The majority of children's stamps feature a child or a number of children. A small number of children's stamps depict a child in need of assistance or care. Most stamps feature healthy children. They are drawn, photographed, or derived from comics, books, etc.
Unconsciously, PostNL and Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) acted in a particularly progressive manner with the issuance of the 1979, 1981, and 2013 children's stamp series. Even then, they 'foresaw' that our country would eventually emerge from a multicultural / multiracial society...
The living conditions of the depicted Ethiopian children certainly do not present a cheerful and flourishing picture of reality. On the contrary. The expressive power of black-and-white photographs is more fitting here than that of color photographs. These three children's stamp children are involved, per horizontal stamp pair, in...
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