My Postcard and Cover Blog

Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist known for his styliz...

The 2018 Asian Games (Indonesian: Pesta Olahraga Asia 2018), officially known as the 18th Asian Games, XVIII Asiad and also known as Jakart...

2018 is the year that marks the 150th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Sweden in 1868. This speci...

Banaras Hindu University (short: BHU), formerly Central Hindu College, is a public central university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. ...

Like Vietnam , also China issued a stamp this year to the 200th Anniversary of Karl Marx. Actually they issued two stamps. One stamp shows ...

On the norwegian stamp for this year's EUROPA theme you can see Hardanger Bridge. The Hardanger Bridge is not just Norway’s longest sus...

We have seen many beautiful castle stamps for the 2017 EUROPA theme. Even Greenland issued two stamps for this theme. But there is a proble...

The stamp issued by Spanish Postal Administration for this year's EUROPA theme shows the Puente de la Maza in San Vicente de la Barquer...

The Åland 2018 Europa stamp shows the small Bomarsund Bridge, one of only two arch bridges in Åland. The bridge was completed in 1958 and c...

This year's theme for the EUROPA stamps is Bridges. On this cover you can see the german stamp. It features the so-called "Rheinkn...

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revo...

The 16th of June was a historic date for Icelandic sport history. On that date Iceland played its first ever World Cup match against Argent...

Kamil Wiktor Stoch (born 25 May 1987) is a Polish ski jumper. He is one of the most successful ski jumpers from Poland, as well as in the h...

On April 24th Pos Malaysia issued a stamp series featuring the well-known lime flavours frequently used in Malaysian cooking. The three sta...

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: Technische Universität München) is a research university with campuses in the cities Mun...

The European Youth Capital (abbreviated EYC) is the title awarded to a European city for the period of one year, during which it is given t...

These nice stamps on this FDC from Indonesia were issued as a joint Issue between Singapore and Indonesia to celebrate the 50th Anniversary...

Today is a special day for all the people of the Faroe Islands. The 25th April is National Flag Day. On this day the people commemorates th...

Chinese new year started on Friday, February 16, 2018. The Dog (狗) is the eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chin...

In collaboration with the Hong Kong Observatory , Hongkong Post issued a set of special stamps with the theme of "Weather Phenomena...

This Cover is all about Cycling. Both stamps used to frank this cover from Luxembourg are related to Cycling. The right one was issued be...

The stamp for the 2017 EUROPA Series of Slovakia depicting the Lietava castle in Northern Slovakia. The castle was built after 1241, most ...

October 31, 2017 was the date of the 500th anniversary of the so-called "Reformation". On this date back in 1517, Martin Luther (...

Aziz Sancar (born 8 September 1946) is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkp...

On October 20th the US Postal Service and the Canada Post jointly issued a stamp dedicated to one of the most famous sports in North Americ...

Only three day left and one of the major world wide sport events is going to start. The XXIII. Olympic Winter Games will take place from 9...

Lithuanian Post issued two stamps for the 2017 EUROPA theme "Castles". The stamps on this cover below are showing ancient documen...

The history of Liechtenstein’s postal service began 200 years ago with a mail collection station in Balzers . On 1 September 1817, the k.k....

I will end the year of 2017 with a new country on my Blog. Some weeks ago I received two nice Covers from Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is the wor...

Canada Post and India Post issued joint stamps to commemorate Diwali as well as cultural and historic bilateral ties. Diwali or Deepavali ...