Lunar New Year from the USA

Received: 20th November 2021

Thank You very much Sam-Quito!

Food from Monaco

Ordered: 23rd September 2021

Received: 27th September 2021

The Muppets

Received: 20th October 2020

Thank You very much Sam-Quito!

Tintilinić and Thumbelina

On Wednesday I got my stamp order from the Croatian Post Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina with my first stamps of this postal administration.

This is one stamp set I ordered:

Fairy Tales (issued 02-04-2005)
- Tintilinić by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
- Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen

Railway between Metkovic and Mostar

On Wednesday I got my stamp order from the Croatian Post Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina with my first stamps of this postal administration.

This is one stamp I ordered:

Railway between Metkovic and Mostar (issued 14-06-2005)

Miracle on the Vistula River

On 16th September I got my stamp order from Poland.

This is one souvenir sheet I ordered:

85 years Miracle on the Vistula River (issued 12-08-2005)

Battle of Trafalgar

On 28th August I got my stamp order from Gibraltar.

This is one stamp set I ordered:

Bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar (issued 31-01-2005)
Actual timber from the original HMS Victory is affixed to the £1.60 stamp. Similar stamps have been issued in Ascension Island, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Kiribati, Naura, Saint Helena, Saint Lucia and Tristan da Cunha.

Hans Christian Andersen from Bulgaria

On Monday I got the stamps I had ordered in an online stamp shop.

This is one Bulgarian souvenir sheet I ordered:

200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen (issued 20-05-2005)

Uli Stein's Mouse

On Tuesday I got three stamp sets from Switzerland in a cover.

This is one of them:

Uli Stein's Mouse (issued 08-03-2005)

Thank You very much Inge!

Felix the Hare in Switzerland

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

This is one Swiss stamp set I bought:

Felix the Hare in Switzerland (issued 10-05-2005)

The Baron of Münchhausen in Latvia

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

This is one Latvian stamp I bought:

Baron of Münchhausen (issued 01-04-2005)

Phlox and Crocus

On Thursday I bought the new German stamps.

This is one of them:

Phlox (issued 13-04-2017)

After many years, German Post finally issues some new definitive stamps. The first one to be newly issued is the 5c stamp. 10c, 20c, 45c and 90c will follow in the next months.

This is the old 5c stamp:

Crocus (issued 11-08-2005)

Poland's Favourite Reading

On Saturday I got my order from Polish Post.

This is one souvenir sheet I ordered:

Youth Literature (issued 01-06-2005)
- "Hour of the Crimson Rose" by Maria Kruger
- "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne
- "In Desert and Wilderness" by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen

On Saturday I got my order from Polish Post.

This is one stamp set I ordered:

200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen (issued 15-03-2005)
- The Little Mermaid
- The Snow Queen

French Lunar New Year stamps

On Thursday I got a cover from France. Inside were two philatelic collectibles.

One of them is a stamp pack of the Lunar New Year stamps. It includes three souvenir sheets, which include twelve French stamps about the Chinese New Year.

Front Side:

Back Side:

First Sheet
- Year of the Rooster (issued 29-01-2005)
- Year of the Dog (issued 23-01-2006)
- Year of the Pig (issued 27-01-2007)
- Year of the Rat (issued 26-01-2008)

Second Sheet
- Year of the Ox (issued 10-01-2009)
- Year of the Tiger (issued 15-01-2010)
- Year of the Rabbit (issued 14-01-2011)
- Year of the Dragon (issued 09-01-2012)

Third Sheet
- Year of the Snake (issued 09-01-2013)
- Year of the Horse (issued 31-01-2014)
- Year of the Goat (issued 02-02-2015)
- Year of the Monkey (issued 01-02-2016)

Thank You very much William!

Hans Christian Andersen

As Christmas present I got this year some online ordered stamps: my first stamps from Malta, some from Luxembourg and some from Guernsey.

Malta is an island country in South Europe. The capital of Malta is Valletta. Malta became independent from the United Kingdom in 1964, but has its own stamps since 1860.

One stamp set from Malta is this:

200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen (issued 03-03-2005)
It is a joint issue with Denmark.
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Scissors and paper cutting
- Ugly Duckling, pen and inkwell
- Moroccan travelling boots and drawing of Villa Borghese