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700th stamp blog: View and buy collections

Written in: Dutch • Randy Koo • March 5 2025

In this 700th stamp blog (started in February 2017), I briefly describe the phenomenon of 'collecting'. Were you present at the well-attended mega Collectors' Fair in Utrecht on March 1 and 2 this year? Or were you at the Stamp and Collecting Festival on...

Newly spotted stamps 2015/5

Written in: Dutch • Postzegelblog • April 8, 2015

Azerbaijan Comoros Czech Republic

Many new stamps on a wide variety of subjects appear with great regularity. Below you will find a selection of recently issued stamps from around the world. The 2015 Europa stamps have old toys as their theme. Two examples of these from Azerbaijan and...

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…