A 2016 Calendar Postcard from Costa Daurada, Spain

A 2016 calendar postcard from Costa Daurada, Spain.

This postcard was also postmarked in 2016. 

 

Year of the Water Rabbit - 2023

The Year of Watter (Water) Rabbit - 2023

I won this great postcard from 'Postcard Owl'!

 

A 'Papersisters' calendar postcard from 2017

A 'Papersisters' calendar postcard from 2017.

platz fur die brief marke = space for stamp

 

A calendar from 1909

This was postmarked in 1908.

 

A Novelty, Calendar Postcard from Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg 2017

Stell mich auf!  (Position me!) 

bitte umklappen (Please fold down)

This novelty postcard has a built in stand.  You can see the dots at the bottom where you tear and fold the strips back to make it so the calendar can sit upright on your desk.  

This postcard is postmarked in 2017 from Germany with the signatures of 17 members of a Postcrossing meet-up.  

Germany (Deutschland) stamp 2016

Castles of Germany 

Löwenburg Kassel, 90

A Harley-Davidson Motorcycle on a Metal Calendar Postcard

Harley-Davidson
Genuine
750 Flathead

This unused metal postcard is a calendar.  You move the little metal rings from month to month and date to date.  I bought it in Europe in 2014  for 3.95 euros.

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The flathead engine saw service in Harley-Davidson motorcycles beginning with the Model W's flat-twin, produced from 1919 to 1923.

A Calendar Postcard of Ostsee (The Baltic Sea)

Ostsee (Baltic Sea) 2015

Foto: W.P. Espig, U. Merkel, G. Sachse 

This postcard is postmarked from Germany with the signatures of 16 people from a postcrossing meet-up.  

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Here is a list of what the Baltic Sea is called in a few other places around the world . . .  

The Baltic Sea was known in ancient sources as Mare Suebicum or Mare Germanicum. It is also known by the equivalents of "East Sea", "West Sea", or "Baltic Sea" in different languages:

Baltic Sea is used in English; in the Baltic languages Latvian (Baltijas jūra) and Lithuanian (Baltijos jūra); in Latin (Mare Balticum) and the Romance languages French (Mer Baltique), Italian (Mar Baltico), Portuguese (Mar Báltico), Romanian (Marea Baltică) and Spanish (Mar Báltico); in Greek (Βαλτική Θάλασσα Valtikí Thálassa); in Albanian (Deti Balltik); in Welsh (Môr Baltig); in the Slavic languages Polish (Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk), Czech (Baltské moře or Balt), Croatian (Baltičko more), Slovenian (Baltsko morje), Bulgarian (Балтийско море Baltijsko More), Kashubian (Bôłt), Macedonian (Балтичко Море Baltičko More), Ukrainian (Балтійське море Baltijs′ke More), Belarusian (Балтыйскае мора Baltyjskaje Mora), Russian (Балтийское море Baltiyskoye More) and Serbian (Балтичко море Baltičko more); in Hungarian (Balti-tenger).

In Germanic languages, except English, East Sea is used: Afrikaans (Oossee), Danish (Østersøen), Dutch (Oostzee), German (Ostsee - like you see on the calendar postcard above), Icelandic and Faroese (Eystrasalt), Norwegian (Østersjøen), and Swedish (Östersjön). In Old English it was known as Ostsæ, in Hungarian the former name was Keleti-tenger (due the German influence).

In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri "East Sea", disregarding the geography (the sea is west of Finland), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

In another Baltic-Finnic language, Estonian, it is called the West Sea (Läänemeri), with the correct geography (the sea is west of Estonia).

Germany (Deutschland) stamp 2015

Comics

Felix the Rabbit Writting a Letter

62

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Germany (Deutschland) stamp 2005

Flowers - Tulpe (tulip) - 10

A Stuttgart, Germany, Calendar Postcard from 2012

Stuttgart 2012

Schone GruBe aus Stuttgart 

(Greetings from Stuttgart)

This calendar postcard is postmarked in 2014 with three stamps from Germany.

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Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. The greater Stuttgart Metropolitan Region has a population of 5.3 million (2008).

After the month of April on this card is The 'Old Castle', which dates to 950.

Germany (Deutschland) stamp 2014

Leuchtturme (Lighthouses)

Buk lighthouse, 45

(This was built in 1878.)

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Germany (Deutschland)  stamp 2005

'Tagetes' (African Marigold flower) 20

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Germany (Deutschland) stamp 2005

Flowers - Tulpe (tulip flower) - 10

A Coffee Calendar Postcard Made of Metal

 Gran Gusto D'Italia
(Great Taste of Italy)

Coffee House
Start your day with a smile

Classic Italian Coffee and a Place to Relax

This entire calendar postcard is made of metal.  It is mailed from Belgium in 2014.

Belgium (Belgique - Belgie) stamp 2013

Butterfly, Red Admiral 

1 - A Prior

National Star Spangled Banner Centennial in 1914

Don't Forget the Date


National Star Spangled Banner Centennial, Baltimore, Maryland
September 6, to 13, 1914.

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On Sept. 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key visited the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes, who had been captured after the burning of Washington, DC. The release was secured, but Key was detained on ship overnight during the shelling of Fort McHenry, one of the forts defending Baltimore. In the morning, he was so delighted to see the American flag still flying over the fort that he began a poem to commemorate the occasion. First published under the title “Defense of Fort M'Henry,” the poem soon attained wide popularity as sung to the tune “To Anacreon in Heaven.” The origin of this tune is obscure, but it may have been written by John Stafford Smith, a British composer born in 1750. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was officially made the national anthem by Congress in 1931, although it already had been adopted as such by the army and the navy.

The Star-Spangled Banner
—Francis Scott Key, 1814
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?


On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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Here is a postcard from 1913 featuring the sheet music of the song .....

Calendar Postcards from French Polynesia

Tahiti et les Iles (Tahiti and her islands)

Vues de Polynesie (View of Polynesia)

Calendrier 2013 (Calendar 2013)

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Tahiti et ses Iles  (Tahiti and Her Islands)
January - Tahiti
February - Tetiaroa
March - Moorea
April - Rangiroa
May - Rangiroa
June - Rangiroa
July - Tahiti
August - Maupiti
September - Rangiroa
October - Bora Bora
November - Tetiaroa
December - Rangiroa

Vues de Polynesie (View of Polynesia)
Calendrier 2012 (Calendar 2012)

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Holland - Photo Calendar Postcard from 2009

Holland 2009 Calendar postcard

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Holland is a name in common usage given to a region in the western part of the Netherlands. Moreover, the term Holland is frequently used to refer to the whole of the Netherlands. This usage is unofficial and while generally accepted, it has caused a number of people from the Netherlands to complain.

From the 10th century to the 16th century Holland proper was a unified political region, a county ruled by the Count of Holland. By the 17th century, Holland had risen to become a maritime and economic power, dominating the other provinces of the Dutch Republic. Today, the former County of Holland consists of the two Dutch provinces of North Holland and South Holland.

Lake Mills, Wisconsin, Exaggeration Calendar Postcard

1987 - 5 May
Design reproduced in part from a real photo fantasy exaggeration postcard. The Lake Mills, Wisconsin depot and the C. & N. W. railway post office car are real; the street car was added to the original photo by darkroom manipulation.

1987 Calendar Series.
12-card postcard premium for Postcard Collector magazine.

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I'd LOVE to get more cards from this series!!!

2008 Florida Calendar Postcard

Happy 2008!!! May you stay safe, Have great Health, and it be a totally Blessed year for you.

I hope you enjoy this Florida 2008 Calendar ;-)

This is a 'Postcard Factory' postcard

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