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Israel 🇮🇱
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Here’s a series of Singapore lions from 2017 🇸🇬
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Love these.
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Mail delivery van in Honduras, 1965 🇭🇳
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German locomotives from 1975. 🇩🇪
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Centennial of mail by rail, France 1944 🇫🇷
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Fun little cover commemorating the first BOAC flight between Mauritius and London in 1962 🇲🇺 🇬🇧 . Khartoum arrival stamp on the back.
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Deutsche Fahrzeuge: 75th anniversary of motorized transportation, 1961. 🇩🇪
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Oh Canada! 🇨🇦
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Berlin! 50th anniversary of the AVUS test track in 1971, now repurposed as part of autobahn 115. 🇩🇪
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Albania 🇦🇱
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Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (July 26, 1870 – October 31, 1945). 🇪🇸
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Archeological finds from Yemen. Marib was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Sabaʾ which some scholars believe to be the ancient Sheba of biblical fame. 🇾🇪
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West Berlin: the painter and printmaker Lovis Corinth, creator of ”degenerate art”. 🇩🇪
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptised 6 June 1599 – 6 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. 🇪🇸
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Harkening back to a more innocent time, Grandma Moses.
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Run of the mill German pre-stamped envelope from 1887, but with some fanciful penmanship. And my cousins live just down the river from Würzburg. 🇩🇪
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Italian Rococo painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. 🇮🇹
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Medieval church murals from Jaca Spain 🇪🇸
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The Spanish painter Eduardo Rosales Gallinas (1836 – 1873). Portrait by Federico de Madrazo, and his work Doña Isabel the Catholic Dictating her Testament. 🇪🇸
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Q comme dans Québec! Return from the Harvest Field, by Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Côté. The Ferry, Québec, by J.W. Morrice. 🇨🇦
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A group of paintings currently hanging in Poland 🇵🇱
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You know who else has cheese? The Netherlands! 🇳🇱 Vincent Van Gogh on a 1940’s semi-postal.
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Going on a limb with Olympics with these 1976 bronzes. Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938) was a Canadian physician, educator, sculptor, athlete, and soldier. During WWI, his methods and inventions for restoring and rehabilitating wounded soldiers laid a foundation for modern physiotherapy practices🇨🇦
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Thanks for the reminder! Last weekend was our Victoria Day long weekend, so I forgot today is her actual birthday. Here’s one of mine. 🇨🇦
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Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916), German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. 🇩🇪
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I just started drawing OAS and I approve this idea. The clawback should start at a much lower level.
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Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 – 8 October 1469), was an early Italian Renaissance painter and a Carmelite priest. Sandro Botticelli was among his pupils. 🇮🇹
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A trio from Jamaica 🇯🇲
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867. French Neoclassical painter. 🇫🇷
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The late medieval German painter Hans Holbein the Elder; c. 1460/65 – 1524. 🇩🇪
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🇩🇪 Germany: the painter Max Liebermann and one of his works.
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Here’s a German cover from the final stages of hyperinflation in October 1923. They seem to have raided the postmaster’s drawer to assemble the required postage.
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French artist Robert Delaunay (1885 –1941). 🇫🇷
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Albrecht Dürer, (1471-1528), German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. 🇩🇪
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1472 – 1553, German Renaissance painter and printmaker, depicted by Albrecht Dürer. 🇩🇪
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Im going to go full on NATO and try to stick to Canada, Germany, UK, and France. Maybe Spain for some of the difficult letters.
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Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950). German expressionist painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. 🇩🇪
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Antigua 🇦🇬
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Crazy. Hate that stretch. I actually travelled east on Gerrard about an hour before, and made the decision to detour down the lane way behind the library rather than chance Gerrard. Coulda been me. I hope she’s okay.
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KGV 🇧🇲
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KGVI cover from Dominica 🇩🇲
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While I was in my Soviet album, here’s a nice SS from 1975
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Back in the US, back in the US, back in the USSR…🎶
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A handsome 1879 cover from France 🇫🇷 to Mauritius 🇲🇺. Love the elegant penmanship.
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Scott/Unitrade #4 🇨🇦
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1978 🇬🇧
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Dem Rep of Congo, 1965
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I picked up a group of random French mourning covers this week, a first for me. The one at bottom right still had the card in it, with what I presume is the name of the deceased. Is that the only item that went in it? 🇫🇷