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WHO Campaign: World Anti-Tobacco Day

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • May 31, 2016

In 1980, stamp collectors all over the world were flooded with stamps warning against smoking tobacco. The images were often gruesome, with skulls being common, usually with a cigarette between the teeth. But also images with degraded...

German-Chinese friendship in 1951

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • July 30, 2015

China People’s Republic

As a nine-year-old boy who had just started collecting stamps (my father had been collecting for much longer), I received several series of stamps for my birthday that had been issued in 1951 by the German Democratic Republic. The series had been purchased...

rob over Hamlet: This is a translation error, which should be corrected by now. If 'Hamlet' is viewed as a word rather than a name, it simply means…

Bate Hylkema over 1951 issue of children's stamps a world first: View this article as an introduction to the article containing special news that will appear shortly. The perspective of… is striking.

rob over Collection 91: Janneke Brinkman-Salentijn: As a result of the termination of PostNL's sponsorship of Postzegelblog/Freestampagazine, we are currently not archiving/publishing Collect me…

rob over The Faroe Islands have four underwater tunnels.: The majority of the articles, at least those from after 2016, can now simply be found on Freestampmagazine. Everything is now also available in six languages.

Hans over Collection 91: Janneke Brinkman-Salentijn: The link to the Collect Magazines archive does not work. Hopefully, that is fixable. Kind regards, Hans

Groeneweg over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unfortunately, I have already heard that the funeral mail sent with priority on Monday was not delivered on Tuesday😏 This despite the delivery at the sortery…