Happy Liberation Day

Have a wonderful day today, on Liberation Day. May it be a delightful day off in every respect. To get you in the mood – it makes me quite cheerful myself – here is the stamp designed by Jan Bons in 1995, issued on the occasion of 50 years of liberation. Where does that cheerfulness lie, as far as I'm concerned? In the seemingly almost childlike typography that makes the whole thing a wonderfully uninhibited (and therefore free) picture.     This is an edited version of a previously published article on Postzegelblog.