Netherlands

NL-2746113

Paru Paru (also known as Whispered Words, II) - Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

This card came with the following awesome stamps (and Piglet sticker)

China

CN-1454204

Nanming, China

This card shows the above city on the south of china.  It includes these series of four stamps.

Taiwan

TW-1458008

No other pen travels in Smart company.  No other pen writes like a Waterman's.

This vintage card seems to be a sort of advertisement for Waterman fountain pens.  It shows a group of people looking at a man holding up his pen while they're on a train.  It came with the below pretty stamps as well.  

Germany

DE-3643401

This black and white photo postcard of a tuxedo cat sitting on a tree came with the below stamps.

USA - Florida

US-3172491

Konigsschlosser - Royal Castles Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau

This card is another of those cards where the country where the card was mailed from doe not at all match the picture.  This card was mailed from Jacksonville, Florida in the US, but picture the famous Neuschwanstein castle in Germany.  In the distance one can also make out a bit of Hohenschwangau Castle as well.

Ukraine

Welcome!  Sochi 2014

This rather odd political card comes from Ukraine around the beginning of the Russian take over of Crimea and eventual trouble in the rest of eastern Ukraine and the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic games.  

The figure in the card is Cheburashka a character from Soviet writer Eduard Uspensky's 1966 story and later a series of Soviet stop-motion films.  The character offers bread in a Slavic welcoming gesture, but the character's face is covered in a leather-like zipped mask.  The sender calls this card "black humor" and is "dedicated to Russia's aggression [to] my country."

This card features the following four stamps of a lighthouse, a train-car, a windmill, and a dance.

USA - California

US -3115688

Antibes, Cote D' Azur

Antibes, c. 1910 by David Dellephiane (1866-1925)

I love these old poster cards!  The card came with these awesome old stamps.  The stamps celebrate, from left to right, the Fifth World Forestry Congress, White Pine, and Indian art/ Heiltsuk, Bela Bella

Poland

 

Zielon Gora

This direct swap card comes from Zielona Gora, Poland.  The card shows the town hall, an old city building, grapes, and the annual procession which ends the city's celebration.  Included is this 5 PLN Zloty stamp and this excellent cancellation.

Finland

FI-2230920

En itse pääse juhliisi, mutta lähetin hänet seuraksesi!

This card of a series of women (circa 1940s or 1950s ?) laying on a beach came with a very unusual and beautiful stamp as shown below.  I believe that the card translate to something such as "I'm sorry I cannot make your party but I sent them to accompany you."

Russia

RU-3140890

Robert Doisneau's Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Town Hall)

This is one of my favorite pictures .  This "postcard" is actually just a photograph of the photo and the sender put stamps on it as if it was a postcard.  It arrived well and safe and contained some cool stamps, including one for the Sochi 2014 Olympics.