Postfris?
Stamps are mint if they are in the same condition as at the moment they were sold by the postal service. Also if the gum layer shows a thumbprint of the clerk who tore the stamp from the sheet after he had just...
Paul van Beek
Paul van Beek (The Hague, 1957) is a freelance journalist and publicist. After a period of forty years in which he was very closely involved in philately as a collector, dealer, and auctioneer, he decided to devote himself to writing at the beginning of the new millennium.
Paul van Beek (The Hague, 1957) is a freelance journalist and publicist. After a period of forty years in which he was very closely involved in philately as a collector, dealer, and auctioneer, he decided to devote himself to writing at the beginning of the new millennium. Since then, he has published many stories, reports, and interviews, including in the monthly magazine Filatelie, in which the person behind the hobby usually takes center stage. The many positive reactions motivated him to write 'The Cheerful Adventures of a Full-Time Stamp Collector'.
