In brief (94/2)
Auguste Beernaert In the column “In short 94”, a plea by Hero Wit to honor Dutch Nobel Prize winners with postage stamps, a call I gladly support. He made this appeal as an introduction to the piece about Tien...
Franc Rossi
Franc Rossi was born in 1948. He has been busy with stamps since primary school. Hello, let me introduce myself. I am Franc Rossi and I was born in 1948. I am married and have 2 children and 4 grandsons. I have been busy with stamps since primary school. Admittedly, there have often been periods when things were a bit quiet, but since my early retirement on December 1, 2011, I am fully engaged again and an increasingly frequent visitor to Postzegelblog. I collect all kinds of things, but various perforations, plate errors, watermarks, etc. are not my specialty; on the other hand, the images on stamps have always fascinated me. I spent many hours via the library in my early years and later with an encyclopedia, but the search was by no means always rewarded. Since the internet, it has become much easier to satisfy my curiosity, and that is how I discovered Postzegelblog.
New Year's wishes via the franking machine
Partly too little, too late (at Christmas), but I would still like to wish the editors and readers of Postzegelblog: Even before personalized stamps existed, there was an interest in giving mail a personal touch. Companies sometimes used the...
Polish Culture (2)
Depicted on the 2 Zloty stamp is Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski, known in Poland as Saint Brother Albert (August 20, 1845 / December 25, 1916). He was a monk in the Order of Francis and founder of the Albertine...
Polish Culture (1)
Marie Curie is prominently depicted on a Polish sheet from 1948 and is therefore included as the first page in my collection about her. Furthermore, Chopin is depicted in the upper right, a Pole who is also widely known here for his fantastic music. I...
Fiscal Philately and other stamps
Inspired by Cees Janssen's article of December 10, 2013, I started looking to see if I could find anything in that area. After all, in the past, the Netherlands had many fiscal stamps, including receipt stamps, to be used on receipts above...
