Stanley Gibbons

Do you also collect traffic lights?

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • 27 Januari 2015

The collecting of 'gutter pairs', or pairs of stamps with a blank strip in between, has been done for a very long time. The first Dutch postage stamps were printed in 1852 in four blocks of 25 on a single sheet, allowing one to obtain pairs with...

The PostBeeld museum (2), the Senf brothers

Written in: Dutch • Rob Smit • 29 Januari 2014

In the PostBeeld store in Haarlem, a reconstructed 19th-century stamp shop stands right by the entrance. In the display windows of this shop, there is a collection of old philatelic literature and everyday objects. It is the private collection of Rob...

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…