Cover - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo Government), Country #118

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Disney - Romania

Romania was formed in 1861 from the union of the principalities of Moldavia and Walachia in 1859. It became a kingdom in 1881. Following World War I, the original territory was considerably enlarged by the addition of Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania, Crisana, Maramures and Banat. The republic was established in 1948.

1985, Nov. 28. Disney characters in classic fairy tales.
50b Hank Morgan awakes in Camelot
50b Predicts eclipse of sun
50b Mounting horse
50b Sir Sagramor
1l Father, three sons

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Disney - Lesotho, Sierra Leone and Togo

Lesotho
An enclave within the Republic of South Africa. Basutoland, the British Crown Colony, became independent, October 4, 1966, taking the name Lesotho.

1982, Dec. 1. Christmas. Scenes from Walt Disney’s The Twelve Days of Christmas. Five of eight stamps from the set.

1983, Dec. Christmas. Scenes from Disney’s Old Christmas, from Washington Irving’s Sketch Book. Five of eight stamps from the set.

Sierra Leone
Located in the West coast of Africa, between Guinea and Liberia. Sierra Leone was a British colony and protectorate. In 1961 it became fully independent, remaining within the Commonwealth. It became a republic April 19, 1971.

1983, Nov. Walt Disney, Space Ark Fantasy. Six of eight stamps from the set.
1c Hippopotamus, Huey, Dewey and Louie
1c Mickey Mouse and Snake
3c Elephant and Donald Duck
3c Zebra and Goofy
10c Lion and Ludwig von Drake
10c Rhinoceros and Goofy

1997, Jan. 27. Disney's Aladdin in Christmas scenes
100 le, Jasmine, Aladdin, Genie.

Togo
Located in Western Africa, bordering on the Gulf of Guinea. The German Protectorate of Togo was occupied by Great Britain and France in World War I, and later mandated to them. The British area became part of Ghana. The French area was granted internal autonomy in 1956 and achieved independence in 1958.

1980, Sept. 15. Disney Characters and Animals from Fazao Reserve. Six of nine stamps from the set.
1fr, Minnie holding mirror for leopard
2fr, Goofy (Dingo) cleaning teeth of hippopotamus.
3fr, Donald holding snout of crocodile.
4fr, Donald dangling over cliff from horn of rhinoceros.
5fr, Goofy riding water buffalo.
10fr, Monkey taking picture of Mickey.

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Disney - Antigua

1980, Mar. 24. Disney Characters and IYC Emblem. Seven stamps of the set of 9.
1/2c Mickey, plane
1c Donald, car
2c Goofy driving taxi
3c Mickey, Minnie in sidecar
4c Huey, Dewey and Louie
5c Grandma Duck

1980, Dec. 23. Christmas: Various scenes from Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Six stamps of the set of 9

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Disney - St. Vincent

St. Vincent is an island in the West Indies. The British colony of St. Vincent became an associated state in 1969 and independent in 1979.

1988, Dec. 23. Christmas
2c, Morty and Ferdy in open rail car.

1989, Feb. 7. India ’89, Jan. 20-29, New Delhi. Six of eight stamps from the set.
1c, Mickey Mouse as snake charmer,
2c, Goofy tossing rings at a chowsingha antelope.
3c, Mickey, Minnie, blue peacock.
5c, Goofy and Mickey as miners, Briolette diamond.
10c, Goofy as count presenting Orloff Diamond to Catherine the Great of Russia (Clarabelle Cow).
25c, Regent Diamond and Donald Duck as Napoleon (portrait) in the Louvre.

1989, Nov. 17. Exhibition Emblem, Disney Characters and US National Monuments. Six of eight stamps from the set.
1c, Seagull Monument, UT.
2c, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC.
3c, Crazy Horse Memorial, SD.
4c, Uncle Sam Wilson, Troy, NY.
5c, Benjamin Franklin Natl. Memorial, Philadelphia, PA.
10c, Statue of George Washington, Federal Hall, NY.

1992, Dec. 15. Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
5c, Lumiere, Mrs. Potts and Cogsworth.

Miniature Sheets
1996, Jan. 8. Disney Characters in Various occupations. A set of eight sheets were issued in this series. Got six.

