On September 11th last, I informed you about the issuance of the Paleis Het Loo Personal Stamp Issue. Such PP issues generally have a shorter production period than special stamps, are not included in the annual issue program, and the images...
Older people usually want to continue living safely in their own homes for as long as possible, but as the population ages, some things become more difficult. They have poorer hearing, poorer eyesight, and climbing stairs (moving) becomes harder. Safety can, for example, be practically enhanced...
Last week, a dealer in philatelic items drew my attention to the most expensive stamp from Belgium, namely the 'inverted Dendermonde'. Due to the printing house in Mechelen destroyed by fire, the Belgian stamp was engraved and printed at Joh. Enschedé in 1920...
The designers Haico Beukers [1960] and Marga Scholma [1966] of the design agency Beukers Scholma from Haarlem depict the history of the 220-year existence of our national postal service with simplified [stylized] images of letters and parcels on the stamp sheet consisting of two stamps...
Following the 1964 children's stamp theme 'Child and his creativity', in which Oxenaar highlighted children's creativity on stamps, PTTPost, together with the Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN), came up with the idea of involving the child himself actively in the design of the 1965 children's stamps...
Most stamp series in our country commemorate a memorable moment related to the stamp subject. The occasion for the issuance of the 1995 Children's Stamps is linked to the 5th anniversary of the Comenius Project, which introduces primary education to information technology....
The Nieuwsblad van het Noorden of September 28, 1989, contained a report of a conversation a journalist from the Groningen newspaper had with the cartoonist. I do not want to withhold the content of this interesting article from you. In the...
On Monday, November 14, 2016, the new December stamps will be available for purchase again. The postage amount has been set at 65 cents. In 2015, the postage amount was 64 cents, while in 2014 it was 59 cents and in 2013 even 47...
The illustrator Fiep Westendorp was born 100 years ago. Her illustrations, accompanying serial stories by authors Annie MG Schmidt and Mies Bouwhuys, take center stage on the 2016 children's stamps. By Annie MG Schmidt, the stories are...
Before the Second World War, it was common practice for postal workers who had to sort mail on delivery routes to invalidate the stamps that had remained uncancelled on incoming mail using a pen. This was often done with wild pen strokes, causing the stamps...
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