Pantone Matching System

Do you also collect traffic lights?

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • 27 Januari 2015

The collecting of 'gutter pairs', or pairs of stamps with a blank strip in between, has been done for a very long time. The first Dutch postage stamps were printed in 1852 in four blocks of 25 on a single sheet, allowing one to obtain pairs with...

Which came first? (The chicken or the egg)

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • 20 December 2013

stamps

By chance, I came across a booklet compiled with examples of the results of a stamp printer's examination, administered at Joh. Enschedé & Zonen in Haarlem. The examination was administered by Mr. NJ Teutscher, who did not...

Yvonne Kruse over What is Santa Claus like?: Hello Rob, I am very happy with the new version of my blogs. It looks beautiful! One small mistake: the title is: Who is Santa (ve…

rob over Hamlet: This is a translation error, which should be corrected by now. If 'Hamlet' is viewed as a word rather than a name, it simply means…

Bate Hylkema over 1951 issue of children's stamps a world first: View this article as an introduction to the article containing special news that will appear shortly. The perspective of… is striking.

rob over Collection 91: Janneke Brinkman-Salentijn: As a result of the termination of PostNL's sponsorship of Postzegelblog/Freestampagazine, we are currently not archiving/publishing Collect me…

rob over The Faroe Islands have four underwater tunnels.: The majority of the articles, at least those from after 2016, can now simply be found on Freestampmagazine. Everything is now also available in six languages.

Hans over Collection 91: Janneke Brinkman-Salentijn: The link to the Collect Magazines archive does not work. Hopefully, that is fixable. Kind regards, Hans