Do stamp collectors ever look at the rates applied to mail items? With a little goodwill and the aid of a rate list, an ordinary piece of mail may or may not be classified as 'artificial work'. To determine whether the current rates for...
Collecting individual stamps is fun, but collecting postal items is even more fun. Especially when those items tell a whole story. For instance, I came across a postcard (or is it printed matter?) dated August 5, 1924...
A printed matter envelope stamped with a postmark from 1947 bearing the text: Postagent Van der Steng Onze Marine. A joke? No, a real stamp, officially used. But why such a stamp that deviates from all other stamps of that era? Van der...
A name inextricably linked to the Haagsche Ballon Club, which was founded in 1936 by Jo Boesman, among others. Nini Visscher was 18 years old when she met Jo Boesman. In 1938, Nini made her first... from Kijkduin.
Apparently, it was a question from a stamp collector in The Hague. On December 26, 1933, a resident of Surabaya (the former Dutch East Indies) sent a postcard to Mr. Zaalberg in The Hague. And not just any postcard! The...
How do I collect impressions of special stamps? In most cases, an envelope or card is affixed with a stamp in the upper right corner. The impression of the stamp is then (in most cases) applied neatly, partly on the...
On April 27, 28, and 29, Sommelsdijk will be the stamp center of the Netherlands. For that is when the National Stamp Exhibition will be held in De Staver. With much to see, much to do, and many dealers offering their stamps and postal items...
As a collector of Dutch postmark impressions, I immediately noticed that something about an envelope wasn't right. Dutch stamps cancelled with a Belgian stamp? Worth taking a closer look! On the envelope were...
On August 28, 1979, two special stamps were issued: one commemorating 100 years of football and one marking 60 years of women's suffrage in the Netherlands. The latter stamp, unlike the first, caused quite a stir! What was...
The replacement of the steel date stamps we are so familiar with in the Netherlands is proceeding at lightning speed. Many postal branches have already received the new, self-inking stamps. The intention is to complete the exchange of the stamps at virtually all branches within the first half of this year...
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