COVER N.5 - France
Postmark "Service des Obliterations Philatélliques"; Boulazac - posted on the 27th May, received on the 31st.
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Today was a
fine day. Mid morning and the familiar noise
of the postman bike stopping by my door sounded like a good omen, so I grabbed the
mailbox key and went outside to check.
Lo and
behold, the box was full and of the the
several letters I did receive today (accompained by the unavoidable supermarket
publicity leaflets), three were particularly welcome, since they were the first
letters received in connection with my having joined a cover circuit club, in
this case the London Cover
Circuit.
Even though all three came from France, I'm sure that now, with the help of the members of the club, I will be greatly enhancing may odds of enlarging the geographical scope of my cover collection. Thank you very much for this nice cover, with very interesting stamps and postmark. Roland.
The stamps on this cover are both 2014 issues.
The stamp on the right, with a face value of 0,98€
depicts an aerial view of the Seine River and the Ille de France with the Pont
des Arts in the foreground. This stamp is part of a joint Franco-Chinese
issue of a 2 stamp set themed on “Rivers”, its companion stamp being denominated
at 0,66€ and depicting a view of the Qinhuai
river, as it crosses the city of Nankin (or Nanjing).
This set was issued to commemorate the 50th
anniversary opf the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and
the People’s Republic of China.
The China connection is also present in the stamp on
the left side, part of a 4 even priced (0,61€) stamp mini-sheet set, dedicated
to “Bears”. It depicts that most gracious of all bears, the Ailuropoda melanoleuca or “Panda Géant” (Giant Panda) which as
everybody knows is a vulnerable species, only present in the wild in China. The
other stamps on this set are the “Ours
Andin”, the Spectacled or Andean Bear (Tremarctos ornatus); the “Ours Kermode”,
the Kermode Bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) and the “Ours Polaire”, the Polar
Bear (Ursus maritimus).
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