0466 - Post Office Murrals Cover - USA

Sent: 08.02.2020

Received 27.02.2020

Travel time 19 days

Private swap - SCM Fb Group (Thank You, Ria!)

0465 - Singapore Coronavirus cover

Sent: 17 Feb 2020

Received 27.02.2020

Travel time 10 days

Private swap cover

0298 Locomotives cover from Malaysia

Sent: 12.02.2020
Received: 09.03.2020
Travel time: 24 days

Sender Raymond Low via SCM fb group

0297 Europa 2020 Ancient Mail Routes cover Russia

Sent: 25.02.2020
Received 09.03.2020
Travel time 13 days

Sent by Salvatore Cacciatore (thank you!)

0255 Cover from Syria

Sent: 24.08.2018
Received - in envelope prestamped

Sender Binod from Nepal.

0254 FDC Singapore Happy New Year 2019

Sent 01.01.2019

Received 07.01.2019

Travel time 6 days

Sender Johnny Lowis from Singapore

0252 Fruit theme cover from Tunisia - damaged condition and one missing stamp

Sent: 11.12.2017

Received: 29.12.2017

Travel time 16 days - through water and sea water....

Sender Elloumi Mohamed from Tunisia.

The sending came to me in a plastic bag from Romanian Post, and a label inside who says that the item came in this condition in Romania, quite destroyed ans one missing stamp...

0242 Fauna theme zoo cover from Netherlands

Sent: 12.01.2018

Received 01.03.2018

Travel time 48 days

Sender Riek van der Mast from Rhenen, Netherlands

0227 Women theme card from Latvia

Sent 02.01.2019
Received 10.01.2019
Travel time 8 days.

Sender Irina from Latvia - via postcrossing platform - forgot to add the ID number...

0226 USA Giant Cover C4 size lenticular stamps _ Christmas Coke stamps

Sent: 11.12.2018

Received 10.01.2019

Travel time: 29 days

Sender Mike from USA

About lenticular stamps here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJVMtNl-Q8

0211 Moldova FDC Emergency services issue with postcrossing postmark also

Sent: 03.02.2019

Received 07.01.2019

Travel time:  4 days

Sender Ala Nicoreanu from Moldova.

0207 SCM Transport cover China

Sent: 04.11.2018

Received 07.01.2019

Travel time 64 days

Sender Mr Xu Wei from China, via SCM group on facebook

0206 SCM Fauna cover from Canada

Sent 20.12.2018

Recieved : 03.01.2019

Travel time 14 days

Sender Kenneth from Canada, via SCM group on facebook.

0204 Fauna Cover from Burundi

Sent: 30.11.2018
Received 04.01.2019
Transit postmark from Cairo : 10.12.2018
Travel time: 35 days

Sender Deo Nyiongeso from Burundi. 

0203 SCM Cover Flora from Indonesia

Sent: 15.12.2018

Received 07.01.2019

Travel time 23 days

Sender Juned from Indonesia via SCM - Surprise Covers and Maxicards group from facebook

0197 Anniversary Cover 25 years from first Europa issue of Moldova Post

Sent: 29.12.2018

Received: 07.01.2019

Travel time 10 days

Sender: IMPS - Niall Murphy - the president of IMPS, thank you so much! Such great cover, celebrating 25 years from first issue Europa of Moldova Republic post! 

IMPS is an evolution of the highly successful project "MoldovaStamps", first developed by our President, Niall Murphy, in 2003 and developed continuously since then. MoldovaStamps succeeded in it's objective to be one of the best online single-country philatelic web sites in the world. It has enjoyed the support of people from over 160 countries and has earned a considerable reputation. MoldovaStamps is one of the most popular philatelic web sites in the world.

In March 2018, it was decided to evolve MoldovaStamps into an international philatelic society, with the primary objective of promoting world-wide awareness of Moldova, her history and culture, through the medium of philately.

Unlike traditional, formal philatelic societies with their strict rules and procedures, IMPS want to take a fresh, modern attitude. More info on link below.

