BLOG # 1527 In the Time of Covid
Hello once again. It's good to be back . I have four cards for this time. I'll start with this card from Andorra. It shows a general view of Andorra la Vella, the capital , located in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain. Andorra is a sovereign landlocked micro state on the Iberian Peninsula, the sixth smallest state in Europe.
Jean Pierre used 2 copies of a Coat of Arms stamp along with a somewhat large stamp from 2019. It commemorates the 25th Anniversary of Andorra in the Council of Europe.
It's time now for another Airlines / Aircraft on Postcards entry. Here is a Lufthansa B737, an older model to be sure. Registered as D-ABFB it first entered service with Lufthansa in 1983 and stayed until 1997. Then from 1997 until 2006 it saw service with Ryanair. From 2006 until 2009 it was with Aero Condor. Lastly it flew with Rutaca of Venezuela from 2006 on. It is now 41.3 years old.
I received this card from Belgium, compliments of Johan. He used a recent stamp and received a First Day of Issue cancellation. The stamp is from a sheet of 10 and says No To Bullying. A rather unique cancellation on this one.
Just a follow-up note - 41.3 years is quite old for an aircraft, but not the oldest. The oldest B737-200 still flying is FAP354 serving with the Peruvian Air Force. It started with Air Lingus in Jan of 1970. That makes it 51.6 years old. Wow !! It saw service with 14 different airlines before arriving in Peru in Jan of 2007. Interestingly the second airline it flew with back in 1973 was Eastern Provincial Airways, an airline I am quite familiar with having worked for them for many years.
The oldest B737-200 in passenger service is C-GNLK , in service with Nolinor Aviation in Canada. The aircraft is 47.1 years old, it started service with Transavia in May of 1974 and flew with 13 other airlines before Nolinor.
Card # 3 is from Ekaterinburg, Russia. This city is close to the border between Europe and Asia, as it runs along the ridge of the Ural Mountains. According to Nadya, you can stand with one foot in Europa and one foot in Asia. It didn't quite look like that on the map , at least not to me. Ekaterinburg's big claim to fame might actually be that the murders of Tsar Nicholas II and his family took place there on July 17, 1918.
The Ural Opera Ballet is headquartered in the city of Ekaterinburg, so I guess that may be why Nadya's card shows a ballet dancer on her toes.
Nadya used 2 of the Eagle definitives from 2019 along with a rather large stamp , 1 of 5 , in a Modern Art Paintings of Russia set. It was also issued in 2019.
Now it`s time for the last card for today. It`s another one for my Postcards with Newfoundland Town cancellations. Here is my 40th Newfoundland town postcard . This time it`s Blaketown, a town of just over 600 people on the Avalon Peninsula in the eastern part of the island of Newfoundland. Blaketown was settled in 1888 and named after a Govenor of the island. The lake running the length of Blaketown is called Dildo Pond. The card gives us a look at a few views of the town.
The stamp on this card was issued on 29 April , 1 of 2 in the Legends of Canadian Ballet issue. Shown is Karen Kain, one of Canada`s greatest ballerinas.
That`s all for this time. Thanks to Johan, Jean Pierre, Nadya and the Blaketown Post Office.
Thanks for showing up again, I`ll be back soon. Take care.
Wear your mask - wash your hands - and keep your distance.
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