The Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland has been issuing picture postcards since as early as 1926 to promote the sale of children's stamps. By analogy with the issuance of PTT postcards featuring a pre-printed postage stamp, the Local Committees of Voor het Kind of the...
As a collector of individual stamps, you regularly come into contact with postcards and picture postcards, among other things, on which the sender has written a few things. Usually, these are uninformative messages and remarks, but occasionally they are interesting and attention-grabbing...
If you want to send a letter or card by post, people always make sure that the recipient's delivery details are correct. Otherwise, the letter or card will not arrive at its intended destination. In the 19th century...
Some collectors are crazy about 'marginal areas'. Sheet margin peculiarities, such as printer's marks, cutting marks, etc. There is even a separate association that studies these matters. But packaging material used by the postal service itself? Collectors of vending machine booklets are mainly interested in the contents of...
When the Netherlands was liberated in May 1945, there was a severe shortage of many raw materials. Industry and trade had not emerged from the war unscathed. For instance, there was also a major shortage of paper. Paper for the manufacture of...
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