The International Website for People Interested in Netherlands+Philately!
Thank you to my brother Stéphane for allowing me, through his nice postcard below, to evoke the recent institutional and postal reform that occurred in this region of the Netherlands Antilles! This card was mailed on November 3, 2010 from the village of Winwardside, one …
Many Dutch (mainly) young men were in World War Two forced to work in Germany especially in the (war) industry. One of the worked for the pistols factory Mauser-Werken in Oberndorf (Neckar). The letter was sent by his father from Winsum (Gn.) 19.3.1945.
This item lingered in my mind after I first saw it on Delcampe awhile ago. Not an extremely attractive entire I thought back then: a bit smudgy and bleak in a certain way. I scrolled on. For some reason I bumped into the cover again …
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