If you happen to visit the Ed van der Elsken exhibition, you can see the beautiful exhibition of drawings by Fiep Westendorp at the bottom of the stairs in the exhibition space. Jip and Janneke, Otje, Pluk van de Petteflet, and Pim and Pom. Since the years...
For the 2025 children's stamps, PostNL created a special postmark at the request of the Association for Children's Stamps and Maximaphily. This was announced in the January issue of the monthly magazine Philately. You could also have your own envelope stamped with it. That is what I did...
HEMA (formerly an acronym for Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam) is a Dutch chain of department stores. In 2023, the retail chain had nearly 750 locations in nine countries across two continents. Most stores are located in the Netherlands, other countries with locations...
In late September 2024, national and regional media featured information about '100 years of Kinderpostzegels'. Did you read them in print or online? A number of these publications provided a historical overview of the success of the Kinderpostzegels...
A fortuitous confluence of circumstances within a relatively short period has meant that a dark period of the school campaign (1949 – 1964) is being highlighted precisely now, in the anniversary year of the children's stamp. 1. Catalogue Dutch Stamps 2025 “The filling of...
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...
The concluding article provides further information about the 60th children's stamp edition. To mark this anniversary, a children's stamp exhibition was organized in Rotterdam. The history of the postage stamp / children's stamp is clarified there in a particularly insightful diagram. 2008 On the occasion...
The third part of this series of articles covers the children's stamp years 1980 – 2004. In 1980, a children's stamp association was founded, which over the years not only changed its name but also significantly expanded its collection items. After the children's stamp thank-you cards, it fell...
The second part of this series of articles focuses on the children's stamp campaigns from 1971 to 1978. It is striking that considerably less space needed to be allocated to the children's stamp years 1971 and 1974 than to the years 1976 and 1978. The reason? 50s and...
On the eve of the announcement of the images for the new 2024 children's stamps on this coming September 25th by the 100-year-old Kinderzegel organization, it is fitting to devote some space, in words and images, to striking issues from the organization...
During the preparation phase of a number of stamp blog articles about the 100th anniversary of the children's stamp organization 'Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland' (SKN), I came across my article 'Pegmine bags' (p. 45) once again in the richly illustrated reference work 'The children's stamp campaigns from 1924 by...
Anna Maria Geertruida (Annie) Schmidt (Kapelle, May 20, 1911 – Amsterdam, May 21, 1995) was a Dutch poet and writer of verse, songs, books, plays, musicals, and radio and television dramas. Annie M.G. Schmidt became famous in the Netherlands and Flanders primarily for...
The images of children on the 1975 Children's Stamps possess a resilient aura due to divine support. The house father of the Holy Spirit Orphanage in Gouda aptly expresses this observation (see vignette image on FDC envelope): “I instruct the orphans in the...”
The invention and creation of the crompouce turns out to be a cross between a croissant and a tompoes. The new and tasty product is generously filled with Swiss cream and whipped cream, topped with a pink...
To compensate for the current, ever-dwindling revenue stream of the Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland, attention is drawn here to two SKN issues from a quarter of a century ago, when receipts of children's stamp funds for SKN were substantial. In limited editions, the business community made the...
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