COVER N. 480 - GERMANY

Postmark: Illegible

Posted on 25th June (?); received on the 1st July 2024

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It has been a while since I received a Postcrossing postcard. My fault mainly, since I haven't sent out that many in a while too, but two of my latest sendings were not registered as received, so that hindered my position as a recipient too. 

So I was quite pleased to receive a beautiful letter from Germany (probably the country with most Postcrossing users) with a postcard inside and a couple of nice stamps on it, 

Danke Sehr, Antje! Ich habe deine postkarte geliebt! (ouch... my German lessons were so much long ago...hope I got it right..)

Antje, like me, is a music lover, she even plays the violin in a mall orchestra, and knowing I used to sing in a choir (something which presently is not occurring, unfortunately) she did her best to find a stamp that she knew I would be pleased with.

An so she used a 1€ stamp, part of a three se-tenant stamp strip dedicated to famous boys choirs.

The choirs honoured in this set, issued on 13FEB2003, are:

- the Leipziger Thomanerchor (0,45€), the guardians of the the works of the Thomaskantor, from 1 June 1723 till his death on 28 July 1750, who, of course, was none other than the incomparable Johann Sebastian Bach;

- the Dresden Kreuz Choir (=,55€), the boys' choir of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden, and

- the Regensburger Domspatzen, (1€) the choir of the Regesburg cathedral, this being the stamp which can be seen on the cover.

The mechanical postmark is totally illegible but  I gather that the letter was sent from Zwickau, the place depicted also in the postcard that was inside the envelope and also a musically connected location, but more on that for the postcard entry.