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Showing posts with label Poland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poland. Show all posts
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Poland; FDC
New Polish stamp and FDC
Date issue: 24.06.2010;
Send to: Fan Ming, Ahn Jung Min, Irene Chen, Brian Kam, Tsang Tsz Ivanov
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
2008 Olympics
So, it's already 2010 and I still have some scans from 2008 that I haven't posted. Not a good sign. Well, anyway, I thought I might share these scans of some covers I received with the 2008 Beijing Olympics as the theme. Some are FDCs while others are just regular covers.
The Beijing Olympics was one of the reasons why I finally decided on visiting Beijing in 2008. On top of the fact that everything would be in tip-top shape and that the city would be manicured to perfection (you can always count on the Chinese government when it comes to making a presentation), I thought it was high time that I visited the famed Great Wall. I also visited Shanghai on this trip and took the 12-hour overnight train from there to Beijing.
I must say that I liked both cities and hope to one day return. I also plan to maybe hike portions of the Great Wall. Want to join? :-)
This cover uses the official FDC, but it was not sent on issue date. My friend just used the FDC envelope but sent the cover much later, which I think is okay. At least I have the FDC envelope.
The Beijing Olympics was one of the reasons why I finally decided on visiting Beijing in 2008. On top of the fact that everything would be in tip-top shape and that the city would be manicured to perfection (you can always count on the Chinese government when it comes to making a presentation), I thought it was high time that I visited the famed Great Wall. I also visited Shanghai on this trip and took the 12-hour overnight train from there to Beijing.
I must say that I liked both cities and hope to one day return. I also plan to maybe hike portions of the Great Wall. Want to join? :-)
This cover uses the official FDC, but it was not sent on issue date. My friend just used the FDC envelope but sent the cover much later, which I think is okay. At least I have the FDC envelope.
This cover has the complete set of Russian Olympics stamps, but my friend Alexander decided to use a commemorative cover instead of a regular envelope. The cancels have a special design, but not the Olympics FDC cancellation.
Because I like covers sent directly to my address, I asked my friend Andrzej to sent me the FDC even after the day of issue. Thankfully, Poczsta Polska allows for the sending of FDCs even after day of issue, like in the Philippines. So, strictly speaking, this is not an FDC, but it does use the official envelope and it h asthe official cancellation, which is good enough for me.
Unfortunately, the only real FDC I have does not have an official FDC envelope because Korea Post does not issue them.
While there is no indication on the cover, this was actually sent to me after the day of issue with the special cancellation. There are just no other postmarks or markings to indicate this. There is a boxed chop on the upper right hand side because this cover was "received in bad order" at the Central Mail Exchange Center in the Philippines. In fact, the cover was covers in strips of tape that attempted to "seal" the small tears found themselve on the low quality paper of the envelope as it was handled.
This cover does not have the complete set and was actually not sent through the mail system although it looks like it was. My friend Alberto initially planned on sending the FDC direct to my address, but he seemed to have a problem. I think it was that the stamps did not fit on the cover and the postal clerk wouldn't let him attach extra postage onto the reverse, or something like that.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Polska
Just wanted to share these four beautiful FDCs I received from my friend Andrzej. I was really smiling ear to ear when I received these because the EU is one of my favorite themes and also because I find the design and layout of the stamps really nice. And added bonus are the autonyms printed on the envelope behind the Polish names for these EU capital cities. It's intereseting to note that Warsaw wasn't put on the highest value for this set.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
New Polish stamp "The Tall Ships' Races 2009"
Date issue: 30 Jun 2009
FDC send to: Fan Ming, Ricardo Amarante, Edmund Ong, Milos Leng, Luis Filipe Melo
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
New Polish stamp "4 June - 20th Anniversary of The First Parliament's Democratic Election in Poland"
date issue: 30 May 2009
On 4th June I will send this FDC to: Luis Filipe Melo, Choong Chee Yen, Laurent Toussaint, Milos Leng, Kia Hsu.
Friday, May 29, 2009
New Polish stamps "Polish comic strips"
Date issue: 29 May 2009
FDC send to: Fan Ming, Ahn Jung Min, Luis Filipe Melo, Kow Siew Lan, Kia Hsu
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
New Polish stamps - "African animals"
date issue: 30 Apr. 2009
Sorry; I don't have FDCs.
