Clusius is best known as the one who brought the tulip to the Netherlands and spread the potato throughout Europe. He was born in 1526 in Northern Flanders as Charles de l'Écluse. In his adult years, he traveled all over Europe...
Every year on April 11, attention is drawn to Parkinson's worldwide during World Parkinson's Day. This is the birthday of James Parkinson. He became known for his publication (An Essay on the Shaking Palsy) in 1817. This has...
On March 3, I am writing my 550th blog about 75 years of Keukenhof. In this blog, all editions of these exceptionally beautiful stamps by Studio Maud van Rossum are shown. On March 1, 2024, the day the meteorological spring begins,...
When various stamp issues are compared, one might expect eye-opening conclusions to be drawn. Yet this does not always happen. A commercially minded company like PostNL makes different decisions for financial reasons, decisions that are less attractive to philatelists....
In this contribution, I focus on a genuine PostNL issue featuring images of a butterfly and a tulip (vending machine stamps, issue date January 30, 2017) and on a fake issue by an illegal initiator featuring an image of the ear...
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