My 19th Wedding Postcard - received on 2010/11/22 from USA

Thanks to my friends Rao Feng and Wendy Wu Yuan for sending us the beautiful postcard from San Diego, USA. They are working in USA now and Rao Feng went to San Diego for a conference. My fiancee and I are quite happy to receive this wedding postcard as they are the persons who introduce us to each other. :-) It is a pity that Rao and Wendy cannot attend our wedding ceremony in this December. Anyway, great thanks to them!

My 9th Wedding Postcard - received on 2010/10/21 from USA

Thanks to Tim for the nice postcard for my wedding. The right two stamps on the cover are the "scouting" stamps in this year. This is what I would like to have. The postmark is quite clear and it was posted from Round Pond, ME on 13 Oct 2010.

Tim, thanks for the blessing! :-)

No.2 Cover - received on 2010/09/13 from USA

Many thanks to Tim for the wonderful cover! Moreover, along with the cover, he sent me a 98-year old postcard. When I shown the postcard to my colleagues, everybody was surprised. 

Cover from USA

 

A postcard was sent on 1912

On the cover, the top left two stamps and the bottom right stamp are 4-cent Chippendale Chair Definitive postage stamp issued on March 5, 2004. The Chippendale style of furniture was named for the English cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), whose book "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director" (1754) influenced furniture design on both sides of the Atlantic. His works were known for their carved decorations and elaborate chair backs. In America, the style varied by region, with Philadelphia artisans producing the most extensively ornamented furniture.

The third stamp from the left is the 40c William T. Piper airmail stamp which was issued on May 17, 1991.

The top right stamp is a painting artwork from Winslow Homer. The ninth issuance in the American Treasures series features Boys in a Pasture, an 1874 painting by Winslow Homer. The painting is part of the Hayden Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is considered one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century. According to the Museum of Fine Arts, the boys in this painting—companionable, idle, at peace—may be seen as emblems of America's nostalgia for a simpler, more innocent time as well as of its hope for the future. Their faces are averted, a device Homer often used to make his figures less individual and, therefore, more universal.  

The 2-cent multicolored Red-Headed Woodpecker (Scott 3032) definitive was issued on February 2, 1996, in Sarasota, Florida. Red-headed Woodpecker is a medium-sized woodpecker with black upperparts and tail, and white underparts and rump. Head, throat, and upper breast are dark red. Wings are black with large white patches. Sexes are similar. Juvenile has brown-black head, throat, and upper breast, and faintly streaked underparts.

At last, the postcard is USA 1912 1c red McKinley postal card. The postcard was posted in Texas.  

Source:
[1] http://www.usps.com/
[2] http://whatbird.wbu.com/obj/678/_/Red-headed_Woodpecker.aspx
[3] http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&mode=1&tid=2036925