The history of stamp collecting 22, Crafting with stamps

Inspired by a series of articles by K. Kouwenberg that appeared in the monthly magazine Philatelie in the late 1970s, Rob Smit re-examines the history of stamp collecting in biweekly installments. This is part 22, crafting with stamps. You can collect stamps by trying to match different stamps or varieties. Furthermore, there are postal history collections where specific routes traveled, reflected in letters or cancellations, are collected. There is another form of collecting that most philatelists admittedly abhor, but which was nevertheless the very first described method of collecting (see part 2 of this series). This involves collecting stamps to use them to create a work of art, or in other words, crafting with stamps. I thought it would be nice to write about this oddity of stamp collecting today, precisely because PostBeeld BV acquired a webshop specializing in paper crafting materials today. This concerns www.knutselparade.nl. Incidentally, knutselparade.nl will continue to operate entirely independently and will not otherwise affect PostBeeld's philatelic activities. As already described in part 2, stamps were being collected as early as 1841 to wallpaper a room. Decorating with stamps was quite popular, especially from the 19s (when interest among philatelists declined somewhat) until after the First World War. It was done especially in Great Britain, but also in the Netherlands. Click here to read about an antique stamp wall in a house in Vught. I seem to recall reading a newspaper article over twenty years ago describing how someone had bought an old house where, after removing a layer of wallpaper, a wall covered in stamps was revealed. Selling it after careful removal yielded so much that the buyer immediately sold the house again to trade it for a much larger one. I haven't been able to find the report or story again. If you want to wallpaper a room with stamps these days, there is even the option to simply buy wallpaper. Various manufacturers with different designs. The example below is from Fayen. Even today, there are people who cover all sorts of things with stamps. a short search on the internet quickly yields many results. From keyboards to bowls and tables. Cars are striking. Many of you will have seen the stamp-covered Fiat 500 that has been exhibited at various exhibitions in the Netherlands. As early as 1936, there was an American who had covered his car with stamps. Read more here. This one is much more modern: click here Does anyone have any more beautiful examples of crafting with stamps? The stamp blog has also written about using stamps as crafting material before. 2010, Stamp Art Exhibition

To be continued on March 3.

Published so far:

1. Introduction and start 2. The first collectors 3. The first catalogueOscar Berger Levrault is the first to provide an overview. 4. Alfred Potiquet, The first commercially published catalogue. 5. Booming 1862, The most turbulent year in philatelic history. 6. Edard de Laplante, the first to live exclusively from the stamp trade. 7. Natalis RondotThe first true philatelic literature appeared in a family magazine. 8. Henri Justin Lallier, Publisher of the first stamp album. 9. Frederick W. Booty, The first catalogue in English. 10. Mount Brown, A successful English catalogue. 11. Dr John Edward Gray, Inventor of the postage stamp, the very first collector, or merely a good cataloguer? 12. The first stamp magazineFirst a failed attempt, but then a sheet of stamps after all. 13. Edward Pemberton, Active philatelist with descendants in philately. 14. Dr. C.W. Viner, Father of English philately. 15. Jean Baptiste Moens, The greatest trader of all time. 16. Moens' publishing house, of great importance in the early days of philately. 17. Germany in 1862, The slow start of an important philatelic country. 18. The Netherlands in 1862, The first Dutch catalogue and album. 19. The Netherlands in 1864, PH Witkamp 20. The origins of Schaubek 21. The competition breaks out, free stamps with magazines.