zondag 24 september 2017

Sunday Stamps: 'H' is for haai and haan

Today's Sunday Stamps is about the letter 'H'.

First I'll share this stamp, showing a haai:



Guessed right! 'Haai' means 'shark'. The Dutch word 'Haai' is pronounced as a kind of loooong 'Hi!'. And although most Dutch don't say 'hi' as a greeting (instead we say 'hoi' or 'hallo', plus some more formal words), there is some silly joke about the word haai, the 'haai!... walvis!' joke. One person saying 'haai!', in the meaning of 'hello!'. The other person hears a long 'hi' in it, thinking the first person says 'shark', thus replies 'whale'.


From haai to haan it is just one letter. The amount of stamps I can share here, showing hanen (plural of 'haan'), however, is a lot larger than the amount of haai stamps in my collection. The reason is that this year is the Jaar van de Haan, the Year of the Rooster, and I happened to have been involved in several chaincards on this theme.

So here's a variety of stamps about the hen's husband, the haan (rooster).
The first card has traveled within Europe and arrived back home with haan stamps from Serbia, Ukraine, Estonia and of course my own country:



And this card traveled through eight, mainly Asian, countries during seven and half month, to finally return home, with stamps from China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Canada, the USA and the Netherlands:



and a bonus postmark from Malaysia on the back:



The Korean stamp is a nice, shiny one. You can't see it on the scanned card above, but I happened to have made photo of other people's cards, before I forwarded those cards to the next receiver, and you can see two shiny hanen on these stamps:







Finally, on bottom, a UN stamp showing a haan:



Curious to see other 'H' stamps? Please check today's Sunday Stamps and the links mentioned there!

15 opmerkingen:

  1. Great collection today. I love the Korean year of the rooster stamps. It must be so amazing to receive a postcard back after so many months in transit.

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    1. Sure it is. Although some cards get lost somewhere during their travels... And others return after many more months than expected :-) It is all in the chaincard game :-)

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  2. How great to have all those Jaar van de Haan stamps on one card. Interesting to see all the interpretations of the year here, the Korean designs really stand out.

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    1. Yes, I was very happy to join these chaincard projects and to learn about the various interpretations of the theme (and other themes). I 'met' the other chaincard members via instagram, and it is nice to see how many people from all over the world share this hibby.

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    1. Indeed, and I felt very lucky that Dutch PostNL issued Year of the Rooster stamps, so I was able to join these chaincard projects :-)

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  4. I love the stamp from Korea and what a fun thing to learn today about the word "Hi" :)

    http://www.postagejournal.com/sundaystamp107-h-is-for-harry-potter/

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    1. Thank you for your comment :-)
      And for sharing such wonderful HP stamps on your blog!

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  5. That postcard is a pleasure to look at. I received the same shark last week :D

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    1. Have I sent a stamp with a rooster/a hen from Spain? I have one left!

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    2. No, you haven't!.. And I didn't know Spain has rooster/hen stamps - so happy that you've one left :-) !

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    3. Let's fix that next time I go to Spain! :)

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    4. Thank you! You already spoiled me with a beautiful tree and guitar stamp (to be posted soon :-) )

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  6. That postcard is absolutely fascinating with the great collection of stamps it holds.

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