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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 are thus forming, …
Exciting news in the Dutch quality newspaper NRC this afternoon: after ages a Rembrandt painting has resurfaced! “A painting of a young man bought at a London auction house has been identified as the work of Rembrandt, making it the first unknown painting by the …
The cover shown above was sent by Lieutenant Colonel G.J.B. Veenhuys to a real-estate agency in Nice, France. