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class='date-header'><span>Monday, 10 February 2025</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0yMJYUb3spbkGtbXAuapEfK4k6E0W2bBVc2I3TsSsSt16-RyYukEZSvzWqVqZnAMnTJUINSQAqDtgclLj75HNAE1j7pKrXRE63gAUYa5GI_Qz4aYo2sADr8gYHrD4E1t96pHZIoMWtMqCOfj6lfZThwg2rle28NBU25_bH_I4hbbOUSg3DtWpopMPNhI/w570-h287/holanda-fev.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4544454598959034934' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='8356254437955824964' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='8356254437955824964'></a> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-8356254437955824964' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p><span style="font-family: arial;">COVER N. 557 - NETHERLANDS</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Postmark: Zwolle</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Posted on (?); Received on the 10th February 2025</span></p><p><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: arial;">_________________________________________________________________________________</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Every once in a while I get a request to exchange covers from a fellow collector who happens to come across this little blog of mine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This time the request came from the Netherlands and I was quite happy to receive this cover from Rohan, which also included a kind gift of stamps inside. The more so since I haven't been receiving much mail in this beginning of year and to hear again the sound of the metallic flap of my letterbox being dropped by my friend Mr. Postman, really feels me with joy.  Hartelijk dank, or better yet, Multe mul葲umiri, Rohan!</div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0yMJYUb3spbkGtbXAuapEfK4k6E0W2bBVc2I3TsSsSt16-RyYukEZSvzWqVqZnAMnTJUINSQAqDtgclLj75HNAE1j7pKrXRE63gAUYa5GI_Qz4aYo2sADr8gYHrD4E1t96pHZIoMWtMqCOfj6lfZThwg2rle28NBU25_bH_I4hbbOUSg3DtWpopMPNhI/s1297/holanda-fev.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="1297" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0yMJYUb3spbkGtbXAuapEfK4k6E0W2bBVc2I3TsSsSt16-RyYukEZSvzWqVqZnAMnTJUINSQAqDtgclLj75HNAE1j7pKrXRE63gAUYa5GI_Qz4aYo2sADr8gYHrD4E1t96pHZIoMWtMqCOfj6lfZThwg2rle28NBU25_bH_I4hbbOUSg3DtWpopMPNhI/w570-h287/holanda-fev.jpg" width="570" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Bonaire is a small island in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela, and part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1636, following the Dutch conquest of Curacao from the Spanish in 1634.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In Bonaire, 209 confirmed bird species have been registered. On 02JAN2024,  PostNL issued a 10 tariff "1" Stamp minisheet dedicated to the birds of this particular Dutch possession. One of them featuring a photo of  a Red Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), was used on the cover. Red flamingos inhabit the salty lakes of Bonair, Lake Goto having a population of 20,000 individuals of this beautiful member of the<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Phoenicopteridae family.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Willem-Alexander became King of the Netherlands, on 30 April 2013. that very same year PostNL started to issue yearly definitive issues with the effigy of the king, the stamps of these sets being distinguishable from each other by the faintly  imprinted year  that appears on the top corner of the stamp. The Tariff "1 International", of the 2024 set was also used on this cover.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The mechanical postmark was applied at Zwolle, a city of 120,000 inhabitants on the eastern side of the country.</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/02/cover-n_10.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/02/cover-n_10.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2025-02-10T12:58:00Z'>February 10, 2025</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/02/cover-n_10.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=8356254437955824964&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=8356254437955824964&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Received on the 31st January 2025</span></p><p><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: arial;">_________________________________________________________________________________</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Luis kindly sends me a cover to follow up on the theme started with cover #542: Radio. Muito obrigado Luis, pela interessante emiss茫o (o voc谩bulo n茫o poderia estar mais adaptado 馃榾)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The 100 years of Radio in Brazil. A theme that can really relate to a stamp "emission", as I told Luis in our common language, above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Radio, the harbinger of news;, the company for the evening; the connection to the world, both before and after TV, in those places where it was not available, such as I experienced for years as a child.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Radio, the magic box that exposed me to the music I came to love through author's programs that were a immensely far cry from the hours and hours of publisher dominated play lists which today fill wave after wave with the same pre-fabricated hits, that have more to do with selling the highly stereotyped looks of an "artist" that with "Music" itself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Radio, an old technology which I think will still be around until the day when cars will be fully autonomous, self-driven.