Postage stamps

COMM stationery collection transferred to National Archives

Written in: Dutch • Postzegelblog • March 26 2018

Last week, COMM officially transferred the postage value collection to the National Archives. COMM Museum has signed an agreement with the National Archives to ensure that all philatelic items remain preserved, accessible, and visible for eternity. The...

A bit of philatelic education – The purpose of postage stamps (1)

Written in: Dutch • Postzegelblog • 9 August 2017

In a few installments, we will conduct a small comparative product test. Without any scientific pretensions, for the facts and examples cited are based primarily on personal observation, and that is never entirely objective. Nowadays, there is no postal company left to...

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