A record
Another record, delivered by Aunt Post. See the card. This card was sent from Liège (station) Guillemins to Czěstochowa in (Russian) Poland on December 30, 1899, and it arrived on December 21, 1899?' Back to the future'...
Jos van den Bosch
Citizens help science in Australia
The project "Citizen science" encompasses public participation and collaboration in scientific research, with the aim of increasing scientific knowledge. You do not need a scientific education to be involved in citizens and science. Anyone can be a citizen scientist...
The Marshall Plan
In complete contrast to the current political course of the United States, Americans realized after the end of the Second World War that progress in their economy could only be achieved if they had powerful allies who together...
Know your enemy (2)
The most important breakthrough occurred in 1931 when American pathologists cultured influenza and a number of other viruses in fertilized chicken eggs. This led to the development of an effective vaccine against polio. Polio is a disease caused by this...
Know your enemy
Once upon a time, there was a famous Dutch politician. In his time, he was a fervent opponent of communism. He surprised friend and foe alike when it became known that he had a subscription to “De Waarheid,” the official newspaper of the Communist Party...
Freedom of the press – a precious commodity
Recently, I received a letter from an acquaintance in Berlin. He sent the message, as befits a philatelist, in an envelope and not by email. I find this envelope, with a beautiful stamp on it, breathtakingly beautiful. Not only because of the...
The Nipplegate of Den Helder
In France, a new stamp booklet with self-adhesive stamps has been issued. The stamps depict famous nude women. 'Nudes' portrayed or sculpted by artists. This stamp booklet, titled "The Nude in Art, Women and People, Sculptures -"...
Blunder on Royal Mail D-Day stamp
Royal Mail presented the issuance programme for the new year in the last month of 2018, and a small error soon came to light. On a stamp about D-Day, which will appear in June 2019, it turned out that an incorrect photo...
Mr. Janssen from Venray
It is May 1966 and Mr. Janssen has been happily married for 25 years. He is apparently a great royalist, for he was utterly annoyed by the fact that, on the occasion of the marriage of Claus and Beatrix, there was no special stamp...
He knows it!
Below is a photo of a letter to America, postmarked by the Philatelic Service of the State Postal and Telecommunications. This envelope immediately raised a lot of questions. With this summer stamp, the envelope is franked at the bottom and the postmark appears to have been printed...
Egypt in Philately
There are only a few things so etched in our collective memory as the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The reason is not only the large quantity of discovered objects, but also the fact that the...
Women and Philately?
It seems like a contradiction in terms. You could also phrase the question differently: are women collectors? It is most likely ingrained in the historical context that the collecting of valuable objects was done by men. You could...
Philately murder
When the euro was introduced in the Netherlands, there was a period when you could frank mail with both guilder and euro stamps. You only had to convert the value. In this way, the guilder stamps retained their original value and these stamps preserved their collector value....
Cinderella’s
In philately, a Cinderella is a stamp that at first glance resembles a postage stamp, but is not a postage stamp. After all, it has not been issued by the postal service of a country, territory, or (international) organization recognized by the Universal Postal Union....
Cowing!
'Smallpox' is a dangerous infectious disease caused by poxviruses. Due to its high contagiousness and mortality, the disease is one of the most dangerous to humans. Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823) was an English country physician who developed the modern vaccine against smallpox...
Border adjustment yields postage stamps
New stamps were presented at the Government building on the Maas, themed around the border correction between the Netherlands and Belgium at the municipalities of Visé, Eijsden-Margraten, and Maastricht. This includes both Belgian stamps and a Dutch stamp. The stamps were designed by...
