhelm Grimm died in 1859, Jacob Grimm in 1863.

On 10th January 1985 a stamp was issued about the 200th birthday of Jacob Grimm. It shows Jacob Grimm together with his brother Wilhelm and a part of the German dictionary.

The Brothers Grimm did not invented the fairy tales on their own. They collected them from different sources. Three persons who helped them with their collection were Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
In my collection I have three stamps featuring the three persons. They were issued on 17th August 1978 in the Federal Republic of Germany, on 15th January 1981 in Berlin and on 27th December 2003 in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The first collection of the Children’s and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm was published in 1812. It was the first systematic compilation and the first scientific documentation of the entire European and Oriental fairy tale tradition. Today the fairy tales were translated in over 160 languages and are one of the most well-known and most widely distributed books worldwide of German cultural history. Since 2005 they are a part of the Memory of the World Programme of the UNESCO.
On 14th June 2012 a stamp was issued about the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Children’s and Household Tales. In my collection I have a mint block of four, five stamps issued in a coil, the stamps with the First Day Postmarks from Berlin and Bonn and the First Day Sheet. The stamp shows an opened book and various fairy tale characters, the First Day Postmarks show the signatures of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

It is not the first time that the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are shown on the Welfare stamps. Already the Welfare stamps issued between 1959 and 1967 had the fairy tales as theme.

The Star Money and Brothers Grimm (issued 01-10-1959)

Little Red Riding Hood (issued 01-10-1960)

Hansel and Gretel (issued 02-10-1961)

Snow White (issued 10-10-1962)

The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids (issued 23-09-1963)

Sleeping Beauty (issued 06-10-1964)

Cinderella (issued 06-10-1965)

The Frog Prince (issued 05-10-1966)

Mother Hulda (issued 03-10-1967)