armenin2000
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Post by armenin2000 on Mar 27, 2024 10:05:30 GMT
Polar bear.Postmark the first day in Moscow
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armenin2000
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Post by armenin2000 on Mar 27, 2024 10:16:29 GMT
Kirghistan .Golden eagle .The postmark of the USSR is the city of Frunze .A stamp from a joint issue for the CIS countries ..They cancel nearby .After packing in kraft paper, a parcel tape with the inscription GOZNAK was pasted on a pack of 1000 sheets of stamps.a stamp was pasted on the tape .It was stamped with a rubber stamp EXTINGUISHED .
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Post by armenin2000 on Mar 27, 2024 11:27:29 GMT
The stamp from the block .Postmark Philatelic exhibition " NATURE AND US " Bryansk city
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Mar 27, 2024 15:00:15 GMT
Nice for a generic dolphin concordance. But no taxonomical concordance (different species of dolphin). The stamp from the block .Postmark Philatelic exhibition " NATURE AND US " Bryansk city
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Post by armenin2000 on Mar 27, 2024 15:12:13 GMT
There was no choice of postcards in the USSR .They were published only by state publishing houses
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Post by armenin2000 on Mar 27, 2024 17:22:56 GMT
The postmark .The first day.Let's preserve our native nature.
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Post by armenin2000 on Mar 28, 2024 18:46:20 GMT
St. Isaac's Cathedral (Cathedral of St. Isaac of Dalmatia) is the largest Orthodox church in St. Petersburg. It is located on St. Isaac's Square. The Cathedral of the St. Petersburg Diocese from 1858 to 1929. It has had the status of a museum since 1928. The modern building of the cathedral is the fourth St. Petersburg church in honor of Isaac of Dalmatia, erected on the site of the cathedral designed by Antonio Rinaldi. The architect Auguste Montferrand became the author of the project of the fourth cathedral, which was intended to become the main Orthodox shrine of the empire. The construction was supervised by Nicholas I himself, and Karl Opperman was the chairman of the Commission for the construction of the cathedral. During the construction of the building, new construction technologies were used for that time, which influenced the further development of architecture of the XIX and XX centuries. The construction of the building and work on its decoration lasted from 1818 to 1858. St. Isaac's Cathedral is considered to be the latest building in the classical style. Postmark Museum of the History of Leningrad (St. Petersburg )
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Apr 6, 2024 21:37:28 GMT
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Post by Linda on Apr 6, 2024 21:41:45 GMT
Non-traditional maxicard of Osaka Castle located in Osaka, Japan. The matching pictorial cancel is in the shape of sakura, and it shows the Castle with sakura blossom, which is depicted by the postcard's image.
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Post by dorincard on Apr 6, 2024 22:45:37 GMT
Clever use of sticker where the postmark would have been illegible, most probably. Two stamps would scandalize some purists, but not me. This is a wonderful Japanese maxicard, unique in the world, I guess. But are both stamps concordant with the postcard? Non-traditional maxicard of Osaka Castle located in Osaka, Japan. The matching pictorial cancel is in the shape of sakura, and it shows the Castle with sakura blossom, which is depicted by the postcard's image.
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Post by dorincard on Apr 6, 2024 22:48:35 GMT
They all are lovely; the cutest is the second from top-down, with the smiling fox. Maxicards of Ezo red foxes realised in Asahikawa (Hokkaido Prefecture) of Japan. The post office offering this fox-shaped pictorial cancel should need a new ink pad. Despite the unclearness of the results, you can still see the fox head's contour. The stamps I used are prefectural issues -- the national issue of the same stamp is valued at 62 yen, which alone is too low for requesting a postmark today.
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Post by dorincard on Apr 9, 2024 19:04:54 GMT
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Post by Linda on Apr 10, 2024 7:46:35 GMT
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armenin2000
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Post by armenin2000 on Apr 11, 2024 10:29:58 GMT
English pointer
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Post by armenin2000 on Apr 11, 2024 21:15:40 GMT
April 12 is Cosmonautics Day .Definitive of Abkhazia .
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Post by Linda on Apr 16, 2024 12:58:58 GMT
The Japanese Akita dog named Hachiko (ハチ公, 10 November 1923 – 8 March 1935) was the pet of Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. Hachiko would meet Ueno at Shibuya Station every day after his commute home. This continued until 21 May 1925, when Ueno died of a cerebral hemorrhage while at work. From then until his death on 8 March 1935, Hachiko would return to Shibuya Station every day to await Ueno's return. Today, Hachiko is remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his owner. Since his death, he continues to be remembered worldwide in popular culture with statues, movies and books. Hachiko is also known in Japanese as chuken Hachiko (忠犬ハチ公, 'faithful dog Hachiko'). These two maxicards of Hachiko I realised have a quite a story: Originally, I was aiming for getting the Shibuya pictorial cancel showing the statue of Hachiko outside of Shibuya Station on the 8th of March, the death anniversary of Hachiko. However, my mail-in request arrived unexpectedly late, only on 13 March, so my wish couldn't be fulfilled. Despite this, 2 days later, I got a very polite and well written email from the staff of the Shibuya post office, proposing to move the postmarking date to the 8th of April, which is the date the first bronze statue of Hachiko was erected in 1934, an year before Hachiko's actual death. Hachiko is said to have attended the statue's commemoration ceremony, and the 8th of April has thus become known as Hachiko Day. This is the first time I got an email from Japanese post office clerk. I thought they would just return my request to me with a note saying my cards had arrived too late or something. But they went beyond my expectation to propose an alternative solution to me, which I really appreciated. So, in the end, these maxicards were realised on this year's Hachiko Day, 8 April 2024. [Date of cancellation: 8 April 2024.]
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Post by Linda on Apr 18, 2024 21:25:47 GMT
Japanese maxicards of koala realised using two different pictorial cancels. The first is postmarked with the pictorial cancel showing a koala in Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Garden in Nagoya (Aichi): The second is postmarked with the pictorial cancel showing a koala in Tama Zoological Park in Hino, (Tokyo):
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Post by Linda on Apr 18, 2024 21:35:21 GMT
Two piles of total eclipse maxicards realised in Niagara Falls (ON) and Bonavista (NL) on 8 April 2024 using my digital painting and the new eclipse stamp issued in Canada. These two towns mark the beginning and the end of the path of totality through Canadian territory. Their names are indicated on the stamp. It's funny for me to observe two totally opposite ways of denoting the date in different English-speaking provinces.
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armenin2000
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Post by armenin2000 on Apr 25, 2024 16:09:07 GMT
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Apr 26, 2024 14:19:11 GMT
Ripoll, Catalonia
125 years of the arrival of the railway.
Monastery of Ripoll, XIth century.
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