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I’ve seen hundreds if not thousands of Princess Wilhelmina stationery cards and I only acquire these cards when they are of interest for my special collections. This particular card though is different, but I am still in doubt why… It probably has something to do …
During a stay in Sliema (Malta) I payed a visit to the local stamp shop, aptly named Sliema Stamp Shop. The owners were very polite in helping me when I asked for Dutch covers. My search turned into a real quest though! Initially they thought …
The three islands of Saba, Bonaire and St. Eustatius, which formed the federation of the Netherlands Antilles with Sint-Maarten and Curacao since 1954, have changed status in 2010 to become three special municipalities within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. These three islands are thus forming, …
Exciting news in the Dutch quality newspaper NRC this afternoon: after ages a Rembrandt painting has resurfaced! “A painting of a young man bought at a London auction house has been identified as the work of Rembrandt, making it the first unknown painting by the …
The cover shown above was sent by Lieutenant Colonel G.J.B. Veenhuys to a real-estate agency in Nice, France. Veenhuys was stationed at the marine corps barracks on Biak, an island which is situated in the so-called Geelvink Bay in what is now Indonesia. Besides its …
After the Dutch East Indies became independent Indonesia in 1949, there remained several disputes unresolved between the new republic and the Netherlands. One of them was the gigantic province of New Guinea which equals Poland in size and which landmass is about 8 times larger …
It is not every day that one comes across of complete sheets of municipal tax stamps. Gouda tax stamps are not that common at all.
One of the identity cards shown here cost ƒ 1,-, which was the normal rate. This person moved several times to several places and was evacuated twice. The last update is of September 1946, which is long after the liberation.
Except for the known former colonies, the Dutch had for a shorter or longer period numerous possessions around the world for trading. Elmina is situated on the west coast of Africa, Gold Coast, nowadays in Ghana.
Today I present to you 2 original letters that I am very pleased to put in my collection! The 1st one below was sent to me by Velu, a blogger friend from India, who travels the world on board his merchant ship, the MT Maroni, …
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