Order from an Online Stamp Shop IV

50th anniversary of ABBA's victory at the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo

Birth Centenary of Selma Lagerlöf

Last week I got my stamp order from an online stamp shop.

This is one Swedish stamp set I bought:

Birth Centenary of Selma Lagerlöf (issued 20-11-1958)

Hanseatic League of Cities

Last week I got my stamp order from an online stamp shop.

This is one Swedish-German FDC I bought:

650 years Hanseatic League of Cities (issued 07-09-2006)

Nils Holgersson

On Wednesday I got the stamps, which I have recently ordered in an online stamp shop.

This is one Swedish stamp I bought:

Nils Holgersson (issued 10-11-1971)

100th birthday of Astrid Lindgren

On Wednesday I got the stamps, which I have recently ordered in an online stamp shop.

This is one Swedish souvenir sheet I bought:

100th birthday of Astrid Lindgren (issued 08-11-2007)
It is a joint issue with Germany.

Go Green in Sweden

On Wednesday I got a stamp from Sweden in a cover from France.

This is it:

EUROPA (issued 14-01-2016)

Thank You very much William!

Swedish Toys

Today I got a souvenir sheet from Sweden and my first stamps from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This is the souvenir sheet from Sweden:

EUROPA (issued 26-03-2015)

Thank You very much William!

EUROPA stamps from Sweden

Today I got two postcards from Sweden and on each was a part of a set.

This is the set:

EUROPA (issued 08-05-2014)

Thank You very much Sandra!

Jul i Storskogen

This year I got many stamps as Christmas presents. Many of them are from countries which I had not in my collection before.

I also got a FDC from Sweden.

This is how the FDC looks like:

front side: 



back side: 

In the FDC was a pamphlet.

in Swedish: 

in English: 



Stamps:
Christmas in Forest (issued 14-11-2013)

On the FDC are the stamps from the booklet:
- bullfinchs with a plaited christmas heart
- foxes and a christmas tree
- sleeping bears in their den
- a squirrel and a gingerbread man
and ...

from the coil:
- a reindeer overlooking a city

The postmark shows a mouse with a christmas bauble.

Table Tennis

This year I got many stamps as Christmas presents. Many of them are from countries which I had not in my collection before.

A new country is Sweden.

One stamp set is this:

Table Tennis (issued 27-09-2013)
(It is a joint issue with China)

The man on the blue stamp is Jan-Ove Waldner. Jan-Ove Waldner was born on 3rd October 1966. He is a Swedish Table Tennis player. Twice he became the World Champion, once the European Champion and once he became Olympic Champion (1992 in Barcelona).

Carl XVI Gustaf

This year I got many stamps as Christmas presents. Many of them are from countries which I had not in my collection before.

A new country is Sweden.

Sweden is a country in Scandinavia bordering on Finland and Norway. Sweden is a member of the UN, of the EU and of the OECD. Sweden's capital is Stockholm.

One stamp set I got is this:

Carl XVI Gustaf 40 Years as Head of State (issued 22-08-2013)
- Monogram of Carl XVI Gustaf
- Portrait of Carl XVI Gustaf
- Carl XVI Gustaf with his daughter Victoria and his granddaughter Estelle

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden was born on 30th April 1946 in the Haga Palace near Stockholm as the son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His father died in 1947 in a plane crash and so became the new king after the death of his grandfather in 1973. In 1976 he married the untitled Silvia Sommerlath who he got to know at the Olympic Games 1972 in Munich. He is the father of Victoria (the Crown Princess of Sweden), Carl Philip and Madeleine and he is the grandfather of Estelle.