Apart from flying flies, wasps and mosquitoes (which I never have seen on stamps so far), the flying 'objects' I see around my home on a regular base are birds and airplanes (and leaves and maple seeds in autumn).
Dutch PostNL has started to issue a serie of four beautiful bird photo stamp sheets this year.
The third and fourth stamp sheet I hope to get in future. At this moment I can show you some flying birds from the first two sheets:
From the 'lentevogels' ('spring birds') the stork ('ooievaar' in Dutch):
and the black redstart (in Dutch: 'zwarte roodstaart' which literally means 'black redtail'),
And from the previous 'winter birds' sheet this greylag goose:
This flying bird I happened to receive yesterday, but it is in transit. The stamp is on someone else's chaincard, so I have to forward it. But fortunately I could make a scan in time :-)
Luckily some months ago I received one of my own chaincards back, themed 'aviation'. Here it is, after traveling from the Netherlands via Singapore, Thailand, Russia, back home, now showing several airplanes, and a helicopter:
See more interesting stamps, and wonderful variations on the theme 'flying' today's Sunday stamps and follow the links.
Love the stork stamp!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI could look at tat stork all day.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThe birds on those stamps are wonderful. I like that the picture continues on the selvage (but they take a lot of room on postcards!). My favourite is also the stork.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI also love the planes. Your chain cards are amazing.
Love the combination of natural flying creatures and technology-powered flying machines here on your page!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI like how they have made it so that the birds are flying into the stamps. A nice selection of aviation stamps.
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