M is for Marilyn

Marilyn in How to Marry a Millionaire

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 7,251 km

set by Dianne in St. Louis, U.S.A.

Marilyn poses over the updraft of a New York subway grating during a photo session to promote the film The Seven Year Itch in September 1954. 

travel time 17 days

distance travelled 1,435 km

sent by Birte in Bielefeld, Germany

L is for Lewis

BY-2208878  

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,164 km

sent by Anna in Kobryn

Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, ( 1832 -1898)  English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is nonsense literature of the highest order.

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), oikealta nimeltään Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, oli englantilainen matemaatikko ja kirjailija. Carroll kasvoi 11-lapsisessa perheessä, mikä teki hänelle aikuisenakin lasten kanssa olemisen vaivattomaksi. Hän opiskeli Oxfordissa ja toimi matematiikan ja logiikan opettajana samassa yliopistossa. Dodgson julkaisi matemaattisia teoksia, mutta hänet tunnetaan parhaiten klassikoiksi muodostuneista teoksistaan Alicen seikkailut ihmemaassa (1865) ja Alice Peilintakamaassa (1871).

A Mad Tea Party by Anastasia Balatenyshera

 A Mad Tea Party by  Gwynedd Hudson

K is for Kafka and Prague themes

 Franz Kafka by Milan Suba. The Barber

The stamp’s motto is Lawlessnes- Timelessnes- Metamorphosis.

 Date of Issue26th June 2013. Design Marina Richterová

CZ-1122851

travel time 14 days

distance travelled 1,473 km
received on 22 Feb, 2017 

sent by Mendlovi family in Prague

Street art, Franz Kafka and his four faces. 

On a coffee break in Franz Kafka Cafe sent by my sister. 

Illustration by  Jiří Votruba

travel time 65 days

distance travelled 1,471 km

 receive on 7 Dec, 2015
sent by Jitka in  Beroun

And these two Jiří Votruba cards came both on 12 Mar, 2018 :) 

CZ-1254114 

Sent by Zdenek in Hoštka 

CZ-1349019
Sent by Vendy in Prague

Jiří Votruba (born December 8, 1946 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic designer - artist with characteristic style.  Graphical design of Jiří Votruba is easily recognizable. He is well known for his works with theme of historical Prague He is also known for his artwork commonly found on t-shirts, mugs, and posters in shops throughout Prague, Czech Republic including depictions of Franz Kafka, Mozart, and various Prague scenes and themes.

J is for James Bond

My Name is Bond - James Bond.

Dr. No(1962)

Sean Connery as James Bond

"Bond, James Bond" was first heard in Dr No 

GB-435797

travel time 11 days

distance travelled 1,676 km

sent by Sandra in Scunthorpe

 From Russia with Love (1963)

Sean Connery as James Bond

RU-221726

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 1,155 km

sent by Jane in Moscow

 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

George Lazenby as James Bond

JP-593749
travel time 9 days
distance travelled 7,745 km
sent by Junko in Hashimoto

James Bond's Aston Martin DB5. Goldfinger (1964)

AU-435460

Sent by Sharon from Eden, Australia

Mods Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre in Casino Royal (2006)

Sent by The Weber Family from Düsseldorf, Germany 

H is for Humphrey and I is for Ingrid

Humphrey DeForest Bogart  (1899 –  1957) was an American screen and stage actor whose performances in 1940s film noir classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep earned him status as a cultural icon. During a film career of almost 30 years, Bogart appeared in more than 75 feature films. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star of Classic American cinema. Over his career, he received three Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning one (for The African Queen).

Ingrid Bergman (1915 – 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942) and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Cary Grant and Claude Rains.

More about Casablanca here 

G is for Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (1905-1990 ), oikealta nimeltään Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, oli ruotsalainen elokuvatähti ja yksi elokuvahistorian kuuluisimmista Hollywood-näyttelijöistä

Greta Garbo, born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (1905 – 1990), was a Swedish-born American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman.

Postcard sent by Michaela, Germany 

travel time 4 days

distance travelled 1,279 km

received on 12 Aug, 2016

F is for Frida

 Frida Kahlo by Toni Frissell in 1937.

Frida Kahlo is wearing a long, tiered cotton skirt, teamed with a high-necked, ruffled blouse. The photographer has crouched at ground level to take the shot. That portrait appeared in American Vogue in 1937. Kahlo is  the artist whose own image is instantly recognisable all over the world, who wasn’t in showbusiness (she wasn’t an actress, singer or dancer) managed to become one of the most iconic women of the 20th century, next to Marilyn Monroe and  Jackie Kennedy.

Postcard sent by cody
 MX- 39352
travel time 54 days
distance travelled 9,496 km
received on 14 Jul, 2016