Sunday Stamps: the Letter "V"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a cloudy morning in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday Stamps.

In our tour of the alphabet we are up to the letter "V".  I have a Russian stamp I have shared before:

An active volcano in the far east of Russia.  I think this came to me in my Postcrossing days.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: stories or folk tales

 Good day, and welcome to my stamps blog.

The theme today for Sunday Stamps is stories or folk tales.  I have a stamp I shared a long time ago, from Russia:

At the time, in 2012, I did not know anything about this stamp.  Now I know this is part of a set of stamps issued by Russia, and shows Ailyp and Golden Hair.  She is not Rapunzel, and the story is quite different!

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Famous Women

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cold but sunny day in the American Midwest, and it's time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme today is famous women, and our hostess has shared a famous astronaut.  This made me think of a stamp I have shared before, from Russia:

This is Valentina Tereshkova, first woman to have flown in space (in June 1963). Still the only woman to fly a solo mission (at 26 years old!).  This stamp is for the 50th anniversary of that flight.  Her call sign was Chaika  or "seagull" therefore the bird appears on this stamp.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: other languages

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cold sunny day in the American Midwest, and time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme today is foreign languages.  I am sharing stamps from Russia, with Cyrillic letters, and the Russian language, which I cannot read.

(I have shared these stamps before).  A beautiful lace stamp, but what do the words say?

Also note:  the stamps are Russian, but the image in the right corner is of the Soviet Union!  CCCP!  This Postcrosser used an older postcard.

Have a good week!

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Public buildings

 ... A palace in fact.

Hello and welcome to my blog.  It is a cool and sunny day in the American Midwest.  It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme is public buildings.

The US Postal Service has no current stamps that fit the theme, so I looked at my old blog entries, and found these stamps from Russia, issued in 2013:

These stamps came from a Postcrosser in St. Petersburg, on a postcard sent to me in 2014.  The bottom stamp, I am pretty sure, is of the Winter Palace.

Have a good week, everybody.

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Viridian

Sunday stamps: Mountains

 Good day, and welcome to a cloudy and somewhat cool day in the American Midwest.  There was scattered frost last night.

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme this week is mountains or hills.

I have a stamp I have shared before, a stamp from Russia:

I can't read the Russian.  A commenter at that time pointed out that these are in the Altai Mountains.  Definitely mountains, and snow covered!

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Mountains

 Good day and welcome to my stamp blog.  It's time for Sunday stamps.  This week's theme is Mountains, and SeeitonaPostcard has some great stamps to show.

I am sharing a stamp from my Postcrossing days - from Russia.

I cannot read the Cyrillic lettering but they look like high and wild mountains.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Olympics

 Good day and welcome to my postcard blog.  The Tokyo Olympics are closing today, and our hostess for Sunday stamps has asked us to share stamps of Japan, or of the Olympics.

I have a stamp from Postcrossing days, from 2012:

From a Russian postcrosser, I believe this stamp commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Olympic Committee, though I cannot read the Cyrillic letters.  I have shared this stamp before, back in 2012!

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Free Choice (Lace!)

 Good day and welcome to my blog.  I am back from vacation, and ready again to participate in Sunday stamps.  Below is a postcard I received via Postcrossing in 2012.  But the postcard used is older than that:

Note the CCCP symbol (and hammer and sickle) on the right!

Our hostess will be glad to see I found a stamp featuring lace, as she did for today.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps: Mothers and children

It is Mother's Day in the USA.  And mothers and children is the theme for Sunday Stamps. The Queen Mother is featured there today.

I last published this on my blog in 2013.  A stamp from Russia, 2012, that came to me via Postcrossing.  A good choice for today, yes?

The American Midwest is slowly opening up but we aren't going anywhere in this time of COVID-19.  I will make a chicken dinner and insist that the family clean up (instead of me).

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps II #145

In a tour of the alphabet, Sunday Stamps is up to the letter "H".  I have just the stamps for today:

Horses from Russia.  This is from a postcard from Irkutsk to my daughter when she was part of  Postcrossing for a short time.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps II - 111

Hello from the American Midwest!  Running a little late today.

Our theme this week for Sunday Stamps is outer space.  I have two stamps that I have shared before (but they fit the theme so perfectly!), one from the USSR and and one from Russia.

One of my favorites, showing two cosmonauts in a scary-small capsule.  This stamp is from the early 1980's I believe.

