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zondag 13 september 2015

Sunday Stamps: Bridges

This Sunday Stamps' theme is 'Bridges to anywhere'.

I love bridges. Similar to mail, bridges connect.

Fortunately mail companies all-over the world have issued bridge stamps, and I was the lucky receiver of some of them. Among them this one from Japan:



An other suspension bridge (so to see) is this one in Iceland:



The following Chinese stamp on top shows a covered bridge. I am not sure if the second stamp shows a bridge too, but at least the stamps belong to one serie:



This stamp from Germany seems to be a 'common' one as I received it more than once. Nevertheless the image keeps on being a beauty.
The bridge pictured is an arch bridge, a kind of bridge which is dear to me (I'll show stamps on my favourite - Dutch - bridge an other day). And don't you love the postmark?



From Russia arrived these great bridge stamps:



In the United Kingdom the Royal Mail has issued many bridge stamps. You can see them via the links at the Sunday Stamps post of today.
Here are two from the United Kingdom:





Besides receiving bridge stamps I've also send out.
This pretty bridge reminds of the Amsterdam canals. It has been designed by the late Dutch illustrator and author Sieb Posthuma:



A photo of the Skinny bridge, a movable bridge in Amsterdam, is this one:



The famous painter Vincent van Gogh has painted a similar bridge, after the drawing bridge in Arles, France:

donderdag 12 december 2013

Out: to the United Kingdom



'Postvervoer' is de titel van deze prachtige illustratie, nummer 30 uit het boek De Kilometer-kampioen, gemaakt door Charles Burki (1909-1994).

'Mail transport' is the title of this beautiful illustration made by the Dutch illustrator and designer of means of transport Charles Burki (1909-1994). It's an illustration from the book 'De Kilometer Kampioen', issued in 1954. When you click on the numbers on the left on this site, you can see more illustrations from this book (the one above is number 30).