Johan Huizinga was born in Groningen on December 7, 1872. He was a Dutch historian. In 1915, he became a professor in Leiden. Although he was originally from Groningen, he loved Leiden. He called Leiden 'a golden frame,...
Until now, fishing, and the fish and marine life themselves, had featured little on stamps from the Faroe Islands. There were a few series featuring fishing vessels, but that was often as far as it went. The year 1990, however, revealed several aspects...
Many stamp collectors wondered: how will things go for this new stamp-issuing country? With only about 50.000 inhabitants? Will it scatter a flood of stamps to generate more revenue? Just like the Channel Islands, for example? After the issuance...
The population of Saarland has for many years lived alternately in German and French territory. The area was under the supervision of the League of Nations as a Mandate Territory after 1920 (occupied by France and Great Britain), German from 1935 (Westmark), and a Protectorate...
In between the production of stamps in billions of Marks, redundant stamps in millions of Marks were overprinted because there was a greater need for stamps of 5 billion and 10 billion Marks due to the sometimes complicated rates....
To supplement the stamps on the island of Jersey, two stamps were issued with virtually the same design as the three stamps from Guernsey, but produced by Major Norman Victor Lacey Rybot. After he had retired from the military, he settled...
After the Second World War, regular KLM scheduled flight traffic resumed quickly. On May 21, 1946, the first transatlantic flight was operated from Amsterdam to New York. For this occasion, a special stamp was produced that...
* " indicates required fields
