For collectors of the Transport theme, particularly Railways, six special sheets are on their way. On November 23, the UNPA, the United Nations Postal Administration, is releasing six sheets on the occasion of World Sustainable Transport Day...
Leiden is the Key City, the City of Discoveries, and the City with the oldest university in the Netherlands. It is therefore inevitable that many remarkable people have lived in Leiden. I will introduce you to 10 of them....
The order to design and manufacture a new American flag, even though it was never formally recorded, was given by a small committee in June 1776 consisting of George Washington, Robert Morris, and Colonel George Ross. The order...
According to historians, the first flag for the United States was crafted by the hatmaker Margaret Manny from Philadelphia, a city in the former British colony of Pennsylvania. The flag was used during the American Revolution by the Continental Army and...
The modern history of Ireland is marked by a number of bloody uprisings against British rule. The uprising of 1798 was modeled after the American and French Revolutions. That uprising, supported by the French army, was suppressed by the...
Some time ago, I received an unperforated 'stamp' with an image of Heidi Klum from Austria, without a value indication, which I could not find in the stamp catalogue. The original stamp was listed in the catalogue and had been issued...
The Liberty Bell in Berlin has hung in the tower of Schöneberg City Hall since 1950, which at the time was the seat of the then Mayor of West Berlin, Ernst Reuter. It is the largest secular bell in Berlin. Ernst...
Do you remember where you were on Tuesday afternoon, September 11, 2001? I suspect so. I was in Alphen aan den Rijn for a meeting. However, halfway through, it was interrupted by 'breaking news' from New York. There was a plane (probably intentionally)...
The French occupation zone was one of the four zones into which Germany was divided by the victorious Allied powers during the Potsdam Conference on July 26, 1945, after the Second World War. The three other parts were occupied by the armies of...
Internationally, Banting and Best are regarded as the discoverers of insulin, as we can see on the Uruguayan FDC below regarding the 50th anniversary of insulin. Naturally, '100 years of insulin' should also not be missing from philately. Various countries...
Although most members of our association possess a Netherlands and/or Overseas collection, there are also many with a foreign collection, sometimes highly specialized, but more often broad and with an interest in multiple countries outside the Netherlands. Digitally, there is then...
On the occasion of the Spring Fair in Vienna after the end of the Second World War, a series of eight surcharge stamps was issued featuring images relating to the future of the Republic of Austria. But also after the First World War...
"We need bread and fuel, but not airmail stamps," was the first reaction of the Austrian population when three stamps for the airmail service were issued on May 5, 1947. The Allied occupiers had imposed a ban on Austria from... aircraft
Karl Renner was born on December 14, 1870, in the village of Untertannowitz, or Dolní Dunajovice, in South Moravia, which was populated almost exclusively by Germans. With his twin brother Anton, he was the 17th or 18th child of a wine-growing family and the...
After the Second World War, Austria, just like Nazi Germany, was occupied by the four Allied powers: Great Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union. The Austrian postal service was under the supervision of the occupiers, but in the area...
92 years ago, on January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King was born. He was only 39 years old. He became famous for his nonviolent resistance to racial segregation in the United States. Who doesn't know his legendary speech: “I Have...
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