On November 18, 2025, PostNL will issue the stamp sheet De Smaak van Soestdijk, the day before the opening of the exhibition of the same name at Soestdijk Palace. The exhibition (November 19, 2025, to March 29, 2026) takes visitors on a tasteful journey of discovery...
Competition is fierce among the various museums. Every museum wants to show the 'best' exhibition to a large number of visitors. That is good for the museum, but also for the city. Just think of the hospitality industry and the shopkeepers. Museums...
On Whit Monday, June 9, 2025, it is time once again for Castle Day. This edition of Castle Day has the theme: 'Outdoors!'. With this, we shine the spotlight on all outdoor spaces of Dutch castles, country estates, ruins...
I am happy to comply with the call made by fellow writer Hero Wit on June 16 on www.postzegelblog.nl to write a short blog post about what I consider to be the most impressive stamp. For me, that is the blue 20-cent Inauguration stamp of Queen Juliana (NVPH 507)....
Friends of mine visited the very beautiful exhibition 'The Century of Juliana' at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam from October 15, 2022, to April 10, 2023. The baby boomer generation (born in the period 1941 -...
The first part of the blog is about the visit to the ABC islands. But first, we look back at previous visits by the Royal House of Princess Juliana, Princess Beatrix, and Prince Willem-Alexander. Did you see the working visit (or extended holiday)...
On the occasion of the exhibition 'The Century of Juliana, a Queen and Her Ideals' at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, the stamp sheet 'Juliana of the Netherlands' is being issued featuring ten Personal Stamps with characteristic photographs. Next year will mark the 75th anniversary...
On the occasion of the 60th birthday of Prince Bernhard (1911 – 2004) in 1971, an issue of four meaningful stamps (NVPH 992/95) was issued, depicting various official roles through images and illustrations. The stamp issue shows different subjects and aspects...
In the 245th auction catalogue of the Corinphila Auctions from September 24 to 26, 2020, an informative text by Queen Juliana is included with lot 1893, a green 10 cent Queen 'Juliana-with-crown' (en face): “This design was personally... by Queen Juliana...”
In the third edition of *Spraakmakend geld – de Nederlandse gulden*, attention is paid to the partially visible banknotes on the 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th stamps. I am saving the 8th stamp, featuring an image of the Lieftinck ten-guilder note, for the concluding...
Juliana acts as a character in the role-play on a postage stamp in two functions, namely as a distant head of state and as a personally involved person. The design of the Juliana postage stamp portraits is varied in both these roles. Varied Juliana postage stamp portraits Sometimes frontal ('en face'), Sometimes...
Last week I drew your attention to the discussion regarding the viewing direction of the monarch on the stamp and the placement of the stamp on the envelope. Here is more detailed information on this matter now. A view towards the addressee In 1867 came...
To replace the permanent stamps from 1951 depicting Queen Juliana 'en face', the first part of a series of stamps featuring images of historical buildings in Suriname, particularly in Paramaribo, was issued on April 1, 1961. On a...
Collecting envelopes transported by airplane on the maiden flight to a new destination was a favorite pastime from the very beginning of aviation. During the Second World War, it was difficult to continue doing so,...
When visiting the former Buchenwald concentration camp, as many hundreds of Dutch people do every year, one can see the enormous bell tower towering above the surroundings from afar. In 1954, the government of the GDR decided to erect a monument...
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