Who knows Otto Eerelman?
While working on my collection of small circular stamp prints, I came across a beautiful postcard. A card with an image of a painting by O. Eerelman on the back. Not in color, but in blue-black tones. Intrigued, I went...
Small round stamp
Picture cards
It does not happen very often that I come across postcards from before 1900 depicting a post office. Unfortunately, no post office can be recognized on the card I describe below, but I know that from June 1, 1895, a post-...
Birthday card
The first postcards with printed stamp value were issued and made available in the Netherlands from January 1, 1871. These postcards could be used to correspond in a cheaper way than by letter. The surface area of a postcard was, of course, much smaller...
Collector of stamp impressions in 1900?
Recently, I came across a postcard that was sent on May 1, 1900, from Amsterdam to Werkendam. The addressee, Mr. Blommers, was, judging by the address, employed at the Werkendam telegraph office in North Brabant, close to the Biesbosch. And...
A lost province: Alem
For once, not a lost place name, but a lost province! On May 1, 1873, an auxiliary post office was established in Alem, belonging to the jurisdiction of the 's-Hertogenbosch post office. The postmaster was provided with an office name stamp. Only more than twelve years...
Lost place names: Drumpt
'Drumpt is a village in the Thielerwaard situated a good half mile from the city of Thiel. This village has its houses very irregularly, and the farmhouses stand there in nothing but as if they had been poured out of a basket. The so-called...
Lost place names: Engelen
In a poetry album I once found a little rhyme: In heaven there are angels, on earth there are none, but if there were on earth, you would certainly be one... If I an imprint of the stamp...
Lost place names: Koegras
We go back more than 100 years. In an area between Den Helder and Callantsoog, a polder had been created starting in 1610 through the construction of a dike, a sea defense that provided protection between the North Sea and the...
Lost place names: Stoppeldijk
The village of Stoppeldijk was located in Zeelandic Flanders, not far from Hulst. The village already existed in the Middle Ages and was then called Stoppeldijcke. Although at that time, the village was called Rapenburg by the inhabitants. In 1936, the independent municipality of Stoppeldijk...
Lost place names: Lange Ruige Weide
Who has ever heard of Lange Ruige Weide? Residents of Driebruggen and the surrounding area in South Holland certainly know this name. But was it ever a place name? We go back to before the French era, because that is when this municipality existed...
