Dear, I open for direct swap. You can contact me via email : chiphoi001@yahoo.com. I collect: - Lunar new year; - Lady slipper & Dancing lady orchid; - Tom of Finland; - Inge Look Aunties; - Blue Cats World Trip; - Erotic (about men); - Van Gogh card from museum

presentation

My postcard album for swap
If you find something interesting in my album and want to swap, you can drop me some lines with your album. Thank you.

lundi 31 août 2015

Cover#117 Czech, Commemorative Handstamps: Number#40/2015: 750 Years of the City Policka,



Sent: 21/8/2015
Arrived: 31/8/2015

Thank Trung!

Cover#116 Japan, Hello Kitty FDC,


I'm not a fan of Hello Kitty but it's undeniable that this cover is so cute.
Hello Kitty is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, created by Yuko Shimizu and currenly designed by Yuko Yamaguchi.

Sent: 21/8/2015
Arrived: 31/8/2015

Thank you so much, Tomoko!

jeudi 27 août 2015

PC#97 Lativa, UNESCO site: Historic Centre of Riga,


Historic Centre of Riga

UNESCO site
Date of Inscription: 1997



Riga was a major centre of the Hanseatic League, deriving its prosperity in the 13th–15th centuries from the trade with central and eastern Europe. The urban fabric of its medieval centre reflects this prosperity, though most of the earliest buildings were destroyed by fire or war. Riga became an important economic centre in the 19th century, when the suburbs surrounding the medieval town were laid out, first with imposing wooden buildings in neoclassical style and then in Jugendstil . It is generally recognized that Riga has the finest collection of art nouveau buildings in Europe.


Sent: 138/2015
Arrived: 27/8/2015

Thanks Patrik!

mardi 25 août 2015

Cover#115 Thailand, Asean Joint Issue stamp 2015,


Thailand is off from my missing Asean joint issue today.  This FDC was sent mint inside a beautiful cover. I love the traditional musical instruments stampset with the special tampon of Thaipex 2015.

Sent:
Arrived: 25/8/2015


Thank you Dozchan!

Cover#114 Indonesia, Asean Joint Issue 2015,


Another country was added to my Asean Joint Issue 2015 collection today. Indonesia is off now. So excited to get this one with block of 4 mint stamps inside.

Sent: 8/8/2015
Arrived: 25/8/2015


Thank you Juned!

Cover#113 Malaysia, Asean joint issue FDC,


Sent: 8/8/2015
Arrived:25/8/2015

Thank you Liew!

samedi 22 août 2015

vendredi 21 août 2015

Cover#121 Singapore, Joint issue FDC,


Another Joint issue FDC arrived today with a block of 4 mint stamps inside. Much appreciated.
The normal postmark with the name Newton makes me remember to my physical classes in highschool. I love physic. 

Sent: 8/8/2015
Arrivd: 21/8/2015



Thank you for the help, Wong!

Cover#120 Singapore, ASEAN joint issue stamp;



 This stamp was designed by a vietnamese artist for this joint issue event. It seems that the color of Singapore stamp is more coloful and more real than that one of Vietnam.

Sent: 8/8/2015
Arrived: 21/8/2015





Thank you, Vanessa!

jeudi 20 août 2015

PC#94 Singapore, Torch Ginger card,



Today, I got this one : Torch Ginger flower with new stamp of Singapore: Asean joint issue stamp chopped the first day postmark and a machine postmark marked the date of World Stamp Exhi occurring in Singapore between 15 -19 Aug 2015.

On the back of the card, there are some words of Claude Monet : I must have flowers, always, an always! Monet is one of my favorite artist in the field of Impressionisme.

Sent: 8/8/2015
Arrived: 20/8/2015

Thank you so much Taiyang!

mardi 18 août 2015

PC#93 Myanmar, Bagan view city card,


This card shows one nice view of Bagan.
Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay region. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan, the first kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.

Sent: 8/8/2015
Arrived: 18/8/2015

Thank you, Wonglingchih.

PC#92 Thailand, UNESCO site: Ban Chiang Archaeological Site,


This card shows an antique object from Ban Chiang Archaeological Site, one of 5 UNESCO sites in Thailand.
Stamp used is Asean joint issue stamp.

Sent: 8/8/2015
Arrived: 18/8/2015

Thank you so much dozchan!

Ban Chiang Archaeological Site

UNESCO site
Date of inscription: 1992

Ban Chiang is considered the most important prehistoric settlement so far discovered in South-East Asia. It marks an important stage in human cultural, social and technological evolution. The site presents the earliest evidence of farming in the region and of the manufacture and use of metals.


