Visit Aruba
door The Dutch Antilles (Nederlandse Antillen) also used meter marks, like this one from for Aruba. It is the same type which was widely used in the Netherlands. The number shows this is machine 11.
Categorie: Netherlands & Overseas
Netherlands – Summer of 1981
door Between 1935 and 2011 the Dutch postal service issued a set of charity stamps each summer for ‘social and cultural purposes’. These stamps were sold at a premium over their actual postal value and feature a so-called ‘surtax amount’ (recognizable by a plus sign +) …
When the timing is wrong – postcards to E.W. Rose 1931
In this blog entry I will try to understand why the five picture postcards below were initially unsuccessful in reaching their proposed addressee: E.W. Rose. A philatelist approached me during our last auction because he had read somewhere that I fancied postal items with a …
Heldring in Venedig
In the 1930s the world became increasingly smaller by the introduction of regular flights between every possible destination. The aircraft industry could barely keep pace with the ever demanding airlines, which asked for safe, less noisy, air-pressured cabins and larger aircraft. Comfort and luxury were …
Rustenburg-Berkhout 1908
Recently I acquired the following postcard which shows the Oostpoort in Delft. By some curious coincidence postcards with this Delft city gate on them seem to have been regularly sent at strange times or from strange places. I possess, for example, some quite rare postmarks …
Reply cards
A postcard with attached reply card, franked with the rate of a foreign postcard could be send from abroad back to the country of the sender, without extra charge. Some nearby countries as Belgium and Germany are easy to find, but sent from Russia you …
Postal war against postage stamp of the Netherlands commemorating the World Refugee Year 1960
door In April 1960, 70 western-oriented countries issued stamps for the proclaimed UN World Refugee Year. Since most of the refugees at that time came from communist countries, four of them protested by declaring these stamps invalid. These countries were Poland, Czechoslavakia, Sowiet Union and Romania. …
Elections
Nowadays a voter in the Netherlands receives as bulkmail a list of candidates which is spread from door to door. Addressed to the home address and send by mail a voter receives a voter’s pass. Voting was obligatory between 1917 and 1970. Not voting was …
“Butterflies and Flowers 2018” souvenir sheet on cover from Saba
door As a reminder, the three islands of Saba, Bonaire and St. Eustatius, which formed the federation of the Netherlands Antilles with Sint-Maarten and Curacao since 1954, have changed status in 2010 to become three special municipalities within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. These three islands …
Missing Answer
I’ve seen hundreds if not thousands of Princess Wilhelmina stationery cards and I only acquire these cards when they are of interest for my special collections. This particular card though is different, but I am still in doubt why… It probably has something to do …