Marc Gijzen

Inventory & Interconnectedness of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Written in: Dutch • redactie • September 15 2024

Intangible heritage encompasses social customs, ideas, rituals, traditions, expressions, specialized knowledge, and skills. It is carried by people, connects groups with one another, and gives meaning and color to life and society. Initially, the stamp sheet arrives quite overloaded, disorganized...

The first atlases: with historical geographical maps

Written in: Dutch • redactie • March 15 2020

On March 23, PostNL is releasing the sheet The First Atlases, featuring portraits of publishers and maps from their first atlases. The special thing about the maps from that early period is the fact that north on most maps...

Willem Meerkerk over Mouth-watering tart stamps with a sweet scent: I do see a trend in PostNL's new issues. More and more "self-adhesive" stamps, just like with the 2026 children's stamps. htt…

Haas over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unusual: new rates taking effect on a Sunday. PostNL faces a challenge. With priority, it is guaranteed that the next working day (Mon…

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: Are there any online references to the translation of the different stamps? I've been looking around and am not having much luck.

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: I bought one to frame as a gift to my father. And it was semi-difficult to find, but not too terribly expensive.

John Petterson over Drones, Drones on Drones: Nice article! It has inspired me to start collecting drones on stamps as well.

Otto over 2026 FIFA World Cup: Canada, Mexico and USA: The 2026 World Cup unfortunately turned out disastrously for our World Cup team; the beautiful stamps above are a balm for the wound for the football…