Received an overview from PostNL for the second half of 2025. Is it a meager issuing policy, or can we simply not expect more from PostNL? No 10th SAIL, NATO summit in The Hague, 200 years of Royal Collections, or other commemorative stamps. Curious to hear your thoughts...
On March 25, 2019, the third Wadden Island in the MooiNL 2019 series will be published, focusing on Terschelling. The island was formed in the Middle Ages by the merging of the sandbank Schelling with the island of Wexalia. The oldest traces of habitation on the island...
The '100 Years of Aviation' issue focuses on [a] the 100th anniversary of Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), [b] the 100th anniversary of aircraft manufacturer Fokker, [c] the 100th anniversary of Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR). The eleven aircraft depicted on the stamp sheet...
Frank Janse, owner of Frank Grafisch Ontwerp in Gouda, has not only designed these ten mammals for the "Experience Nature: Mammals" stamp issue, but also written the accompanying short texts, which are enclosed in quotation marks. In them, he expresses as...
It was generally known beforehand that the Postex fair Apeldoorn 2018 would present current philatelic news: the announcement of PostNL's issuance policy for the first half of 2019. That the designs of three stamp images would also be announced came as a surprise. To one stamp from the stamp issuance program...
On September 17, the sheet *Experience Nature - Mushrooms* will be released. In most photos featuring mushrooms, images and color blend seamlessly onto adjacent stamps and the sheet margin, creating the appearance of natural contact between the different mushrooms....
It has been somewhat controversial, but nevertheless, on September 5, 1953, the Danish Postal Service began issuing ten stamps dedicated to the thousandth anniversary of the Kingdom of Denmark. Why controversial? The question was, who was the first...
The design of the Viktor & Rolf stamp sheet by fashion designers Viktor Horsting (1969, originally from Geldrop) and Rolf Snoeren (1969, originally from Dongen) is completely different from all previous ones. The contemporary hectic pace and hurriedness are depicted in a multifaceted way...
On May 22, 2017, the sheets Beautiful Netherlands 2017: Stream and River Valleys: Dommel, Geul and the collector's sheet are issued. The course of the rivers Dommel and Geul cuts the background of the stamp sheet in two, with a view photo on the left of...
The diversity of initiators behind stamp issues only struck me with a remark in the article 'Who saves the stamp?' in the NRC daily of January 25, 2017, and the email contact with Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Arjen Ribbens: “The work...
Anyone who can read between the lines when reading newspapers and magazines sometimes discovers a reason for the issuance of a stamp. For two of the three probable subjects bordering on certainty, I dare to assume that via...
This year, the 13th Mooi Nederland 2017 issue is dedicated to the stream and river valleys of the Drentsche Aa, the Reest, the Linge (issue date January 30, 2017), the Dommel, and the Geul, with collector's sheet (issue date 22...
From September 12, 2016, everyone can frank their letter with a stamp featuring the Netherlands' most famous and well-known fashion model, Doutzen Kroes. Photographer Anton Corbijn created black-and-white photos of her specifically for the Doutzen, Fashion & Muse stamp issue. On ten different...
As mentioned at the end of last week's article, enclosed are the remaining stamps of the Year of the Book issue, along with some background information. You are also presented with a reflection on the diversity of this issue in combination with...
The visual history of the 100-year existence of our national airport Schiphol comes to life in a varied way on the 100 Years Schiphol stamp sheet through photos, maps, and infographics. In an insightful manner, graphic designer Reynoud Homan shows us the...
The 'Ship Models' stamp sheet, issued on October 12, 2015, features ten striking ship models from the Rotterdam Maritime Museum, designed by Haico Beukers & Marga Scholma from Haarlem. The emphasis here is on four ships from around 1900...
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