Palace of Captain-generals (1776), Havana

  The Palacio de los Capitanes Generales is the former official residence of the governors (Captains General) of Havana, Cuba. Located on the eastern side of the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana it is home to the Museum of the City of Havana (Museo de la Ciudad). It houses exhibitions of art and historical artefacts and many of the rooms are preserved with their original Colonial decoration.

• Original Name: "Palacio de los Capitanes Generales"
• Country: Republic of Cuba
• Year: 1985
• Subject: Architecture
• Estimated cost: 30 с. (at the rate of exchange 1985)
• Number of catalogue Michel: CU 2977

Set in block "Birds" (Republic of Burundi) Part.4

1. The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus.
2. The dunnock (Prunella modularis) is a small passerine, or perching bird, found throughout temperate Europe and into Asia.
3. The grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) is a small member of the wagtail family, Motacillidae.
4. The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) is a small passerine bird which breeds in much of the northern half of Europe and also northwestern Asia, from southeastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania.
5. The Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) is a very small bird, and the only member of the wren family Troglodytidae found in Eurasia and Africa (Maghreb). In Anglophone Europe, it is commonly known simply as the wren.
6. The common firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla) also known as the firecrest, is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family.
7. The Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a small passerine bird species. This lark breeds across most of Europe and Asia and in the mountains of north Africa.
8. The crested lark (Galerida cristata) is a species of lark distinguished from the other 81 species of lark by the crest of feathers that rise up in territorial or courtship displays and when singing. Common to mainland Europe, the birds can also be found in northern Africa and in parts of western Asia and China. It is a non-migratory bird, but can occasionally be found as a vagrant in Great Britain.

Postage stamps were printed in Republic of Burundi in 1971.

• Country: Republic of Burundi
• Year: 1971
• Subject: Animals
• Estimated cost: 20, 10F (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: BI 690-701

Cuban postcard (Rhino, Museum of Stone, Guantanamo)

  The Zoological Museum of Stone is the product of about twenty years of work by sculptor Angel Iñigo Blanco (1935), whose life was devoted to farming. Since childhood he practiced wood carving and molding clay and wax. In the mid 70s he discovered large blocks of limestone in Boqueron Alto began sculpting. In December 1977, he made the first sculpture of what later became the Stone Zoo. Recently, the son, Angel Iñigo Perez (1967), the artistic work of the father conceived works of high artistic quality adds. The museum has more than 300 sculptures of the animal kingdom.

• Original Name: "Museo de Piedra, Yateras Guantanamo, Cuba. Rinoceronte."
• Country: Republic of Cuba
• Subject: Animals

Set in block "Birds" (Republic of Burundi) Part.3

1. The great grey shrike, northern grey shrike, or northern shrike (Lanius excubitor) is a large songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae).
2. The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling, or in the British Isles just the starling, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae.
3. The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws.
4. The sand martin (Riparia riparia) or European sand martin, bank swallow in the Americas, and collared sand martin in South Asia, is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family.

• Country: Republic of Burundi
• Year: 1971
• Subject: Animals
• Estimated cost: 8 F (at the rate of exchange 1971)
• Number of catalogue Michel: BI 690-701

Cyclamen persicum (Polish postage stamp)

  Cyclamen persicum, the Persian cyclamen, is a species of flowering herbaceous perennial plant growing from a tuber, native to rocky hillsides, shrubland, and woodland up to 1,200 m (3,900 ft) above sea level, from south-central Turkey to Israel and Jordan. It also grows in Algeria and Tunisia and on the Greek islands of Rhodes, Karpathos, and Crete, where it may have been introduced by monks. Cultivars of this species are the commonly seen florist's cyclamen.

• Original Name: "Cyklamen Perski"
• Artist: A. Balcerzak
• Country: Poland
• Year: 1964-11-30
• Subject: Flowers
• Estimated cost: 20 gr. (at the rate of exchange 1964)
• Number of catalogue Michel: PL 1541

Lenin`s Mausoleum (Republic of Cuba)

  Lenin's Mausoleum (Russian: Мавзоле́й Ле́нина), also known as Lenin's Tomb, situated in Red Square in the center of Moscow, is the mausoleum that serves as the current resting place of Vladimir Lenin. His embalmed body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924 (with rare exceptions in wartime). Aleksey Shchusev's diminutive but monumental granite structure incorporates some elements from ancient mausoleums, such as the Step Pyramid and the Tomb of Cyrus the Great.

  Postage stamps was printed in Cuba in 1985.

• Original Name: "Mausoleo de Lenin"
• Country: Republic of Cuba
• Year: 1985
• Subject: Anniversary
• Estimated cost: 30 с. (at the rate of exchange 1985)
• Number of catalogue Michel: CU 2940