Monday, April 19, 2021

Goalie Art, Folies Bergere , AOM DC-10 and St Michaels Church

BLOG # 1518

Today`s a good day to blog. The weather sucks. Yesterday the temperature was 20 and the three previous days 18, 15, and 13. With not a bit of snow anywhere in sight. Yesterday it was shorts and sandals weather, today not. Today it`s winter all over again. The temperature is -2 and snowing , we expect 10 -15 cm of snow. So no shorts today.  Now it`s on to postcards. 

I have 4 cards for today. They arrived from Czech Rep, Germany and 2 from France.  Czech Rep is up first. 

I really like this card. Maybe  it`s because I live in Canada and like hockey. It is our national pastime after all. The art on this card is great. It`s from the TakeTakeTake Publishing House in Prague, run by Nikola Klimova and Jindrich Janicek. One is a graphic designer and the other an illustrator. So it`s a fair guess the card was designed by them and the artwork is by them. The subject of the card is Corey Crawford, a Canadian goaltender who played his entire career of ten years with the Chicago Black Hawkes. He played in 488 games  and won 260 of them, 26 of which were shutouts. 


Rob, who I`ve just recently starting swapping with sent this card along. In addition to the stamps used, I am also showing art work on the reverse of the card. It is by Rob himself. It`s pretty good too. It`s a drawing of former Calgary Flames ( he just got traded ) goaltender David Rittich stopping a puck shot by Jason Spezza of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Big Save Dave as he was known was a favourite of mine on the Flames. And now for the stamps. The top three are sports related and the smaller one is a definitive. The top left stamp was issued in 2015 for the IIHF Championship. The middle stamp, from 1998, was issued for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games. The top right stamp is a personalized  stamp issued  in 2014 showing Karel Kozeluh, a Czech Rep tennis player, footballer and hockey player. The Orange Tip Butterfly definitive is from 2021. 





My second card is an advertisement for the Folies Bergere, a cabaret music hall in Paris. It opened on 2 May 1869. The card advertises a show by Helene Martini, a Polish born French striptease artist. She had a number of nicknames including `The Countess ` and the  `Empress of the Night `.
At some point she ended up owning the Folies Bergere and only sold it in 2011. She died in 2017. 
Lots of famous performers entertained at the Folies Bergere including Josephine Baker, Maurice Chevalier, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf and Ginger Rogers. 



A Postcrosser named Dominique sent this card along. It`s not the Dominique that contributes most often to this blog, but another. This Dominique used a 2021 stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Charlie Chaplin`s Movie `The Kid `.




Card # 3 - A lovely AOM DC-10 aircraft. AOM French Airlines was the second largest airline in France from 1990 until 2001. AOM was the result of a merger of Air Outre Mer and Air Minerve. Then on 25 March 2001 AOM French Airlines merged with Air Lib.
 The DC-10 on the card was registered as F-GNEM and first flew with Air Afrique, then Thai Airways, and Cubana. Its first service with AOM French Airlines was in 1992. From  2001 to 2004  it flew for Air Lib . Then it was stored and finally scrapped in 2008. 



Jean Pierre used a recent Marianne definitive and a 2020 stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the French Tennis Association.





The last card for this time is from Germany and it was sent by a 10 year old Postcrosser named Alexander. His card shows St Michaels Church in Oberjosbach, which is part of Niedernhausen. 

 
Alexander used a Flower definitive along with a stamp from 2019, showing an Emoji. 


And so it goes. another update complete. Thanks for reading . For these cards I send thanks out to Rob, Dominique, Jean Pierre and Alexander. 

Final words for today :
Wear a mask, wash your hands, keep your distance and get a vaccine when you can. 
 

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