Map Postcard of Drente, Netherlands

A card sent out from Assen, a small city in the northern part of the Netherlands.

The name of the province is Drenthe.

Schoner Niederrchein (Map Postcard)

The Rhine flows from Grisons in the eastern Swiss Alps to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and is one of the longest and most important river in Europe, at about 1,233 km.

The Rhine is the longest river in Germany. It is here that the Rhine encounters some of its main tributaries, such as the Neckar, the Main and, later, the Moselle.

The postcard shows part of the Rhine , from Emmerich to Dusseldorf.

Emmerich at the Rhine is a city on the lower part of the River Rhine in the northwest of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and center of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.

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The Japanese and Chinese font is  printed on the stamp.

Map Postcard : Israel

Thank you Debora for the nice map card and the stamps.

Map Postcard : Latvia

Postcard from series of drawings by Latvian artist Ansis Cirulis published by photographer Janis Rieksts, 1919.

I'm so glad to be such a lucky person to receive this gorgeous retro-map postcard from Latvia.

Thank you to Aleksejs & Lidia.

Map Postcard : Greece

Old Map of Crete of the Venetian Time (15th Century)

Antique Map Postcard

Abraham Ortelius-Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip

Ortelius based this influential map on the work of earlier authorities including Mercator, Zeno and Magnus. Of particular interest are the mythical islands of Brasil, Frisland, Drogeo, Icaria, and St. Brendan. Part of Mercator's imaginary polar continent is depicted with a note that it is inhabited by pigmies. Iceland (Islant, Thule) is basically unchanged from Mercator´s map of Europe from 1554 with the shape originated by Zeno. Greenland is separated from Europe by a wide sea and a portion of North America appears in the upper left corner with the name Estotilant. The map is adorned with a variety of very inventive creatures including a half-man, half-sea creature playing a lute. Latin text on verso.

Merry Christmas 2015

Dear all, wishing you a Merry Christmas.

Lots of greetings from Finland's friend, Kirsimarja. She wrote on his postcard, "Lapland is the northeast part of Finland. People there have many different roots as else Finnish people."

On the postcard, there are activities like skiing, washing gold, fishing, and of course Santa Claus and reindeer.