Maximum card

[Willemstamps]

Recently I received a nice card, with two enlarged Danish stamps of a composer and a choreographer. Also the two issued stamps were places and canceled. So a maximum card.

I knew nothing about either of them. Jacob Gade turned out to be a violinist and a composer. His most famous composition Jealousy is a Tango that I recognized from when I danced the Tango myself. And I thought that was an Argentinian; turns out to be a Dane! Video

A. Bournonville appears to have died in the year Jacob Gade was born. Hence, this issue in 1979. Canceled on May 22, 1981 on the occasion of the International Stamp Exhibition in Vienna, WIPA 1981.

And all shipped from Lithuania in 2021!

Willemstamps

[yudi]

Maxicards chat

I’m not sure whether to put this topic in the postcard or stamps section… maxicards are bit of both! [image] [image] The Portuguese Post sometimes has them for sale, but they tend to be rather boring, the image on the postcard often just a copy of the stamp. I haven’t tried to make my own yet, as the special cancellation marks are hard to come by in Portugal. Have you received any lately? Do you make your own? Does your post office sell them? Tell us about it!

[Willemstamps]

I don’t make them myself. The Dutch post doesn’t make them either at this moment, as far as I know. That’s why I find it special to receive one

[meiadeleite]

I’ll merge this topic with that one, so that the conversation can continue there.