Maximaphily

Diego Velasquez , The Portrait of Philip the IV-th
The Arts National Museum- Bucharest, RO

Postmark : FDI 29 09 69 BUCURESTI

Casa Milà, known as "la Pedrera" ("the quarry"), in Barcelona and architecht, Antoni Gaudí. MC of February, 25th 1975, using a commercial card. Posmark of the exhibition held in Barcelona (on a stand in front of the building), when the stamp was issued.
By the way, perhaps, my earliest maximum card!

France - EUROPA CEPT series





Cancellation of The European Council Post Office - Strassbourg
17 SEP 1960

Latest (Feb. 2014) Barcelona MC, showing the door of Miralles House by Gaudí. Althought, is an imperfect one, as the posmark (Barcelona FDI) doesn't show the stamp's design, but another arch/door.

Salvador Espriu (Santa Coloma de Farners, 1913 - Barcelona, 1985). Catalan Poet.
1986 Card, with a commemorative postmark of Santa Coloma de Farners.

Monaco - Prince Rainer III and Princess Grace



Pictorial postmark with date : 19 AVRIL 1956 , the date when couple married.

FRANCE



Red Cross - 90th Anniversary
Postmark FDI : LA CROIX ROUGE ET LA POSTE Premier Jour 1864-1954 18 DEC 1954 MULHOUSE

The stamp designer/engraver Jules Piel used Jean-Baptiste Greuze's painting " June Filles aux Colombes".

ROMANIA





Gonzales Coques
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_Coques

The Senses

5 paintings from Brukenthal Museum , Sibiu , RO

Postmark : SIBIU 15.12.70

Clockwise , from upper right corner :

The Touching , The Testing, The Smelling, The Hearing,The Sighting

September 1962, Barcelona, Arms of the city.



September 1963, Barcelona, Mare de Déu de la Mercè (Our Lady of Mercy), one of the three Barcelona's patron saints.



September 1963, Barcelona, Mercè Order Arms.

The Romanian training ship "MIRCEA" with a special cancellation issued when the ship left Constanta-Port (4 March 1976) for New York to attending the US Bicentenary celebrations.
The ship is depicted on the special pictorial cancellation as well.

"Mircea" was built in 1938 at Hamburg, Germany by the Blohm & Voss shipyard as a training vessel for the Romanian Navy.

She is sister ship to „Eagle" -USCGC , „Gorch Fock ( II) " - Germany , „Tovarisch" - Ukraine ( currently "Gorch Fock (I) "- Germany) , and „Sagres (III)" - Portugal.

A bark with three masts,"Mircea" is still operational !

Barcelona Olympic Stadium card. Postmarked on July, 25th 1992; the first day of the Games of the 25th Olympiad, held on these premises, and alsp de FDI of the Stadium stamp.

Who is the owner of this Stadium pls ? Barcelona Municipality ? A football club ?

The Barcelona Olympic Stadium, whose real name is "Estadi Olímpic Lluis Companys", belongs to the city of Barcelona and it's located on the Montjuïc mountain, that nowadays lies between the city and the Mediterranean sea.

Romania - M.C. dated 03.11.87 celebrating 30 years since first animal launched into space aboard satellite Sputnik 2 .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

EUROMAX '74 - the first European Maximpahily Exhibition held in Bucharest, Romania attended by famous collectors from 21 countries : George Azzis the honorary president of Les Maximaphiles Francais, Rene Delebrei the president of L'Essor Maximaphile- France, Gonzague de la Ferte, co-ordinator GIREM- France, Antonio Furtado- Portugal, Marian Haydzicki- Poland, Alexander Kotopoulis - Greece, Antonin Kubelka - Czechoslovakia , Georges Naudet, president of Les Maximaphiles Francais , Ramon d'Areny Plandolit- Andorra, Andre Sanders from Les Maximaphiles Belges, Leonhard Ziegler- Philatelic Societies Federation- Austria.

During the EUROMAX '74 was held first Maximaphily International Symposium which did agree upon first International Statute of Maximaphily .





FDI Postmark : PRIMA ZI A EMISIUNII / EUROMAX / BUCURESTI 25 VI 1974