Olympic Games in Seoul

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

This is one South Korean stamp set I bought:

Olympic Games in Seoul (issued 20-03-1985)

150 years German Railways

Last Friday I bought some old German stamps in a stamp shop in my home town.

This is one stamp I bought:

150 years German Railways (issued 12-11-1985)

Australian Children's Books Classics

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

This is one Australian stamp set I bought:

Australian Children's Books Classics (issued 17-07-1985)
- Elves & Fairies
- Magic Pudding
- Ginger Meggs
- Blinky Bill
- Snugglepot & Cuddlepie

Covers and International Stamps about Little Red Riding Hood

On Thursday I got a FDC from Germany, which I sent to myself. On it there are three different varieties of the new Little Red Riding Hood stamp. The left stamp is self-adhesive and from a booklet, the stamp in the middle is self-adhesive and from a coil and the right stamp is gummed from a sheetlet. The three stamps all have different First Day Special Postmarks.

In 2012 I created a special cover for my collection with a special postmark, which uses exactly the same picture as the left postmark on the FDC I got on Thursday. The postmark celebrated the Children's Day.

The four stamps I used on the cover were all related to children and fairy tales:
500 years Till Eulenspiegel (issued 07-07-2011)
For Children (issued 13-09-2012)
200 years Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (issued 14-06-2012)
Rubbish is a Resource (issued 02-05-2012)

In my collection I also have some other stamps that feature Little Red Riding Hood.
One set was issued on 15th March 1968 in Poland and consists of eight stamps, which all show different children's stories. The stamps show Little Red Riding Hood together with the Puss in boots, the Fox and the Raven, Pan Twardowski, the Fisherman and the Fish, Cinderella, Thumbelina and Snow White.

Another set in my collection comes from Switzerland and shows Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and Cinderella (issued 26-11-1985).

Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Pinocchio and the Puss in boots are shown on a stamp set from San Marino issued on 20th August 2004.

The Brothers Grimm and their Fairy Tales

On Thursday the new Welfare stamps will be issued and lucky for me they feature, like the last years, my favourite theme, fairy tales. The series of Welfare stamps has the Fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm as theme. Hansel and Gretel and the Sleeping Beauty were already featured, this year the stamps will show motives about the Little Red Riding Hood.

In my collection I already have many stamps about the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales, so it is now time to show some of them.

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were born in Hanau. Jacob Grimm was born in 1785, Wilhelm Grimm in 1786. They are especially known for their collection of fairy tales, although they published also other works like the German dictionary. Wilhelm Grimm died in 1859, Jacob Grimm in 1863.

On 10th January 1985 a stamp was issued about the 200th birthday of Jacob Grimm. It shows Jacob Grimm together with his brother Wilhelm and a part of the German dictionary.

The Brothers Grimm did not invented the fairy tales on their own. They collected them from different sources. Three persons who helped them with their collection were Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
In my collection I have three stamps featuring the three persons. They were issued on 17th August 1978 in the Federal Republic of Germany, on 15th January 1981 in Berlin and on 27th December 2003 in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The first collection of the Children’s and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm was published in 1812. It was the first systematic compilation and the first scientific documentation of the entire European and Oriental fairy tale tradition. Today the fairy tales were translated in over 160 languages and are one of the most well-known and most widely distributed books worldwide of German cultural history. Since 2005 they are a part of the Memory of the World Programme of the UNESCO.
On 14th June 2012 a stamp was issued about the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Children’s and Household Tales. In my collection I have a mint block of four, five stamps issued in a coil, the stamps with the First Day Postmarks from Berlin and Bonn and the First Day Sheet. The stamp shows an opened book and various fairy tale characters, the First Day Postmarks show the signatures of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

It is not the first time that the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are shown on the Welfare stamps. Already the Welfare stamps issued between 1959 and 1967 had the fairy tales as theme.

The Star Money and Brothers Grimm (issued 01-10-1959)

Little Red Riding Hood (issued 01-10-1960)

Hansel and Gretel (issued 02-10-1961)

Snow White (issued 10-10-1962)

The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids (issued 23-09-1963)

Sleeping Beauty (issued 06-10-1964)

Cinderella (issued 06-10-1965)

The Frog Prince (issued 05-10-1966)

Mother Hulda (issued 03-10-1967)

World Philatelic Exhibition Hafnia 87

On Thursday I got not only my ordered stamps from Liechtenstein but also a complete stamp set from Denmark on a postcard.

This is it:

World Philatelic Exhibition Hafnia 87 (issued 14-03-1985)

Thank You very much Hans Jørgen!