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Collectors of postal history understand that sometimes the true value of a piece lies not just in its rarity, but in the story it tells. One such remarkable item is a 5 cent blue postage envelope that embarked on an extensive journey from Rotterdam to …
Updated January 7. Sender address is Fawkner Park. This is the back of the building on St Kilda Road. See map. As collectors of postal history, we naturally prefer to have beautiful, undamaged envelopes in the collection. However, sometimes you have no choice and have …
After the Japanese occupation of Dutch East Indies, Dutch soldiers used to send postcards for X-mas and New Year to Holland. Very often special military X-mas postcards were used and there exist a wide variety of those, which are worth to be collected and collectors …
It is very usual that delegates (members of postal administrations) present each other presents. Very often in the form of a presentation pack with the latest issues of the country. Most of the time the value is the pack itself and not the stamps which …
Censorship in wartime is nothing special. What happened with this postcard from the occupied Netherlands (31-05-1940) to Batavia, Dutch East Indies, is therefore not rare. The two-line red stamp “Gecensureerd” (censored) is very common.
The ‘Postjager’ was a specially designed and constructed airplane for the transport of mail. Built in Holland (The Hague) by the Pander factories. This firm had a strange combination of products: furniture and air planes… One should know that airplanes in those days were partly …
Most postcards sent from vacation destinations have nice tourist images. Beach, museums, cities, nature, party, costumes etc. Rarely will horrors be sent as a holiday greeting.
Much has been written about the series of flights from Amsterdam to Batavia during the second half of 1928.
In the years before the devastating Second World War and the Indonesian National Revolution in the 1940s, some previously economically inviable areas of the Indonesian archipelago began to thrive due to Dutch technological innovation in tropical agriculture and forestry. Apart from Java, the other islands …
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