Leiden University was founded in 1575 and is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university has seven faculties (six in Leiden and one in The Hague), with 33.701 students enrolled in 2025. In 2025, the university celebrated its...
Last chance: November 2, 2025. This is the last day to climb onto the roof of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. Indeed, the church located on Dam Square and next to the Royal Palace. If you this...
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...
In 2024, the Universal Postal Union turns 150. Founded in 1874, 192 countries are now members of the UPU. Time for a grand celebration of philately with a tsunami of issues for the 150th anniversary. Just like in 1949 (75...
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 flag of the Netherlands symbolizes the Netherlands and the unity and independence of the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands. The red, white, and blue is used both on land and at sea as a civil flag, service flag, and war flag. Initially...
The emission program for next year pays attention, among other things, to the '250th birthday of King William I', who lived from 1772 to 1843. After the French occupation (under Napoleon Bonaparte and his brother King Louis Bonaparte [1806 – 1810]), he...
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...”
The primary function of a postage stamp (as a 'means of advance payment') is to frank a piece of mail being transported from A to B by a postal company. However, there are also non-essential uses for postage stamps with interactive secondary functions. I am thinking here of:...
On Friday, April 27, King Willem-Alexander celebrated his 51st birthday together with Queen Máxima and the rest of the Royal Family in the city of Groningen. What they saw along the route and were those the same attractions as previously philately...
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...
On the occasion of the national stamp show Postex 2016 on October 14, 15, and 16 in the Amerikahal in Apeldoorn, PostNL is issuing the Day of the Stamp 2016 stamp sheet (DvdP, edition of 82.000 sheets). The sheet, consisting of ten stamps, is inspired...
Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor. Born on January 27, 1859, he not only became head of state of the German Empire, but was also King of Prussia. He was the grandson of British Queen Victoria, but...
The series of stamps depicting Queen Wilhelmina for the Dutch East Indies, designed by Professor Jan Veth, was issued starting in September 1903. Not all denominations were released on the same day, but spread over several years. The 15-cent value (without...
Stamp collectors who look beyond the shortcomings in the pre-printed stamp album search for stamps with perforation variations, among other things. And sometimes they make surprising discoveries. For instance, a few years ago, in a stamp circulation from an association, I came across a stamp...
The issuance of a series of six stamps with an overprint on July 23, 1945, came as a complete surprise. The overprint indicated that the surcharge on the stamps was intended for the National Relief Fund. The National Relief Fund was during...
* " indicates required fields
