The 2024 Children's Stamps mark 100 years of children's stamps, on which the theme of 'resilience' is highlighted in a figurative sense through texts, images, and spoken word. The spoken word connects the sender via the QR code on the mega-stamp...
This article devotes brief attention to three issues simultaneously, as a rare exception. The reason? Three stamp sheets are being announced in a relatively short period of time. On September 25, Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) is launching the 2024 children's stamp school campaign as a 100-year-old Foundation with the...
In the 99th year of the children's stamp issues, not only is a stamp sheet with five different children's stamps being issued, but also, as a first for the children's stamps, a prestige booklet 'Kinderpostzegels 2023, de eeuwig jeugd van LEGO' (the 109th edition). The perforation of this...
With the release of the 74th issue of children's stamps featuring Donald Duck and other members of the family, the predictability is once again quite high. In addition to five different images on the children's stamp sheets, one of which is extra large...
In the English language, the Dutch word 'pesten' is translated as 'bullying'. This English description can be found on four recently issued stamps from Greece. I doubt whether this description will catch on in the Netherlands as well. An anti-bullying stamp in our country?...
On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Netherlands' most famous comic book heroes, Olivier B. Bommel and Tom Poes, five 2021 Kinderpostzegels (Children's Stamps) pay tribute to their adventures, created by Marten Toonder (1912 – 2005). He devised 177 stories. Almost sixty...
In what ways does the child come into contact with the news in the newspaper, on the radio, and on television? After the completion of the entire design and printing process of the 1993 children's stamps, Oxenaar provides an imaginative, associative...
On October 5, the 2020 children's stamp sheet featuring images of the 65-year-old Miffy will be released. The sheet consists of five different stamps, all but one of which are continuous images. The stamp blog article from July 5 provides further information on this in words and pictures....
For insightful source research regarding the children's stamp issues from the period before 1940, the *Tijdschrift Armwezen, Maatschappelijke Hulp, Kinderbescherming* (*Tijdschrift AMHK*) is the press organ that serves as the reliable source in terms of organization and target audience approach. In the cited texts, the inflated language is immediately apparent...
The 2020 children's stamps feature Miffy. With the 65-year-old Miffy (the start of her former retirement age) on a cheerful and large-format children's stamp with guests, the Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland aims to give children a warm and pleasant sense of safety....
On Friday, June 14, we were alerted via the print media (LC, NRC, AD, VV, Trouw) that this year's children's stamps would feature five children's books. The article was illustrated with three popular children's book covers. A day later...
De Fabeltjeskrant, the subject of the 2018 Kinderpostzegels, was a short daily television broadcast for preschoolers (tube-watching children) just before bedtime about daily events in the Great Animal Forest in Fableland. The first broadcast was on September 29, 1968; the last broadcast took place...
Following the 1964 children's stamp theme 'Child and his creativity', in which Oxenaar highlighted children's creativity on stamps, PTTPost, together with the Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN), came up with the idea of involving the child himself actively in the design of the 1965 children's stamps...
Through appeals on the stamp blog, we managed to get in touch with the 'children's stamp children' of the: * 1960 children's stamps (NVPH 747/51, traditional costume), * 1965 children's stamps (NVPH 849/54, children's drawings), * 1995 children's stamps (NVPH 1658/60, carpets). But the search continues. Now...
Last year, together with Mr. Holstege, compiler of the Handbook of Dutch Postal Values, I placed a call via an appeal in the 'Postzegelblog article Young children's stamp designers of 1965 wanted' (January 29, 2017) to... the five illustrators of the 1965 children's stamps on...
The computer drawings on the stamps have been provided with colored borders by Julius Vermeulen (former visual communications advisor at PostNL), in which the country name, year, and face value with surcharge are indicated. The typographic section is positioned, as it were, floating and spatially in front of... by means of shadow indication.
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