Stamp language

Geulem

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • 24 February 2015

A postcard from the beginning of the last century sometimes tells a complete story without words. Or, you can invent a complete story to go with it. When searching for the last dates of use, postcards are a popular tool because...

Stamp language, Babylonian confusion of tongues?

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • May 13, 2009

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At the beginning of the last century, in a large number of countries, there was still a sometimes significant difference between the rate for a picture postcard and a letter postcard. Only a short greeting could be written on a picture postcard in order to be allowed to send it as printed matter....

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

Groeneweg over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unfortunately, I have already heard that the funeral mail sent with priority on Monday was not delivered on Tuesday😏 This despite the delivery at the sortery…