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At first glance, this letter cover of the Dutch East Indies looks nothing special. The stamp used is commonplace and of little value. The stamp Padang (Sumatra) is also quite ordinary. What does stand out is that the sender – printed on the front of …
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.
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.
A postcard sent from Paris on August 8th 1924 with destination Groningen is depicted. On arrival it turned out that the addressee did not live in the Netherlands but in the Dutch East Indies. The postcard was forwarded to Palembang where it arrived September 26th …
Much has been written about the series of flights from Amsterdam to Batavia during the second half of 1928.
The cover shown in Figure 1 was sent in 1893 from Amsterdam and addressed to “Schietschool Fort de Kock Java.” What mainly attracted me was the multitude of postal markers on it. On the front it showed a small round cancel “Amsterdam / 4 MRT …
Rolstemps (Roll postmarks) are not the most popular postmarks as they are meant to be used on parcels. On “normal” letters and cards you can find them, but most of the time they are cancelled to order, therefore not very interesting to the collector.
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