Comb perforation, line perforation, roller perforation, zigzag perforation, slit perforation. What types of perforations are there on postage stamps, what are the differences, and how are they measured? Measuring perforation An international unit of measurement has been agreed upon for measuring perforation. It does not matter...
A philatelist friend handed me an article from *Trouw* about the revival of philately among young people. See the link at the bottom of this blog. Two seventeen-year-old hobbyists talk about their hobby: philately. Instagram post about stamps gets a lot of likes....
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...
It is certain that the postage stamp has had its longest tenure as a franking item. It is also certain that the postage stamp will continue to fulfill its function for franking a postal item for a while longer, but with the advent of the digital postage stamp code, can...
The Haarlem Philatelic Society 'Op Hoop van Zegels' has once again posted a great deal of new material on the postal history of Haarlem and the surrounding area on the website www.ohvz.nl. The 'postmarks' section for Haarlem itself is now almost complete, with attention to the...
Despite numerous different approaches to stamp collecting with many personal specializations, all collectors and philatelists share one thing in common: the start of their stamp collecting. For every philatelist, there was a pre-period in which the stamp did not exist. On...
Two articles in the NRC of April 2 and 6, 2019, with the titles 'Prevent a monopoly, the postage stamp will become far too expensive' and 'Letterbox for one, or for all?' have prompted me to write a brief summary...
It seems like a contradiction in terms. You could also phrase the question differently: are women collectors? It is most likely ingrained in the historical context that the collecting of valuable objects was done by men. You could...
When the euro was introduced in the Netherlands, there was a period when you could frank mail with both guilder and euro stamps. You only had to convert the value. In this way, the guilder stamps retained their original value and these stamps preserved their collector value....
In philately, a Cinderella is a stamp that at first glance resembles a postage stamp, but is not a postage stamp. After all, it has not been issued by the postal service of a country, territory, or (international) organization recognized by the Universal Postal Union....
Upon his farewell as chairman of the Haarlem Philatelic Society 'Op Hoop van Zegels' (on December 12, 2018), Arend Bultman received a publication as a gift regarding the eophilatelic history of Haarlem: the period before the appearance of the first stamps...
Since the departure of the creative spirit of Julius Vermeulen (visual communications advisor) from PostNL on January 1, 2017, they have increasingly been unable to find the right creative and artistically gifted designer and combine him with a...
Inspired by a series of articles by K. Kouwenberg, published in the monthly magazine Philatelie in the late seventies, Rob Smit describes the history of stamp collecting anew in biweekly installments. This is part 14, Dr. Charles William Viner. Before going to Belgium,...
The sheet of 10 of NVPH no. 1733 exists in 2 different perforations. The 13¼:12¾ listed in the catalogue (24 horizontal teeth per stamp) and the unlisted 14:12¾ (25 horizontal teeth per stamp). I already discovered these differences on...
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