Sunday, December 27, 2020

Germany: Ludwig van Beethoven

On Wednesday I got three postcards from Germany.

One of them shows Ludwig van Beethoven. I recently bought this card online and used it for one last Beethoven postmark.

We do not actually know, when Beethoven was born, but he was baptised on 17th December 1770. After many German special postmarks about Beethoven were available earlier this year, no new ones appeared after March. However now the date of Beethoven's baptism was celebrated with a new postmark that brings an end to this Beethoven Year that was sadly cut short by Covid-19 before it even really started. I used the Beethoven stamp that was issued on 2nd January.

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