A philatelist friend handed me an article from *Trouw* about the revival of philately among young people. See the link at the bottom of this blog. Two seventeen-year-old hobbyists talk about their hobby: philately. Instagram post about stamps gets a lot of likes....
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...
Every year on August 13, it is 'Left-Handers Day'. This day for left-handers was established in 1976 to draw attention to the minor and major inconveniences left-handers face in our right-handed world. In...
It seems like a contradiction in terms. You could also phrase the question differently: are women collectors? It is most likely ingrained in the historical context that the collecting of valuable objects was done by men. You could...
In philately, heraldry is a popular thematic collecting area. Many countries have issued stamps featuring images of coats of arms, ranging from simple to sometimes very complex. The four stamps issued in Great Britain on January 17, 1984, fell into the latter category...
De Stad Amersfoort tells of societies that are a haven of rest for those involved in a hectic world. Some societies have been active for centuries. In 1837, the Englishman Rowland Hill devised the system to charge the sender of a letter the costs...
You are born, and after some time you begin to distinguish your surroundings. Parents, and especially grandparents, are very happy when you start reacting to stimuli from your environment. Great joy when my last grandchild began to show interest in the...
Partly too little, too late (at Christmas), but I would still like to wish the editors and readers of Postzegelblog: Even before personalized stamps existed, there was an interest in giving mail a personal touch. Companies sometimes used the...
I read in an editorial in our magazine 'Filatelie' (10/2016) that a certain Mr. Voorn, Marketing Director at PostNL, had never heard of complaints from philatelists about pen strokes or excessive cancellation, 'stamp murder'. I find this a sign of indifference, shameful. This while stamps...
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...
Anyone visiting Efteling and walking through the Fairytale Forest is confronted with several depictions of fairy tales written by the Danish writer and poet Hans Christian Andersen. Fairy tales that appeal to young and old. The year 2005 prompted many postal services...
As a young stamp collector, I soon became captivated by that 'strange' stamp from Suriname that looked more like a label than a real stamp. Only one spot was allocated for it in my stamp album, while the stamp catalogue listed two types....
A number of postage due stamps appeared on July 8, 1978. Not particularly special, except that they were stamps issued in 1967 that had now received an overprint (Bajar Porto), transforming them into postage due stamps. Only the 0,50 Rupiah value was missing as...
It is well known that the Indonesian postal administration issues many stamps. And it is also generally known that such an abundance of stamps can be detrimental to collecting them. Yet many postal administrations pay no attention to this. It is thought that the collectors...
Virtually every stamp collector has owned or collected them at some point. And perhaps you have built up a collection of these stamps yourself. In the latter case, I am not telling you anything new. But others, who are familiar with the stamps...
In the late 1970s, a fascinating series of articles written by Mr. K. Kouwenberg on the history of stamp collecting appeared in the monthly magazine Philatelie. This series served as the source of inspiration for Rob Smit to...
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