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In fact, I think that the lifebuoy for radio has been the fact that we cannot take our eyes from the road (or at least one shouldn't....) when driving. I would imagine that most of the radio that is heard is by drivers, their auditorium being the confinement of their cars while commuting to and from work.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Until that day comes, I will still turn on the radio in my car or here in my work desk, where I can hear emissions from all over the world thanks to https://radio.garden, a rather curious platform that allows us to do just that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In fact, as I type, I'm listening to Antena 1 FM 94.7 in S. Paulo, as a tribute to Luis.... who knows if he's listening to it too right now 馃榾.</div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismatGDt-EJisWMB17rvkOpy1WdbKNCmU-O2BnjXKAsnIuz4qnwwzqx5UIMVjllHeojY5nN2C4n5e41oESgjHAan6cNMReek9p9RsX80r6GJcN6908RvAocXxGZ3OY8aU44VkO09xKNRmOdDxjk6LwOUzADu4c8HiInMTg8uoA2hdqhL5ed87SDA8Ccqg/s2312/brasiljan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1558" data-original-width="2312" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismatGDt-EJisWMB17rvkOpy1WdbKNCmU-O2BnjXKAsnIuz4qnwwzqx5UIMVjllHeojY5nN2C4n5e41oESgjHAan6cNMReek9p9RsX80r6GJcN6908RvAocXxGZ3OY8aU44VkO09xKNRmOdDxjk6LwOUzADu4c8HiInMTg8uoA2hdqhL5ed87SDA8Ccqg/w585-h395/brasiljan.jpg" width="585" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As I read on the AESP - Associa莽茫o das Emissoras R谩dio e Televis茫o do Estado de S茫o Paulo  (Radio and Television  Broadcasters Association:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Officially, Radio was born in Brazil on the 7th September 1922, during the celebrations of the Independence centenary, with the long distance wireless transmission of president's Epit谩cio Pessoa allocution for the inauguration of the Brazilian radiotelephony."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Precisely 100 years to that moment, on 07SEP2022, Correios do Brasil issued a 4 x 3,25 reais minisheet celebrating the occasion. When together, the four se-tenant stamps which Luis used on this interesting cover  bear the image of a an old radio circular display over which an old fashioned  radio and a radio reporter are superimposed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Luis also glued onto the cover  the remaining graphic elements of the minisheet, namely the logo for the commemorations of the centenary and another radio display, again with "frequencies" ranging from 1922 to 2022, as it was the case on the stamps themselves.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As usual on Luis' covers, the postmark hails from the central Post Office from the city of S茫o Paulo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/02/cover-n.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/02/cover-n.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2025-02-02T12:13:00Z'>February 02, 2025</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/02/cover-n.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=5869390755318899003&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=5869390755318899003&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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font-family: arial;">___________________________________________________________________________ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The Russian aggression on its neighbour drags on, in a relentless war of attrition that sadly brings to mind the ferocious lunacy of the western front of WW1...countless lives, sufferance, destruction, what for?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">I read it on the news that V. Putin  is quoted as saying that that if  D. Trump (who would end it in 24 hours, both before and after his coming to office, of course...) had been in power in 2022, the war would never had started... How come, then? Would the so called Ukrainian Nazis need no denazification then? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Anyway, today I got a rather battered postcard from Alex from the Ukraine which was hand dated of last August.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">For some reason, not hard to understand, for the postmark hails from Slovyansk, in the Donbas region, a place that has suffered badly the burden of the despicable aggression, the cancellation is dated of the 20th November, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Before arriving at my letterbox it also got some heavy rain on it, for it shows clear signs of having been affected by water, but this could and probably did happen very recently for a letter I had mailed myself three days ago also arrived totally destroyed by water. Blame it on the ongoing storms that have been affecting Europe, because of climate change, that Chinese hoax....</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Thanks Alex. I'm very happy to have this postcard on my collection which again bears testimony to the resilience of the valiant Ukrainian civil servants that make the country go on, in spite of all the hardship impinged upon them. Heroes, all of them!