Stamp Order from Estonia

Opening of the Numismatic and Philatelic Museum in the Vatican

Received: 28th August 2021

Thank You very much Anita!

Astrid Lindgren

Bought: 8th July 2021

US Star Wars Stamps

During my holidays I got four covers from the USA with nice stamps on the covers and mint stamps inside.

This is the complete stamp set used over three of the covers:

Star Wars (issued 25-05-2007)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Darth Vader
- C-3PO
- Emperator Palpatine
- Luke Skywalker
- Queen Amidala
- Chewbacca and Han Solo
- Millennium Falcon
- Master Yoda
- Darth Maul
- Boba Fett
- Stormtroopers
- Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Princess Leia and R2-D2
- X-Wing

Thank You very much Sam-Quito!

100th birthday of Astrid Lindgren

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

This is one Swedish souvenir sheet I bought:

100th birthday of Astrid Lindgren (issued 08-11-2007)
It is a joint issue with Germany.

Tintin in Geneva

On Friday I was in Hanover and there I found a little stamp shop. In the shop I bought a stamp set from the USA and a set of two prepaid postcards from Switzerland.

These are the prepaid postcards:

100th birthday of Hergé (issued 10-05-2007)
- Tintin and Captain Haddock in front of the Hotel Cornavin in Geneva
- Tintin and Captain Haddock going to a Swissair bus in front of the Hotel Beaujolais

Hans Huckebein

On Sunday I visited the Birth House of Wilhelm Busch in Wiedensahl and was able to buy an old souvenir sheet showing his character Hans Huckebein.

This is it:

175th birthday of Wilhelm Busch (issued 14-06-2007)

Hans Huckebein celebrates the 150th anniversary of his first publication in 2017 and a special postmark was available in Wiedensahl.

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

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)

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

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!

Trix and Flix

On Friday arrived the mint Austrian stamps and souvenir sheets I ordered online.

This is one of them:

UEFA EURO 2008 - Trix and Flix (issued 29-06-2007)

Wilhelm Busch

Yesterday I bought the new German stamps.

This is one of them:

150 years Max and Moritz (issued 02-04-2015)

Max and Moritz is an illustrated story by the German author Wilhelm Busch and was first published in 1865. The stamp shows an illustration of the third prank out of seven.
The works of Wilhelm Busch were often shown on German stamp. The oldest Wilhelm Busch I have in collection were issued on 9th January 1958 and remembered Wilhelm Busch's 50th day of death. The left stamp shows a self portrait of Wilhelm Busch and the right stamp an illustration of the sixth prank.

The next Wilhelm Busch stamp was issued on 15th April 1982 and celebrated his 150th birthday. The stamp shows the Pious Helene. In my collection I have both, a mint stamp and one cancelled with the First Day Special Postmark. The stamp shows an illustration of the third chapter and the postmark one from the fifth chapter.

On 19th April 1990 four stamps were issued to celebrate 125 years of Max and Moritz. The first stamp shows an illustration of Widow Bolte from the first prank, the second stamp shows the second prank, the third stamp one from the third prank and the fourth stamp the illustration of the preface.

The Teacher Lämpel was used on a stamp (issued 09-08-2001) to encourage to lifelong learning. Teacher Lämpel was featured in the fourth prank of Max and Moritz.

The latest stamps of the Federal Republic of Germany showing a character of Wilhelm Busch were issued on 14th June 2007 to celebrate Wilhelm Busch's 175 birthday. The stamps show a sequence of pictures from Hans Huckebein. The First Day Special Postmark shows again a self portrait of Wilhelm Busch.

Not only the Federal Republic of Germany showed characters of Wilhelm Busch. Switzerland featured Max and Moritz on one stamp from a Pro Juventute set about Characters from children's books (issued 26-11-1984).

The other stamps from the set show Heidi by Johanna Spyri, Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi and Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren.

The German Federal Post of Berlin issued four stamps about Max and Moritz on 19th April 1990 to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the publishing of the story. The stamps show illustrations of the fourth, sixth, seventh and fifth prank.