USA 2019 The artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) at one time actually worked nights sorting mail at the USPS. He filled notebooks with sketches of envelope shapes and folds, which served as 'ready-made' sources for his abstract compositions seen here. The...
Sometimes you have to make choices in life that are not easy. Over the past few months, I made a very difficult decision: after almost 7 years, I am stopping Postzegelblog. The reason is that last year I got the opportunity to...
Today, during Postex, Cees Janssen received the first Day of the Stamp Sheet from Ard Korporaal, manager of the PostNL Collectors Market. Cees Janssen, who is an (inter)national jury member, a member of the Philatelie editorial board, and author of the Postzegelblog, as well as a walking encyclopedia regarding philatelic matters, gives...
Effective October 17 last, PostBeeld has acquired stamp dealer Medo at Nieuwe Binnenweg 255 in Rotterdam. Medo is a stamp shop with a good reputation, established in 1963. It is one of the few stamp shops in the Netherlands with a...
On Friday 23 and Saturday 24 March 2012, this second national stamp fair, Filafair… 2012, opens its doors at Maaspoort Sports & Events in 's-Hertogenbosch. The high-quality fair for savers, collectors, and philatelists offers every opportunity to... new acquisitions
During the third day of Postex, Sunday, October 16, 2011, the jury awarded a silver and a bronze KNBF Federation Medal and the Meurs Prize, the encouragement prize in the thematic class. Who won the prizes? The jury, according to...
Sometimes an article prompts the submission of images. This was the case this time with Cees Janssen's story about Zuid-Barge. Loyal Postzegelblog reader Ton Cornet, editor of 'Druk Doende', sent in images of an envelope. On the front of...
Well, what is the power of a postage stamp? Will you join us in enjoying this story from agency BYLEI? "A postage stamp is a small piece of paper (nowadays usually gummed or self-adhesive), with a certain value. By placing a valid postage stamp on a letter..."
On Thursday, April 8, the Netherlands' largest and most spectacular stamp shop in Haarlem was opened by Marilyn Monroe. No fewer than four retail premises were merged into one large store with various departments, which we will review here. We also introduce Rob...
The answer to competition number 7 with the question about the service stamps (with thanks to Cees Janssen) that were never issued: they are all ministries, namely: DEP. v. A. = Labour, DEP. v. BNL. = Interior, DEP. v. BTL....
Between 1921 and 1923, proofs were made for service stamps by overprinting existing postage stamps. At that time, the Dutch State comprised a number of Departments. Separate service stamps were produced for each of these departments, bearing an abbreviation of the...
The answer to competition question 6 is clear if you turn the image of that faint impression over and compare it with the stamps from 1945, the Liberation Stamp NVPH 443. This stamp was issued previously. The 1945 proof print was probably applied to...
In the National Archives, there is a proof print of the 2 1/2 guilder NVPH number 347 with a faint impression of another stamp. Can you tell me which stamp that is? Source: Cees Janssen
The answer to quiz question 5 is: In Den Helder, established in 1935 as a national monument for the Dutch Rescue Service and unveiled by Queen Wilhelmina. It has a carillon with 30 bells and is called 'Helden der Zee'. The square used to be called...
Following Kees Verhulst's article 'Nine nine nine', Cees Janssen sent a few more special date stamps. The first is from Amsterdam, featuring the 'crazy number' 11 three times. November 11th is the 315th day of...
After 87 years, a unique stamp has finally returned to Roosendaal. The stamp recently surfaced from a collection of this type of roller stamps from outside West Brabant and had long been in – unknown – private ownership. In our country...
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