Birds Perched, Birds Flying, Birds Aground

Oh, yeah, postbeeld is pretty good. I've been happy with the stamps I get from them.

A commercial airmail cover from Cayenne, the capital of French Guyana to Elbeuf, France showing the fifteen-franc postage stamp that contains two Toucans.

CAYENNE
26-08
1951
GUYANE FRANCAISE

To Nils (or anyone who might know) - Nils, I forgot to ask, as you mentioned you bought from Postbeeld - did your orders from them have customs charges? I'm waiting on my shipment from them, a small order to start. Customs is confusing right now, and I believe that stamps don't get charged. In fact, in a more broad sense, do you pay customs on ANY international order? Thanks, let me know!

gnstamps80, so far, I haven't paid customs on any order. I have had a couple of packages get hung up in customs for weeks at a time, but all eventually got forwarded on to me. Some French dealers are a little prickly about the whole thing and insist on sending the stuff through DHL or another service (pricey!)... but, again, no fees.

I'm getting stuff from all over Europe, with a handful from Asia, Australia and Canada. My biggest problem for some reason is stuff coming out of Germany... I only just started receiving things ordered from that country in November!

By the way, rainrainbow, nice cover! One of my favorite stamps. I've found a few on commercial covers for my own collection, but not a heck of a lot.

Block of four French Guiana #206 on an oversized commercial cover, and three #205 on a smaller envelope.

Thanks for letting me know, Nils! Crazy world we live in! Also, those are some really nice covers! The older ones are stunning, I've noticed. Gives me a few ideas!

I'm happy to hear that! Cover collecting is very enjoyable and there's an infinite variety to choose from.

I'd assume more covers exist for any particular stamp, then there are stamps themselves, it appears. Interesting! I own 3 albums of common covers, cacheted - The US Wildlife, Birds and Flowers, and Wildflowers. All are the 50 stamp sets. Very common, I know, but it was a nice collection regardless, at a fair price. Hey, we can all use more stamps, right? :)

Oh, yes! I never disparage "common" covers... you might find that they become rare in a few years.

I bought a collection of over 400 different butterfly themed covers once. Probably ten years ago... and I'm still sorting them to this day!

Afars and Issas #310 and #311 on a commercial cover, and #310 and #313 on an FDC.

You have a valid point, Nils! With stamps, nothing is trash... well, except for mass-produced CTOs! I cringe just thinking of THAT money scheme! However, thats what got me into stamps, as a kid at least. I used to love to buy 1000 WW stamps for $5.00. Myself, and my best friend loved looking through them! It had me re-interested years later. Very nice covers you just posted as well!

Thought I'd share another favorite birds set of mine - British Honduras # 167-178. This set was so stunning when I saw it for the first time, that it literally made me start collecting again. Beautiful!

@Nils - lovely covers!