A Journey of Postcards: Vintage

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The river Thames at Westminster, London

10:09 PM United Kingdom - England, Vintage No comments

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“On the edge of the Embankment, to the right of the pleasure boats, is the Royal Air Force War Memorial. Westminster Bridge is in the middle distance, with the Houses of Parliament on the right and St Thomas’s Hospital on the bank of the river.”

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From a set of 6 stamps to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens birth, featuring best-known characters. On this stamp Mrs. Gamp from the novel Martin Chuzzlewit.

A vintage postcard from Russia: Moscow 1968 | Москва 1968

10:33 PM Bridge, Russia, UNESCO, Vintage 1 comment

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Moscow, Kremlin as seen from Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge (Greater Stone Bridge).

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Sixth Definitives series - Russian Kremlins: Ryazan Kremlin

Volpiano a small village in Italy

1:57 PM Italy, Vintage No comments

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Volpiano is a municipality in the Province of Turin, in the Italian region Piedmont. The city is located about 15 km north-east of Turin.

It' s an industrial (fuel, transportation, electronics) and agricultural (wheat, corn) center in the lower Canavese.

(Wikipedia)

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European Field Archery Championship 2011

Relics transportation of Euphrosyne of Polatsk, Belarus

10:04 PM Belarus, People, Vintage No comments

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100^th anniversary of relics transportation of Euphrosyne of Polatsk (2010).

Euphrosyne of Polatsk (1110–1173) was the granddaughter of a prince of Polotsk, Vseslav. She refused all proposals of marriage and, without her parents' knowledge, ran away to the convent and became a nun.

Later she founded her own convent. She spent her time copying books, and the money she thus earned she distributed amongst the poor. She also built the church of The Holy Saviour. It is considered to be the most precious monument of early Belarusian architecture.

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Göltzschtalbrücke from Germany

10:39 PM Bridge, Germany, Vintage No comments

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The Göltzsch Viaduct is a railway bridge in Germany. It is the largest brick-built bridge in the world, and for a time it was the tallest railway bridge in the world. Built between 1846 and 1851 as part of the railway between Saxony and Bavaria.

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(right) Die vier Elemente: Feuer / The four elements: Fire

Frohliche Ostern, Eierkullern from Latvia

11:07 PM Latvia, Vintage No comments

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Eierkullern goes as follows: at a low slope is an egg deposited. The players try to hit the egg with their egg by rolling it down the slope. The one that hits the other egg can keep it. You can also use slope instead of a board.

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Coat of Arms, city of Iecava, Latvia

Vintage from Paris

11:53 AM France, Vintage No comments

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“ Montmartre et ses merveilles”

Montmartre is a hill giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of Paris. Montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Cœur.

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L’Ami fritz is a novel by Émile Erckmann and Pierre-Alexandre Chatrian. The marriage of Ami Fritz is a large folk festival established in 1973.

Historical view on Hungarian city of Esztergom

8:02 PM Hungary, Vintage No comments

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Esztergom is a city in northern Hungary, 46 km north-west of the capital Budapest. It lies in Komárom-Esztergom county, on the right bank of the river Danube, which forms the border with Slovakia there. Esztergom was the capital of Hungary from the 10th till the mid-13th century when King Béla IV of Hungary moved the royal seat to Buda.

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Rákóczi Museum of the Hungarian National Museum – Sarospatak.

Atlantic City, grandeur of the old days

7:10 PM Hotel, USA, Vintage No comments

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(front) The Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel was a historic resort hotel property in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built in 1902-1906, demolished in 1979.

The history of the Dennis Hotel follows that of Atlantic City itself. It started out, like many A.C. hotels, as a group of wooden cottages on the beach, and very likely opened shortly after 1854, when the seaside resort was founded.

The Shelburne Hotel was a resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey located at Michigan Avenue and the Boardwalk. Built and opened in 1869.

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The text on the stamp: First-Class Forever

A forever stamp is a postage stamp in the United States that is valid for First-Class postage no matter when it is used. By concept, once purchased, a forever stamp is a perpetual stamp that never expires or declines in value. It's value is the First-Class Mail stamp postage rate for a one ounce letter at the time of use.