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This is a word in dialect from the region of Twente. It is the name given to craftsmen, mainly from the village of Vriezenveen, who tried their luck in the newly built city of Saint Petersburg (1703) and travelled to there between 1720-1730 to built …
These days philately is no longer just about the stamp or the envelope. Social philately is becoming increasingly important. Social philately is mainly about the content of the mail item and not or to a lesser degree about the mail item itself.
Social Philately Political propaganda in the Netherlands on Dutch stamps and postal history Part I: Before the Second World War (a) This serial of three articles shows that political propaganda often was present on Dutch postage stamps, meter marks etc. No matter whether you like …
In the old days workers for P.T.T. started young and had a life long career at the post office. Newcomers got a good training and in 1955 a book was published (95 pages!) ‘Wegwijzer voor jeugdig ptt personeel’ (Guide for youthful PTT staff).
Sending a telegram used to be the best way to get a message across quickly. In the age of the (steam) ship it could take weeks or months before normal mail arrived. Airmail was faster of course, but even that could still take quite some …
The 35th president of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) was murdered on November 22nd, 1963. The whole world was in shock, however it was not unique that a U.S. president was murdered when still on service. He was the fourth U.S. …
Nowadays it is common for both men and women to have the right to vote for the parliament in a country. The right to do so for women is not very old. In 1906 Finland (at that moment still a self-ruling Grand Duchy under the …
The small village of Hem in the southern part of West Frisia established its own dairy plant in the early 1900s to streamline the condition of making cheese and other dairy products in the Zuiderkogge Polder. Farmers who supplied the plant with milk had each …
In Netherlands Philately 43-3 I wrote about a cover recovered from the mail boat s.s. Berlin, which crashed on the North Pier at Hoek of Holland during a heavy storm on February 21, 1907. Willem Pasterkamp, one of our members and active as a trader …
A big story at the end of December 2019 was how ex Nissan-CEO Ghosn (fig. 1), charged with financial wrongdoing, managed to sneak through a Japanese airport to a private jet that whisked him out of the country by hiding in a large, black music …
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