Selma Lagerlöf

This is the 500th post on my blog! Thank You everybody for the nice stamps I got mint, on postcards and on covers!

Recently I bought some German stamps for my collection in a stamp shop in my hometown.

This is one of them:

150th Birthday of Selma Lagerlöf (issued 13-11-2008)
The stamp shows an illustration about Lagerlöf's famous children's book The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.

Pied Piper of Hamelin

Recently I bought some German stamps for my collection in a stamp shop in my hometown.

This is one of them:

Pied Piper of Hamelin (issued 22-05-1978)

UNESCO World Heritage in Germany and Latvia

Recently I bought some German stamps for my collection in a stamp shop in my hometown.

This is one set I bought:

UNESCO World Heritage (issued 12-07-2007)
It is a joint issue with Latvia.
- Riga
- Stralsund and Wismar

Charles IV and the Golden Bull

Recently I bought some German stamps for my collection in a stamp shop in my hometown.

This is one of them:

650 years Golden Bull (issued 02-01-2006)

World Post Day in Thailand

On Friday I got a stamp set from Thailand on a postcard.

This is it:

World Post Day (issued 09-10-2016)

Thank You very much Cherry!

Receiving Mail

On Wednesday I got two stamp sets from Germany on a cover.

This is one of them:

Receiving Mail (issued 20-09-2007)

Sending Mail

On Wednesday I got two stamp sets from Germany on a cover.

This is one of them:

Sending Mail (issued 12-04-2007)

Think Green on Jersey

On Monday I got a stamp set from Jersey on a cover.

This is it:

EUROPA (issued 03-05-2016)

Thank You very much William!

UNESCO World Heritage in Latvia and Germany

Last Saturday I got my order from Latvijas Pasts with my first mint Latvian stamps. 

This is one stamp set I ordered:

UNESCO World Heritage (issued 12-07-2007)
It is a joint issue with Germany.
- Riga
- Stralsund and Wismar

Think Green in Latvia

Last Saturday I got my order from Latvijas Pasts with my first mint Latvian stamps. 

This is one stamp set I ordered:

EUROPA (issued 09-05-2016)

I also ordered the FDC of the set.

Latvia's Children's Books

Last Saturday I got my order from Latvijas Pasts with my first mint Latvian stamps. 

This is one stamp set I ordered:

EUROPA (issued 09-04-2010)

Latvian Riflemen

Last Saturday I got my order from Latvijas Pasts with my first mint Latvian stamps. 

This is one stamp I ordered:

Centenary of the Latvian Riflemen (issued 25-10-2015)

The Miracle of the Forest

Last Saturday I got my order from Latvijas Pasts with my first mint Latvian stamps. 

This is one stamp I ordered:

The Miracle of the Forest (issued 21-02-2009)

I am not sure about the name of the fairy tale, so if someone knows Latvian fairy tales please correct or verify me. ^___^

The Seven Vicious Brothers

Last Saturday I got my order from Latvijas Pasts with my first mint Latvian stamps.

Latvia is one of the Baltic states in Northern Europe bordering on Estonia, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania. After the Singing Revolution Latvia declared as one of the first countries its independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. Today is Latvia a member of the UN and the NATO. In 2004 the country joined the European Union and in 2014 it introduced the Euro. 

This is one stamp I ordered:

The Seven Vicious Brothers (issued 23-08-2008)

I am not sure about the name of the fairy tale, so if someone knows Latvian fairy tales please correct or verify me. ^___^

Swan Lake and Charleston

On Thursday I got a FDC from France.

This is it:

Stamp Day (issued 08-10-2016)
- Swan Lake
- Charleston

Thank You very much William!

Fairy Amálka

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

This is one FDC I bought:

Fairy Amálka (issued 18-05-2016)

Bob and Bobek

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

This is one booklet I bought:

Bob and Bobek (issued 29-04-2015)

Jů and Hele

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

This is one booklet I bought:

Jů and Hele (issued 28-05-2014)

Krtek

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

This is one booklet I bought:

The Mole and the Rocket (issued 29-05-2013)

Jerome of Prague

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

This is one FDC I bought:

600th day of death of Jerome of Prague (issued 20-01-2016)

For some reason the image on this Czech stamp was used on a German postmark earlier this year.

Liechtenstein's Art in the Czech Republic

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

This is one stamp I bought:

Gerrit Dou's Young Woman on a Balcony (issued 07-09-2016)
It is a joint issue with Liechtenstein.

Czechia at War

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

This is one souvenir sheet I bought:

Centenary of World War I (issued 14-10-2015)

The Czech Republic on the EXPO 2015

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

This is one souvenir sheet I bought:

EXPO 2015 (issued 18-03-2015)

Czech Swallowtails

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

This is one stamp I bought:

Swallowtails (issued 27-04-2016)

Emperor Charles IV

Over the weekend I was in Prague and there I bought my first mint Czech stamps.

The Czech Republic is a country in Central Europe bordering on Poland, Slovakia, Austria and Germany. Until 1993 it was a part of Czechoslovakia. Today the country is a member of the EU, the NATO and the OECD.

This is one souvenir sheet I bought:

700th birthday of Charles IV (issued 04-05-2016)