kippenkaart Portugal kurk

Vandaag eens geen postzegel, alhoewel het er wel mee te maken heeft. Een aanzichtkaart gemaakt van kurk. De achterkant heeft normaal invulgedeelte en plaats voor een postzegel. Denk niet dat deze blijft hangen gedurende de reis en de kaart zal ook niet onbeschadigd overkomen. Ik had ze al gezien op vakantie in Frankrijk doch niet met de afbeelding van een kip. Deze haan ziet er fraai uit, inplaats van één groot hart heeft hij twee kleine hartjes. Best wel nodig voor een harem die een haan meestal heeft. Dank aan Jorge die hem opstuurde uit de Philippijnen. Het blokje zegels wat erbij zat laat ik morgen zien.

Chickens from Portugal

Told you yesterday that I receive also some nice covers from Portugal. Here we see some poultry on a nice stamp. Could not find what is the reason for this issue. Maybe a joint issue with Peru. When there is also a chicken on it it's a very special one. The cancellation is showing a chicken for sure. Great cover were you only see the stamp and cancellation.

Club Of the Galitos

Great cover and cancellation, thanks to José. Shows a nice cancellation of the Club of the Galitos.Maybe the translation (AltaVista Babel Fish) is not so well but I still show it to you.




CLUB Of the GALITOS, established in 25 of January of 1904, in Aveiro, for a handful of determined men to endow its land with a social institution capable to dinamizar the culture, the sport and the recreativo conviviality, goes to celebrate, during this year of 2004, one hundred years of existence. The ridge marked by the share of the GALITOS in the life of the city of Ria, Joana Saint and Jose Estevão was in such way indelével that it becomes impossible to give, in the present situation, its synthesis. However, for who it does not know the history of the Club, is necessary to say that it was, during its already long life, a permanent symbol of the proper city, stating it and honoring it in its multiple accomplishments, local, as national and not only international.

windmills

Two great covers from Portugal. You see 2 stamps with windmills. The issue is 4 stamps,

€ 0,30, 0,45, 0,61 en 0,75 , also a minisheet with two stamps € 0,45 and € 2.00. Thanks Rui.

The windmills are on the Azoren (Açores) which group of isles are (from)Portugal.

Nice to know that the first mills there were made with a Dutch mill as example.