The 250th official Postcrossing Postcard Received!
What a wonderful card to receive for the 250th official Postcrossing card! I'm a fan of cats and this cat, dressed in a red costume is a wonderful, if not somewhat surreal addition to the postcard menagerie.
The card is apparently of a painting called "Court chamber herald's ceremonial costume" by I.P Lidval and Sons Company. The card says that the painting was made in the early 20th Century St. Petersburg and appears to be from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The sender mentioned on the card that she has friends who will often pick up postcards for her when they travel, hence why this is a postcard of a Russian art (and, from the Russian printed language on the card, likely came from the Hermitage) on an Australian Postcrossing postcard!
My 250th card sent via the official Postcrossing website was registered! The card was sent by Postcrossing member wanderluster (sidenote: excellent username!) on 10 January, 2015 and traveled a distance of 9,683 miles to travel to Melbourne, Australia to my small suburb of Chicago in 13 days. The card arrived on 21 January, 2015 and was registered only a few hours before the 250th Postcrossing postcard I sent arrived and was registered in Seoul, South Korea.
For the first 250 official Postcrossing postcards I've so far received, they've been sent from the following 41 countries which combine for a total distance sent of 1,169,595 miles!:
Germany (37)
Russia (33)
Netherlands (25)
The United States (22)
Finland (15)
China (11)
Taiwan (10)
Ukraine (9)
Czech Republic (8)
United Kingdom (8)
Belarus (8)
Turkey (6)
France (6)
Belgium (5)
Lithuania (4)
Australia (4)
Hong Kong (4)
Poland (4)
Canada (3)
Two postcards from each:
Brazil
Denmark
India
Italy
Latvia
Norway
One postcard from each:
Algeria
Austria
Azerbaijan
Estonia
Ireland
Romania
Switzerland
Venezuela
Bulgaria
Spain
Sweden
Thailand
Indonesia
Malaysia
Portugal
Japan
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