POSTCARD N.187 - GREENLAND.
Postcard sent on the 04 August; received on the 19th August 2025.
Postcard image: The Schooner Activ
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The Flying Dutchman... the ship that will never dock again.... condemned to err across the mighty oceans forever...
No, it is not the Flying Dutchman caught on camera, but the image on the postcard could not be more fitting, with all that backlit aura of mystery as the bow breaks the surface of the sea somewhere out there.... after all it was sent by none other than my friend the Flying Dutchman himself :-)
Hartelijk dank, Eric and please extend my thanks to Wolfgang, for his help dispatching the postcard from the cold shores of Greenland, the "land that's never green, where there's ice and snow and the whalefishes blow, and where day life seldom sins, brave boys, where daylight seldom sins...." as so masterfully sang Judy Collins and Theodore Bikel on an old vynil album I had bought a long, long time ago....
The 4+0.5 Krone charity stamp is part of a two stamp set (both stamps with the same facial value) issued on 17JUN1993.
The stamp on the postcard celebrates the 70th anniversary of the presence of the Red Cross in Greenland while its companion in the set, the 50th anniversary of the Greenland Scouts movement.
Not being able to confirm it, I'd think that the 0.5 Krone charity tax would go to the Red Cross.
I quite like the layout of the stamp with the Greenland flag mimicking a sun on the horizon, framed by mountains, flown over by a procession of doves carrying the red cross in their beaks. Quite nice.
The Postmark is unfortunately illegible, so I cannot grasp wherefrom it was sent.
UPDATE: Eric came to the rescue and told me that the Potscard had been sent from 3950 Aasiaat, on the west coast of the Island.
What a gorgeous image of this ship! And the stamps are lovely! Thank you so much for sharing.
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