Two Veth stamps that you would leave in the penny books and three postage due stamps with a minimal catalogue value: they formed the basis of a philatelic masterpiece. In January 1934, baker Bus from Zuidoostbeemster received an express postcard from the Tin Factories of...
On May 25, 2011, the blog discussed the border adjustment that took place following the annexation of a piece of German territory by the Netherlands as 'reparations'. One of the villages located in the 'acquired' area was Süsterseel. This agricultural...
In almost all cases, post offices used a post office box number as the address for forwarding mail. In the stamps of the main post offices, usually only the place name was entered, along with a stamp serial number. Large towns sometimes had more...
Misspelled place names are not uncommon. However, it should be expected that official authorities give places the correct names. Yet, things can sometimes go wrong. This was also the case in Zuidbarge, a village near Emmen in the province of Drenthe....
For once, not a lost place name, but a lost province! On May 1, 1873, an auxiliary post office was established in Alem, belonging to the jurisdiction of the 's-Hertogenbosch post office. The postmaster was provided with an office name stamp. Only more than twelve years...
During the Second World War, many buildings in the Netherlands were destroyed and the infrastructure damaged or rendered unusable. After the war, an attempt was therefore made to repair the damage by demanding compensation of 25 billion guilders from Germany....
Located on the Belgian-Dutch border, south of Budel, lies a village named Budel-Schoot. The hamlet is a merger of the hamlets of Groot-Schoot and Klein-Schoot, and this is reflected in the stamps. Klein-Schoot has never had a post office...
'Drumpt is a village in the Thielerwaard situated a good half mile from the city of Thiel. This village has its houses very irregularly, and the farmhouses stand there in nothing but as if they had been poured out of a basket. The so-called...
In a poetry album I once found a little rhyme: In heaven there are angels, on earth there are none, but if there were on earth, you would certainly be one... If I an imprint of the stamp...
Has the name Britswerd (or Britswert) been lost in Friesland or not? It is a village with a core of only three streets: the Kleasterdijk, Buorren, and Terp. And yet, this village received a post station in 1941. The post station...
The village of Stoppeldijk was located in Zeelandic Flanders, not far from Hulst. The village already existed in the Middle Ages and was then called Stoppeldijcke. Although at that time, the village was called Rapenburg by the inhabitants. In 1936, the independent municipality of Stoppeldijk...
Linden and Katwijk. Was this a place name where a post office was located? North of Cuijk in North Brabant lies the village of Katwijk, and to the northwest the village of Linden, precisely in a bend of the Meuse. In Linden there was a delivery house...
Nowadays, every resident of Nijmegen knows the Neerbosch district. The village of Neerbosch originated in the 13th century after the draining of the swamps west of Nijmegen. The small village was named 'in den Nederen Bosche' and later became an independent municipality....
Where has Oostvaart gone? We can find Oostvaart in Belgium near Moerbeke in East Flanders, and also near Hazerswoude-Dorp. However, near Hazerswoude-Dorp, there is nothing to be found but meadows, a lot of water, and a few farms. No village...
A post office that was not destined for a long life is Abdissenbosch. In this church village, belonging to the municipality of Ubach over Worms, a rural postal agency was established on March 15, 1971. This agency belonged to the jurisdiction of the Heerlen post office. Where...
If one now searches for the place Kapel in 't Zand, one will not get much further than Roermond. And then one sees a beautiful church on Kapellerlaan, with one of the oldest cemeteries in the Netherlands nearby. Laid out...
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