On November 18, 2022, it was one hundred years since Marcel Proust passed away. Proust was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and critic. His greatest work, 'À la recherche du temps perdu' (In Search of Lost Time), completed in 1922,...
Barbara Brown designed a series of four stamps on the occasion of the 100th birthday of novelist Jane Austen, which were issued on October 22, 1975. She was the only artist invited to design four stamps featuring female writers from the...
'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' is one of the most famous tragedies by the English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and was also buried there in 1616. Shakespeare had an enormous influence on...
On December 31, the KEP, Kyrgyzstan's second official postal service, released a notepad featuring five celebrities. These individuals are of importance to everyone. They are: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), who was born 350 years ago. He has beautiful...
The Hafnia 87 World Exhibition in Copenhagen had concluded and was visited by many stamp collectors. Incidentally, Hafnia is the Latin name for Copenhagen, but also for a chemical element and a bacterium. The Faroe Islands postal service resumed...
If someone speaks about a 'famous' or 'well-known' person during a television program, usually about art or something similar, and the name means nothing to me, I feel a bit uncomfortable. Then I wonder, why is that person...
As a young twenty-something, I was very interested in modern history and painting. It was therefore a surprise to see two stamps from 1967 from Indonesia showing paintings by an artist I did not know: Raden...
As previously reported on this blog by Cees Janssen, Commissioner Maigret was “created” in Delfzijl. In Cees’s article, you can also see 3 beautiful Simenon stamps. This prompted me to delve deeper into (philatelic) history...
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