French Bees

Today I got two French stamp sets on a postcard and a cover.

This is one of them:

Solitary Bees (issued 20-05-2016)

Thank You very much William!

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Today I got two French stamp sets on a postcard and a cover.

This is one of them:

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (issued 12-01-2016)

Thank You very much William!

Protection of Polar Areas and Glaciers in Estonia

Yesterday I got a souvenir sheet from Estonia on a postcard. 

This is it:

Protection of Polar Areas and Glaciers (issued 15-01-2009)

Thank You very much Jaan!

Estonian Posthorn

Yesterday I got a stamp set from Estonia on a postcard.

This is it:

Definitives (issued 19-05-2016)

Thank You very much Jaan!

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!

Think Green in Estonia

On Thursday I got a stamp set from Estonia on a postcard.

This is it:

EUROPA (issued 09-05-2016)

Thank You very much Jaan!

Batara Kala and the Solar Eclipse

Some time ago I got a stamp set from Indonesia on a postcard.

This is it:

Total Solar Eclipse (issued 23-02-2016)

The stamps refer to the Javanese myth of Batara Kala swallowing the sun and thus causing a solar eclipse.

Thank You very much Shinta!

Queen Elizabeth II's 90th Birthday

On Friday I got the stamps from the United Kingdom which I ordered online.

This they are:

90th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II (issued 21-04-2016)
- The Queen with her father
- The Queen attending the State Opening of Parliament in 2012
- The Queen with Princess Anne and Prince Charles
- The Queen visiting New Zealand in 1977
- The Queen with her husband
- The Queen with Nelson Mandela

I also bought the related souvenir sheet showing Prince Charles, the Queen, Prince George and Prince William:

Austrian Loyalty Bonus Stamp

On Wednesday I got a special present from the Austrian Post.

This is it:

Loyalty Bonus Stamp (issued 2016)
The stamp is exclusively sent to subscribers and collectors who have bought something in the online shop of the Austrian Post during the last year. There is no other way to get it.

Thank You very much Austrian Post! ^___^

Postal Service in China

On Wednesday I got a stamp set from China on a postcard.

This is it:

120 years Post of China (issued 20-03-2016)

Thank You very much Mo!

Beer Brewing in Germany

Last Saturday returned a special collectible to me. I took a beer mat with an advertising for a local beer brand, placed on it one of the new beer stamps and sent it to the Deutsche Post to get a matching special postmark. 

The stamp is about the 500th anniversary of the German purity law and was issued on 7th April 2016. 

The German purity law for beer is one of the oldest still effective food regulations in the World. In 1487 the first purity law came into force in Munich. In 1516 the law was expanded to the whole of Bavaria. According to the law only hops, malt and water were allowed to be used during the brewing of beer. Since 1906 the law is also used in other parts of Germany.

On 5th May 1983 another stamp about the German purity law was issued, which commemorated more than 450 years since the law was enacted. As I have this stamp only on a FDS, I also bought the FDS of the new stamp.

Hops are one of the three ingredients of beer.
To commemorate more than 1100 years of hop growing in Germany a stamp was issued on 16th July 1998.

Today beer is mainly produced in large kettles.
I recently got this maxicard showing the kettles. The stamp is a definitive and was issued on 16th June 1982.