Year of the Horse

On Wednesday I received two stamp sets: one from Singapore and one from Thailand.

This is the stamp set from Singapore:

Year of the Horse (issued 03-01-2014)

Thank You very much Jeremy!

Diplomatic Relations with Laos

On Wednesday I received two stamp sets: one from Thailand and one from Singapore.

This is the stamp set from Thailand:

60 years Diplomatic Relations with Laos (issued 22-04-2011)
- Thai woman wearing her national costume
- Lao woman wearing her national costume
- Golden Shower Tree
- Dok Champa

Thank You very much Ta!

Year of the Horse

On Tuesday I got a stamp set from Canada on two postcards.

On the first postcard there is this stamp:

And on the second card there is this souvenir sheet:

Year of the Horse (issued 13-01-2014)

Thank You very much Laura!

EUROPA 2010

On Monday I received three stamp sets: one from Cyprus, one from Hong Kong and one from Thailand.

This is the stamp set from Cyprus:

EUROPA (issued 05-05-2010)

Thank You very much Nasia!

The Eight Immortals

This is the 100th post in my blog! Thank You everybody for the nice stamps I got mint, on postcards and on covers!

On Monday I received three stamp sets: one from Thailand, one from Hong Kong and one from Cyprus.

This is the stamp set from Thailand:

The Eight Immortals (issued 01-02-2011)

Thank You very much Ta!

Year of the Horse

On Monday I received three stamp sets: one from Hong Kong, one from Thailand and one from Cyprus.

The stamp set from Hong Kong was sent on two postcards.

On the first card there are this stamps:

And on another card there is this souvenir sheet:

Year of the Horse (issued 10-01-2014)

Thank You very much Kun!

Ancient Beech Forests of Germany

On Thursday I bought the first German stamps issued in 2014.

One stamp is this:

Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (issued 02-01-2014)

In 2011 the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians in Slovakia and the Ukraine were extended. Since then the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany are also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Ancient Beech Forests of Germany are forests in the nationalparks Hainich in Thuringia, Kellerwald-Edersee
in Hessen, Jasmund und Müritz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the woodland Grumsin in the Biosphere reserve Schorfheide-Chorin in Brandenburg.

Abbey of Lorsch

On Thursday I bought the first German stamps issued in 2014.

One stamp is this:

1250 years Abbey of Lorsch (issued 02-01-2014)

During the Middle Ages the Abbey of Lorsch was on of the most important claustral centres of Central Europe. The Abbey of Lorsch is since 1991 a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the "Lorscher Arzneibuch" written in the Abbey is since 2013 a part of the Memory of the World Programme of the UNESCO.

Salmon

On Thursday I bought the first German stamps issued in 2014.

One stamp is this:

Resettlement of Fishes: Salmon (issued 02-01-2014)

Hedgehog and Fox

On Thursday I bought the first German stamps issued in 2014.

One stamp set is this:

 

Baby Animals (issued 02-01-2014)
- Hedgehog
- Fox

National Flowers of the ASEAN Countries

This week I got two postcards from Thailand. On each card are five stamps from a set of ten stamps.

This is how the set looks like:

 



Happy New Year-National Flowers of the ASEAN Countries (issued 15-11-2013)
- Simpor (Brunei)
- Romdul (Cambodia)
- Angrek bulan (Indonesia)
- Dok Champa (Laos)
- Bunga raya (Hibiscus) (Malaysia)
- Padauk (Myanmar)
- Sampaguita Jasmine (the Philippines)
- Vanda Miss Joaquim (Singapore)
- Ratchaphruek (Thailand)
- Lotus (Vietnam)

Thank You very much Ta!