Cover from Singapore no. 5

A lovely, yummy cover received from Singapore with two fantastic stamps issued on 17 July 2009 showing Singaporean desserts. They are ondeh-ondeh (green glutinous rice balls sprinkled with grated coconut that is seasoned with fine salt on the outside and gula melaka inside as a fill) and ice kacang (sweetened dried beans, small dried fruits, strips of jelly and little droplets of starch in bright colors, preserved sugar palm fruit and seeds, chunks or long slivers of grass jelly are mixed with shaved ice and sugar syrup).

Just great, stamps showing the colours of this world:) Thank you, Daphne!

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 Singapore no. 3

Another nice airmail cover from Singapore, courtesy of Liu Nian. Sent on 11 December 2008 and received 7 days later. Apart from the pretty 30c Blue-throated Bee-eater stamp from 2007 shown in my earlier post, it bears a smaller stamp from the series "Vanishing Trades" issued on 24 May 2006, consisting of 10 stamps (5 x 1st local value and 5 x 80c). The stamp used on the letter shows a spice grinder at work. Thank you!

Cover from Singapore no. 2

An impressive cover received on 2 February 2009 from Singapore (sent on 23/1/2009). Few countries have such nice definitives! The two birds here are: Crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja) on the 5c stamps, and Blue-thoated Bee-eater (Merops viridis) on the 30c stamp. The whole series was issued on 6 June 2007.

Thank you Liu Nian!

Cover from Singapore

I received this lovely cover on 14 November 2008, with two different postmarks of the Singpex, the Asian Internation Philatelic Exhibition held in Singapore on 6-9 November 2008. The postmark cancelling the stamps bears the date 8 November 2008.

The envelope is the first day cover for a series of stamps depicting Cash Crops of Early Singapore (issue date 12/11/2008), however, the stamps stuck on it were issued earlier... the Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin stamp (1st local tariff) was introduced on 22 March 2006 and is part of a series called Undersea World. The two electric tram definitive stamps (30c) were issued in 1997 along with others in a transport series, and the 30c Pearlscale butterflyfish (Chaetodon xanthurus) is from 2001.

My thanks for this great exotic letter go to Nick!