You can become too member of International Moldovan Philatelic Society here http://www.moldovastamps.org/

0194 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Poste Srpske) Europa stamps cover

Sent: 02.06.2018
Received 11.06.2018
Travel time: 9 days

Sender Miro Jelecevic from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

About stamps - you can find more info here:

http://europa-stamps.blogspot.com/2018/04/bosnia-and-herzegovina-serb-post-2018.html

Serbian Post in BH official site: http://www.postesrpske.com

Wiki:

Pošte Srpske (full legal name: Preduzeće za poštanski saobraćaj Republike Srpske ad) is one of three companies responsible for postal service in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other two are BH Pošta and Hrvatska Pošta Mostar.

0193 Niue Cover Fauna stamps

Sent: 10.05.2018

Received 07.06.2018

Travel Time:27 days

Sender Jinesh from India.

wiki:

Niue (/ˈnjuːeɪ/ NEW-ay; Niuean: Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) northeast of New Zealand, east of Tonga, south of Samoa, and west of the Cook Islands. Niue's land area is about 261 square kilometers (101 sq. mi) and its population, predominantly Polynesian, was about 1,600 in 2016. The island is commonly referred to as "The Rock", which comes from the traditional name "Rock of Polynesia". Niue is one of the world's largest coral islands. The terrain of the island has two noticeable levels. The higher level is made up of a limestone cliff running along the coast, with a plateau in the center of the island reaching approximately 60 meters (200 feet) high above sea level. The lower level is a coastal terrace approximately 0.5 km (0.3 miles) wide and about 25–27 meters (80–90 feet) high, which slopes down and meets the sea in small cliffs. A coral reef surrounds the island, with the only major break in the reef being in the central western coast, close to Alofi. A notable feature are the many limestone caves near the coast.

0100-103 Moldova Rep MaxiCard & FDC Europa 2018

Sent: 08.02.2018

Received: 13.02.2018

Travel time: 5 days

Sender Ala Nicoreanu- a friend from Chisinau.The items were sent one from Pohorniceni, Orhei, and one from Ungheni, in the same day -day of first issue of emission.

The stamps are described also here: http://www.moldovastamps.org/ro/catalogue-stamps-issue.asp?issueID=3001

The Eiffel Bridge (Romanian: Podul Eiffel) is a bridge over the River Prut and a checkpoint between Moldova and Romania. The bridge is located between Ungheni and Ungheni, Iași.

On May 18 [O.S. May 6] 1872 a Russian diplomatic agent, Ivan Alekseevich Zinov'ev, and Gheorghe Costaforu signed a rail junction convention, which was ratified on January 21 [O.S. January 9] 1873.[1] and the Iaşi-Ungheni railway was opened on August 1, 1874. The railway Chişinău-Corneşti-Ungheni (built 1871–1875) was opened on June 1, 1875 by the Russian Empire in preparation for the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Ungheni customs were established in 1875 after putting into operation the Chişinău-Ungheni-Iaşi railroad. The railway Chişinău-Corneşti was already opened in 1873.

In 1876, after the spring flooding of the river Prut, the railway bridge that linked Bessarabia and Romania was almost destroyed. The Railway Department invited Gustave Eiffel to Bessarabia (Moldova) to redesign and rebuild the bridge, which was opened on April 21 [O.S. April 9] 1877, just three days before the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). On April 23 [O.S. April 11] 1877, Russian troops entered Romania at Ungheni and, the next day, Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Today, the bridge remains a strategically positioned construction under the supervision of border guards.

In the nearby city of Iaşi, Gustave Eiffel also built the Grand Hotel Traian (1882).

The Pohorniceni bridge is a very old bridge built in a local traditional way, and it can be cross only by pedestrian. The bridge is crossing Raut river.

Răut, also referred to as Reut (Romanian: Răut, Ukrainian and Russian: Реут (Reut), Yiddish: רעװעט‎ (Revet)) is a river in Moldova, a right tributary of Dniester. Răut, generally navigable until 18-19th century, is navigable today only by small recreational boats.

The towns Bălți, Orhei and Florești are located by the river.