Merchants: a, Stamp dealer. b, At supermarket. c, Car salesman. d, Florist. e, Fast food carhop. f, Street vendor. g, Gift shop. h, Hobby shop owner. i, Bakery.

Transport workers: a, Delivery service. b, Truck driver. c, Airplane crew. d, Railroad men. e, Bus driver. f, Tour guide. g, Messenger service. h, Trolley conductor. i, Air traffic controller. This sheet has eight stamps. The label replaces the stamp "e, Bus driver."

Sports professionals: a, Basketball player. b, Referee. c, Track coach. d, Ice skater. e, Golfer and caddy. f, Sports-caster. g, Tennis champs. h, Football coach. i, Race car driver. This sheet has eight stamps. The label replaces the stamp "e, Golfer and caddy."

Scientists: a, Paleontologist. b, Archaeologist. c, Inventor. d, Astronaut. e, Chemist. f, Engineer. g, Computer graphics. h, Astronomer. i, Zoologist. This sheet has eight stamps. The label replaces the stamp "e, Chemist."

School of education: a, Classroom teacher. b, Nursery school teacher. c, Band teacher. d, Electronic teacher. e, School psychologist. f, School principal. g, Professor. h, Graduate. This sheet has seven stamps. The label replaces the stamp "d, Electronic teacher."

Sea & shore workers: a, Ship builders. b, Fisherman. c, Pearl diver. d, Underwater photographer. e, Bait & tackle shop owner. f, Bathing suit covergirls. g, Marine life painter. h, Lifeguard. i, Lighthouse keeper. This sheet has eight stamps. The label replaces the stamp "e, Bait & tackle shop owner."

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Disney - Bhutan

1982, Sept. 1. Scenes from Disney’s The Jungle Book. Seven of nine stamps from the set.

1984, Apr. 10. World Communications Year (1983). Various Disney characters and history of communications

1984, Dec. 10. 50th Anniv. of Donald Duck
4ch Magician Mickey
5ch Slide, Donald, Slide
25ch Lion Around

1988, Feb. 15. 1988 Winter Olympics, Calgary. Emblem and Disney animated characters as competitors in Olympic events.

1989, June 20. Mickey Mouse, 60th Anniv. (in 1988)

1991, Feb. 2. Wonders of the world. Walt Disney characters viewing:
1ch, Temple of Artemis, Ephesus.
2ch, Statue of Zeus, Olympia. 3ch, Egyptian pyramids.
4ch, Lighthouse, Alexandria.
5ch, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
10ch, Colossus of Rhodes.
50ch, Hanging gardens of Babylon.

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Cover - Belgium

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Cover - Belgium

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Cover - Canada

This cover was sent to me by a dear friend. Unfortunately the cover is slightly damaged. If you look closely there's a tear at the bottom. However the stamps on the cover are intact.

The stamps fit perfectly into my thematic interest of comics/cartoons/animation on stamps. There are five stamps in the set and the stamps were released on September 10, 2013 commemorating the 75th anniversary of Superman's appearance in action comics.

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Cover - Poland

Complete set of stamps in se-tenant form on this cover from Poland. The stamps were issued in 2009 featuring the characters Tytus, Romek and Atomek from the most popular Polish comic book series, created by Henryk Jerzy Chmielewski (aka Papcio Chmiel) in 1957 and concluded in 2009

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Angry Birds on Cover - Finland

Received this unique FDC from Finland. The cover and stamps feature characters of the very popular game, "Angry Birds". Kimmo was kind enough to send me this lovely FDC from Finland. As you can see, it was sent on the day of issue, 9th September 2013. Received it here on 25th September 2013.

With this sheet of self-adhesive stamps, Finland post officially launched the world's first "angry birds" stamps. This set of stamps was personally designed by "angry birds" game developer, Rovio's art director Toni Kysenius. It features six of the popular game characters - five birds and one pig.

Rovio entertainment is a Finland based mobile phone software development company, founded in 2003. In 2009 the company developed the famous touch-screen smart mobile phone game software "angry birds". The game as we all know was a great success, and soon swept the world. The game has been called as "one of the most mainstream games out right now", "one of the great runaway hits of 2010", and "the largest mobile app success the world has seen so far".

