Iraq stamps

Here some stamps of Iraq , which were mailed to me last week. Nice stamps but not sure why they came to me. They are not of any of the topics I collect. Of course I can use them for trade. I don't have any from Iraq before these. Its an state in the Middle-East and has a great and blody history. But also nice stamps as you can see. Its a republic now, since 1958. Before it was a Kingdom, ordered by the English and the League of Nations (UN now)

Year of the Dragon

A lot of issues for the new New Year as our Chinese friends have now. Like the year of the rooster more, but thats clear for my readers. The Netherlands does not issue such stamps, however we have other possebilities to make stamps as we like. Here you see my version of the Year of the Dragon stamp, you see two "draakjes" as we said here. My granddaugter Isa on a camping in Reuver, Dragoncity, were we stayed last year. This dragon was build on a car for the parade they have every 5 (?) year there. As always I issued a small lot of these stamps. You like to exchange one?  Mail me.

Grutto

Here you see a new Dutch stamp in the personalized frame of PostNL (former TNT Post) The Grutto is a wel know bird in The Netherlands. If you like this stamp, I do,  I can exchange one or more with you for another nice birdstamp. Mail me if you are interested.  cees@stampy.nl will do.

koolmees

Best een leuk velletje van de zeer bekende Koolmees, zitten ook in ruime mate in onze tuin en we bekijken ze elke dag weer met plezier. Het verhaal is bekend, de TNT heeft weer een nieuwe serie op stapel gezet in het kader van het  "persoonlijke" postzegel succesverhaal. Zelf heb ik een vel gekocht om te gebruiken bij verzending van post. Het is een fraaie zegel, overigens nog niet gezien op binnenkomende post. De serie ga ik niet aan beginnen. Deze zegel valt onder de voordeuruitgifte van pp's.