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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The
Town hall in the city of Hulst, Netherlands.
And
a nice Red Squirrel stamp.
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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.
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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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Rotterdam,
Netherlands.
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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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