MANHOLE COVER LOVERS

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Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 1, 2021 at 11:56am

Duh...the photos was taken on Sunday, when there are no cars on the city streets, as everyone goes to the seaside for the weekend now that we are "open". The circle sewer manhole covers in Thessaloniki are the same design, and most are stamped with a date as to the year they were placed on the road:

here is a 1995 one (at the corner of my street)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 1, 2021 at 11:39am

Thanks, Katerina, for the square Vodafone one.

As we get more pictures of Covers, it will be interesting to see if the same designs occur in different countries, or if they are country specific.

I have been thinking about the one from 1982 you sent me. How on earth do you remember what photos you took almost 40 years ago? You either have a very good memory, or a very good photo filing and cataloguing system, or both. (I can hardly remember what photos I took a couple of weeks ago!).

Do tell!

Val

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 1, 2021 at 11:25am

Have not found any marked with 2000-2020, yet:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 1, 2021 at 11:23am

In Thessaloniki, for underground phone cables:

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 1, 2021 at 5:38am

Thanks Heleen, Carien and Katerina -- your Manhole Covers do help to kick-start the Group.

Yes, send photos, and only photos, unless you can afford the postage on a lot of heavy metal (and a possible fine for stealing a Cover, and damages to people who fell in the uncoverd hole).

(Dean, aka Artist in Seine, now this could present a real challenge for you!)

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on May 31, 2021 at 11:13pm

Dutch city of Groningen:

and Dutch city (forgot which), picture taken in 2019:

Comment by Carien van Hest on May 31, 2021 at 10:22pm

Found in the region of the Ardèche, France

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 31, 2021 at 7:31pm

a "square" from Athens:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 31, 2021 at 7:06pm

Hi Val, good to see this group at IUOMA!

I assume you want us to post PHOTOS :-)

Here is one that was placed in 1982:

...Val does not want us to "send" the real street metal, ha!

Do NOT remove manhole covers, ever...

we had a series of "thefts" here in Greece,

by those thinking they can get money for "recycling metal", 

they got arrested. 

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on May 31, 2021 at 6:49pm

Thank you for your invitation, Val! Despite of the fact that manhole covers (putdeksels in Dutch) are hard to send via mail (and probably will cause the sender a large amount of people who fell into the hole and want/threat to prosecute the mail artist) I think this a matching theme here at IUOMA. I noticed that several mail artists are fascinated by manholes, and also I love to see photos of ‘putdeksels’ from all-over the world. (And of course we can send newly made manholecoverdesigns to each other).

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