I will send covers with glued this stamps: Aleksandr Grigoriew, Thomas Vandaele, Ouari Khemisi, Ahn Jung Min, Laszlo Kallai, Toussaint Laurent ... who else want this stamps?
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
New Polish stamp "EUROPA - Year of astronomy"
date issue: 5 May 2009
FDC send to: Ahn Jung Min, Fan Ming, Kia Hsu, Luis Filipe Melo, Kow Siew Lan
Saturday, April 25, 2009
New Polish stamp (FDC)
Date issue: 16 Apr. 2009
FDC send to: Georga Wu, Mahendra Sharma, Swarup Rath, Khor Kok Keong, Wang Lie
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
New Polish stamp
date issue: 22 Apr. 2009
FDC send to: Yuri Kardashenko, Tomas Rimdeika, Kia Hsu, Ahn Jung Min
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
New Polish stamps (FDC) Easter
Date issue 01 Apr.2009
I send today FDC (registered) to:
Ahn Jung Min, Fan Shiyu, Sirikant Modh, Jean-Claude Linossi, Dragan Buskulic
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Polska - A Case of Mistaken Identity
Here we have an issue with an interesting story. First, about the issue:
The two stamps on this FDC are part of a 4v set issued 30 Jan 09 to pay hommage to four Polish personalities who survived the horrors of the Nazi Concentration camps in WWII Poland. (Why they didn't include all 4 on one FDC is beyond me.) The special postmark bears the motto "Ocaleli z zagłady," or "Survived the destrucion."
The story I was talking about here is that this issue was withdrawn from circulation on 24 Feb 09, with an apology from Poczta Polska. Why? Because the name on one of the stamps (on my cover, it is the one on the right) is incorrect! Well, at least it is partially incorrect.
The name on the stamps reads "Władysław Wolski," which has caused confusion as Władysław Wolski (1901-1976) was a minister in the 1950s and had close ties with the Soviet Union's security service.
The correct name should be "Władysław Józef Wolski." This person, Władysław Józef Wolski (1910-2008), the correct person to pay hommage to in this case, was an historian and professor at the universities of Krakow, Wroclaw and Lodz. He was arrested in November 1939 during a Nazi operation against the Polish intellectual circles. 183 people were deported to the concentration camps of Sachsenhausen and Dachau. Władysław Józef Wolski was released in 1941 and worked again in 1946.
Cases similar to this happen in the Philippines. Oftentimes, first and last names tend to be the same and so it necessary to include the middle name or initial. For example, there are many people named "Juan Santos," here for example, so it is necessary to indicate if you are referring to "Juan A. Santos" or "Juan B. Santos." Sometimes, even the middle initials are the same so you need to have the full middle name! And sometimes, the full middle name is the same, meaning the two persons' names are exactly the same.
This is true in the case of one of my far relatives. Her name is Zenaida "Santos" Dizon (sorry, I forget her middle name, but let us pretend it is Santos just to prove my point). She lives in the United States, where she has been since the 1960s. When she came here for a vacation a few years back, she was detained at the airport because the officials there were led to believe that she was a criminal! This is because they were on the lookout for a criminal who had the same name! Thankfully, she was able to prove that it was not her by providing her personal information and by the mere fact that she lives in the US and therefore most likely didn't commit the crime, which I believe was something like embezzlement. Now, whenever she returns to the country, she must present a special document of identification to prove that she is not the Zenaida "Santos" Dizon they are looking for!
I think this problem with same names is being solved by the recent practice of giving Filipino children two first names, a middle name, and a last name, so most Filipinos of this generation have four names, like me!
The two stamps on this FDC are part of a 4v set issued 30 Jan 09 to pay hommage to four Polish personalities who survived the horrors of the Nazi Concentration camps in WWII Poland. (Why they didn't include all 4 on one FDC is beyond me.) The special postmark bears the motto "Ocaleli z zagłady," or "Survived the destrucion."