0060 Romanian FDC - The Romanian Renaissance - February 2018

With the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the 1848 Revolution, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the postage stamp issue “The Romanian Renaissance” in painting.

On the stamp with the face value of Lei 8, is reproduced the painting The Romanian Renaissance, by Gheorghe Tattarescu.

This year marks the 170th anniversary of the 1848 Revolution which represented the cornerstone of Romania’s birth. It was the moment when artists and intellectuals acknowledged the community of language and culture of the territories inhabited by Romanians, and began to militate to forge a unitary state. The national feeling was built even through the works of the painters of the 1848 movement, who were inspired by the artistic movements fashionable at that time in the great cities of Western Europe.

One of the most important representative painters of the 1848 movement was Gheorghe Tattarescu (October, 1820, Focsani – October 24, 1894, Bucharest). He was the nephew of the church painter Nicolae Teodorescu, his first tutor in the art of church painting, who, in 1831, founded in Buzau a school for church painting, where the great future painter enrolled as a student, at the age of 11. As a child, the artist painted churches along with his uncle, and was remarked by the Chesarie Bishop of Buzau, who offered him, in 1845, a scholarship in Rome. He completed his studies in the revolutionary atmosphere of the 1848 movement in Rome, and his first works had a powerful national charge. The Italian education also distinguished itself through the influences manifested in his work by the Christian iconography.

The artist returned to the country at the half of the 19th century. During that time, he was one of the most important churches’ painters. Over 50 places of worship bear the mark of the maestro, among which the Church of St. Spiridon, the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iasi, the Greek Church of Braila, the Church of the Ciolanu monastery in Buzau, the White, Zlatari, Coltei, Cretulescu, Enei, St. Spiridon churches and the Lady Elena Hospice in Bucharest etc.

Gheorghe Tattarescu also preoccupied himself with the foundation of a Romanian artistic school. Together with Theodor Aman, he founded, in 1864, The National Fine Arts School. He worked together with his students, especially on church paintings.

The artist lived the political and cultural atmosphere of the time to the fullest. He is the author of memorable portraits of the leaders of the 1848 movement, like Nicolae Balcescu, Gheorghe Magheru or Stefan Golescu.

In 1848, when he was in Italy, he started to work on an artistic project dedicated to the national ideal. Gheorghe Tattarescu exhibited the work for the first time in Rome, in 1850. “The Awakening of Romania” signifies the rebirth of the country through science, art and faith. The composition is distinctly accomplished in two planes. On the lower side, a woman wakes up from her sleep, a symbol of Romania’s birth who breaks free from the chains of slavery, next to the partially unfolded Romanian flag. Further down on the left side, there is the horn of abundance, and on the right side, by contrast, a poor peasant family in front of a hut. An angel lifts the veil of obscurantism, pointing towards the upper plane to the personified symbols of science, art and faith. The Danube, the Carpathians, and the ruins of the former Romanian capital, Targoviste, all figure suggestively in the background of the composition.

Tattarescu offered the painting to the Barbu Stirbei ruler, who, impressed by the gift received, founded The Gallery of Paintings. The first piece of the collection, donated by the ruler, was Tattarescu’s own painting. In the meanwhile, the Gallery was transformed in the State Pinacotheque, and later on, in the National Museum of Art.

Gheorghe Tattarescu’s body of work, today found in the patrimony of the Bucharest Municipality Museum, had several names. Initially, the author mentioned the canvas by the title “Romania’s Awakening”. But, in 1867, when the artwork was sent to Paris, at the Universal Exhibition, it was renamed “Romania’s Dream”. In 1953, when the Memorial House “Gheorghe Tattarescu” was founded, his work entered the patrimony of the Bucharest Municipality Museum with the title “The Renaissance of Romania”.

On the stamp of the imperforated souvenir sheet of the postage stamp, with the face value of Lei 15, is reproduced an old age penciled portrait of Gheorghe Tattarescu. The illustration is probably an intermediate version of the Self-Portrait on canvas, finalized in 1875.

(Romfilatelia internet site)