New: NVPH Special Catalogue 2026
The new Special NVPH Catalogue for the Netherlands and Overseas Territories is published today.
For several years, a catalogue featuring only the Netherlands has been published one year, and including the Overseas Territories the following year. Now, therefore, a complete edition is being released, including the Dutch East Indies, Dutch New Guinea, Suriname (colony), and the Antillean territories. Fully updated with the latest releases. Once again, there are many (price) changes and additions. However, the price of the catalogue itself has remained the same as two years ago: €39.90. A surprising new main issue is NVPH no. 4238; this children's stamp from 2024 originates from prestige booklet 115 and substantially different from the 'same' stamp from the children's block. A stamp with a small mintage that really should not be missing from a Dutch collection. See the scan of the relevant page below.
According to the Catalogue Committee, there are over 8500 price changes. A large part of this is naturally due to tariff increases for valid stamps, but many also apply to older issues and overseas. Price reductions are seen primarily in FDCs between 1980 and 2000.
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Since I just retired and wanted to perhaps pick up an old hobby again, I bought this catalog. What a difference from my old one from 2006! Kudos to the creators; it immediately makes me want to pick up an old love again.
'@Kees,
It's nice that you've found your old love again!
The argumentation for the special main number 4238, given in the preface to this new NVPH catalogue 2026, and the supposed non-existence of number 4237cA on the same page is, in my opinion, rather peculiar.
In 1989, something similar occurred with the children's stamps. The image on the 65-cent children's stamp featuring the slice of bread (NVPH no. 1436) also appeared in two variants: the sheet stamp had text in each corner of the slice of bread, whereas on the block stamp, the text in the top-right corner of the slice of bread was missing. Sheet stamps and block stamps also differed in perforation.
Differences in appearance and perforation were resolved in the catalogue at the time by placing a note regarding the difference in appearance below the list of the various perforations for sheet stamps and block stamps.
Now, with the children's stamps of 2025, it would be to follow the same consistent line, if the various perforations of the block stamps and the stamps from prestige booklets were fully listed, including 4237cA.
If, after a remark about the visual discrepancy, the catalogue committee would have acted consistently in accordance with a line established by this committee in the past.
Why is that different now? The analog one from 1989 is surely obvious…?
There is indeed a distinct difference between the sandwich and this children's stamp. This is also explained in detail in an article appearing in *Filatelie* in October. You can compare it to NVPH 521 and 522. A slight color nuance, normally a variant (see *Fur Collar*), but one that was deliberately implemented by PostNL, THEREFORE a main issue. With the 2025 children's stamp as well—I learned upon further inquiry—there is a deliberate change to the stamp. The sandwich is a minor variant in the design, absolutely not intentionally meant as such by the PTT, so merely a variant that coincides with the different perforation. The 2025 children's stamp is a very deliberately implemented change in design.
..additional:
In addition, the stamp from the sheet proved functionally useful in an extra way, namely for conveying a message via the QR code….
'@Erik Boeré
Thank you for the further explanation.
Ah well, if you could have made phone calls with the 'sandwich' from the block back then, unlike the field stamp, it would have been a completely different case, of course....