The Ban Chiang Archaeological Site is a prehistoric human habitation and burial site. It is considered by scholars to be the most important prehistoric settlement so far discovered in Southeast Asia, marking the beginning and showing the development of the wet-rice culture typical of the region. The site has been dated by scientific chronometric means (C-14 and thermo luminescence) which have established that the site was continuously occupied from 1495BC until c. 900BC., making it the earliest scientifically-dated prehistoric farming and habitation site in Southeast Asia known at the time of inscription onto the World Heritage List.
The Ban Chiang cultural complex is well-defined and distinctive from anything that preceded it. Through it can trace the spread and development of prehistoric society and its development into the settled agricultural civilizations which came to characterize the region throughout history which still continue up to the present day. Advances in the fields of agriculture, animal domestication, ceramic and metal technology are all evident in the archaeological record of the site. Also evident is an increasing economic prosperity and social complexity of the successive communities at Ban Chiang, made possible by torgheir developing cultural practices, as revealed through the many burials, rich in ceramic and metal grave goods, uncovered at the site.
The Ban Chiang Archaeological Site is also the richest in Southeast Asia in the number and variety of artifacts recovered from the site. As such, the property has been extensively studied by scholars as the archaeological “type-site” for the beginnings of settled agricultural communities and their associated technologies in the region.

Source: UNESCO 

Cover#119 Myanmar, Asean joint issue FDC,



Huray, today, Myanmar is off from my missing countries list. My first mail from this peaceful area arrived.

Sent: 8/8/2015
Arrived: 18/8/2015

Thank you for helping, Wonglingchih!

lundi 17 août 2015

PC#91 UN, Card with UNESCO stamp,


This is my first one sent from UN in New York. Card shows UN offices there, with the stamps is UNESCO of Indonesia.


Sent: 5/8/2015
Arrived: 17/8/2015
Thanks, Kylie.

vendredi 14 août 2015

mercredi 12 août 2015

PC#89 Czech, UNESCO site: Kutna Hora,


Another UNESCO card for my collection. 

Sent: 29/7/2015
Arrived: 12/8/2015

Thank Trung!

Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec

UNESCO site
Date of inscription: 1995


Kutná Hora developed as a result of the exploitation of the silver mines. In the 14th century it became a royal city endowed with monuments that symbolized its prosperity. The Church of St Barbara, a jewel of the late Gothic period, and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec, which was restored in line with the Baroque taste of the early 18th century, were to influence the architecture of central Europe. These masterpieces today form part of a well-preserved medieval urban fabric with some particularly fine private dwellings.

Historical Description

There has been human settlement in the Kutná Hora region from early times. There was a mint there in the 10th century AD, associated with the rich deposits of silver ore. It was the latter that determined the earliest occupation in what is now the historic centre of the town, which seems to have been occupied by numerous scattered mining settlements in the 13th-16th centuries. The complex street plan of Kutná Hora is attributable to this early exploitation of the mineral resources, although it preserves what is almost certainly an anCient, nonurban road junction at its core, one road leading to Malin and the other to Časlav, both ancient settlements. Another old road leads to Kolín. The many small mining settlements in Kutná Hora itself are indicated by the small Romanesque parish Churches that existed until their disestablishment at the late 18th century: only one survives to the present day.
This pattern of settlement appears to date from the 12th century. The mid-13th century saw major Changes in the occupation of the land. The royal fortified towns of Časlav and Kolín were founded in the early 1260s, both closely associated with the silver mining in the area, which quickly developed during the reign of Wenceslas II (1285-1305) into a major industrial region. The extent and intensity of this exploitation of the mineral resources of Kutná Hora is reported in documents of the period from as far away as the Rhineland. It seems to have been uncontrolled: Kutná Hora was a boom town like those of North America during the Gold Rush of the 19th century.
This situation came to an end with the establishment in 1300 by Wenceslas II of a mint at the Vlašský dvur (Italian court) on the southern edge of what is now the historical centre of Kutná Hora, to produce the so-called 'Prague groschen" that was the basis of his coinage reform. In effect Kutná Hora became a Royal mining town, giving it a status second only to that of the capital of Bohemia, Prague. This new status is reflected first not in the town itself but at Sedlec, where Wenceslas established a major monastic house for the order that he favoured, the Cistercians. The earlier Romanesque church was demolished to make way for a magnificent cathedral in the High Gothic style.
The growing importance of the town is reflected in the accounts of the two Sieges, in 1304 and 1307, by Albrecht Habsburg. The first was repelled despite the fact that its defences were rudimentary, and when Albrecht returned three years later he was equally unsuccessful, since by then Kutná Hora was enclosed by massive stone walls. The Hrádek (Little Castle) probably dates from the same period. The early decades of the 14th century saw Kutná Hora being transformed from a chaotic mining settlement into a proper town, and by the middle of the century the definitive system of defences was complete, with its four main gates, moat, and bastions. The present street pattern was evolved from the haphazard communications of the mining boom and what must have been largely wooden houses were replaced by substantial stone houses. Public buildings began to appear, such as the first town hall and a number of Churches. Work on the monumental church of St Barbara began in the 1380s, outside the crowded town proper. Although it is of cathedral-like proportions, it has almost always had no more than the status of a daughter church of the parish church of nearby Pnĕvice.
The Hussite wars of 1419-34 saw profound changes at Kutná Hora. Sedlec Monastery was destroyed by fire in 1421, to remain in a ruined state until the late 17th century, and there were serious fires in the town itself in 1422 and 1424 which destroyed most of its buildings. However, the wealth resulting from silver mining ensured that it was rapidly rebuilt when peace was restored. Work on the churches was led by two outstanding architects of the period, Matĕj Rejsek and Benedikt Ried. The defences were supplemented by an outer wall, with irregularly spaced artillery bastions, and the Hradek was rebuilt in Late Gothic style. The town was also embellished by many splendid merchant houses and with the system of arcades that is such a feature of Kutná Hora.
The relative lack Of Renaissance buildings in the town graphically illustrates the sudden decline in its fortunes in the early 1540S, when the silver mines became exhausted. The economic stagnation of Kutná Hora was exacerbated by the after-effects Of the Thirty Years' war (1618-48): although the town was not itself directly affected by the war, it fell into a deeper decline and over two hundred of its 574 houses were deserted or demolished. The establishment of a Jesuit College in the 17th century did little more than endow the town with a striking new arChitectural feature, similar to the High Baroque renovation of Sedlec cathedral in the early 18th century by Jan Blažej santini and the work of Killian Ignaz Dientzenhofer at the Ursuline convent and the Chapel of the Holy Trinity.
The dissolution of Sedlec Monastery in 1785 was followed by the deconsecration and demolition of many of the town's smaller churches, and others disappeared in the first half of the 19th century. It was not until 1850, when Kutná Hora became an administrative centre of some importance, that the town began to revive and to begin to concern itself about its architectural heritage.
Source: Advisory Body Evaluation

