It looks very simple…….but extremely hard to find
by You should almost ignore this picture postcard. No exciting picture at all, simple stamp and no postmark of interest.
Category: Netherlands & Overseas
Design errors in 2019 publication transportation sheets
Occasionally stamps are issued with design errors. Sometimes they are discovered before issuance and occasionally it leads to an issue being reprinted or not being issued at all. Most of the time however an emission simply appears, including the error or errors.
One of the famous Dutch 10 guilders
by The Netherlands have had 6 “tenguilderstamps” during their stamp history, the first in 1899, the last one in 1970. This “tenguilderstamp” was issued in 1946 and have had the shortest duration, only 3 years. Sold numbers: 291.600 pieces. The small stamps were issued twice, in …
Disliked by the censor (1940)
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.
Railway stamps
There were several types of railway stamps in use in the Netherlands. From 1914 till during the Second World War (1944) there were railway stamps mainly used for freight, but these could also used for railway express letters. In those cases the railway stamp for …
Elfstedentocht
Nowadays one can only dream about the ‘Elfstedentocht’ (eleven cities tour). This major skating event started in 1909 and leads along eleven cities in the province of Friesland with start and finish in the provincial capital Leeuwarden. The tour is almost 200 km and one …
Avis de réception as Überroller
In case the sender needed a proof of delivery he could pay for an Avis de réception. The addressee had to sign this Avis de réception and the post office of arrival stamped the card on the day of arrival and sends the card back …
Paramaribo 1821
In the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo, there were two tremendous fires. In 1821 (400 houses destroyed) and 1832 (50 houses destroyed). Especially the one of 1821 (January 21), where also 800 warehouses were destroyed, had an enormous impact. As by a wonder, only four persons …
Business as usual
After the Second World War Dutch business men tried to continue their business with foreign clients as before. This was not always easy, as postal connections were disturbed. Also with the Czech capital Prague, which had been with Bohemia and Moravia a protectorate of Nazi …
Prison Siegburg
Some Dutch political prisoners were send off to the Zuchthaus (prison) in Siegburg, Germany. This envelop, which includes the letter, was sent by Willem Hammer to his wife in Rotterdam. It was sent from Köln, March 26, 1944. Of course, both the envelope and the …