Join Waste-Free Week. Take on the challenge and don't throw away any food for a week during Waste-Free Week. If all Dutch people don't waste food at home for a week, we save nearly 18 million meals. Will you join in...
White gold from Vienna. The Viennese porcelain factory was founded in Vienna-Alsergrund in 1718. The Austrian Post commemorates the 300th anniversary of Viennese porcelain with a special stamp on October 24, 2018. White gold from Vienna Valuable porcelain objects, usually via adventurous...
Anyone who consciously experienced the 80s will immediately recognize three songs in this title. At the end of the 1970s, a new, independent music movement emerged in West Germany: the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW). Inspired by punk and new wave, young musicians wanted to create something new...
The United States Postal Service issued a series of 10 Barbie stamps on July 11, 2026. They are self-adhesive stamps featuring Barbie in ten different professions. The ten professions depicted are: nurse – 1961 surgeon – 1973 astronaut – 1986...
In Dutch stamp history, PostNL, with Royal Delft as chief collaborator, adds a unique collector's item to our country's stamp history on September 7. It is more than just a stamp. It is a tile ½ cm thick, on...
On 27 June 1976, Air France Flight 139, flying from Tel Aviv to Paris, was hijacked shortly after a stopover in Athens. The hijackers diverted the aircraft to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where they were supported by Ugandan forces under...
Perfectly shaped, timelessly beautiful, and handcrafted – this is how world-famous Viennese Augarten porcelain has presented itself for nearly 300 years. Exquisite coffee and tea sets, stylish vases and lamps, as well as artistic figurines, delight collectors and aesthetes – and have done so for generations. The...
A new Netherlands catalogue will be published next week (click here to read more about it). The first NVPH catalogue was published in 1934, six years after the founding of the Dutch Association of Stamp Dealers. The information for that catalogue naturally came...
As a tribute to Wim T. Schippers, the Peanut Butter Floor is on display in the Depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam). For this version, 390 kilos of peanut butter have been spread out in a 25 m² hexagon. You can view the Peanut Butter Floor until...
With some reluctance, we are writing a blog post about a new PostNL issue. The reluctance stems from the fact that this is a philately harmful issue. Nevertheless, we are writing about it to provide an explanation and issue a warning...
In this column, we discuss a region that issued a number of stamps for only a short time. This time, Afars and Issas. Stamps bearing the country name "Territoire Francais des Afars et des Issas" were issued between 1967 and 1977. They concern...
In 2026, the Centraal Museum presents the first major retrospective of Gerard van Honthorst (1592–1656). This Utrecht painter, a contemporary of Rembrandt van Rijn, left for Rome at a young age where he was inspired by the art of Caravaggio, who large,...
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