Sunday Stamps: Fruit

This Sunday's theme of Sunday Stamps is 'Fruit and Nuts'. Yummy!

Last month Dutch PostNL happens to have issued a stamp sheet showing 'historic' fruit, older types of apples and pears. Many of them have been decreased, because the high trees had to make place for other purposes. So nowadays the amount of cultivars is limited due to cultivation and economy, and most apple and pear trees in the Netherlands grow at so-called 'laagstam' = 'low trunk' (rootstock) trees. No doubt this has happened in other countries, too.
Alas I don't have this new sheet yet, but you can see it on the internet.

Instead I can show you a stamp sheet, issued in 2004 for children's welfare. Secretly I would love to see our fruits acting this way when we don't watch, but I guess this behaviour will remain imaginary:



Although spring is my favourite season, summer always makes me happy because my favourite fruit is available then: strawberries and cherries (and blueberries and raspberries you can count in, too!).
Strawberries have been pictured on a stamp by Ditch Post in the pre-Euro era. Here they are, along with many strawberry plants, and also there's a stamp showing an apple and (low trunk) apple trees:



More yummy, from Austria:



Other fresh summer fruits are melons. I used to name all of them just 'melon', but only a few years ago I learned that there are various types, easy to distinguish, like the water melon and the cantaloupe. Both have been pictured on pretty stamps, by Greek and US Post respectively:





From Germany come these two 'perfumed' stamps. I've received them many years ago, so the smell has gone, but the images of the apple and lemon still are fresh and fruity:



Thanks to globalization, also 'tropical' fruit reaches our colder country. In real, and fortunately also by stamps. For instance, on the right, this nice rambutan stamp from Malaysia:



The stamp on the left keeps me wondering why we name certain fruits 'vegetables' (like tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, pumpkins), while in fact they are the seed-bearing fruit part of a plant!..

See and enjoy more Fruit, and Nuts, on stamps at and via this Sunday's Sunday Stamps!

Sunday Stamps: Food

Today's theme of Sunday Stamps is "Food and/or drink". When searching in my stamps I found several food stamps, so that I forgot to search for drinks, too.. Well, from some food you can make drinks at least.

I am curious to know how these dishes would taste, they look delicious! Above a traditional meal from Singapore, below different types of meals from Turkey.





Greece has issued some nice stamps on food recently. Thanks to Katerina from Greece I was the lucky receiver of these legumes (so healthy and delicious!) and grapes.



Fruit belongs to my favourite food. Especially cherries (did not find stamps on that) and strawberries. Fortunately the Dutch post has issued a stamp on these tiny red 'summer kings' (aka 'zomerkoninkjes' as we call them in Dutch), and I must say that I prefer the raw strawberry on the left to strawberry cake or any other produced food:



And in the same serie the Dutch post issued one on apples (see also above). As did the Chinese post:



The word 'appel' in Dutch is part of the word for potato, 'aardappel'. Similar to French: pommes, and pommes de terre, and in Farsi, sib (سیب‌) and sib zamini (سیب‌ زمینی). And who knows in which languages more?

Regarding potatoes, the painter Vincent van Gogh painted a famous painting on the Potato eaters. The Dutch PostNL has issued stamps on van Gogh's paintings, and fortunately also on on this scene:



On the internet I found this nice stamp set on potatoes, from the Antilles (alas not in my hand, but I love these pictures so much that I cannot resist to show them to you):



Finally a nice stamp on a vegetable (and a great postmark on someone who loves to eat vegetables, too!). I am not sure whether it is lettuce or green cabbage, but as I love fruit and vegetables most, this stamp from Japan is a pleasure for the (at least mine) eyes!



See more special and wonderful stamps on food on Sunday Stamps and the links below that posting.