From the town of Bački Petrovac in the north Serbian province of Vojvodina. The envelope theme and postmark are "Flora". I'm not sure if it was a special event or a first-day postmark for another stamp. The stamp on the right is from a set of six bringing attention to the World Expo to be hosted by Belgrade in 2027. The stamps in the set all have a space exploration theme. And the pair of stamps on the left from 2019 promote online safety for children.
A nice postmark from Halifax showing the city skyline with the Macdonald bridge and city hall in the foreground. Halifax is the capital city of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
From the Belgian town of Zele, situated between Ghent and Antwerp. The stamp on the left from 1988 commemorates the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Belgian Royal Escort. And the 2024 stamp on the right commemorates the Paris Olympic Games of that year.
Ōshika is a small mountain village in Japan's Nagano prefecture. it is considered to be one of the most beautiful villages in Japan. The stamps are 2025 year of the snake lottery stamps.
Brazzano is a small town in the commune of Cormons in the north-eastern Italian province of Gorizia. The stamps on the left from 2023 commemorate Bergamo and Brescia being named twin European Capitals of Culture in 2023. And the stamps on the right from 1981 feature the Riace bronzes: ancient Greek bronze statues that were found in the sea near the southern Italian commune of Riace in 1972.
A little cover from the US with a Year of the Snake stamp on it featuring shiny red foil embellishments. Next to that is the 2025 "love" stamp that features a 1985 drawing by American artist Keith Haring. And a little assortment of low value stamps brings it up to the international letter rate. This was postmarked in Mid Island which is a collection of neighbourhoods in the middle of New York City's Staten Island.
The postmark says World Peace Day. It's the postmark of the month. I'm not exactly sure what it commemorates because there is an International Day of Peace but that's September 21st. It's a nice postmark though. The stamp on the left is a Europa 2021 endangered wildlife stamp. And on the right is a stamp that shows how the Frauenkirche in Dresden appeared in 1957 and after restoration in 2015.
First thing I notice about this Year of the Snake self-adhesive souvenir sheet from Japan is the increased postal rates. They went up 30% last October. The 25g domestic letter rate is now 110 yen and the domestic postcard rate is now 85 yen.
This is the third cover I've received from Brazil with solar system stamps on it. I think I'm one short of a whole sheet. On these stamps are Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. And in the label are asteroids Ceres and Hijra.
A nice pair of stamps from 2023 on this cover from northern Italy. On the left is a stamp commemorating the National University Library in Turin. And on the right is a stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Italian Order of Merit for Labour.
The South Korean stamps on this cover are floral commemoratives from 1993 and 1994, from a series that ran from 1990 to 1997. It took me a while to locate the source of the postmark: "SL. MMAA". It's a post office that operates at the Military Mutual Aid Assistance office building in Seoul's Gangnam district. The MMAA provides pension funds for military personal and civilian employees connected to the military.
The stamp on this cover from Algeria is a depiction of a Barbary ground squirrel. These small stripped squirrels live in the Atlas mountain region between between the Western Sahara and Algeria.
These were both in my mailbox on the same day. I sent them back in September of 2023. The station postmarks were updated slightly a few years ago and these are the first examples from these stations that I have received. The Mawson cover looks good. And the Davis cover is ok but the inkpad must have been dry in places or partly frozen or something. The slogan on the back of that one says "Davis Station. Riviera of the South"
Three stamps from Singapore are from a 2024 set of four that depict flora of the Lowland Dipterocarp Forest. Dipterocarp forests are dominated by trees from the dipterocarp family. These tall dense hardwood forests promote a extreme floral diversity. At one time Singapore was covered by such a forest but now only small pockets remain. And with the destruction of these forests also went much of the biodiversity. Obviously. But what remains is protected and cared for. Some of the critically endangered plants in the remaining forests are represented on these stamps.
More 2020 solar system stamps from Brazil. From left to right: the sun, Venus and Jupiter.
Bamfield is a small coastal community on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It was home to a telegraph station along what was known as the All-Red Line: a network of telegraph cables that circled the globe, connecting the British empire. An undersea telegraph cable connected Bamfield to Fanning Island in the Pacific (Kiribati).
First day postmarked in Indiana. They came to me on the same day and would have been held up by the Canadian postal strike. The USPS is still not accepting new mail bound for Canada until the backlog is cleared. These four Dungeons and Dragons stamps were from a set of 10 stamps issued on 1 August 2024 in a sheet of 20 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the game.