The story I was talking about here is that this issue was withdrawn from circulation on 24 Feb 09, with an apology from Poczta Polska. Why? Because the name on one of the stamps (on my cover, it is the one on the right) is incorrect! Well, at least it is partially incorrect.
The name on the stamps reads "Władysław Wolski," which has caused confusion as Władysław Wolski (1901-1976) was a minister in the 1950s and had close ties with the Soviet Union's security service.
The correct name should be "Władysław Józef Wolski." This person, Władysław Józef Wolski (1910-2008), the correct person to pay hommage to in this case, was an historian and professor at the universities of Krakow, Wroclaw and Lodz. He was arrested in November 1939 during a Nazi operation against the Polish intellectual circles. 183 people were deported to the concentration camps of Sachsenhausen and Dachau. Władysław Józef Wolski was released in 1941 and worked again in 1946.
Cases similar to this happen in the Philippines. Oftentimes, first and last names tend to be the same and so it necessary to include the middle name or initial. For example, there are many people named "Juan Santos," here for example, so it is necessary to indicate if you are referring to "Juan A. Santos" or "Juan B. Santos." Sometimes, even the middle initials are the same so you need to have the full middle name! And sometimes, the full middle name is the same, meaning the two persons' names are exactly the same.
This is true in the case of one of my far relatives. Her name is Zenaida "Santos" Dizon (sorry, I forget her middle name, but let us pretend it is Santos just to prove my point). She lives in the United States, where she has been since the 1960s. When she came here for a vacation a few years back, she was detained at the airport because the officials there were led to believe that she was a criminal! This is because they were on the lookout for a criminal who had the same name! Thankfully, she was able to prove that it was not her by providing her personal information and by the mere fact that she lives in the US and therefore most likely didn't commit the crime, which I believe was something like embezzlement. Now, whenever she returns to the country, she must present a special document of identification to prove that she is not the Zenaida "Santos" Dizon they are looking for!
I think this problem with same names is being solved by the recent practice of giving Filipino children two first names, a middle name, and a last name, so most Filipinos of this generation have four names, like me!
By the way, thanks to Eric Contesse once again for some of the information Ion the Polish issue that I included in this "report."
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Polska
Here is a nice pair of FDCs from Poland sent from Andrzej Bek, my philatelic contact in Poland. I actually received it about 3 months ago in August, but I only got to posting it now. In fact, there are many covers that I was never able to post because their scans were sorted into some obscure folder that I have virtually no recollection of ever creating and were then set aside in some corner of my hard drive that I rarely visit. It was only yesterday that I found out about these covers MIA. hahaha
So I guess I will be "way behind schedule" again since I plan on posting these before I do the ones I recently received. I plan on posting daily starting today, so it won't take too long till I get back on track - hopefully.
Moving on, this first FDC is #18 in a series called "Polish Towns and Cities" and celebrates 900 years of history of Racibórz, which was first mentioned in the Chronicles and Deeds of the Dukes or Princes of the Poles by Gallus Anonymous.
Racibórz is a town in southern Poland. In the Middle Ages, its vicinity to numerous trade routes helped develop it into a venue for craftsmanship as well as the host to the largest granary in the region. Over the centuries, it was inhabited largely my Germans, and this resulted in the Germanization of the area. Today this small town is home to about 60,000 inhabitants.
The stamps design shows some landmarks and symbols of the town, the first being the renaissance tower (built around 1574). The second is the late-baroque column that appears to be in the foreground. This was erected between 1725 and 1727 to give thanks to Mary for the end of the epidemic of 1715. Miraculously, the column survived WWII, which is a wonder since all the tenement buildings that surrounded the square on which it stood were all destroyed.
The FDC cachet depicts the Chapel of Thomas Beckett dating back to the end of the 13th century. The FDC was issued on 01 July 08 and some other stamps were added onto the cover for postage and were cancelled two weeks later, on 15 July.