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNUs-B0fftLQuojYICd43m5qe-kHfuljxjmQdvCu3ji5nlkYhdhSwXRfGa8VqWsEkl5Qzunclp8aUWPi1WTzlGP3WpVrPjje74yNOIIQCNP6R7lchk7nGqFCYS4RC5wJ5I2DGjQUaiddKyOD4Wi7VqAORav3lNkalRMmCj-6F8HOHoakuOWQRQvet43U0/s1729/ucraniajan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="1729" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNUs-B0fftLQuojYICd43m5qe-kHfuljxjmQdvCu3ji5nlkYhdhSwXRfGa8VqWsEkl5Qzunclp8aUWPi1WTzlGP3WpVrPjje74yNOIIQCNP6R7lchk7nGqFCYS4RC5wJ5I2DGjQUaiddKyOD4Wi7VqAORav3lNkalRMmCj-6F8HOHoakuOWQRQvet43U0/w589-h410/ucraniajan.jpg" width="589" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The photo on the postcard is that of the Central House of Culture in Irpin, built in 1954 and clearly an important military target such as all the civilian institutions and homes that the Russian have destroyed since the 25th February 2022, for it was heavily shelled by artillery fire on 17 March 2022, barely one month after the beginning of the invasion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As far as I could read, in 2023, protective works were carried out in order to minimize the consequences of exposure to winter of the damaged areas of the building, and I hope that it may sometime in the near future be fully recuperated and us for its  peaceful purpose.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZefPxzSikMbvDK5IbvhVL6EzoYt7B0xg6i1M8ENn7hL7K3kWOgc59QzlqpTnFMRN5wqMxWF0dhEjPiazpq-muciCdhMBlGewNTqEBc6QnRK2U5TwdQQW5G7WCTNti8ohb4L8-Ta0gV-vs7gi4kLwdf0IwH2vL0FB5ZSascw4GCdFlZjpFJaNBr5z5Vtk/s1749/ucraniajan1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="1749" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZefPxzSikMbvDK5IbvhVL6EzoYt7B0xg6i1M8ENn7hL7K3kWOgc59QzlqpTnFMRN5wqMxWF0dhEjPiazpq-muciCdhMBlGewNTqEBc6QnRK2U5TwdQQW5G7WCTNti8ohb4L8-Ta0gV-vs7gi4kLwdf0IwH2vL0FB5ZSascw4GCdFlZjpFJaNBr5z5Vtk/w586-h412/ucraniajan1.jpg" width="586" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">On 23JAN2022, just about one month from the start of the shameful Russian occupation, Ukrapost issued the "F" tariff stamp on the top right of the postcard, dedicated to the 2022 Benjing Winter Olympics.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The Ukraine participated on this olympiad with a team of 45 athletes, competing in 12 disciplines.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> Oleksandr Abramenko won the only Ukranian medal: silver in thye Men's aerials copetition in Freestyle skiing.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">I cannot find any indication as to the lion's head on the stamp, which was also used on a comemorative coin issued by the Ukraine mint, but statues of guarding lions are quite common in China, so there's probably a connection here.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">For three years starting in 2018, Ukraposta issued a series of 3 beautifully illustrated minisheets with stamps dedicated to the Alphabet, each stamp being illustrated with a letter and a an object presumably begining with this particualr character.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The eleven stamps on the 2020 minisheet, issued on 12SEP2020, had each a face value of 9 Ukrainian hryvnia. The stamp on the postcard is illsutrated with a pair of boots, 褔芯斜芯褌懈 in  Ukranian.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">On 05JUL2019 Ukraposta issued a set of five 8 Ukrainian hryvnia in the series The Beauty and Greatness of Ukraine  dedicated to the Donetsk Region.  The stamp dedicated to the Stone tombs reserve, near the town of  Nazarivka, in the Mariupol region, a nature reserve established on April 5, 1927. Sadly the occupier installed a military base in the reserve, I read... not good news for conservation, I fear.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">There are two postmarks 0on the card, One of  Slovyasnk and the one on the upper right corner which calims "袛芯薪斜邪褋 - 褑械校泻褉邪褨薪邪" (Donbas is Ukraine).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/postcard-n_30.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/postcard-n_30.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2025-01-30T20:59:00Z'>January 30, 2025</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/postcard-n_30.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=7466665260846156170&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=7466665260846156170&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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font-family: arial;">___________________________________________________________________________, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The entrance to the  royal palace of Sigiria, Sri Lanka's capital in the 5th century, and a current UNESCO World Heritage Site,  sitting atop what is known as the lion rock, was made through a stairway that penetrated the monumental head of a brick sculpted lion.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Today, all that remains of this huge sculpture are the lion's paws, the subject of this rather nice card Ravindra set me.  Bohom颧  sthoothi, Ravi! I hope to see in loco one day, but uuntil that time comes, your nice postcards are a great apetiser... :-).