Commemoration of the first postal flight from Miami to Paramaribo
On September 22, 1929, the existing airmail connection between Miami and San Juan was extended to Suriname by Pan American Airways, PAA for short. The PAA had established a landing site in the Suriname River to receive PAA flying boats. A plank ramp was built on the riverbank on which the flying boats could be pulled ashore after landing. In this way, the brackish river water had no chance of causing damage to the flying boats. The first flying boat to arrive was the NC 8020, which was flown by the famous Charles Lindbergh. After landing, he stayed in a beautiful building, Waterkant 2, owned by the Surinamese Bauxite Company. This was intended as a service residence for the director of that company. The return flight to San Juan took place on September 25, 1929.
To commemorate the first official postal flight, the Surinamese PTT issued an airmail stamp with a value of 15 cents on September 25, 1954, 25 years later. The stamp was designed by PJA Varekamp, a previously unknown designer; little can be found about him online as well. There is a printing and publishing house in Paramaribo, but I have not been able to discover whether they have any connection to the designer. The design of the stamp was kept simple: a globe depicting the American continents, with Suriname shown as a small dot, and a winged post horn. The stamp was printed by Joh. Enschedé & Zonen in Haarlem.
By chance, I came across a small, cardboard-like card made of handmade paper on which a mounting strip had been attached containing the stamp and Varekamp's signature. In total, only slightly more than 125.000 of these airmail stamps were sold. Does anyone know anything more about this designer? 
There is still more to tell about the Hoekhuis, Waterkant number 2 in Paramaribo.
The notorious plantation owner and slave trader Susanna du Plessis is said to have lived there.
Incidentally, the fatal fire of January 21, 1821, also originated in the kitchen of this house.
A careless cook is said to have caused the fire, which sent 400 houses up in flames.
You can now take a look inside Suralco's new and luxuriously furnished Corner House at Waterkant, number 2:
http://www.cityofparamaribo.nl/read/hoekhuis
Read more about the Waterkant as well:
http://communities.zeelandnet.nl/suriname/pagina/56658
In July 1929, a seaplane visits Paramaribo: a PAA machine with pilot Erkenbrack on a reconnaissance mission lands on the Suriname River. Pan American Airways (PAA), an airline for routes outside the USA founded in 1927, is interested in a seaplane landing station on the USA-South America route under development.
Two months later, the second PAA aircraft appeared: a twin-engine Sikorsky S-38 amphibious aircraft from San Juan flown by PAA's chief pilot, the famous Charles Lindbergh, with PAA director and founder Juan Trippe among the passengers—later internationally as famous as KLM's Plesman.
The Dutch governor is deeply impressed by this high-ranking visit, and a provisional airmail contract is signed. A few months later, in 1930, a first series of airmail stamps is already issued.
As a gesture towards the Surinamese administration, PAA also operated a weekly service between Paramaribo and Nickerie for six months in 1930 using an S-38; given the small volume of mail and cargo, this was by no means a lucrative business. However, the goodwill gained led to a weekly service from 1930 onwards between Paramaribo, San Juan (Porto Rico), Miami, and New York using seaplanes.
Philip Levert
Found on the Internet about Varekamp:
Varekamp & Co Printing and Publishing (VACO) Domineestr 26-32 Paramaribo.
Vaco-Press NV since 1979.
Since 1987, BV has been located at Domineestr 29.
Heave’s Printing & Publishing Center
See
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/kemp009gesc05_01/kemp009gesc05_01_0002.php
I found via the internet that PJA Varekamp was from Medan, Sumatra, served as secretary of the Rotary Club in Indonesia, and was one of the founders of the Rotary Club in Paramaribo. He is pictured in a photo in 'The Rotarian' from March 1954 in an article about Suriname. He had a bookstore in Paramaribo where books were for sale in six different languages. A fun question he was asked was: why books in English, Dutch, Javanese, German, French, and Indonesian, but not in Hindustani? Because I can't read the latter, but I can read the rest!
It is therefore unlikely that this Varekamp is the stamp designer.
The logical scenario is that due to time constraints
Enschede created the design,
At most, V was allowed to make a minor retouch.
I received the following tip from a fellow collector and philatelic researcher: PJA Varekamp was the editor for Overseas Territories of the Dutch monthly magazine for Philately for many years (see NMP 1984, page 119, with photo). During the magazine dinner in the autumn of 1984, he said farewell to that position and presented all those present with a card featuring the airmail stamp he designed in 1954.