AVRO-album
door 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. …
Categorie: Netherlands & Overseas
Wartime commuters
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). …
No compassion
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 …
The un-perforated Queen
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 …
Hurrry!
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 …
Mashed glass
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 …
Dog transported as train freight
‘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 …
Suriname and Dutch ‘puntstempel’ on one postcard
The ‘puntstempels‘ (dot- or numeral cancels) are an interesting collecting field in the Netherlands and the former colonies. Those of Suriname you do not come across every day, and luxury copies are not common at all. A combination of a ‘puntstempel’ of Suriname together with …
Bartje
Bartje (Bartels) is the main character in the books of Anne de Vries (1904-1964), a writer of “streekromans” (Dutch language novels, with emphasize on regional history and culture). Which Dutch person doesn’t know the expression “Ik bid niet veur brune bonen!” (“I don’t pray for …
Personal stamp
Only since 2006 has it been possible in the Netherlands to have a personal stamp produced. As there were no possibilities for that in 1976, these special cinderellas were produced, but at the official printing house, Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem.