Aland - Lunar new year maxicards,

 

These three maxicards are from Aland. Year of the Rat 2020, Year of the Buffle 2021 and Year of the Tigre 2022. 

I am wondering the reason they use the cat instead of a tigre for this year. 

Thank you so much Mosshuula for these wonderful maxicards!

Aland, Year of the Rat issue,

Year of the Rat isse from Aland shows a rat family living near the river. It looks like a fairy tales.

Look more the details on the minisheet.

Thank you so much Mosshuula!

Aland, Year of the Pig & Year of the Goat maxicards,

 I got these maxicard real-posted recently. They sent from Aland, showing the lunar new year animal : the sheep and the pig.

Thank you a lot Doris!

Aland, Year of the Dog 2018

 Year of the Dog from Aland reached my home. From year of the Goat, Aland post released annually stamps to celebrate the lunar new year. And they are my favorite ones.

Year of the Monkey. the stamp was issued as EUROPA stamp (traditional toy).

The letter was posted from Finland with a set of maxicard, a minisheet inside.

Sent: 14/12/2017

Arrived: 11/01/2018

Thank you so much Kimmo for this help!

PC#155 Aland, Greetings from Postallove,

 Many postcrossers collect official Greetings from Postallove cards from different countries. I am not a fan of Gf but it's really excited to get this type of card.
My first one arrived from Aland Islands. It is also the first card I got from this awesome tiny island.

Sent:13/4/2016

Arrived: 4/5/2016

Thank you Nina!

Some interesting stamps,

Here are some interesting stamps I got recently.

Charlie Chaplin is one of my favorite comic actors. When I was a very young boy, on TV, it used to have not much interesting shows, only every Sunday, there were Charlie show at 8 AM and Doraemon then Lucky Luke at 10AM if I remember well. They were really fancy to me at that time.

This stamp is released in 2014 to celebrate 125th Anniversary of the Birth of Charlie Chaplin, 1889-2014.

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.[1] His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.

Chaplin's childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship. As his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. When he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. Chaplin began performing at an early age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor and comedian. At 19 he was signed to the prestigious Fred Karno company, which took him to America. Chaplin was scouted for the film industry, and began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios. He soon developed the Tramp persona and formed a large fan base. Chaplin directed his own films from an early stage, and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the Essanay, Mutual, and First National corporations. By 1918, he was one of the best known figures in the world.

In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him complete control over his films. His first feature-length was The Kid (1921), followed by A Woman of Paris (1923), The Gold Rush (1925), and The Circus (1928). He refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936) without dialogue. Chaplin became increasingly political, and his next film, The Great Dictator (1940), satirised Adolf Hitler. The 1940s were a decade marked with controversy for Chaplin, and his popularity declined rapidly. He was accused of communist sympathies, while his involvement in a paternity suit and marriages to much younger women caused scandal. An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the United States and settle in Switzerland. He abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Limelight (1952), A King in New York (1957), and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967).

Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in, and composed the music for most of his films. He was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. His films are characterised by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramp's struggles against adversity. Many contain social and political themes, as well as autobiographical elements. In 1972, as part of a renewed appreciation for his work, Chaplin received an Honorary Academy Award for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century". He continues to be held in high regard, with The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator often ranked on industry lists of the greatest films of all time.

Source: wiki

Cover#038 Aland, Year of the Goat issue

Today I got my first mail from Aland. A cover with full stampset Year of the Goat. This is the first time Aland released Lunar new year stamp. A MS containing 2 stampsets released as the result of co - operation between Aland post and Postage stamp printing bureau of China Post was issued on 5 Nov in both Aland and China.

Sent: 26/11/2014

Arrived: 10/12/2014

Thanks Kimmo!