Sunday stamps #103

The last one for this year: "In which we are noting the passing of the old year, and anticipating the new."

This was the stamp issued when the Euro became our currency in 2002. So it marked the end of the Schilling and somewhat a new era.

This is the back of the stamp with old Schilling coins and some of the 

people that could be found on the coins or notes.

 Happy new year, Sunday stamp friends and visitors! May it mark a wonderful new beginning!

Look at the other stamps here:

Advent calendar #24

The big day is finally here! Hopefully the Christkind will bring me some presents!

from zasa

Happy Christmas to all of you celebrating it out there! I hope you enjoy the time with friends and family!

Sunday Stamps #102

More Christmas stamps in my mailbox this week:

from the US

The two stamps above are from Japan, they always have cute ones!

from Belarus

Both stamps above look as if they were from the same stamp sheet but they show a different year...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you, Sunday stamp followers! I hope you're enjyoing this time of the year!

This was a post for Viridian's Sunday Stamps. Have a look: 

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Christmas greetings from Taiwan

Dec12 - whitedog

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This vintage looking card arrived from Russia, where it had -7°C when the card was written :)

Dec12 RR - Alesssandra

Advent calendar #21 (with delay)

A day late is my post for the 21st:

It's a Dutch Christmas greeting from my postcrossing forum-friend Peggy.

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A cute reindeer from Taiwan:

Dec RR #29

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Such a cute gingerbread man!

Dec12 - nanwise

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Today: A winter wonderland!

Secret Christmas card RR - Lila, Poland

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Christmas Greetings from Canada!

Secret Christmas cards RR - cj23

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Today's Christmas card arrived from Spain!

Secret Christmas cards RR - eris0

Sunday stamps #101

Sunday stamps - this week with Christmas/holiday stamps

These are the stamps from this year's Christmas mail:

Have a look at the other stamps:

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A Secret Christmas card from Russia

Lukka

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Happy Christmas from Switzerland

Dec 12 RR - schneggisabrina

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Aussie Season's Greetings!

malrae

Advent Calendar #12

Canadian Christmas elves

taxingwoman

Advent calendar #11

Prettige Kerstdagen en Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!

from Marianne

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Here is a lenticular Christmas card from Belgium.

Secret Christmas RR - SeaMaiden

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This week we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sunday stamps. I am showing the stamps from this card for the Sunday stamps post, so I thought I'll put the matching card in this calendar post.

non pc - from MIL

Sunday stamps #100

 So, wow, Sunday stamps has this big, huge, awesome anniversary!

HAPPY 100th SUNDAY STAMP DAY!!!

For this week, the task was to post some special stamps. I decided on these stamps from Vatican. They do not seem to be special, beside the fact that they are from a rare country (as we say on postcrossing), but to me they are quite special for a personal reason.

The stamps were on a card from Vatican and they were sent by my mother-in-law. She loved to travel and always used to send us some postcards from her travels. It was from one of the last vacations she was able to take. Now, due to illness, she can no longer travel, so the cards hold a special meaning to us.

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Another card from the secret Christmas RR!

from Prairieblossom

With the purchase of this card, a cancer foundation was supported! I love cards that bring money to charities!

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This card arrived with lovely wishes for Christmas and the new year!

Secret Christmas RR - nvpsv

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Nikolaus brings presents to the good children. So I hope you were nice :)

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On day 5 I show you a Disney Christmas!

Secret Christmas RR 2012 - cat

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Day 4 brings you a Russian card. I think the title is all wrong, it should be Happy Christmas with all the christmassy stuff on the card...

Secret Christmas RR - Ternovnik

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It's time for Christmas mail and here is one of the first CHristmas cards this year:

from MirYaam

This card arrived for the Secret Christmas Card RR!

Advent calendar #2

We are sort of touring the world with this postcard calendar. Today we have landed in Indianapolis.

Sept 12 RR - nanwise

This is the State Capitol, constructed of native Indiana limestone in Classic Corinthian design. The State Capitol was completed in 1888.

Advent calendar #1

So, I thought of doing some kind of postcard advent-calendar. Obviously, I am a bit late, but anyway, here we go for December 1st.

Snoopy town in Umeda, Japan

Super cute and lovely decorated card from hanima for the Choose a country RR #500.

Hope you all have your own advent-calendar with chocolate or other little surprises!

Sunday Stampy #99

We are one week away from the big Sunday Stamp anniversary.

This week it's all about Stamps with a message:

Go Green from the US

Do not text and drive from Spain

What messages have the other participants found?

Sunday Stamps #98

Commemorative stamps are our theme this week!

20th anniversary of the opening of the borders between Austria and Hungary

550 years of Basel University

100 years Elbtunnel 

200th anniversary Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde - (roughly translated it means Friend's of the music society). Here is a bit of information on the Musikverein from their internet page:

"The Musikverein - a resonant name, a scintillating idea. Strictly speaking, it has a twofold meaning: the concert hall on Vienna's Karlsplatz and the society to which this building belongs, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of Music Lovers) in Vienna. Two different things which belong inseparably together. What would the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde be without its magnificent concert hall and what would the concert hall be without the society?"

210th birthday of Carl Ritter von Ghega, who constructed the Semmering Railway and 160th anniversayr of one of the viaducts on this railway.

More commemorative stamps here: