The world's first public railway for passenger and freight transport using steam locomotives was put into service between the towns of Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington. The official opening of this railway took place on September 27, 1825, when the locomotive, Locomotion No. 1,...
Would you like something different than just filling in a pre-printed album? Then try starting a so-called 'thematic collection'. Stamps and cancellation marks lend themselves very well to this, and the themes are virtually inexhaustible. As an example, a...
In addition to stamps from Great Britain, I have also collected those from several British colonies and territories. However, these were from territories that were once 'in possession' of the Dutch, such as the former Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The island of St. Helena...
Two new 'values' appeared on January 2, 1958. The value was indicated by one or two horizontal lines on either side of the control number. One line equaled 10 Pfennig and two lines 20 Pfennig. The stamps were printed in...
Collectors of stamp impressions sometimes come across postal items where a direct connection can be established with the issuance of stamps. This is also the case with the impression of a stamp flag from a stamping machine that was set up in the Mail Outbound Department of the...
The stamps in the high values from 1 Mart up to and including 5 Mark, issued between 1900 and 1920, are also referred to by collectors as 'the representative depictions of the German Empire'. These values were specifically intended for franking...
A few years ago, during Postex in Apeldoorn, I casually looked through a large box of mail. Envelopes for one euro each. After several dozen items that were of no interest to me, I came across a large envelope covered with 18 American stamps...
Some time ago, I found an envelope from 1947 originating from The American Express Company in Amsterdam and addressed to the same company in New York. The envelope was franked with a 1 guilder stamp, a 50 cent stamp, and...
In February 1911, the steamship 'Oranje Nassau' was launched, built for the Royal West India Mail Service. The ship was built by the Royal Company 'De Schelde' in Vlissingen and could carry 62 passengers and 214 deck passengers. In 1927, it was...
It has always surprised me a little why stamp impression collectors have given such strange names to some types of stamps or letters used in stamps. Take the 'long stamp', for instance. Where did that name come from? As a counterpart to a 'short stamp'? No,...
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