This second FDC shows Sanctuaries of St. Mary, in this case St. Mary of the snow. This sanctuary, found near the major peak of Igliczna mountain, is for St. Mary Mother of God, the Cause of Our Joy "Mary of the Snow". The pilgrims come here to attend the wooden figure of St. Mary with Holy Child - a folk copy of St. Mary's figure from the Mariazell sanctuary in Austria. The figure had been brought in here in 1750 by Christopher Veit from Wilkanów village, as the changing national borders made the direct pilgrimage Mariazell sanctuary almost impossible for the local people. In 1777 the first case of miraculous healing had been documented, followed then by many others. The chapel soon proved to be too small for the ever-growing hosts of pilgrims and the new church had to be erected, consecrated in 1782.
The stamp shows the venerated idol and the FDC presents its domain. The FDC was released on 21 June and, again, extra stamps were added for postage and also franked on 15 July.
So I guess I will be "way behind schedule" again since I plan on posting these before I do the ones I recently received. I plan on posting daily starting today, so it won't take too long till I get back on track - hopefully.
Moving on, this first FDC is #18 in a series called "Polish Towns and Cities" and celebrates 900 years of history of Racibórz, which was first mentioned in the Chronicles and Deeds of the Dukes or Princes of the Poles by Gallus Anonymous.
Racibórz is a town in southern Poland. In the Middle Ages, its vicinity to numerous trade routes helped develop it into a venue for craftsmanship as well as the host to the largest granary in the region. Over the centuries, it was inhabited largely my Germans, and this resulted in the Germanization of the area. Today this small town is home to about 60,000 inhabitants.
The stamps design shows some landmarks and symbols of the town, the first being the renaissance tower (built around 1574). The second is the late-baroque column that appears to be in the foreground. This was erected between 1725 and 1727 to give thanks to Mary for the end of the epidemic of 1715. Miraculously, the column survived WWII, which is a wonder since all the tenement buildings that surrounded the square on which it stood were all destroyed.
The FDC cachet depicts the Chapel of Thomas Beckett dating back to the end of the 13th century. The FDC was issued on 01 July 08 and some other stamps were added onto the cover for postage and were cancelled two weeks later, on 15 July.
This second FDC shows Sanctuaries of St. Mary, in this case St. Mary of the snow. This sanctuary, found near the major peak of Igliczna mountain, is for St. Mary Mother of God, the Cause of Our Joy "Mary of the Snow". The pilgrims come here to attend the wooden figure of St. Mary with Holy Child - a folk copy of St. Mary's figure from the Mariazell sanctuary in Austria. The figure had been brought in here in 1750 by Christopher Veit from Wilkanów village, as the changing national borders made the direct pilgrimage Mariazell sanctuary almost impossible for the local people. In 1777 the first case of miraculous healing had been documented, followed then by many others. The chapel soon proved to be too small for the ever-growing hosts of pilgrims and the new church had to be erected, consecrated in 1782.
The stamp shows the venerated idol and the FDC presents its domain. The FDC was released on 21 June and, again, extra stamps were added for postage and also franked on 15 July.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Polska
Hello again! I haven't been able post lately as I've been so busy, but thankfully this week I'll have a little more time to myself so I can update this blog with recent additions to my cover collection.
The cover below is one I received quite some time ago, in June if my memory serves me right. I saw it while rummaging through my collection earlier today and I thought it would be interesting to show it off since I think it's a pretty neat cover.
The cover below is one I received quite some time ago, in June if my memory serves me right. I saw it while rummaging through my collection earlier today and I thought it would be interesting to show it off since I think it's a pretty neat cover.
Here we have a registered FDC showcasing meteorological phenomena. Anyone who has ever gazed at the sky in wonder will often find something of interest. Be it a funny-shaped cloud or a rainbow, there is always spectacular about the the vast sea of blue above us. But sometimes there are things we do not see because we never have the time to look up at the sky and wait or simply because such phenomenon never happen where we live. According to the Poczta Polska website, "there are also many meteorological phenomena that may pass unwatched for us, and sometimes it is simply worth to look at the sky to see something beautiful and unusual." And perhaps this is why Poczta Polska issued this enchanting set.
Meteorology is a branch of science that investigates the atmospheric phenomena. Based on the results of measurements of the main parameters (such as the air temperature, humidity, pressure, and wind speed) and data provided by the radars, air probes, and satellites, we can analyze meteorological wonders. Meteorology plays a vital role for the different sectors of a country's economy, as in agriculture, for example, in order to avoid the catastrophic crops losses, or simply in flight control.
