New issues Belgium (issue date 11/05/2009 and 08/06/2009)

1. Masters of music (composers)
   • Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
   • GF Haendel (1685-1759)
   • Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
   • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
   • Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
     
     
   
   
   
2. Antverpia 2010
   
   
   
   
3. History of aviation
   
   
   
   
4. 'Vacation' and 'Green energy'
   
   
   

New cover from Italy

Another cover from Italy, and quite a nice one with the m/s on the envelope. Thank you very much Jacopo!

Topic of the sheet: World Cup Baseball 2009. (http://www.baseball-worldcup.com)

Bulgaria

Belgium

Envelope with special cancellation, Port of Zeebrugge. (http://www.zeebruggeport.be)

# 78: San Marino

Thank you so much Fabio for this surprise from San Marino, with the 2008 Christmas issue.

Another WWF cover from Lithuania!

Thank you Arunas for this cover from Lithuania, franked with 3 of the 4 WWF stamps picturing the European Bison (1996).

Endangered animal stamp from France

Thank you very much Roland for this nice cover with special postmark 'extinct or threatened animals'!

The stamp on the cover pictures an aurochs, the ancestor of domestic cattle. It is extinct in the wild...

Beautiful cover from Iceland

I also received my first cover from Iceland last week... and it's a real beauty! :) Thank you very much Benedikt for this splendid cover!

The stamp pictures the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Puffin)
(http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3321)

Benedikt also included a nice surprise in his envelope: the WWF stamp serie from Iceland (Gyrfalcon), issued in 1992, in very nice used condition. Thank you very much for this, Benedikt!

First cover from Chile!

Thank you very much Paul for this very nice first day cover from Chile. It is my first cover from this country!

The cover and stamps are about the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (football), which was organized in Chili in 2008.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_U-20_Women%27s_World_Cup)

Malaysia

Courtesy of Kang Wei Xie