I read in an editorial in our magazine 'Filatelie' (10/2016) that a certain Mr. Voorn, Marketing Director at PostNL, had never heard of complaints from philatelists about pen strokes or excessive cancellation, 'stamp murder'. I find this a sign of indifference, shameful. This while stamps...
No, I don't collect China, but there was a single Chinese piece of mail to be found in my 'miscellaneous' shoebox. The history and philately of China are very interesting, but for most of us, they are a distant concern. Let's take the dark sixties...
Indeed, in 1956, so sixty years ago, the first Europa stamps were issued, as every collector of the Netherlands knows. They were issued by the countries that were then members of the ECSC, the predecessor of the EEC founded four years earlier, the...
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