Planes, Galleries and a Little Royalty on Mother's Day

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Hey there once again. Thanks for dropping in on GemsWorldPostcards one more time. Here you'll find good postcards , and good stamps from good people like yourself. Now it's on to those cards. 

First up today is a card from Copenhagen, Denmark. It shows us Denmark's Royal Yacht, The Royal Life Guards and Crown Prince and Princess Frederik and Mary. 

Meelis used a plethora of stamps on this card. I'll go from left to right with these. First are 2 Wavy Lines definitives, then Queen Margarethe II, then from 2005, 1 of 5 in a set showing Danish Styled Houses and lastly , from 2022 , 2 of 5 showing Proverbs.

 

Here's my first Airline / Aircraft card for today. It's a DC-8-62. This airplane first entered service with Swissair in 1968. From there it had a lengthy history , 1983 - Capital Air, 1985 Nationair Canada, 1989 - Zambia Airways, 1988 - Nationair Canada again, 1993 - Buffalo Airways, 1998 - Cargo Lion, 2002 - Silk Way Airlines, and lastly 2003 - Johnsons Air.  It has since been scrapped.  

My first and only flying on a DC-8 was back in 1974. My Lovely Teena and I flew on CP Air from Toronto to AcapuIco and return. My first impression , when seated onboard was just how long and narrow the cabin was. That's enough reminiscing about the old days, I think . 

Jean Pierre used a Mountain Flower stamp, 1 of 4 in a 2023 minisheet. 

Next up is  a card from Belgium showing the Royal Saint Hubert Galleries, designed and built between 1846 and 1847. The galleries are an ensemble of three shopping arcades in central Brussels.  

Johan used a recent stamp from this year . It is 1 of 5 in a minisheet of Covered Galleries. 

Interestingly the postmark/cancellation somewhat matches the stamp and the card. 

Now we have another Airline / Aircraft card. This time it's a Delta Airlines B727, registered as N4120A. Delta is one of the world's oldest airlines, having been founded in 1925. B727s were first flown in Feb of 1963. Boeing first planned to build 225 B727s but because they were such a great seller they ended up building 1,832. 

Herbert used a 2022 stamp. It shows Heumarkt Station in Cologne. 

I think that is it for this time. Thanks to Jean Pierre, Johan, Herbert and Meelis for today's great cards. 

Take care

And to all the Mothers out there, Happy Mother's Day .