While leafing through my Leiden mail, I came across an envelope sent from Japan bearing a date stamp of 8.1.26. You would think that this envelope was postmarked on January 8, 1926. However, that is a wrong assumption, because...
In a relatively short period, eleven typographic stamps were issued. For collectors, these text stamps proved to be neither meaningful nor appealing. The message hidden within, related to the stamp subject, is not seen and/or discovered. For maximum card collectors of the 'Association...
At the age of nineteen, he made a first attempt to build a calculator and help his father with it. In three years, he built fifty prototypes and, in the years that followed, twenty calculators known as 'Pascal's calculator' or 'Pascaline'...
Yesterday, you were able to get acquainted in detail with the background ideas in the article 'Identical December Twins 2017', in which ten designers incorporated and/or hid their artistic-creative vision into the 2017 December stamps. The same designers have received a follow-up assignment to incorporate the stamp images into a...
Many stamp-blog readers will soon be taking a few weeks off for vacation again. They will be heading out by bicycle, car/bus, boat, or plane to unknown regions and areas at home and abroad. In this contribution, you get a foretaste of it with the help of...
What the Eiffel Tower is to Paris, the Atomium is to Brussels. And both structures share roughly the same history. Built for a world exhibition and intended to be dismantled afterwards. Images of the Eiffel Tower appear worldwide...
In 1962, I was supposed to go to the Zoo in Antwerp for the fourth time, but unfortunately, that didn't happen. My parents did, however, go to Antwerp by train. First, they took the local train to Roosendaal and then transferred to the...
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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