mardi 11 août 2015

Cover#117 PC#88 Cambodia, UNESCO site: Angkor, Orchid cover,


Cambodia is one of my rare country. I rarely receive anything from that area as there are only few postcrosser there. By chance, I got contact to have these two with Beautiful orchid MS. They really made my day.



Sent: 28/7/2015
Arrived: 11/8/2015

Thank you so much Aeronest!

Angkor

UNESCO site
Date of inscription: 1992

Angkor is one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia. Stretching over some 400 km2, including forested area, Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the 15th century. They include the famous Temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple with its countless sculptural decorations. UNESCO has set up a wide-ranging programme to safeguard this symbolic site and its surroundings.
Angkor, in Cambodia’s northern province of Siem Reap, is one of the most important archaeological sites of Southeast Asia. It extends over approximately 400 square kilometres and consists of scores of temples, hydraulic structures (basins, dykes, reservoirs, canals) as well as communication routes. For several centuries Angkor, was the centre of the Khmer Kingdom. With impressive monuments, several different ancient urban plans and large water reservoirs, the site is a unique concentration of features testifying to an exceptional civilization. Temples such as Angkor Wat, the Bayon, Preah Khan and Ta Prohm, exemplars of Khmer architecture, are closely linked to their geographical context as well as being imbued with symbolic significance. The architecture and layout of the successive capitals bear witness to a high level of social order and ranking within the Khmer Empire. Angkor is therefore a major site exemplifying cultural, religious and symbolic values, as well as containing high architectural, archaeological and artistic significance.
The park is inhabited, and many villages, some of whom the ancestors are dating back to the Angkor period are scattered throughout the park. The population practices agriculture and more specifically rice cultivation.


Cover#116 Czech, 165th Anniversary of Railway Post Postmark;



This cover was chopped a special postmark on the back of letter. It illustrates a postal train from Breclav to Ostrava. In the past, train was the main vehicul to transport mails. By the time, it was replaced by many others such as avion, autobus,etc.
To celebrate the 165 anniversary of Railway Post, Czech post released this stamp. The trajet of this mail is: beginning from city of my friend to Breclav; then get on the train in Breclav, chop this tampon on running train, get out in Ostrava to fly to Vietnam by avion.

Sent: 20/6/2015
Arrived: 11/8/2015
Thank Trung!

samedi 8 août 2015

PC#87 Norway, Northern Light Card,


I'm always enchanted by the beauty of nature, the most is art of the light. Thank you Anne who showed me this one, the Northernn Light.

Sent: 24/7/2015
Arrived: 7/8/2015

Thank Anna for your interesting explanation about this phenomen.

vendredi 7 août 2015

Cover#115 PC#86 Vietnam, Joint issue : ASEAN countries,



Today, Vietnam post release new stamp: Joint issue of ASEAN countries.
There was a competition between different countries to choose the design of this stamp and finaly, the winer is from Vietnam, Mrs. Vũ Kim Liên. Congrats.


Sent: 7/8/2015
Arrived: 13/8/2015







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Uncut stamp:




ASEAN

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a political and economic organisation of ten Southeast Asian countries. It was formed on 8 August 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Since then, membership has expanded to include Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), and Vietnam. Its aims include accelerating economic growth, social progress, and sociocultural evolution among its members, protection of regional peace and stability, and opportunities for member countries to resolve differences peacefully.

ASEAN covers a land area of 4.4 million square kilometres, 3% of the total land area of the Earth. ASEAN territorial waters cover an area about three times larger than its land counterpart. The member countries have a combined population of approximately 625 million people, 8.8% of the world's population. In 2015, the organisation's combined nominal GDP had grown to more than US$2.6 trillion. If ASEAN were a single entity, it would rank as the seventh largest economy in the world, behind the US, China, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.


On 28 July 1995, Vietnam became ASEAN's seventh member.