Meteorological phenomena can be subdivided into the following groups: hydrometeors (rain, hail, frost, tornado), lithometeors (dust or sand blizzards or whirls), photometeors (halo, rainbow, mirage), and electrometeors (storm, lightning, aurora borealis).
Each group is represented by one stamp. The hydrometeors are represented by the tornado, the lithometeors by the sand blizzard, the photometeors by the rainbow, and the electrometeor by the streaks of lightning.
Tornadoes, which are quite common in the dust bowl in the American Midwest, are huge, funnel-shaped whirls of air and liquefied water vapor that reach up to the clouds and spin at enormous speeds, sometimes reaching up to 400 kph! If they touch the ground, they wreck everything in their way and leave the areas through which they pass completely devastated.
Sand blizzards, which I believe are inexistent in the Philippines, are waves of sand carried up into the air by strong, hot winds. I have yet to experience one myself.
Rainbows are arches of diffracted sunlight. They are the result of refraction, diffraction and the total internal reflection of solar rays in the small raindrops in the atmosphere. They are visible only if the sun shines from behind of the observer and is sufficiently low (less than 40 degrees) above the horizon.
Lightning, which I guess it the most common of all the four, is an atmospheric electric discharge born in the high rainclouds. It is the result of great temperature gradient and the strong wind. Lightning is actually an electric spark which neutralizes the difference in charge between the cloud and the earth or between two individual clouds.
An odd thing that I noticed about the stamps, though, is that if you take a look at the rainbow stamp, the sky is darker on the left of the rainbow than it is on the right. I have seen rainbows before, but never with the sky having different shades on each side!
The FDC cancel was meant to mimic the funnel shape of a tornado, but I only figured that out when I read about it on the website. I like the stamps and the envelope, but I don't think they were able to pull it off with the cancel!
Meteorology is a branch of science that investigates the atmospheric phenomena. Based on the results of measurements of the main parameters (such as the air temperature, humidity, pressure, and wind speed) and data provided by the radars, air probes, and satellites, we can analyze meteorological wonders. Meteorology plays a vital role for the different sectors of a country's economy, as in agriculture, for example, in order to avoid the catastrophic crops losses, or simply in flight control.
Meteorological phenomena can be subdivided into the following groups: hydrometeors (rain, hail, frost, tornado), lithometeors (dust or sand blizzards or whirls), photometeors (halo, rainbow, mirage), and electrometeors (storm, lightning, aurora borealis).
Each group is represented by one stamp. The hydrometeors are represented by the tornado, the lithometeors by the sand blizzard, the photometeors by the rainbow, and the electrometeor by the streaks of lightning.
Tornadoes, which are quite common in the dust bowl in the American Midwest, are huge, funnel-shaped whirls of air and liquefied water vapor that reach up to the clouds and spin at enormous speeds, sometimes reaching up to 400 kph! If they touch the ground, they wreck everything in their way and leave the areas through which they pass completely devastated.
Sand blizzards, which I believe are inexistent in the Philippines, are waves of sand carried up into the air by strong, hot winds. I have yet to experience one myself.
Rainbows are arches of diffracted sunlight. They are the result of refraction, diffraction and the total internal reflection of solar rays in the small raindrops in the atmosphere. They are visible only if the sun shines from behind of the observer and is sufficiently low (less than 40 degrees) above the horizon.
Lightning, which I guess it the most common of all the four, is an atmospheric electric discharge born in the high rainclouds. It is the result of great temperature gradient and the strong wind. Lightning is actually an electric spark which neutralizes the difference in charge between the cloud and the earth or between two individual clouds.
An odd thing that I noticed about the stamps, though, is that if you take a look at the rainbow stamp, the sky is darker on the left of the rainbow than it is on the right. I have seen rainbows before, but never with the sky having different shades on each side!
The FDC cancel was meant to mimic the funnel shape of a tornado, but I only figured that out when I read about it on the website. I like the stamps and the envelope, but I don't think they were able to pull it off with the cancel!
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