After the Second World War, air traffic hesitantly resumed, and sending airmail became possible again. From 1949, it was once again permitted to send parcels weighing up to 25 kilograms. Simultaneously, air duties...
A series of stamps that always fascinated me came from Greece. It was the first series of airmail stamps issued on October 20, 1926, in very distinctive, faded colors. Just as if the stamps had been colored with watercolors and very different from...
From 1935, the American aircraft manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company built a new type of aircraft, the DC-3, also known as the Dakota. In the Netherlands, the first DC-3 was purchased by KLM in 1936, which christened the aircraft the Ibis...
The frequency of scheduled flights used to transport mail was much lower in the 30s than it is today. I therefore looked through my collection at the connections between Amsterdam and the Dutch East Indies and vice versa during that period. That is how it came...
The airmail stamps with the values of 15 and 25 guilders, which were nevertheless very high for that time, were issued on November 12, 1951. Why? After the Second World War, international air traffic resumed and sending by airmail was...
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