A Quick Catch-up

In order to bring my cards received up-to-date I am rolling a number of them together.  As a result I am not providing any great detail about them.  My apologies to the senders.

Card no 361 – Danielle

I like postcards of reading men.  There are a lot of postcards of reading women but few of reading men.  I suspect it is because men generally preferred to be painted doing activities that were seen as more masculine. Especially during the Victorian era when reading novels was most definitely a girl’s activity – the only one’s men read (allegedly) were French ones in plain yellow wrappers (i.e. naughty ones) which they hid in their desks when anyone was around.  I know Danielle has been seeking cards of reading men for me, so thanks Danielle.

Among the stamps was this one from another of my favourite activities – watching racing cars. The Indy 500 race was first run in 1911 and this is an anniversary stamp.

 

Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.

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Card no 362 – EJ

Partridges – a fresco at Knossos from around 1500 B.C. 

As usual this card was as much about the used postage stamps that EJ stuck on the back as about the card itself.

Here they are –

And the stamps which ensured its delivery –

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Card no 363 – Anna
A great map of the Canary Isles.  

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 Card no 364 –Anja

The Town hall in the city of Hulst, Netherlands. 

And a nice Red Squirrel stamp.

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 Card no 365 – Keke

Keke in Finland sent this postcard of a Common Lizard

And this un-named flower stamp.

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Card no 366 – Lin

A postcard of an Australian lighthouse – Perpendicular Point Lighthouse, NSW, built in 1899 – but it actually came from China with no message; just its postcrossing ID.

Its stamp:-

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Card no 367 - Iveta

This card from the Czech Republic adds to my collection of map cards a map of the centre of Prague. 

Knowing I like unusual stamps Iveta included this one showing an Alfonse Mucha poster with Sarah Bernhardt in Gismonda.

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Card no 368 – Danielle

Biltmore House, North Carolina in 1910.

 And the stamps included -

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Card no 369 – Diana

Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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Card no 370 – Els

Antwerp, Belgium.

An iconic map from the point of view of Els from Antwerp.  It shows Tzuid – the city itself; Linkoerover on the Schelde side of Antwerp; St Anneke is the beach of Antwerp; and Nachtegalenpark and Peerdsbos are green areas. 

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