Dublin, Ireland

I just realized that the stamp on the left is actually an ATM label. It's got an image of Irish revolutionary Roger Casement on it. He was executed by the British in 1916 for treason.

Strasbourg, France

The image in the postmark is the Strasbourg Cathedral. It's suppose to be one of the best examples of late Gothic architecture.

Tasilaq, Greenland

Post Greenland's head office and philatelic bureau is located in Tasilaq. It is not the capital of Greenland. In fact, it is only the 7th most populated town in Greenland. It sits on the eastern coast of Greenland which is less populated than the west.

This is marked with "Porto kontrolleret" to the right of the Tasilaq postmark: "postage controlled". I believe this means the sender didn't put enough postage on the envelope. Perhaps the nice 2 DKK stamps was added by the post office.

Thanks for the cover Martin.

Břeclav, Czech Rebpublic

Rio 2016: Olympic and Paralympic Sports

More sports of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio. The sports on these stamps are Equestrian, Field Hockey and Paralympic swimming. These are from a sheet of 25 with 11 different designs. I believe this is the third sheet from Brazil featuring Olympic and Paralympic games.

Bodø. Norway

The Norwegian city of Bodø celebrated it's 200th anniversary in May of 2016. Bodo is the capital of Nordland county and sits just above the Arctic circle on a peninsula in the Norwegian sea.

Vulcan, Alberta

An updated postmark for Vulcan, Alberta. Canada Post issued a set of Star Trek stamps last month to commemorate the shows 50th anniversary. Leonard Nimoy visited the town of Vulcan in 2010.

Bari, Italy

Manila, Philippines

Curitiba, Brazil

Helsinki, Finland

The stamps are from a sheet titled Eläinten kaupunki (animal town) : an imaginary place where people and animals live happily together.

Interesting way to reuse a stamp

I had a small pile of stamps on paper to soak and in the pile was this pair of stamps from the Netherlands. It was strange that the 20c stamps was placed over the corner of the 88c stamp. They were aligned on the envelope just as they are in the scan below, with a nice Amsterdam postmark over both stamps.

After removing the stamps from the paper I discovered why the 20c stamps had been placed over the other. It was covering a previous cancellation from 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch). The 88c stamp had been previously used and franked on a different envelope. I've never seen a so obviously cancelled stamp reused on a letter before.