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyJsa0hvcfERXl9ZyiuVj9auqCe5a3RqGWarM9PToG0v9knFS0A2c-guZA0DPhKGOHBf_hmAeWxSKHdH5VANoWboB93araoC-fR__QJ3D_G1lygTYyE0VtpyLpn8vlnbKviyVkM4_Gmw5LsVJcL62Ei0BOICGdo7HJzvBhfPo7ypa3tPdQjgzdLFwVadg/s1776/sri-lanka-jan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1328" data-original-width="1776" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyJsa0hvcfERXl9ZyiuVj9auqCe5a3RqGWarM9PToG0v9knFS0A2c-guZA0DPhKGOHBf_hmAeWxSKHdH5VANoWboB93araoC-fR__QJ3D_G1lygTYyE0VtpyLpn8vlnbKviyVkM4_Gmw5LsVJcL62Ei0BOICGdo7HJzvBhfPo7ypa3tPdQjgzdLFwVadg/w592-h442/sri-lanka-jan.jpg" width="592" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6dL3r4b7-D9ugcX82C5RJO36ciuaaIR8vVeNwQjO0hfnqLztf-KiOZvUzmsfrg58WxC6eQU2lfaiE1mEm9t1eCfWIOTFcJ_anrXWNU28Qhss8UgO0xxjw6M8bJPuHhLEM_Eb3mKL5fLT4FFMpEinjsY-Ic5v-OjYZSoL42Jy_BIp3VNTZMDtv-FTkLk/s866/sri-lanka-jan1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="866" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6dL3r4b7-D9ugcX82C5RJO36ciuaaIR8vVeNwQjO0hfnqLztf-KiOZvUzmsfrg58WxC6eQU2lfaiE1mEm9t1eCfWIOTFcJ_anrXWNU28Qhss8UgO0xxjw6M8bJPuHhLEM_Eb3mKL5fLT4FFMpEinjsY-Ic5v-OjYZSoL42Jy_BIp3VNTZMDtv-FTkLk/s320/sri-lanka-jan1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Ancient city of Sigiriya, is one of the eight UNESCO declared World Heritage Sites, six of cultural and two of natural nature.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As I mentioned a propos cover #385, The top of the lion mountain was chosen by King Kashyapa on the late 5th century as the place to erect  Sri Lanka's capital, something that  could only be attributed to the facility in defending it from any ill intended creature, be it human or animal, since  the site is a huge rock massive, protruding from the forest below, which makes it quite difficult to reach or attack from below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In fact, it turns out that  Kashyapa was a parricide and he build his palace on top of what is known as the Lion Mountain, so as to defend himself from the vengeance of his brother, who, nonetheless, succeeded in defeating him, Kashyapa committing suicide afterwards.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After this episode, the site was progressively abandoned, having served as a Buddhist monastery until the 14th century.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The site was declared of WHS importance in 1982, UNESCO highlighting the fact that the frescoes existing on the site inaugurated a style which endured many centuries, and also that the poems inscribed on the rock walls bi visitors, known as Sigiri graffiti, are among the most ancient texts in Sinhalese language.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The 50 rupee stamp is part of a set of four  issued (2 x 50 + 2 x 110 rupee) on 15JUN2023, dedicated to the Sigiriya site, all illustrated with aerial views of it, and bearing the legends the legends “Sigiryia”, “World Heritage Sites Sri Lanka” as well as the UNESCO logo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The 20 rupee stamp is part of a large set of butterfly themed stamps issued on 01DEC2022, and it depicts a Pale Ceylon line blue (Nacaduba sinhala), a member of the Lycaenidae family, endemic to Ceylon.</div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/postcard-n_29.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/postcard-n_29.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2025-01-29T10:25:00Z'>January 29, 2025</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/postcard-n_29.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=6624361469123996769&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=6624361469123996769&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Received on the 22nd January 2025</span></p><p><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: arial;">_________________________________________________________________________________</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Recently, there was a comedy serial on Portuguese TV pretty well written, something which is not always (if not seldom) the case, given that humour goes hand in hand with intelligence and wit, therefore being a rather scarce commodity (proof of this being the legions of pretence and pretentious stand-up comedians that seem to sprout like mushrooms these days, sharing with their appreciative public the obvious lack of the few attributes I just mentioned...).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One of the lines that I will not forget was something which I had never heard before formulated as such, although it is possible that the script writers had stolen it from popular wisdom: "In life there are but two certainties: death and two cups of water for one of rice."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Well, true as it might be, I think that such a basilar axiom bears reformulation, for in life there are in fact but three certainties: death, two cups of water for one of rice and the fact that day one of the new year comes always after the last day of the year gone by... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Proof of this is the very nice Chinese new year cover that I received today, and which now joins my collection allowing me to have covers for the last three years of this annual series. Un grand merci, Roland!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I rather like the colours and the image of the serpent on the stamp and the same goes to the very nice celebratory postmark.</div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc3Vo71Cof-oupFb5xCXzFz7FHvDqY6XwzWka3t8yA8ouKzRHUqsYzSZt0kfMnDCWjlinO_TK3xI-jS14-lOiNgfGZKeGcdul6Lg2uOPBp2GZRrjDKOj9xhn7TZJNM9nN_6BtfZD6pE_rVt-gCNoek23DAht7yZPZMmBgetR63rfawhSRzHlJu__Ps-9c/s1920/Fran%C3%A7a-22Jan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1344" data-original-width="1920" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc3Vo71Cof-oupFb5xCXzFz7FHvDqY6XwzWka3t8yA8ouKzRHUqsYzSZt0kfMnDCWjlinO_TK3xI-jS14-lOiNgfGZKeGcdul6Lg2uOPBp2GZRrjDKOj9xhn7TZJNM9nN_6BtfZD6pE_rVt-gCNoek23DAht7yZPZMmBgetR63rfawhSRzHlJu__Ps-9c/w554-h388/Fran%C3%A7a-22Jan.jpg" width="554" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Not being versed in the secrets of the Chinese Zodiac, I took a peep where I thought it would be obvious to look for some information and I landed on the South China Morning Post where I could read that… </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">…"In many Western countries, snakes have long been associated with evil and temptation. However, in China, snakes hold a more complex and varied symbolism. They are simultaneously associated with harvest, procreation, spirituality, and good fortune, as well as cunning, evil, threat, and terror."