Frankfurt Airport, Temple of Garni, A Postcrossing Meetup, Aircraft and a Local Transport.

BLOG # 1579 --- Day 293  of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine                    

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Back in Blog 1577 I mentioned the pile of cards on my desk. Well it's actually grown larger even though I have blogged a couple of times since then.  

My first card today arrived from a Postcrossing Meetup in Kosice in eastern Slovakia. It was held at the Museum of Aviation at the Kosice International Airport. The card was sent by Alena and signed by a bunch of Postcrossers who attended the meeting.

Alena used a nice selection of stamps here. The top stamp with attached label is from 2000. It commemorates the 50th Anniversary of Slovakia Post's Philatelic Service. The bottom left stamp , issued in 2008, celebrates Slovak Poet Masa Halamova. The red stamp on the right was issued in 2010 to highlight the Fight Against Aids. 

  

My next card, from Belgium, shows a work of art by Dieric Bouts. The Last Supper is the central panel of Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament. Bouts painted it between 1464 and 1467.

This is a case where the stamp is the same design as the picture on the postcard. The stamp picturing The Last Supper was issued on August 27th of this year. Johan quite often sends these First Day of Issue stamps and cards.

Time now for another Aviation themed card. It's another one from Johan  in Belgium. This time it's a Fairchild Swearingen Merlin III-A, an aircraft often used for humanitarian missions. 

The stamp that Johan used here has the same picture as the card. It is 1 of 5 Aircraft stamps in a minisheet issued earlier this year. The card received a First Day of Issue cancel with one of the aircraft in the minisheet. The cancel shows a Percival Pembroke aircraft. 

 

Card # 4 -- Frankfurt Airport in Germany- a few different views. 

Isa sent this card along and was kind enough to use the new Germany Postcrossing stamp. This is one of the nicer Postcrossing stamps issued so far. 

By my calculation 29 official Postcrossing stamps have been issued in 25 countries. Nothing from Canada yet. I'll be really surprised if there ever is. 

Now  here's a card from Cyprus. An old but effective means of transport, for sure.  

Alena used a Refugee Stamp from 2021 on this card. Refugee stamps are obligatory on all mail posted from Cyprus. Also used were 2 copies of a Christmas stamp from last year. 

 

It's last card time for today. This one arrived from Yerevan, Armenia. It's a look at the Temple of Garni. It is the only standing Greco Roman colonnaded building in Armenia or any other place in the former Soviet Union. It was most likely built in the first century AD , in 77AD to be exact. The temple was destroyed in an earthquake in 1679. It was reconstructed between 1969 and 1975. 

 

Mary used 3 stamps on her card. The Butterfly stamp is 1 of  2 in a Flora and Fauna set issued in 2020. The other 2 are definitives from a set of 11 issued in 2022. 

 So ends another update. Thanks for today's cards go out to Alena, Johan, Isa, and Mary. 

I might try for another update tomorrow. I'll see how it goes. 

Take care.