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This cover was sent aboard the motor vessel Diemerdijk (NASM/Holland-America Line) and processed on land in Balboa on 18 February 1952. As the ship sailed under the Dutch flag, it was franked with a Dutch 1951 semi-postal stamp: 6 cents + 4 cents brown from …
Following the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940, the Belgian Congo remained loyal to the Allied cause and came under the administration of the Belgian government in exile. Henri Franken, a Dutch national originally from Tilburg, was employed in the Belgian Congo during this …
This postcard is an example of early 20th-century postal correspondence from St. Helena to the Netherlands. It was sent from St. Helena on May 7, 1902, and addressed to G. A. H. van Trotsenburg in Zaandam, Netherlands. The postcard arrived in Zaandam on May 28, …
Telegram stamps, a somewhat forgotten category of stamps, once played an important role in the communication systems of many countries around the world. These specific stamps were used to cover the cost of sending telegrams, a lightning-fast communication medium that became popular in the second …
In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of American households received mail from Breck Holland B.V., a company specializing in the sale of Dutch flower bulbs. The advertising texts on the postcards and letters were personalized and signed by someone named Hans Van Amstel, giving the …
For the serious philatelist, there is nothing more fascinating than a piece of postal history that transcends borders—both literally and metaphorically. Paquebot envelopes are precisely such a piece of history. These letters, dispatched from ships drifting on the high seas, not only have a captivating …
For forgetting to inform the Hofstede family in Amsterdam about the passing, the next of kin in Arnhem came at a cost. Telephone was not yet common among privates in 1957, and WhatsApp and the internet did not yet exist. To still inform the family …
Het is algemeen bekend, dat Nederlanders graag klagen. En niet alleen over het weer. Ook over de binnenlandse tarieven wordt geklaagd. Momenteel moet er € 1,01 betaald worden voor een binnenlandse brief van 20 gram. Evenveel als in 2022, Zoals u hier al heeft kunnen …
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 …
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