A more recent stamp:

Of Valentina Tereshkova, first woman to have flown in space (in June 1963). This stamp is for the 50th anniversary of that flight.  Her call sign was Chaika  or "seagull" therefore the bird appears on this stamp.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps 104

Hello and welcome to Sunday Stamps!
A cold, somewhat snowy Sunday in the American Midwest.

The theme this week is mountains.  I found a few stamps I shared on my blog back in 2014:

These two stamps from Russia came to me from a Postcrossing postcard.  I cannot read the script of course and tell you where these mountains are!

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps II 95

Time for Sunday Stamps!
This week's theme is postal related.
I have some stamps from Russia, posted back in 2012.

Showing a postbox, a post van, stamps and postcards!

This came from a Russian postcrosser.

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Viridian

Sunday Stamps II 82

Hello and welcome!
A beautiful day in the American Midwest.
Today's theme for Sunday Stamps is the color Red.  My first stamp is from a Russian Postcrosser.

I was excited to receive this, as it is a triangle-shaped stamp, and a textile stamp, showing part of a traditional scarf.  The heart sticker is extra!

My second stamp is of some peppers, some of which are red:

Enjoy your day, and see who else has joined in at Sunday Stamps, hosted at See it on a Postcard.

Viridian

Sunday Stamps II 64

Chiming in once again form the Midwest, it's my contribution to Sunday Stamps, hosted at See It on a Postcard.

The theme this week is women on stamps.  Inspired by our hostess, I am sharing a very similar stamp that I showed on my blog some time ago:

A wonderful stamp and surrounding material from Russia, showing, I believe, Catherine the Great.

See who else is joining in this week!

Viridian

Sunday Stamps # 191

It's another cool gray evening here in the American Midwest. However it was sunny during the day and a great day to observe changing leaves.

It's time for Sunday Stamps, and our theme this week is anything you wish.

These two Russian stamps were on the same postcard as last week's se-tenant stamps.  I love mountain stamps, snow covered or not!

Please join me with anything you wish this week.

Viridian

Theme next week: Country life/harvest/Autumn (by suggestion).
Theme week after that: Professions or trades.

Sunday Stamps #190

It is a cool, gray day here in the American Midwest.  It's Saturday night and time for Sunday Stamps.

Our theme for this week is se-tenant stamps.  I have this set from Russia, where the design is subtle but does pass from stamp to stamp:

This 2011 set commemorates something about the postal service, but beyond that I am lost.  I was excited to see these on a Postcrossing postcard however!

I was also excited to see 13 people join Sunday Stamps last week.  Everyone is welcome to share stamp related posts this week.

Theme next week: Anything you wish.
Theme week after that: Country life/harvest/Autumn (by suggestion).

Andrea

Sunday Stamps #169

Good morning or good evening, where ever you are.

Welcome to Sunday Stamps! It's a busy weekend at chez Viridian as we had a combined birthday party for my daughter (now 14) and my son (now 16). The 16 year old isn't driving - yet. My hair will turn grayer once that starts!

This week our theme is stamps from Russia or other former communist countries.  Can be new or older stamps.

I'd like to take you on a short trip to Russia, courtesy of a recent postcard from Marina:

This is the Bank Bridge in Saint Petersburg.  Those are griffins with gilded wings.  She sent this card to me with these stamps:

These buildings might be from Saint Petersburg.  The bottom stamp appears to be of the Winter Palace.

Anyway, what can you share with us this week? Let's take a tour of eastern Europe.  Add your link below and please visit the other contributors.

Theme next week: flowers.

Theme week after that: anything you wish.

Viridian

Sunday Stamps # 156

It's Saturday Night in the USA, and already Sunday in some parts of the world! It's time for Sunday Stamps.

This week's theme is folk art.  I like textile folk art so much I thought about specifying that, but I suspected you may have trouble finding textile stamps.  But I did!

 

This stamp from Russia show part of a cotton scarf from Karabonovo (if I have that right), thanks to a Russian Postcrosser.  And it is an unusually-shaped stamp too - a bonus.  What delightful colors!  A shadow of this textile tradition lives on in the red bandannas of the USA, with their intricate border designs.  Bandannas though are usually just one color plus black and white only.

 

Please join me with any folk art stamps, from any tradition.

 

Theme next week:  Flowers.

Theme week after that: Chinese or Taiwanese stamps, in honor of a belated Chinese New Year.

 

And hey, you can find me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl

 

 

Viridian