MY LOVELY COVERS : May 2014

Sunday, 25 May 2014

MALAYSIA

A beautiful cover with the nice miniature sheet showing the White-bellied Woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis) which is amongst the largest species of Asiatic Woodpeckers. The miniature-sheet was cancelled with the first day of issue pictorial postmark.

Posted on: 13Jan2013 Received on: 21Jan2013 Travelling Time: 8 days

Thanks to my friend SL Liew.

MALAYSIA

The three stamps on this cover featuring three different species of colorful Woodpeckers, The Banded Woodpecker (Picus miniaceus), The Lesser Yellownape (Picus chlorolophus) and The Common Flameback (Dinopium javanense). The stamps were cancelled with the first day of issue pictorial postmark.

Posted on: 13Jan2013 Received on: 21Jan2013 Travelling time: 8 days

Thanks to my friend SL Liew.

MALAYSIA

Posted on: 13Jan2013 Received on: 22Jan2013 Travelling Time: 9 days

Thanks to my friend Tay Bin Sze.

SINGAPORE

A beautiful cover from Singapore. To mark the Year of the Snake Singapore post issued a nice set of 3 stamps on 04Jan2013. The Snake is the sixth sign of the Chinese Zodiac, which consists of total 12 different animal signs.

Posted on: 15Jan2013 Received on: 21Jan2013 Travelling Time: 7 days

Thanks to my friend Adeline Wong.

MALAYSIA

Posted on: 13Jan2013 Received on: 22Jan2013 Travelling time: 9 days

Thanks to my friend Tay Bin Sze.

ALGERIA

A nice cover from Algeria with three stamps highlighting the dates of Algeria. These stamps were issued on 8Oct2013 and a complete set has four stamps showing Ghars, Deglet Nour, Delga Beida and Akerbuch varieties of dates, however the sender used three stamps which was enough postage for Pakistan.

A date is the fruit of a date palm. The dates are sweet and delicious, it can be eaten fresh or in a dried form, the dried dates can be stored and consumed all year round. Dates contain numerous essential nutrients which are beneficial for human health.

Posting Date: 15Jan2013 Received Date: 6Feb2013 Travelling Time: 21days

Thanks to my friend Meskaldji Abdeslam.

RUSSIA

A nice cover with a set of Joint-Issue stamps issued by Russia (and Belarus) on 25 June 2012 on Newts. The species shown on the stamps are the Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus) and the Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris). Newts are small slender-bodied amphibians from the family Salamandridae.

Posted on: 9Jan2013 Received on: 11Feb2013 Travelling Time: 33 days

Thanks to my friend Yu E. Kitaev.

INDONESIA

A lovely cover from Indonesia. Indonesian post issued a nice souvenir sheet and a set of 3 stamps on 22Jan2013 to mark the Year of the Snake. The sender used the souvenir sheet which was enough postage for Pakistan. The souvenir sheet is cancelled with the first day pictorial postmark.

The Snake is one of sixth animal sign of the Chinese Zodiac calendar from the total of 12 different animals.

Posted on: 22Jan2013 Received on: 16Feb2013 Travelling Time: 22days

Thanks to my friend Martin Sukocu.

ALGERIA

A nice cover with a set of snake stamps from Algeria. Diadem Snake (Spalerosophis diadema) and Horned Viper (Cerastes cerastes). The Diadem snake is found in arid and semi-arid regions from North Africa to Central Asia. It is a nocturnal species reaching over 150cm in length, feeding mainly on rodents, birds and lizards.
The Horned Viper is a venomous snake native to North Africa and parts of Middle East. One of the distinctive characteristics of this snake is the pair of small horns on its triangular shaped head. It can reach upto 85cm in length, diet includes rodents and lizards.

Additional stamp showing the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos).

Posting Date: 15Jan2013 Received Date: 6Feb2013 Travelling Time: 21days

Thanks to my friend Meskaldji Abdeslam.

ALGERIA

Posting Date: 15Jan2013 Received Date: 6Feb2013 Travelling Time: 21days

Thanks to my friend Meskaldji Abdeslam.

BANGLADESH

UNITED KINGDOM

A wonderful cover with 2 sets of children drawing stamps, defaced neatly with a nice pictorial first day of issue postmark.

The designs of these 2 stamps are from the winners of the Christmas Stamps Design Contest organized by the Royal Mail in June 2013, which was among the school going children from 4 to 11 years of age.

The theme the children were given “What does the Christmas season mean to you?”

From 240,000 entries, the 2 winners were selected, the first class stamp was created by Molly Robson, aged seven, for her painting title "Santa" and winning the second class stamp design was Rosie Hargreaves, 10, for her painting the “Singing Angels”

Among the elite judging panel included the winner of 1966 winner of Christmas stamps design contest Tasveer Shimza, who picked the two winners.

Posted on: 05Nov2013 Received on: 20Nove2013 Travelling time: 15days

Thanks to my friend Richard Martin.