St. Eustatius | Dutch Caribbean (2018)

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Filed under: National symbols, Nature, St. Eustatius

Bonaire (2016)

Filed under: Bonaire

Carriacou of Grenada (2016)

Filed under: Grenada

Grenadines of St. Vincent (2016)

Mayreau

Bequia

Union Island

 

 

 

 

 

Filed under: St. Vincent

St. Martin (NL) (2016)

Filed under: Registered letter, St. Martin (NL)

Bolivia (2016)

Filed under: Bolivia, Registered letter

Trinidad & Tobago (2015)

 

Beautiful cover kindly sent by Ms. Tricia of the Philatelic bureau. The important issue of this cover is the extraordinarily neat postmark. Thank you very much!

Filed under: Regional culture, Trinidad & Tobago

The Caribbean Netherlands (2015) Saba

On October 10, 2010, The Netherlands Antilles dissolved into 3 new territories: Curaçao and Saint Martin (Sint Maarten) joined independent status as Aruba previously received, and remaining islands (so called “BES islands”) formed the Caribbean Netherlands (Dutch Caribbean). These 3 new territories started to issue own stamps, labelled as Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Caribisch Nederland, respectively. I received my first cover from the Caribbean Netherlands on 2011. Unfortunately, the postal service in the Dutch Caribbean (operated by the Nieuwe Post Nederlandse Antillen (NPNA) based in Curaçao) didn’t work well. As a consequence of repeated compliances on bad quality of the postal services in the Caribbean Netherlands, The Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation has appointed new postal operator for the Caribbean Netherlands. Since Jan 1, 2014, The Flamingo Express Dutch Caribbean started operating the postal service for this territory (for a period of 10 years). The new operator started to issue separate stamp issues for each of 3 islands. Therefore, each island (Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius) has own stamps of the Dutch Caribbean with the inscription of the islands’ name.

For collectors, this means that 3 new territories can be collected :).

My first new item arrived recently from the Saba island. Pat sent me nice postcard from his travel to this island. He used stamp of the bird series issued on 2014 (one first 3 issues). Thank you very much!

Filed under: Nature, Saba, The Caribbean Netherlands (NL)

USA (2015) Missouri

This beautiful cover was received with kind help of unknown Postmaster at Post Office located in the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in Saint-Louis, MO. Thank you very much!

I have visisted this impressive place in 2012. From the top of the Arch is outstanding view on the Saint-Louis city and its surroundings.

Filed under: Missouri, National symbols, USA

St. Martin (NL) (2015)

Perfect cover sent by Pat from his trip to Sint Maarten (Saint Martin) of former Netherlands Antilles, Thank you very much!

Filed under: Nature, NCC (@Postcrossing), St. Martin (NL)

USA (2015) Maine

Recently, I received 2 very nice covers from Maine in US. For a long time, it was one of few missing US states in my collection.

First cover arrived from the LCC member Mr. Robert Stuart, who used stamps commemorating Martin Ramírez. It was posted in Rockland, ME on May 1.

Second cover was posted in Augusta, ME (the capital of Maine) and was perfectly cancelled by unknown postmaster on May 4. Cover was prepared by myself and I used stamp from the series “Flags of our Nation”.

Filed under: LCC, Maine, National symbols, Regional culture, USA

Covers received via CCCC (2015)

During first quarter of year, I have received couple of superb covers from collectors of the CCCC club. Here are several examples of such covers.

sent by Dr. Paulo Fedrizzi

Filed under: Brazil, CCCC, Denmark, FDC, Korea Rep. (South)

USA (2015) Iowa

This cover was received due to help of unknown postmaster at Des Moines Post Office. Thank you very much!

Filed under: Iowa, National symbols, USA

Saint Martin (2015)

Cover received from French part of the Saint Martin island in Caribbean. It is my first hand-stamped cover from this territory. I received cover with the machine cancellation two years ago, you can compere the postmark here.

Filed under: French Caribbean, National symbols

Brazil (2015) flag

Very nice cover with flag stamp was received as a CCCC circuit from Dr. Paulo Fedrizzi. Thank you very much!

Filed under: Brazil, CCCC, National symbols

Canada (2014)

 

Excellent cover from Canada sent by Mrs Grace Peters. Not often seen such a perfect cancellation from Canada. Thank you very much!

Filed under: Canada, CCCC, COUNTRIES

Uruguay (2014)

Another example of beautiful cover received via the CCCC, sent by Mr. Jorge Martinez Mutay. Thank you very much!

Filed under: CCCC, Nature, Uruguay

Nicaragua (2014)

 

Very interesting cover received via the CCCC from Dr. Jean-Michel Maes. He wrote me that postal service of Nicaragua run out of the stamps and thus now uses old stamps with the old currency. Stamps before 1990 became invalid unless it is approved by the postal service. And this is example of such a cover validly using old invalid stamps (using the old currency) in recent times.

Thank you very much for great cover related to postal history!

Filed under: CCCC, Nicaragua

Brazil (2014) Fernando de Noronha

 

Miloš, cover collector from Slovakia, has prepared wonderful surprise for me: cover from the Brazilian island in the Atlantic Ocean, the island of Fernando de Noronha. It is in fact an Archipelago of 21 tropical islands in the Atlantic Ocean 545 km offshore from the Brazilian coast. The island is inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.

Filed under: Brazil, Fernando de Noronha (BR), Nature

Greenland (2014)

Excellent cover sent by the LCC member Frede Bech. Thank you very much!

 

Filed under: Greenland (DK), LCC, Regional culture