quarta-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2025

State War Memorial Building – Arkansas Centennial (1936)

 


Country: USA

Issue: Centenary of Arkansas

Date of Issue: 15.06.1936

Postmark: Little Rock, Arkansas – 01.10.1936

Postcard: Illustration of the State War Memorial Building in Little Rock, Arkansas, with neoclassical architecture featuring tall white columns and triangular pediment (Edited C.T. Colortone)

 


Monument Valley – The American Southwest (2000)

 


Country: USA

Issue: Nonprofit Org. / Butte

Date of Issue: 15.06.1999

Postmark: Four Corners, USA – July 12, 2000

Postcard: Monument Valley view with iconic sandstone buttes under a bright blue sky and scattered clouds (Edited Scenic Art)

 


Sonoran Desert – Gila Monster (1999)

 


Country: USA
Issue: Nature of America – Sonoran Desert
Date of Issue: 06.04.1999
Postmark: Tucson, Arizona – First Day of Issue – APR 6 1999
Postcard: Image of a Gila Monster (Heloderma suspectum), a venomous lizard native to the Sonoran Desert. (Edited SSI Terrell)

 


Arizona Statehood – Saguaro cactus in bloom (1962)

 


Country: USA
Issue: Arizona Statehood – 50th Anniversary
Date of Issue: 14.02.1962
Postmark: Phoenix, Arizona – First Day of Issue – FEB 14 1962
Postcard: Close-up of a Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) with blooming flowers in the foreground against a blue sky (Edited Kodachrome)

 


segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2025

Booklet dedicada ao filme “Portugueses” do realizador Vicente Alves do Ó

 


Maxicard Sonoran Desert landscape with towering Saguaro cacti

 

Issued: USA, Nature of America: Sonoran Desert - 06.04.1999

Postmark: First day cancellation - Tucson AZ - APR 6 1999

Postcard: Sonoran Desert, with large Saguaro cacti in the foreground – Edited SSI TERRELL

 

This maximum card demonstrates perfect concordance, combining the postcard’s Sonoran Desert landscape with towering Saguaro cacti, the matching stamp depicting the same iconic plants, and the first-day cancellation explicitly referencing the Sonoran Desert.

 


Maximum Card People ice skating in a snow-covered setting – Edited Carlton Cards

 

Issued: USA, Christmas (Skater’s) - 08.10.1996

Postmark: Comemorative cancellation - Anchorage, AK -FEB 16 2001

Postcard: People ice skating in a snow-covered setting – Edited Carlton Cards

This maximum card achieves perfect concordance, uniting the winter skating scene on the postcard, the ice-skating themed stamp, and the Anchorage first-day cancellation featuring a skate illustration.