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My German philatelic friend-009 |
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Christmas card and postcards |
On
Dec.23,2005, I received a mail sent by Mr.Chilian, when it was opened,
I saw a Christmas card with a photo of Mr.Chilian's family. I have
got the approval of Mr.Chilian,publish it here |
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Above:The Christmas card |
Above: The enlarged part |
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| We can look that Mr.Chilian's family
is very happy. He and his wife are very health,and theirs little daughter
is very pretty and lovely, she has finished basic school and enter
highschool that is a girls school run by the city of Munich, she will
grow to womanhood before long. Mr.Chilian also especially tell me,
the photo was taken in a musical theatre in his hometown FUSSEN, the
musical theatre is about the life of the so-called fairy tales king
LUDWIG II. of Bavaria. He built 3 castles one of them is the famous
castle NEUSCHWANSTEIN near FüSSEN. Mr. Chilian once mentioned these
places time and again (see
here), we can feel his ardently love for himself hometown and
a proud of these history. Below are some images (From
here)for your reference; |
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Above: NEUSCHWANSTEIN |
Below:king LUDWIG II and
relative two famous persons: Bismarck(left) and Musician Richard
Wagner(right) |
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Bismarck (in 1889) |
LUDWIG II(1845-1886) (Photographer:
Joseph Albert,1865) |
Musician Richard Wagner(1813～1883) |
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| As a philatelic long friend, Mr. Chilian also enclose two postcards for my collection. They are the first day of postcard with the stamps join issued by China and Liechtenstein on May 18,2005.(See here) The mailed date is June 2,2005 from Bonn |
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Above:Liechtenstein-Museum
Wien |
Above: Beijing Palace Museum |
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Above: Two postmarks in the
postcards |
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