Let’s continue last weeks incoming mail (or covers/cards around the world) bonanza with couple of items.  This card arrived last friday from Canada, and it has some extremely beautiful stamps.

The first stamp on the card is 5 cent bumblebee (or more precisely Bombus fervidus) from Beneficial Insects definitive series.  On the right there is Warren Landing lighthouse definitive. Both stamps were issued in 2007.

Next there is Polar bear stamp with denomination of 4$ (issued in 2009). This issue is part of an international postal awareness campaign “Preserve the Polar Regions and Glaciers” on the effects of global warming. The image of the lone polar bear swimming in melting sea ice in Bellot Strait near Resolute Bay was taken by photographer Amanda Byrd.

And as the last stamp, the card has Quebec City’s  quadricentenial commemorative stamp.  This is joint issue (with same design) between France and Canada, the french stamp having a nominal value of 85 (euro)cents. In addition France has produced a  joint-issue souvenir sheet featuring both French and Canadian stamp; and as all can guess, the Canadian stamp on the souvenir sheet is slightly different than the actual release.

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