In this 700th stamp blog (started in February 2017), I briefly describe the phenomenon of 'collecting'. Were you present at the well-attended mega Collectors' Fair in Utrecht on March 1 and 2 this year? Or were you at the Stamp and Collecting Festival on...
The benefit of cleaning up my archive is the discovery of little-known or completely unknown background information in philately. Notes and newspaper clippings (Leeuwarder Courant & Midfrieslander [April 2 & 5, 2005]) have provided me with much detailed, interesting...
In 2005, it was one hundred years since the reading method for primary schools of yesteryear, 'Nog bij moeder thuis', better known as 'Ot en Sien', was published by Wolters-Noordhof of Groningen. The TPG postal company has the National Fund...
“Flemish museums in Antwerp (Rubens House & Royal Museum of Fine Arts) have written an open letter to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg because they believe the ban on nude images has gone too far,” according to an article in the Leeuwarder Courant of July 23...
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