There is a pattern on the stamps that is visible only under UV light. Here's the image of the sheet under UV light. What you see now under the light are these little pigs on the corners of each of the stamps.

Also if you look closely, an irregular perforation follows the shape of the characters. The sheet of six 1st class stamps also includes Priority labels fitting the appearance of the stamps.

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Covers - USA

Received these lovely covers from my good friend Ria from USA. Beautiful US Air force 50th Anniversary design on the cover makes this cover one of my favourites. I love the neat cancellations on the cover too. Very clearly readable, the first cancel indicates the date and place of sending. The other one encourages the use of ZIP codes.

In the cover, was this other FDC. Ria's put my address on it that makes it appear as a cover I received via post on the day of issue, April 14, 1982. Quite unlikely to pass it as that as I was only five then. Nevertheless a beautiful cover.

Ria also sent me this lovely strip of the 2011 "Send a Hello" stamps. A perfect fit into my 'Cartoons / Animations / Comics on Stamps' album. 

The strip includes five different designs featuring Pixar characters:

Lightning McQueen and Mater from Cars (2006), my son Ethan's favourite.

Remy the rat and Linguini from Ratatouille (2007)

Buzz Lightyear and two of the green, three-eyed aliens from Toy Story (1995)

Carl Fredricksen and Dug from Up (2009) and the robot 

WALL*E from WALL*E (2008).

The Send a Hello stamps are issued as Forever® stamps. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate.

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Toy Story Souvenir Sheets

Another beautiful addition to my collection of odd shaped stamps. These sheets contain regular shaped and round shaped stamps on self adhesive paper.

In October of 2012, Chunghwa Post featured “Toy Story” a popular animated movie series, as the subject of two self-adhesive souvenir sheets. Each souvenir sheet includes three NT$5 stamps, and two NT$12 stamps. “Toy Story 3” won Best Animated Feature Film of the Year in the Academy Award. The films follow the amazing adventures of young boy Andy’s toys to highlight the value of friendship, faith and trust.

The souvenir sheets feature the animated characters of the films: Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Hamm, Rex, Bullseye, Aliens, Mr. Pricklepants, Peas-in-a-Pod, Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear, Trixie and Buttercup. Illustrations of the colorful indoors and outdoors of the animated films serve as the backgrounds of the souvenir sheets; the magical cinematic moments are immortalized in tiny squares of the stamp.


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Cover - South Korea, Country #68

My first ever cover from South Korea came in just yesterday and that to with odd shaped stamps on it. A lovely cover. Thank you ICCC, Vural and Park Choonjong.

The stamps on the cover are self adhesive stamps from the Korean-Made Characters Series Stamps (2nd Issue). The set consists of 10 stamps each of denomination 270 won and features the character "Pucca". This series was issued on 22.2.2012

On the back, the other stickers (non - stamp) from the sheet were used in sealing this cover. The sheet has 8 such stickers of which 5 are used here.

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Disney - Guyana

Vintage Donald Duck issued on Dec' 6, 1993. This series consists of eight different sheets and one sheet of self adhesive stamps. I've got just the four from the series.

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Disney - Guyana

Disney Characters at Work issued on Feb' 23, 1995. This series consists of seven different sheets. I've got five of the seven in my collection.

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Disney - St Vincent Grenadines

St. Vincent Grenadines

Part of a group of Islands south of St. Vincent that include Bequia, Mustique, Canouan and Union.

The islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines include the main island of Saint Vincent  and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines, which are a chain of small islands stretching south from Saint Vincent to Grenada.

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Disney - Dominica, Maldives.

Dominica

 
Maldives

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Disney - Turks and Caicos Islands, Caicos Islands and Anguilla

Turks and Caicos Islands

The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos Islands and smaller Turks Islands, two groups of tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago, part of the larger Antilles island grouping.

Anguilla
Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin.

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Disney - Grenada Grenadines

Grenada Grenadines

The southern part of the archipelago (island group), attached to Grenada. Main islands Petit Martinique and Carriacou. From 1999 stamps were inscribed “Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique”.

My collection so far has only these Disney stamps and sheets of Grenada Grenadines

Miniature Sheets

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