Year of the Horse

Today I got a stamp set from Indonesia.

This is it:

Year of the Horse (issued 15-01-2014)

Thank You very much Surfia!

Year of the Horse

Today I got a FDC from the Philippines.

This is it:

Year of the Horse (issued 02-12-2013)

Thank You very much Jona!

Ferns

Today I got a stamp set from Singapore on a postcard.

This is the set:

Ferns (issued 26-02-2014)
- Elephant Fern (Angiopteris evecta)
> unrolled front
> spores
- Golden Chicken Fern (Cibotium barometz)
> unrolled front
> spores

Thank You very much Jeremy!

International Year of Biodiversity

Today I got a FDC from the United Nations and a stamp set from Cyprus.

The FDC from the United Nations was a gift of the Postal Administration and was sent together with the normal advertising mail in an envelope.

This is the FDC:

front side:

back side:

International Year of Biodiversity (issued18-10-2010)

Thank You very much United Nations Postal Administration! ^__^

Spanos and the Forty Dragons

Today I got a stamp set from Cyprus and a FDC from the United Nations.

This is the stamp set from Cyprus:

Spanos and the Forty Dragons (issued 13-11-2013)

Thank You very much Nasia!

Whales

Yesterday I received two Russian stamp sets on postcards.

One of them is this:

Whales (issued 08-02-2012)
- Killer Whale (Orcinus orca)
- Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Thank You very much Nadezhda!

Golden Mountains of Altai

Yesterday I received two Russian stamp sets on postcards.

One of them is this:

The Golden Mountains of Altai (issued 18-11-2004)

Thank You very much Nadezhda!

Peter Gaymann

Today I bought a new German stamp set.

This is it:

Cartoons of Peter Gaymann (issued 01-03-2014)
- Happy Easter
- For You
I bought them with First Day Special Postmark, each with postmark from Bonn and Berlin.

Year of the Horse

On Monday I got a stamp set from Guernsey my mum ordered for me in the Internet.

This is the set:

Year of the Horse (issued 08-01-2014)

I got also a FDC.

Hansel and Gretel

On Thursday I bought a new German stamp set.

Hansel and Gretel (issued 06-02-2014)

Hansel and Gretel are the the children of a poor tree feller. They live together with their step mother (in a earlier version with their mother) in the wood. One day the poverty becomes too abject, so the step mother wants that the father abandons Hansel and Gretel in the wood. So he does but Hansel eavesdrops on their conversation and spreads small stones on their way so that they are able to find the way back home. The father retries to abandon them and this time Hansel is not able to take small stones along but a slice of bread. He spreads the breadcrumbs on the way but as they want to go back the birds had eaten them. So they get lost.

A third day they find a house consisting of bread, cake and sugar. They break something off to allay their hunger. In this house lives a anthropophagic witch. The witch hears that someone nibbles her house and says "Nibble, nibble, gnaw, Who is nibbling at my little house?" and the children answer "The wind, the wind, the heaven-born wind!". But she does not let herself be fooled.

She catches Hansel and Gretel. Gretel becomes her skivvy and Hansel is tucked by her in a cage so that she can fatten him and eat him later. Every day as she is nearly blind she feels his finger to see if he becomes fatter but the smart Hansel gives her a small bone to fool her. As she thinks he do not become fatter she loses her temper and want to roast him immediately. She wants that Gretel feel if the oven is hot enough but Gretel says that she is to small to look in the oven. So the witch has to do it herself and as her head is in the oven Gretel pushes her into it. Then she frees her brother.

As they did not find the way back home they came to body of water on which is a duck caring them home.

I bought also a First Day Cover.

Year of the Horse

On Wednesday I received two stamp sets: one from Singapore and one from Thailand.

This is the stamp set from Singapore:

Year of the Horse (issued 03-01-2014)

Thank You very much Jeremy!

Diplomatic Relations with Laos

On Wednesday I received two stamp sets: one from Thailand and one from Singapore.

This is the stamp set from Thailand:

60 years Diplomatic Relations with Laos (issued 22-04-2011)
- Thai woman wearing her national costume
- Lao woman wearing her national costume
- Golden Shower Tree
- Dok Champa

Thank You very much Ta!

Year of the Horse

On Tuesday I got a stamp set from Canada on two postcards.

On the first postcard there is this stamp:

And on the second card there is this souvenir sheet:

Year of the Horse (issued 13-01-2014)

Thank You very much Laura!

EUROPA 2010

On Monday I received three stamp sets: one from Cyprus, one from Hong Kong and one from Thailand.

This is the stamp set from Cyprus:

EUROPA (issued 05-05-2010)

Thank You very much Nasia!

The Eight Immortals

This is the 100th post in my blog! Thank You everybody for the nice stamps I got mint, on postcards and on covers!

On Monday I received three stamp sets: one from Thailand, one from Hong Kong and one from Cyprus.

This is the stamp set from Thailand:

The Eight Immortals (issued 01-02-2011)

Thank You very much Ta!

Year of the Horse

On Monday I received three stamp sets: one from Hong Kong, one from Thailand and one from Cyprus.

The stamp set from Hong Kong was sent on two postcards.

On the first card there are this stamps:

And on another card there is this souvenir sheet:

Year of the Horse (issued 10-01-2014)

Thank You very much Kun!

Ancient Beech Forests of Germany

On Thursday I bought the first German stamps issued in 2014.

One stamp is this:

Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (issued 02-01-2014)

In 2011 the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians in Slovakia and the Ukraine were extended. Since then the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany are also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Ancient Beech Forests of Germany are forests in the nationalparks Hainich in Thuringia, Kellerwald-Edersee
in Hessen, Jasmund und Müritz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the woodland Grumsin in the Biosphere reserve Schorfheide-Chorin in Brandenburg.

Abbey of Lorsch

On Thursday I bought the first German stamps issued in 2014.

One stamp is this:

1250 years Abbey of Lorsch (issued 02-01-2014)

During the Middle Ages the Abbey of Lorsch was on of the most important claustral centres of Central Europe. The Abbey of Lorsch is since 1991 a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the "Lorscher Arzneibuch" written in the Abbey is since 2013 a part of the Memory of the World Programme of the UNESCO.

Salmon

On Thursday I bought the first German stamps issued in 2014.

One stamp is this:

Resettlement of Fishes: Salmon (issued 02-01-2014)

Hedgehog and Fox

On Thursday I bought the first German stamps issued in 2014.

One stamp set is this:

 

Baby Animals (issued 02-01-2014)
- Hedgehog
- Fox