Cinderella Surprise!

Came home tonight to find an envelope for me in the postbox. Inside was a group of 11 interesting cinderellas. The funny thing was, I had trouble remembering I'd bought them, let alone paid for them.
My mind must be going.
Two I've shown on the philatelic label thread.
Here are the rest. I haven't done any research on them yet, but some things about them are obvious.
If you have any further info on any of them, feel free to chime in!

The easy ones
Christmas Denmark 1943



Christmas Denmark 1947



Christmas Netherlands 1952



Apollo 12, 1969
I think Neil, Buzz and Mike must have been a tough act to follow



I think this must be a private courier company. Galway makes me think England? (edit- Ireland...duh!)



I know this little guy is Romanian. I've seen a thread on the A.R.P.A. here somewhere, but couldn't find it.
Postal Tax maybe? Something to do with airmen?
(edit- voluntary postal tax. "ARPA= Asociatia Romana pentru Propaganda Aviatiei (Romanian Association for the Propaganda of Aviation- err...approximatively) 1931"
I found the thread.)



Here are the tough ones. Being monolingual (I speak just enough of several other languages to get my face slapped!), I'm at a bit of a loss to understand these ones. Perhaps Google Translate will be fired up this weekend.

Sweden...obviously (edit - animal rights)



Switzerland? Above the crest it says Postlaufer von Zurich
(edit - National Stamp Show/Exhibition)



The last I believe is Austrian. A school (schul) label?



A lovely bunch, and a nice surprise.

If the Post Office forgets to cancel their outgoing mail, who knows what they will deliver.

The Swiss cinderella shows a middle ages Zurich postman or "courier"; while the Austrian one refers to the German (speaking) Schools Union, which also engulfed German schools on the German Reich. It should be remembered that the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, was a multilingual body, with a lot of languages been spoken.

The 'Naba' label is lovely. Never seen it before so thanks for putting it up here.

Londonbus1

The first Denmark one is indeed Christmas. I do believe the second one is not a Christmas one, but rather commemmorating the wedding of the Royal couple in July of 1947. Julen is Christmas, but Jul is July!

Peter

It is indeed a Christmas Seal. 'God Jul' is Merry Chritmas in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

I guess they used a special event to commemorate a special day !

Londonbus1

Thanks for the responses. I have to agree with the Bus that the 1947 is a Christmas seal, but tied to the Royal Wedding. Here are two other later Danish seals, which I already had, that are inscribed Jul.



I also have another from 1919 inscribed Julen. So, sometime between 1943 and 1947 the inscription was shortened.