Emoji

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

The Republic of Ireland is a country on Ireland bordering on Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom. The country is a member of the EU, the UN and the OECD. Dublin is the country's capital.

This is one stamp set I ordered:

Emoji (issued 16-03-2017)

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)

Battle of Messines Ridge

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 stamp I ordered:

Centenary of the Battle of Messines Ridge (issued 08-06-2017)

Battle of the Somme

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 stamp I ordered:

Centenary of the Battle of the Somme (issued 23-06-2016)

RMS Lusitania

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 sinking of the RMS Lusitania (issued 07-05-2015)

Irish Castles

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 FDC I ordered:

EUROPA (issued 04-05-2017)
- Dublin Castle
- King John's Castle in Limerick

In the cover was a card with information about the castles and the stamps.

King Thrushbeard

Today I went to a fleamarket and there I bought an old East German stamp sheet for my collection.

This is it:

King Thrushbeard (issued 27-11-1967)

New and Old German Definitives

On Thursday I bought the new German stamps.

This is one set I bought:

Definitives (issued 08-06-2017)
- Winter Aconite
- Bluebells

These are the old stamps of the same values:

Special Covers from Heligoland

On Sunday I visited a special post office in Clausthal-Zellerfeld and was able to buy two special covers for my collection.

Stamp:

Saltwater Fishes (from set of three) (issued 04-08-2016)

with a special postmark about the 125th anniversary of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland

Stamps:
Supplemental Stamp 8c (issued 03-12-2015)
175 years Stamps (issued 01-09-2015)
with a special postmark about the 150th anniversary of Heligoland's first stamps

French Castles

On Saturday I got three FDCs: one from Andorra (French Post), one from France and one from Monaco.

This is the one from France:

EUROPA (issued 14-05-2017)

Thank You very much William!

A Castle from Monaco

On Saturday I got three FDCs: one from Andorra (French Post), one from France and one from Monaco.

This is the one from Monaco:

EUROPA (issued 09-05-2017)

Thank You very much William!

A Castle of Andorra

On Saturday I got three FDCs: one from Andorra (French Post), one from France and one from Monaco.

This is the one from Andorra:

EUROPA (issued 05-05-2017)

Thank You very much William!

Brazil-Germany Joint Issue

It took nearly two months, but now the First Day Sheet of the 500 years Reformation stamp is finally available at my post office. The sheet bears the Brazilian stamp just beside the German one, which is the reason why it took so long to arrive. ^___^