Dinant, A Luzor Obelisk, Japanese Art and Warsaw with Balloons.

 

Blog # 1649 --- Day 1179 ( That's One Thousand One Hundred and Seventy Nine Days ) Since the Start of the Current ( Second ) Russian Invasion of UKRAINE .        

                                                                

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Hello again. Here's another fine selection of cards that's arrived over the last number of months. To start , I will show a card from Belgium that I received back in January. It shows a part of the city of Dinant. Dinant is a city in Belgium’s Walloon Region. It’s on the banks of the Meuse River and backed by steep cliffs. Perched on an outcrop above town is the centuries-old fortified Citadel. It's now a museum with sweeping views. Below it is the Gothic Collegiate Church of Our Lady. Nearby, on the site of saxophone inventor Adolphe Sax’s birthplace, Mr. Sax’s House has interactive exhibits on the instrument’s development. There are saxophones everywhere. 

This card was sent by Gerda and she used a stamp from 2020, marking the 25th Anniversary of The United Nations. 

Card # 2 arrived from Japan. It shows an illustration by Maiko Dake of Ishikawa, Japan. 

Tomoko used 2 stamps on her card. I always have trouble with stamps from Japan. I can never find the information that I want about the stamps. I look through pages and pages of Japanese stamps but almost never find them. Maybe it is because the country issues too many or the stamp almost never bears the date of issue.  I usually give up after looking through hundreds and hundreds of stamps. So , the two stamps on Tomoko's card are nice but that's  all I can say about them. Maybe some reader can fill in the blanks.

Here's the next card.    It arrived from Paris, France. It is a long time ago look at the Luxor Obelisk on the Place De La Concorde. The obelisk arrived in Paris in May 1833 and was erected in October of that year. I don't know the date of the picture on the card but it is quite a long time ago. 

And now the stamp. The thing is , it's not a stamp but a 50 year old label. It was issued at the International Stamp Exhibition ARPHILA 75 held in Paris in 1975. Obviously the stamp cancelling machine didn't do a very good job on the day this card was posted. 

Time now for the last card of this update. It's from Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Meelis's card shows many of the buildings and sights of the city. 

There are two very nice stamps on this card. These hot air balloons are from a set of 4 issued in 2023. The set is really nice , I'm going to have to try and find a mint set of the 4 to add to my collection.  I have been up in a hot air balloon so I am kind of partial to stamps of balloons. 

 

That's the end of this update . Thanks for today's cards go out to Gerda, Tomoko, Jean Pierre and Meelis. 

Hope you enjoyed my efforts today, Back again soon.  

Cheers !