Heads of State

Heads of State with / without faces & crowns on stamps – part 2

Written in: Dutch • redactie • October 28, 2020

As argued in the previous article, the functioning of the monarchy in our country has been subject to legal changes. Little remains of the centrifugal power, authority, and influence of the head of state. All that remains now is...

Heads of State with/without faces & crowns on stamps – part 1

Written in: Dutch • redactie • October 25, 2020

In the 245th auction catalogue of the Corinphila Auctions from September 24 to 26, 2020, an informative text by Queen Juliana is included with lot 1893, a green 10 cent Queen 'Juliana-with-crown' (en face): “This design was personally... by Queen Juliana...”

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…