Postcards with a story
door In the last few days Holland celebrated the liberation from the German occupation, 75 years ago. But in this article we go back to the very beginning of the German invasion.
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Political propaganda in the Netherlands on Dutch stamps and postal history
door Social Philately Political propaganda in the Netherlands on Dutch stamps and postal history Part I: Before the Second World War (b) Economic crisis 1930-1940 The economic crisis during the thirty’s of last century is very big. War is threatening again. An ‘Exhibition for Peace and …
Closed borders
door No one could ever think that even between EU countries a real border would be installed again. Due to corona it is – more or less – a fact however. Both our neighbour countries Belgium and Germany have severe restrictions in border crossing. Fun shopping …
Political propaganda in the Netherlands on Dutch stamps and postal history
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 …
Behind the window
Postcards and picture postcards which were under-franked were presented in a window envelope to the addressee. This because otherwise there was a chance that the contents were read without paying the postage due. These window envelopes with postage due stamps glued on are not very …
Emergency hospital at the end of Second World War
After the September 1944 Battle of Arnhem hospitals were evacuated in early 1945. One location for the patients was an emergency hospital in Nunspeet, unfortunately some 60 kilometers away from Arnhem. It was situated in an empty barack camp of the Arbeidsdienst. It was in …
It looks very simple…….but extremely hard to find
You should almost ignore this picture postcard. No exciting picture at all, simple stamp and no postmark of interest.
Design errors in 2019 publication transportation sheets
Occasionally stamps are issued with design errors. Sometimes they are discovered before issuance and occasionally it leads to an issue being reprinted or not being issued at all. Most of the time however an emission simply appears, including the error or errors.
One of the famous Dutch 10 guilders
door The Netherlands have had 6 “tenguilderstamps” during their stamp history, the first in 1899, the last one in 1970. This “tenguilderstamp” was issued in 1946 and have had the shortest duration, only 3 years. Sold numbers: 291.600 pieces. The small stamps were issued twice, in …
Railway stamps
There were several types of railway stamps in use in the Netherlands. From 1914 till during the Second World War (1944) there were railway stamps mainly used for freight, but these could also used for railway express letters. In those cases the railway stamp for …