Aerogramme from Isle of Man

Received in October, this great aerogramme sent on 27 September 2010 from the town of Douglas, in Isle of Man, and missent to Malaysia:) Thank you very much, Florian!

Cover from Italy no. 13

A fantastic cover from Giovanni: with a stamp of Piazzale di porta Pia in Rome (the stamp is dedicated to the capital of Rome, in a series of pictorial views started with the Foro romano in 2007) cancelled on 20 September 2010 by the day-of-issue postmark used at Roma Filatelico counter, with another pictorial postmark of Roma Spazio Filatelico cancelling the small 0.05 euro definitive making up the rest of the postage. This is truly great! Grazie, Giovanni!

Postcard from France no. 6

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A lovely view of the cathedral Saint Etienne in Metz, capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department (57), and a beautiful 0.58 euro stamp with Morpho menelaus, taken from a miniature sheet with four butterfly stamps issued in France on 6 September 2010. Merci, Marie:)

Cover from Cyprus no. 2

A nice cover received in September 2010 from the town of Paralimni in southeast Cyprus. The two animal stamps show a sheep and a pigeon respectively. The sheep was issued on 17 March 2010 as part of a domestic animals series, and the pigeon came out on 10 September 2009 as part of a fowls of Cyprus series. There is also the blue 0.22 euro stamp commemorating the Beijing Olympics (issued on 5 June 2008) plus the necessary refugee fund stamp of 2 eurocent, 2010 version. Thank you, Demetris!!

Cover no. 5 from the USA

A nice cover received this September from Sarah, handcancelled in Lansing, Michigan, with two stamps taken from a souvenir sheet of ten stamps showing inhabitants of kelp forests off the central California coast, issued on 1 October 2009. More can be seen also here. The rest of the postage is covered by a Grand Teton National Park airmail definitive from 2009.

Postcard of the Indiana Capitol

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The Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis was built in 1888 and is here presented in a nice aerial photo. The Kansas flag on the 42c stamps was issued as part of the 2nd Series of the Flags of Our Nation on 2 September 2008, and the "Pansies in a Basket" stamp was issued in the "Love" series on 22 April 2010. Thank you, gardengnome!

A set from Italy no. 12

Here is a fine set of two envelopes and a slightly rained-soaked:) promotional postal card featuring this year's EUROPA stamps issued in Italy on 7 May 2010. Italy, as usual, issued two stamps, and for the topic of children's books chose the famous Pinocchio and the talking mouse Geronimo Stilton, introduced in 2000 and celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Therefore, Geronimo Stilton had also a special postmark used on 10 October in Milano, where Giovanni lives.

On the large registered cover sent in May from Milano, there is also a lovely 0.80 euro stamp with a space motif, showing a satellite around Mars, celebrating Italy's participation in the Mars exploration programme.

Grazie mille, Giovanni, per tutto quanto!!

Cover from Italy no. 11

The latest cover from the great Giovanni, with a miniature sheet issued on 8 May 2004, showing Castel del Monte in the Province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, and a herd of sheep, and a map connecting L'Aquila and Foggia, two points on the Tratturo Magno, the longest path in Italy used for transferring cattle or sheep from one pasture to another. Besides the sheet, the cover bears a special postmark used in Marsure (Provincia di Pordenone) on 8 September 2010, showing the sanctuary of Madonna del Monte commemmorated on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Apparition of the Virgin Mary. Grazie, Giovanni!!!

Cover from Singapore no. 4

Birds, birds everywhere you look, on this beautiful cover sent from Bras Basah in Singapore on 3 September 2010. 5c, 30c and 65c bird stamps on the right belong to a series of definitives issued in 2007, the Oriental Pied Hornbill (2004) is part of a series dedicated to nature conservation at Chek Jawa, and the left-hand stamp with Lesser Green Leafbird does not bear any date. The cover was issued on the occasion of the issue of the 10th series of the Care-for-Nature stamps, related to Sungei Buloh Nature Park. Thank you Johnny Lowis.

Cover from French Polynesia no. 2

Hello! I am back after, oh, two months! I was pretty busy (no weekends, no free evenings) translating Kraken, another great and truly mind-bending fantasy/horror book by English novelist China Miéville. I submitted the manuscript a couple of days ago, and now I am getting back to my old ways (hopefully:)

I have a huge pile of splendid envelopes and postcards waiting to be appreciated and admired... the first randomly chosen treasure being this exotic cover from French Polynesia, sent from Pirae, Ile de Tahiti, on 6 September 2010, with a 65F stamp from a 2008 series dedicated to marine life (shark), and two large colourful 100F stamps by Polynesian artists (Teurarea and T. Chan), issued also in 2008 as part of a paintings series. In the envelope I received some stunning postcards showing the beauties of French Polynesia, among them the islands of Mehetia and Rangiroa. Thank you, Magali!