The concluding article provides further information about the 60th children's stamp edition. To mark this anniversary, a children's stamp exhibition was organized in Rotterdam. The history of the postage stamp / children's stamp is clarified there in a particularly insightful diagram. 2008 On the occasion...
During the preparation phase of a number of stamp blog articles about the 100th anniversary of the children's stamp organization 'Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland' (SKN), I came across my article 'Pegmine bags' (p. 45) once again in the richly illustrated reference work 'The children's stamp campaigns from 1924 by...
The images of children on the 1975 Children's Stamps possess a resilient aura due to divine support. The house father of the Holy Spirit Orphanage in Gouda aptly expresses this observation (see vignette image on FDC envelope): “I instruct the orphans in the...”
To compensate for the current, ever-dwindling revenue stream of the Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland, attention is drawn here to two SKN issues from a quarter of a century ago, when receipts of children's stamp funds for SKN were substantial. In limited editions, the business community made the...
The design track for these children's stamps featuring children's drawings differs significantly from that of all other stamp issues. It is customary for a designer to receive guidelines prior to the design track, which he must adhere to. In other words, first...
With the release of the 74th issue of children's stamps featuring Donald Duck and other members of the family, the predictability is once again quite high. In addition to five different images on the children's stamp sheets, one of which is extra large...
Unconsciously, PostNL and Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland (SKN) acted in a particularly progressive manner with the issuance of the 1979, 1981, and 2013 children's stamp series. Even then, they 'foresaw' that our country would eventually emerge from a multicultural / multiracial society...
On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Netherlands' most famous comic book heroes, Olivier B. Bommel and Tom Poes, five 2021 Kinderpostzegels (Children's Stamps) pay tribute to their adventures, created by Marten Toonder (1912 – 2005). He devised 177 stories. Almost sixty...
The 2020 children's stamps feature Miffy. With the 65-year-old Miffy (the start of her former retirement age) on a cheerful and large-format children's stamp with guests, the Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland aims to give children a warm and pleasant sense of safety....
“Is the long-term survival of the children's stamp issue also at stake?” I am already wondering. The children's stamp sheet costing 13,00 euros with ten stamps (87 + 43 = 1.30 x 10) was issued in a shockingly low print run...
De Fabeltjeskrant, the subject of the 2018 Kinderpostzegels, was a short daily television broadcast for preschoolers (tube-watching children) just before bedtime about daily events in the Great Animal Forest in Fableland. The first broadcast was on September 29, 1968; the last broadcast took place...
On July 27, 2018, you can expect the first Fabeltjeskrant stamp on your doormat if you subscribe to the Personal Children's Stamp Issue De Fabeltjeskrant 50 years *). This stamp issue is being issued in collaboration with Stichting Kinderpostzegel Nederland (SKN). Of each...
The passing of Jan Kruis in early 2017 prompted attention to be paid to his Libelle comic strip Jan, Jans en de kinderen on the 2017 children's stamps. As a result, this stamp series has become not only a charity issue but also a commemorative issue. Intangible...
The computer drawings on the stamps have been provided with colored borders by Julius Vermeulen (former visual communications advisor at PostNL), in which the country name, year, and face value with surcharge are indicated. The typographic section is positioned, as it were, floating and spatially in front of... by means of shadow indication.
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 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...
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