In philately, a Cinderella is a stamp that at first glance resembles a postage stamp, but is not a postage stamp. After all, it has not been issued by the postal service of a country, territory, or (international) organization recognized by the Universal Postal Union....
Surabaya? 12 2 1942. NVPH no. 278. Quarter stamp at € 225. One must be careful with this type of stamp, as they can easily be counterfeited or falsely cancelled. This is done to obtain a higher catalogue value. The issue of the stamp was...
I bought a very strange ORI from an eBay seller. The outline looks like an inverted R, but, if you look very closely, there turns out to be a normal ORI imprint underneath. According to the seller, In the catalog...
The stamp with the most different advertising vignettes was the 1 franc stamp featuring an image of King Leopold III, 'open collar' type, issued on August 1, 1941. No fewer than 29 different advertisements appeared in connection with this stamp. Especially...
In 1950, the use of the letters OHMS for service stamps was replaced by the letter 'G' for 'Government'. The first stamps to bear the overprinted letter 'G' were the permanent stamps featuring King George VI. The original stamps...
Browsing through a stock of older used Belgian stamps is usually exciting. For there are many so-called varieties to discover. If a deviation occurs in the impression of the stamp itself, it is called a 'plate error', even though...
Faridkot was a principality in the former Empire of India (also known as British India) with the capital of the same name. Around 1900, the principality had approximately 120.000 inhabitants. It was part of the Indian state of Punjab. The principality issued its own postage stamps starting in 1878...
As a young stamp collector, I was always fascinated by stamps that I couldn't quite identify or that deviated from the 'normal' size. For instance, at the age of nine (now more than sixty years ago), I received from my father...
One of the most famous stamps in the world is the so-called 'Treskilling Yellow' from Sweden. This stamp was on display at the London International Stamp Exhibition in 2015. Only one copy of this stamp is known. The stamp is postmarked...
Inspired by a series of articles by K. Kouwenberg, published in the monthly magazine Philatelie in the late seventies, Rob Smit describes the history of stamp collecting anew in biweekly installments. This is part 25: Tricks, Deceit, and Abundance. Before I discuss trickery and deceit...
Inspired by a series of articles by K. Kouwenberg, published in the monthly magazine Philatelie in the late seventies, Rob Smit describes the history of stamp collecting anew in biweekly installments. This is part 23, Stamp Polka. In the first issue of the magazine 'Das...
There are people who believe that the KNBF must have a solution for everything that is going wrong in the world of philately. For a while, for instance, we were bombarded by someone who felt that the Association...
Inspired by a series of articles by K. Kouwenberg, published in the monthly magazine Philatelie in the late seventies, Rob Smit describes the history of stamp collecting anew in biweekly installments. This is part 13, Edward Pemberton. Edward Loines Pemberton is a name that...
The Battle of Berlin lasted from late April to early May 1945. Russian forces had surrounded the city. The city was heavily defended by troops of the SS and the SA. Among the soldiers were many foreign, especially French...
A very careless mistake was made with the stamps issued on August 5 to commemorate the redevelopment of the Suez Canal. An image of the Panama Canal was used on the stamps. Once known, the Egyptian postal service has a...
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