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Postal company Sandd (short for Sort and Deliver) was – after PostNL – the Netherlands’ second postal company. Founded in 1999 and acquired by PostNL on 1 February 2020. It was headquartered in Apeldoorn. As usual, PostNL needed permission from the competition authority in the …
In 1910, the so-called blokstempels (block postmarks) were introduced for travelling post offices: tram, train, boat. With hundreds of different postmarks, it is an El Dorado for the postmark collector. Many of these postmarks are easy to find and cheap. The stamp type was also …
The upcoming Sheraton & Peel auction (23 September) will offer (among other lots) the second part of the Ad de Goede Collection. It is not known that Ad de Goede specialized in numeral postmarks (except from his beloved Utrecht), but it is noteworthy that he …
This is not a very scarce item in general. You will find it from time to time, but not very likely in the philatelic world. This because the majority of them are in a very much used state and due to the soft cover damaged. …
The train was also used in World War II to travel to work by train. Pictured here is a shortened work week card, 3rd class from the Nederlandsche Spoorwegen (NS) for the Barendrecht-Rotterdam route. The card was bought in Barendrecht (see the NS block postmark). …
Receiving an obituary card is always annoying. A loved one has died, and at the time – 1876 – people will not have been informed of the death either. Telephone and internet did not yet exist. Although the first patent was granted to Bell in …
A very popular and interesting Dutch stamp emission is Queen Wilhelmina with the fur coat. The first stamp in the new design appeared in 1898, the ‘Kroningsgulden‘ (the coronation guilder). The emission continued in 1899 and later years. The 5c and 10c stamps were the …
A ‘luchtbrief’ (air letter, with an imprinted 35c stamp) is not a rare postal item. However, the one pictured here from the Ad de Goede collection (which will be auctioned at René Hillesum Filatelie on 23 September) is special. Its destination is common place: to …
Rules are rules, and glass cannot just be sent by post. So is glitter, which used to be made from ground glass (nowadays, plastic is used for this). Of course, it is not really strange that glass cannot just be sent (without proper packaging) by …
‘Spoorwegbriefkaarten’ (Railway postcards) are a popular collector’s item these days. Both postal stationery collectors and railway collectors are interested in them. With the publication of ‘De kleine Geuzendam‘ in 2014 (full title: Geuzendam’s catalogus van de particulier bedrukte postwaardestukken van Nederland en Nederlands-Indië), interest increased …
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