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Sisophon · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 07:29:57 am

1993 Floriade, Canberra.

2005 Water Lilies FDC, Cambodia.

Draccae · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 07:46:37 am

The water lilies are beautiful!

Sisophon · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 07:58:13 am

2005 Albanian Flora, Albania.

2008 Hong Kong Flowers, Hongkong.

2003 Orchids, Portugal.

2001 National Flower Frangipani, Laos.

Sisophon · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 08:05:19 am

2003 Orchids, North Korea.

2005 Orchids, Thailand.
Thailand's flower issues never fail !

Sisophon · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2010 08:37:14 am

rodi wrote:

People's Republic of China 1960
Chrysanthemums

This chrysanthemum set and the peony set are masterpiece. My pocket isn't deep enough for them (forgeries exist too), so I turn to the alternative .... 1974 North Vietnamese chrysanthemum 8v set:

(too lazy to scan, just copy and paste from cotevina)

Draccae · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 06:58:48 am

Poppies on a silk cover...

nigelc · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 07:13:51 am

Variations on a theme - here's a South Georgia FDC I received yesterday:

Draccae · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 07:24:01 am

OH! I love those poppies on it, nigelc! So very pretty.

Draccae · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:38:25 am

Israel, drug maxicard with poppies...

Kind of pretty but I have no idea what this is. Does anyone know or have any idea at all???

iomoon · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:46:26 am

Well it's Chinese and looks like May blossoms.

Draccae · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:52:44 am

Iomoon, do you mean the text or the graphic? I can't find it in Scott catalogue but it has some number on it.

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 14:20:11 pm

crosscrescent · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 14:23:30 pm

Draccae,

IMHO, the perforation seems to be over an area other than the wordings and the face value of the stamp. Could this be an error?

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 14:24:11 pm

Sisophon wrote:

1993 Floriade, Canberra.

2005 Water Lilies FDC, Cambodia.

Nice!

Sisophon · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 16:30:20 pm

Draccae wrote:

Kind of pretty but I have no idea what this is. Does anyone know or have any idea at all???

A non-postage private print sheet, just cinderella or label or whatever you call it.

Yes it is from China, China has tonnes of these cinderellas.

Draccae · **Posted:** Thu Feb 11, 2010 01:31:12 am

Sisophon wrote:

Draccae wrote:

Kind of pretty but I have no idea what this is. Does anyone know or have any idea at all???

A non-postage private print sheet, just cinderella or label or whatever you call it.

Yes it is from China, China has tonnes of these cinderellas.

Thanks, I really like the design of it....I will have to see if I can find some of the others to look at.

Draccae · **Posted:** Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:16:42 am

Two Bhutan flower sheets that came today...

Draccae · **Posted:** Fri Feb 12, 2010 09:12:20 am

New Zealand war poppies...

Draccae · **Posted:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:21:40 am

1964 France postage due flowers. I bought them for the poppy but they are all rather nice, IMO.

jugoslavija_post · **Posted:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:25:53 am

The French ones are nice!

figmente · **Posted:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 15:04:57 pm

Close up for the poppy -

I like the poppy collection very much;
I consider Sunflowers quite tempting for its own collection.

figmente · **Posted:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 15:11:00 pm

figmente · **Posted:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 15:15:32 pm

I wonder how many others used this common design.

figmente · **Posted:** Sat Feb 13, 2010 15:38:45 pm

The associated sets have small poppy at lower right -

Draccae · **Posted:** Sun Feb 14, 2010 04:52:40 am

figmente wrote:

Close up for the poppy -

I am so glad that you posted this closeup. I really like this this stamp. It's nice with the background having a similar color (in the general reddish family) that fades lighter at the top. It makes the red of the poppy itself really stand out without having too much of an abrupt contrast as you would see on a different color background. Quite an effective yet elegant contrast. A really pretty stamp.

lithograving · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 09:04:34 am

Spanish Andorra. I'm afraid they're not too colourful but the are beautifully engraved.

pirano · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 09:33:34 am

Another poppy, issued here last month:

Draccae · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:02:27 am

pirano..

