Friday, June 9, 2017

7,777 Holy Cards on Colnect!

Seven is a holy number in many religions, so it is rather symbolic that our Holy Card catalog has surpassed 7,777 items!
 
Italy is the motherland of Catholicism, so no surprise that Penisola appenninica is the leader in this category with 6,755 items. By the way, Daniele Pennisi [Lelecollector], the coordinator of the Category, owns most of them (6,717). The two following countries are Venezuela and Spain with 318 and 115 cards correspondingly.


"Felix Martyr (holy body)", San Giovanni Gemini, Italy, Colnect catalog
From aedicule-type to mechanic canivet, from digital printing to chromolithography - the variety of holy cards on the category impresses.

Jesus - Adoration of the Shepherds", Vatican City, Colnect catalog

By the way, the first holy card collectors could live even in the 15th century, at the time when first cards appeared. Not everyone could afford sacred image of their patron saint, but necessity is the mother of invention as they say. People invented handmade prints, and later on the Benziger brothers started to crank out the cards in Switzerland. Who knows, perhaps, some of Benziger prints are here on Colnect.

"Joseph", Pisano Etneo (Zafferana Etnea), Italy, Colnect catalog

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Monday, May 29, 2017

4,444 Admission Tickets Reached!

We are happy to announce that Admission tickets category is reaching a new beautiful point of
4,444 items! 

Vaquillas Feria del Pilar, Spain, 1999, Colnect catalog

The category was launched in February 2016 with only 989 items. Since that time the category has been grown and developed and 372 Colnectors have added the admission tickets to their personal collection on Colnect.

George Harrison & Eric Clapton - Fukuoka Kokusai Center - After Show, Japan, 1991, Colnect catalog

Now catalog includes the items of 18 venue types and from the 85 countries. Exploring the catalog you can learn, for example, how the zoo tickets from the different countries look like. 

Prague Zoo. Children 1 day ticket, Czech Republic, 2010, Colnect catalog

Movie lovers can find cinema tickets from the 21 countries and the oldest one of them issued in Yugoslavia in 1958, the country that doesn't exist anymore.

Cinema Coloseum, Yugoslavia, 1958, Colnect catalog


We would like to thank the category coordinator, HernĂ¡n Bofill [hbofill12], and all the Colnectrors who contributed to the category with new items, editing, and translations.

French Cultural Festival - 02 - Pro, Thailand, 2005, Colnect catalog

Do you want to join us and make Colnect better together? Would YOU like to join as a contributor on the Admission tickets catalog as well? We always welcome and appreciate any help. You are welcome to learn more about the Admission tickets Catalog Contribution help page. Want to contribute on another catalog, help with translations or even start a new category on Colnect? Please see our Contributor Guide.

Friday, May 26, 2017

Bookmarks category is launched!

Recently, we have launched a new interesting and perspective category of Bookmarks. We hope that the Colnect Bookmark catalog becomes a home for many beautiful collections from around the globe.

National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries, Australia, Colnect catalog

The discussion on creating the bookmarks category was initiated in 2011. Then, in 2014 we found a dedicated coordinator for the category - Pelacanyes. Thank you, Andreu, for your enthusiasm and energy which powered on the category and pushed it forward to the day of the public appear. The help of all contributors who help to expand the category from the very beginning is very much appreciated.

Port Tarragona, Spain, Colnect catalog


For now, the category includes just a bit more 1000 bookmarks, but we believe that the number of both items and collectors will grow exponentially. For now, there are bookmarks from 25 countries in the catalog, but we hope that very soon many more countries will be represented there. We welcome all bookmark collectors to join us and show their collections to the whole world:)!

Il monte Fuji visto da Kanagawa, Italy, Colnect catalog



You can view bookmarks organized by countries, arrangements, shapes, materials, publishers, artists, years, themes, and newly added. You can easily navigate the catalog and sort the bookmarks by them to find the relevant ones.

Explore a new Bookmarks catalog and you can find a lot of interesting! Did you know that there is a kind of bookmark series, it's called puzzle arrangement, that's supposed pictures on the each bookmark to be a part of a bigger picture. You would need to collect all the parts of the puzzle and arrange them in the right way to see that bigger picture.


Leonardo da Vinci, Monna Lisa, Italy, Colnect catalog

Colnect has been built by collectors for collectors and any help is much appreciated. Would YOU like to join as a contributor to the Bookmark catalog as well? If you've never contributed information to Colnect before, please read our Catalog Contribution Guidelines.

Friday, April 28, 2017

22,222 Medals and Decorations on Colnect!

We are happy to announce a new beautiful milestone of
22,222 Medals and Decorations!

Commemorative badge of the Black Legion, Military pin, Croatia, Colnect catalog 


In the Medals and Decorations catalog, you can find 8 different types of decorations: medals, badges, military patches, pins, attachment, ribbons, chain necklace medals, and other decorations. Take a closer look at the other decorations sub-category and you find many interesting and surprisingly unexpected items like the following ones: ring from Spain, Taiwanese saber, a plaque from South Vietnam, and cup from German Empire.

Beja 2013, Military patches, Belgium, 2013, Colnect catalog


Most of the decorations of all types in our catalog are military ones. We have 12,492 military decorations from 189 countries. Explore the catalog for more decorations from all over the world!

