Maximum card: Red Panda / Lesser Panda (Ailurus fulgens) from Taiwan ROC

Republic of China (ROC) = Taiwan.

People's Republic of China = (mainland) China.

The top MC (maximum card) is official issue of Taiwan Post - very nice.

The other maximum card was created specially for me, at my specific request, by my good friend S. in Taiwan. Thank you! :)

She is one of the best philatelic partners/friends that I have on 6 continents (nobody yet at a research base in Antarctica - I'm working on it :) ).

Starting with the existing stamp, she found a great image online (even more matching than the official image), then she asked for permission to reproduce it.

I think those images were already released into public domain, but anyway.

Then she designed and ordered custom picture postcards.

Then she went to her post office and obtained clean local postmarks on such maximum cards. As a philatelic handback, she took them right back and sent me the whole batch in an envelope. One MC from each different design.

I love her custom MCs even more! Besides, there's only 1 MC made in each exact configuration - unless she liked them so much that she created more, for herself :D .

Test: will any Swahili speaker find this and contact me?

Tigers - Zazzle Msako stamps: ulinganifu wa miundo tofauti 6

Comparison ya 6 stamps Zazzle tofauti na Tigers ya 4 alama aina (striped nyeupe, stripeless nyeupe, dhahabu tabby na mara kwa mara). I have iliyoundwa na tayari kununuliwa 6 mbalimbali sheets of 20 identical (designwise) stamps. Lakini kila mtu muhuri ni ya kipekee katika encoded ibi (habari makao indicia) - nyeusi na nyeupe squares kidogo.
I (muda) inatumika hizi stamps sita onto a uwazi sheet. Licha ya kundi hili Scan, nami matumizi yao, baada ya kukatwa kwenye stampu uwazi rectangles binafsi, kwa kadi upeo miradi, demos, comps, majaribio.

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First Day Cover (FDC): Dracula, founder of Bucharest, capital of Romania

This superb FDC was sent to me by my good friend Teodor Ghiatza-Melnic, from Romania. Thank you! :)
Read more in the text from 2 posts ago, and by clicking tag/label Dracula.

Also, from wikipedia (one of my most favorite websites, despite its imperfections):

"Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (c. 1431 – December, 1476), more commonly known as the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Ţepeş pronounced [ˈvlad ˈt͡sepeʃ]) or Dracula, was a three-time voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462.

Historically, Vlad is best known for his independent policy towards the Ottoman Empire, the expansionism of which he resisted^[4] and for the exceedingly cruel punishment he imposed.^[5]

In the English-speaking world, Vlad III is perhaps most commonly known for inspiring the name of the vampire in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.^[6]"

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_the_Impaler}

Maximum cards/ cartes maximum/ maximumkarten: actress Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo...she fascinated a lot of people.

"Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age.

Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Honorary Academy Award "for her unforgettable screen performances"^[1] and in 1999 was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.^[2]"

One of the people for which she was unscrutable was Bette Davis.

This is Greta, seen thru "Bette Davis' eyes":

"Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft. I cannot analyse this woman's acting. I only know that no one else so effectively worked in front of a camera."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Garbo

Full disclosure: all the titles of my posts are clickable (hyperlinks).

In general, you will go either to my photobucket album to see more, or to my store(s) - delcampe or zazzle.

In case you are really interested, you can buy what you want. If you only want to look around, you're welcome, as well. :)

Maximaphily: 550 years since the first document mentioning Bucharest (București), capital of Romania

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I received today a letter with these VERY nice maximum cards, created by my philatelic partner and friend, Colonel (r) Dr. Ioan N. Daniliuc, First Vice-President of the Romanian Society for Thematic Philately and Maximaphily.

Thank you very much for these world-class maximum cards/ cartes maximum/ maximumkarten/ ilustrate maxime/ tarjetas maximas. :)

He took those pictures himself, had them printed as postcards, then processed them as maximum cards with the First day of Issue pictorial postmark. Beautiful!

As it happens frequently in Romania, the ink is of superior quality and it doesn't get smeared on the glossy surface of the postcard!

I wish I could say the same thing about the ink used at the post offices in USA, but...it's tough! :)

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"Bucharest (Romanian: București pronounced [bukuˈreʃtʲ] ( listen)) is the capital city, industrial and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at 44°25′57″N 26°06′14″E



, and lies on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River.

Bucharest was first mentioned in documents as early as 1459. Since then it has gone through a variety of changes, becoming the state capital of Romania in 1862 and steadily consolidating its position as the centre of the Romanian mass media, culture and arts. Its eclectic architecture is a mix of historical (neo-classical), interbellum (Bauhaus and Art Deco), Communist-era and modern. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of the "Little Paris of the East" (Micul Paris).^[4] Although many buildings and districts in the historic centre were damaged or destroyed by war, earthquakes and Nicolae Ceaușescu's program of systematization, many survived. In recent years, the city has been experiencing an economic and cultural boom.^[5]

According to January 1, 2009 official estimates, Bucharest proper has a population of 1,944,367.^[1] The urban area extends beyond the limits of Bucharest proper and has a population of 2 million people.^[2][6] Adding the satellite towns around the urban area, the metropolitan area of Bucharest has a population of 2.15 million people.^[3] Bucharest is the 6th largest city in the European Union by population within city limits.^[7]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucuresti

Veterans' Day update

Many years ago, I have read a statistics report saying that 1/3 of all homeless men in America were war veterans.

A few have even gone "to the dark side" - maybe they had wounds beyond the flesh...

My point is that the government should do more for the veterans, and we could help, too, even with modest contributions.