I will have to keep an eye out for that one. Very nice.

Draccae · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:11:49 pm

This is sort of pretty, characters from Dream of the Red Chamber in the flowering trees.

pirano · **Posted:** Tue Feb 16, 2010 19:51:56 pm

Draccae wrote:

pirano..

I will have to keep an eye out for that one. Very nice.

I'll be happy to send you one, mint, on cover or both. I'll send you an email with a trade suggestion.

Draccae · **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:06:04 am

A little cactus flower...

Draccae · **Posted:** Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:30:19 am

Isle of Man, Poppy FDC with coin...

Draccae · **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2010 08:56:16 am

Mongolia flowers...

figmente · **Posted:** Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:51:35 am

pirano · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 02:21:04 am

Instead of starting a 'Smiling Cosmonauts Holding Boquets' thread, I thought I'd just post this here, DDR Michel # 995:

and with a flower show postmark:

Draccae · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 09:50:21 am

Here is a beautiful poppy sheet that arrived today from another stampboards member.

Draccae · **Posted:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:35:36 am

Two sheets...

1980 Mongolia

1971 Hungary - International Stamp Exhibition for the centenary of Hungarian postage

and then some stamps (including a poppy)

associated with the above sheet...

Draccae · **Posted:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:10:22 pm

And now some sets with poppy stamps...

Hungary 1999...

Poland...

1970 Iraq...

Draccae · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 00:56:52 am

1951 Hungary flower set...

Draccae · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 01:05:03 am

1989 Greece Wildflowers...

nigelc · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 01:26:45 am

Draccae wrote:

1989 Greece Wildflowers...

Draccae, I'm amazed how many poppy stamps you've found.

Poppies certainly make for very attractive designs.

Draccae · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 01:52:26 am

Yea Nigel, they are certainly pretty and with so many red ones they really pop out on stamps. It's nice too because when you get the lighter blue or pale yellow poppies on stamps they look so soft in comparison to all of the red.

I have a few more sets to post later in the week once I catch up on my scanning.

Draccae · **Posted:** Fri Mar 12, 2010 01:22:50 am

Two sets of San Marino flowers with poppies and Mt Titano in the background. I really like these, you get both a yellow poppy and a red poppy with the mountain background on both. It's fun too that in a few of the stamps you can see all three peaks of the mountain.

1967 San Marino flowers...

1957 San Marino flowers...

Draccae · **Posted:** Sat Mar 13, 2010 01:48:47 am

Romania 1975 Medicinal flowers...

figmente · **Posted:** Sat Mar 13, 2010 15:45:24 pm

WRT the poppies - In addition to their memorial and drug significance, poppies have an interestingly distinct seed pod, and the seeds have many culinary applications. Have you hit stamps showing either?

tonymacg · **Posted:** Sat Mar 13, 2010 16:03:05 pm

Bit of a stretch, I know, but I do love the flower pots:

Not sure what that is growing in them, though

ScotsmanAbroad · **Posted:** Sat Mar 13, 2010 16:09:35 pm

From China

ScotsmanAbroad · **Posted:** Sat Mar 13, 2010 16:10:11 pm

Draccae · **Posted:** Sun Mar 14, 2010 04:35:08 am

figmente wrote:

WRT the poppies - In addition to their memorial and drug significance, poppies have an interestingly distinct seed pod, and the seeds have many culinary applications. Have you hit stamps showing either?

You know I haven't thought much about the culinary aspects. But I will keep my eyes open there. So far I am arranging them in a life cycle, along the lines of...

Birth/Growth (spring wildflower poppies, arctic poppies, etc.)
Maturity (medical poppy use)
Decay (addiction poppies)
Death/Rebirth (memorial poppies)

Draccae · **Posted:** Sun Mar 14, 2010 05:06:38 am

tonymacg wrote:

Bit of a stretch, I know, but I do love the flower pots:

Not sure what that is growing in them, though

Very nice! I am glad that you decided to add it.


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