Order of St. John 1909 Knight of honour, Netherlands, 1909, Colnect catalog


We would like to thank you to all the Medals and Decorations category contributors for their avid help in expanding and editing the category. We have both a lot of things to do for making the category sparkle and shine and a great team to do all is needed for that. Our special thanks to the super cool coordinator of the category, HernĂ¡n Bofill [hbofill12], for taking care of it.




The Order of the Durani Empire Grand Cross 1st Class, Military Badge, Afghanistan, 1839, Colnect catalog


Colnect has been built by collectors for collectors and any help is much appreciated. Want to start contributing to Colnect? There are many ways you can help us make Colnect catalog better: add new items, add images and information to existing ones, translate catalog to your language, edit the catalog, write wiki articles, and even create a new category.

Saturday, April 1, 2017

50,505 Drink Labels Achieved!

We celebrate a new great achievement in the Drink Labels category -
50,505 items!

Bamberger Rauchbier, Beer, Austria, Colnect catalog

We are happy to celebrate a new beautiful and cool number in the drink labels category. It grows fast and already includes drink labels from 119 countries. Colnect catalog allows sorting the countries by the number of drink labels they include in. The biggest number of drink labels on the Colnect is from Czech Republic. You can find more interesting numbers exploring Colnect catalog.

Dewil beer, Beer, Bulgaria, Colnect catalog

On the page of each item, you can find information about country, company, brand, beverage, year and theme. Also, you can see newly added drink labels to the catalog for the last 1, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days in the sub-category of newly added items.

Autumn Pale Ale, Beer, Czech Republic, Colnect catalog

We very much appreciate all the help of all contributors, translators, and editors of drink labels category. The drink labels category has been grown into the great and beautiful one thanks to the devotion and hard work of our contributors. And, of course, our special thanks to the marvelous category coordinator, Mario Wicht [Betta1970].

Asahi 1982, Beer, Japan, Colnect catalog

Do you want to join us and make Colnect better together? We always welcome and appreciate any help. If you have never contributed information to Colnect before, please read our Catalog Contribution Guidelines.

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

88,888 Postcards on Colnect!

Colnectors meet the new milestone of Postcards category! This time we have passed the point of  88,888 POSTCARDS!

Suwa Park, Japan, 1910, Colnect catalog

"Postcards" is one of the fastest growing categories on Colnect! More than 1,000 postcards from 73 countries have been added to the catalog for the last month.

Konstanz, band of frogs playing music, German Realm, 1925, Colnect catalog

The Postcards catalog is divided into countries, authors, issuers, colorings, orientations, views, years, themes and newly added for easy browsing. There are postcards from 261 countries all over the world in our catalog. We have 555 postcards with pictures of sunrises/sunsets, 969 Elephant-themed postcards, and 696 postcards with maps on them. Explore our Postcard catalog and find more and more various postcards.

Milan Peace Arch, Italy, 1954, Colnect catalog

We would like to say the special thank you to the super cool coordinators of the Postcards category, Vadym Sulimenko [Dravec] and Grzegorz PajÄ…k [quarteris]. Their enthusiastic work developing the category is making it bigger and better every year.

Lighthouse Fastnet. Ireland, Russia, 2013, Colnect catalog

We would also like to thank all the dedicated 27 editors61 translators, and 228 contributors that have helped the category to reach the new beautiful milestone.

Saurolophus, USSR, 1990, Colnect catalog


Do you want to join us and develop Colnect together? We always welcome and appreciate any help. There are many ways you can help us make the Colnect catalog better: add new items, add images and information to existing ones, translate catalog to your language, edit the catalog, write wiki articles, and even create a new category.





Sunday, March 12, 2017

44,444 Transportation Tickets Reached!

Happy new milestone, Colnectors! Today we celebrate an awesome achievement of
44,444 Transportation Tickets on Colnect!

KM Tidar - Passenger ticket for child, Indonesia, 1994, Colnect catalog


The category was launched in 2009 with only 222 items and now after all these years, we are proud of having such a great Transportation Tickets category with 44,444 items. The collecting of different kinds of transportation tickets is a popular hobby and Colnect now unites more than 900 active collectors of this kind of collectibles. The biggest collection of transportation tickets on Colnect belongs to gazzaoz. He has an impressive number of 9,699 tickets in his collection.
The Transportation Ticket category grows and develops day by day. For the last week, 147 tickets from 18 countries have been added to the catalog. For the last month, 916 newly added tickets from 41 countries appeared on the site.

Transport for London Visitor card, United Kingdom, Colnect catalog

There are tickets from the 123 countries on Colnect. At the moment the catalog presents tickets from 15 transportation types. There are Bus, Subway/Underground, Gondola/Aerial Tram, and Funicular/Cable car among them.

Terre Haute to East St Louis, USA, 1859, Colnect catalog

We greatly appreciate the work of the category coordinator Gary Hoff [gazzaoz] and all contributors, translators, and editors. You made the Colnect Transportation Tickets catalog such an interesting and hospitable place for collectors from all over the world.

Tram Sintra, Portugal, 2002, Colnect catalog

Colnect has been built by collectors for collectors and any help is much appreciated. Would YOU like to join as a contributor on the Transportation Tickets catalog as well? If you've never contributed information to Colnect before, please read our Catalog Contribution Guidelines.

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