Haas over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unusual: new rates taking effect on a Sunday. PostNL faces a challenge. With priority, it is guaranteed that the next working day (Mon…
Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: Are there any online references to the translation of the different stamps? I've been looking around and am not having much luck.
Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: I bought one to frame as a gift to my father. And it was semi-difficult to find, but not too terribly expensive.
John Petterson over Drones, Drones on Drones: Nice article! It has inspired me to start collecting drones on stamps as well.
Otto over 2026 FIFA World Cup: Canada, Mexico and USA: The 2026 World Cup unfortunately turned out disastrously for our World Cup team; the beautiful stamps above are a balm for the wound for the football…
rob over Welcome to Freestampmagazine: Dear Lars, We consider this a disadvantage ourselves as well. It has to do with caching of the translation system in order to keep the site fast. H…
Lars over Welcome to Freestampmagazine: PS: I'm only just reading below that it might take a while. To be honest, I find that quite a major downside of this otherwise beautiful new website…
Lars over Welcome to Freestampmagazine: The comments are not working completely perfectly yet. On the homepage, I see a new comment, but when I click on it, that comment is not there…
Ramon over Women from 1926: But which Pope? The man himself or the office? I think we find the most depicted man in the English or American corner.
Willem Hogendoorn over Something about stamp perforations: A clear philatelic article. This leaves you wanting more.
Willem Hogendoorn over Women from 1926: The Pope?
Caroline over Women from 1926: But who is the most photographed man in the world?
Willem Hogendoorn over Women from 1926: Nice article
Jeroen Bohnen over Turtle Jonathan not only on stamps but now also in the Guinness Book of Records: Beautiful turtle stamps
Jeroen over Netherlands stamp issues July–December 2026: few surprises, a few bright spots: Very beautiful stamp
Lars over Netherlands stamp issues July–December 2026: few surprises, a few bright spots: This year is the 100th issue. From 1924 to 2026 is 102 years, but 1924 through 2026 is 103 years. Minus 3 years during the war i…
Prince over Netherlands stamp issues July–December 2026: few surprises, a few bright spots: Just to be precise with the wording: It has been 102 years since the first children's stamps were issued in 1924. In the war years 1942, 1943…
Freestampmagazine Editors over Welcome to Freestampmagazine: Dear Hans, The new articles are in principle posted with higher resolution images. In the old stamp blog, images were…
Hans over Welcome to Freestampmagazine: It has turned out to be a nice, well-organized website/magazine. There is still one point of attention: the resolution of the images. That shows a bit too…
René over Welcome to Freestampmagazine: Congratulations on the launch of Freestampagazine, which I saw for the first time yesterday. Today's blog about stamping is fine and now…
Willem over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: @Lars, I fear the worst too. But EUR 14,95 is not a regular rate.
Christian over Welcome to Freestampmagazine: Wow!
Lars over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: I'm afraid it will be a single stamp of €14,95... Maybe they'll make a stamp out of a very small tile. Austria once had something like that too...
Anton Siedsma over 50th International Beatles Collectors' Fair on May 31, 2026 in Leiden: What a labor of love!!
Anton Siedsma over Visual language: Rabobank (1898): Well done!!
Anton Siedsma over 800 years of Duivenvoorde Estate & Castle (1226): Great info. Keep up the good work!!
Willem over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: Delft Blue will surely be a special issue. EUR 14,95 is too high for the registered rate.
Otto over 100 years of De Bijenkorf The Hague (1926): De Bijenkorf, beautiful building, beautiful products for the full wallet. Always fighting against downfall but always rises again like a…
Guido (Breda) over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: What kind of stamps (values) would the 'Delft Blue' issue actually consist of? This issue is priced at 14,95 euros.
Guido (Breda) over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: The 'Write a Little Cake' stamp issue: https://europost.nl/winkel/postzegels/nederland/frankeerzegels/nederland-2026-schrijf-eens-…
Guido (Breda) over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: Thanks, Lars.
Lars over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: The image is in the new rate booklet on page 28. https://www.postnl.nl/api/assets/blt43aa441bfc1e29f2/blt5e65605bca8690e0/tari…
Lars over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: I also saw in the new price booklet that the rates for 50-350g, 350g-2kg and larger than C4 are being aligned with the rate of…
Lars over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: There will be no priority stamps for the other priority mail. If you want to send priority mail, you have to go to a PostNL point and they will stick a sticker on it there…
Guido (Breda) over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: That rate booklet as of July 12, 2026, did show that within those rates for priority shipments, a distinction applies between priority bereavement mail…
Lars over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: Second half of 2026: July 12, Netherlands Prio Mourning Stamp. August 10, Experience Nature - Flora of Saba. August 10, New Dutch Design - Gl…
Pieter over Comic stamps Suske & Wiske & Mourning stamp PRIO: Could the price difference be due to the collective mourning mail envelope that you also have to pay for?
Randy Koo over 100 Years of Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962): Hollywood Icon and Sex Bomb: For Marilyn Monroe fans, two recent events well worth checking out: Until June 7, 2026: https://mm100festival.nl/ Until October 25, 2026: h…
René over Comic stamps Suske & Wiske & Mourning stamp PRIO: New PostNL rates as of July 12.https://www.postnl.nl/api/assets/blt43aa441bfc1e29f2/bltb5a50814dab40b01/tarievenboekje-juli-2026.pdf Who…
eight over Portugal 40 years in the EU (1986): A good example of the necessary continued existence of the EU. Friendly people and holiday destination 2026. Recommended: Lisbon, Porto and Alga…
Otto over 11th Bunker Day 2026: 35 Years of the Cold War (1945-1991): Wonderful story about the bunkers along the coastline. Definitely worth a visit, especially the bunkers of Scheveningen, including Seyss-Inquart in Cling…
Guido (Breda) over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: On 10-08-2026: New Dutch Design - Glow of the moment On 28-09-2026: New Dutch Design - Echo of the party But it should be noted that…
Lars over Stamp issuance program January–June 2026 and new December stamp rates: It is the end of May... Nothing known yet about the issuance program for the second half of this year? Will it be 1x Beleef de natuur, 2x New Dut…
Eduard Beversen over Leiden Courtyard Festival on May 24 and 25, 2026: The Leiden courtyards are undoubtedly one of the most beautiful earthly paradises in South Holland, delightful to use as a resting place during…
Eduard Beversen over 100 years of De Bijenkorf The Hague (1926): I myself will certainly pay a visit to this architectural jewel and visit the exhibition. May the visit bring back cherished childhood memories…
Eduard Beversen over 11th Bunker Day 2026: 35 Years of the Cold War (1945-1991): Very interesting information. Although I live in The Hague, I have never seen the inside of one of these bunkers. For anyone interested in this subject…
John van den Heuvel over Attractive, special & noteworthy philatelic rarities: Dear Bate, As I see you are still active for the Stamp Blog, which pleases me greatly. In the years 2014 to 2016 (according to my…
Bate Hylkema over Attractive, special & noteworthy philatelic rarities: Joost Overbeek is the graphic designer of the Dutch Delicacies issue (NVPH 3540/49) and not of the summer stamps!
Bate Hylkema over Attractive, special & noteworthy philatelic rarities: To the question "Name of designer applied to stamp in a concealed manner", the computer response gives striking answers: 1) Ootje Oxena…
Guido (Breda) over Attractive, special & noteworthy philatelic rarities: With regard to point 7) in this list: Isn't this just a single sheet of 2012 children's stamps that was once signed by Vermeulen? D…
