825th stamp blog: Karel Martens – Unbound in Amsterdam
Last chance until October 26, 2025. On the first floor of the museum, you walk into the largest hall. It is furnished as Karel Martens' studio with shelving, and designs also hang on the wall...
Karel Martens
Communication variations on/with postage stamps
That a postage stamp plays a role in communication between two or more people needs no further explanation. It also happens frequently that a stamp issued some time ago plays a role in communication. Last week, something happened...
Children's stamps 1988 spontaneously proclaimed in 1986
In 1988, children's drawings appeared on children's stamps for the third time at the initiative of Minister Nelie Smit-Kroes of Transport and Public Works (under whose purview the PTT fell at the time), who on October 19, 1986, during the official commissioning of the Oosterscheldedam, surprised a...