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">hmmm... I don't know about the first part of the sentence , but for the part beginning with cunning, I am sure that there are more than a few people out there on whom I think the sign would fit like a glove ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Chinese new year will begin on the 29th January. Celebrating this fact La Poste, continuing the series initiated in 2019, the year of the Pig, issued on 18JAN2025 the usual two stamps (domestic and international) on mini-sheets of 5 stamps each, dedicated to the theme. The international service stamp (2.10 €, what represents an increase of approximately 7% in the price of the service vis-脿-vis last year's price of 1.96 €) was used on this cover, First Day postmarked in Paris.</div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/cover-n_092048514.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/cover-n_092048514.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2025-01-23T10:00:00Z'>January 23, 2025</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/cover-n_092048514.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=2077239856232823707&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=2077239856232823707&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Received on the 22nd January 2025</span></p><p><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: arial;">_________________________________________________________________________________</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Georgia. The country which has been on the news quite often lately, because of the huge pro-democracy and pro-Europe demonstrations following political decisions by the government, whose legitimacy is also questioned, that were considered to tip the scales down to the side of its imperialist and bellicist neighbour...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Think of it as a confrontation between two of the country's children: Joseph Stalin and Khatia Buniatishvili... I, for one, know who I would vote for...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Phantom was again on the march through the Caucasus, it seems, for a letter from him, postmarked from Georgia's Capital, Tiblisi,  dropped into my (rather humid, unfortunately) letterbox today. Danke sehr, Alex!</div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoxS_w85RKoUNel0s46JLwhQS4ptQMhXeq83d5qDstOo6EAUtG3BObO7gHSrPQwf0V43Z26FrDsYNUA614tuj4aoxj8KyMxIMl-mK__hsxy8lbFJofA15SQvgmZcydth8c4A3wGTxSSlY-xB74sXCEiaCXTxQxYShrY1ZTtWEbkqKuXUEjLYYpJ8cA9uU/s1920/Georgia-jan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1376" data-original-width="1920" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoxS_w85RKoUNel0s46JLwhQS4ptQMhXeq83d5qDstOo6EAUtG3BObO7gHSrPQwf0V43Z26FrDsYNUA614tuj4aoxj8KyMxIMl-mK__hsxy8lbFJofA15SQvgmZcydth8c4A3wGTxSSlY-xB74sXCEiaCXTxQxYShrY1ZTtWEbkqKuXUEjLYYpJ8cA9uU/w573-h410/Georgia-jan.jpg" width="573" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Again stamps open my eyes to the best man can produce. I had never heard of Lado Gudiashvili, I think. But a quick search on the internet yielded images of absolute beauty in a style that, to me, looks like an amalgamation of much of the best the 20th century had to offer on canvas, from Modigliani to Picasso, from Souza-Cardoso to Rivera.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Lado Gudiashvili (1896 - 1980) first studied painting in Georgia but as many an  aspiring painter of the early 20th century fulfilled the dream of going to Paris, where he arrived in 1919 and where he'd stay until 1926 perfecting his art, until his return to Georgia, then part of the Soviet Union.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">There, confined within the official straightjacket of Social Realism, he developed a flair for fantasy and myths as a creative escape to the imposed norm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In 1946, on request by the Catholicos patriarch, he started a set of frescoes  on the inside of a  church in Tiblisi, a commission which would be halted before being completed and which would grant him the expulsion from the Academy of Arts and the Union of Painters, in 1948, under the accusation of being a formalist...freedom of speech and creation at its best….</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On 27JAN2020, Georgia Post issued the single 3 Lari stamp souvenir sheet, of which three were used on this cover. The stamp features a photograph of the painter with the legend Georgian Outstanding Figure below his name.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As a curious note, it should be noted that the stamp is labelled as a 2019 issue although it was only officially circulated as of January 2020…</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/cover-n_22.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/cover-n_22.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2025-01-22T11:27:00Z'>January 22, 2025</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/cover-n_22.