‘Oranje boven’
door Sometimes you will find nice, attractive items because of a (correct) combination not often used.
Categorie: Netherlands
A helpful and learned preacher – Dekema State 1880
door In May of this year I made my annual journey to Gouda to look for some interesting items on the stamp fair there. Many (foreign) stamp dealers, philatelic organisations etc. all assembled in two spacious sport halls. A large stamp exhibition ‘Gouda 2019’ was also …
Medemblik Typenrader
Today a small entry on the postcard above. A very ordinary Dutch postcard: there’s nothing special to it. Only its pristine condition might surprise you (over a 100 years old and the paper shows no sign of wear or stain whatsoever!). The postmark belongs to …
Postcards with a story
door In the last few days Holland celebrated the liberation from the German occupation, 75 years ago. But in this article we go back to the very beginning of the German invasion.
Political propaganda in the Netherlands on Dutch stamps and postal history
door Social Philately Political propaganda in the Netherlands on Dutch stamps and postal history Part I: Before the Second World War (b) Economic crisis 1930-1940 The economic crisis during the thirty’s of last century is very big. War is threatening again. An ‘Exhibition for Peace and …
Closed borders
No one could ever think that even between EU countries a real border would be installed again. Due to corona it is – more or less – a fact however. Both our neighbour countries Belgium and Germany have severe restrictions in border crossing. Fun shopping …
Political propaganda in the Netherlands on Dutch stamps and postal history
Social Philately Political propaganda in the Netherlands on Dutch stamps and postal history Part I: Before the Second World War (a) This serial of three articles shows that political propaganda often was present on Dutch postage stamps, meter marks etc. No matter whether you like …
Behind the window
Postcards and picture postcards which were under-franked were presented in a window envelope to the addressee. This because otherwise there was a chance that the contents were read without paying the postage due. These window envelopes with postage due stamps glued on are not very …
Emergency hospital at the end of Second World War
After the September 1944 Battle of Arnhem hospitals were evacuated in early 1945. One location for the patients was an emergency hospital in Nunspeet, unfortunately some 60 kilometers away from Arnhem. It was situated in an empty barack camp of the Arbeidsdienst. It was in …
It looks very simple…….but extremely hard to find
You should almost ignore this picture postcard. No exciting picture at all, simple stamp and no postmark of interest.