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=3218596894293803170&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=3218596894293803170&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Received on the 17th January 2025</span></p><p><span style="color: #fcff01; font-family: arial;">_________________________________________________________________________________</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Another country joins the fold, again through the generous and kind action of one of the most active supporters of this humble blog, my friend the Flying Dutchman. I am truly indebted to you Eric for again making sure my letterbox is the opposite of a Pandora box... a constant source of pleasure and bewilderment. Muito Obrigado, Eric!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Brunei, a tiny but immensely rich state led by an absolute monarch under a mix of common and sharia law... the man that celebrated his 50th birthday with free for all  Michael Jackson concerts and at some point advocated death by stoning for homosexuals...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oh this world of ours is a strange place and the problem is that it keeps getting stranger, as money more and more makes the world go round.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil is the source of all the wealth for the tiny Sultanate, independent form the UK, the former colonial power, since 1984, occupying a tiny area of 5,765 km2 in the huge island of Borneo, which is mostly divided between Malasya and Indonesia. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On a positive note, it should be acknowledged that the country ranks very high in the Human Development Index, with free or highly subsidised housing, health and education being provided to its citizens, what does indeed prove that some of the national wealth has been duly transferred too where it matters most.</div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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1 Dollar) celebrating this proclamation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The one dollar stamp was used on this cover, being illustrated with the logo of the International Year and as in all its stamps, following the practice of the former colonial power, the effigy of its Monarch.</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/cover-n_17.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/cover-n_17.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2025-01-17T12:08:00Z'>January 17, 2025</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/2025/01/cover-n_17.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=4565711028201016497&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=4544454598959034934&postID=4565711028201016497&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Faroe Islands</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Denmark%20-%20Greenland'>Denmark - Greenland</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/East-Timor'>East-Timor</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/England'>England</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/FRance%20-%20DROM-COM%20-%20Nouvelle%20Cal%C3%A9donie'>FRance - DROM-COM - Nouvelle Cal茅donie</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Fiji'>Fiji</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Finland'>Finland</a> <span dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/France'>France</a> <span dir='ltr'>(92)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/France%20-%20Conseil%20De%20l%27Europe'>France - 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DROM-COM - Wallis et Futuna</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/France%20-%20UNESCO'>France - UNESCO</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Gambia'>Gambia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Georgia'>Georgia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Germany'>Germany</a> <span dir='ltr'>(54)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Germany%20-%20Feldpost'>Germany - Feldpost</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Greece'>Greece</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Guyana'>Guyana</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Honduras'>Honduras</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Hungary'>Hungary</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Iceland'>Iceland</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/India'>India</a> <span dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Indonesia'>Indonesia</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Iraq'>Iraq</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Ireland'>Ireland</a> <span dir='ltr'>(3)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Israel'>Israel</a> <span dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Italy'>Italy</a> <span dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Japan'>Japan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Jersey'>Jersey</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Kazakhstan'>Kazakhstan</a> <span dir='ltr'>(2)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Kenya'>Kenya</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Kosovo'>Kosovo</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Kuwait'>Kuwait</a> <span dir='ltr'>(1)</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='https://coversandstampsinmymailbox.blogspot.com/search/label/Kyrgyzstan%20-%20Kyrgyz%20Express%20Post'>Kyrgyzstan - 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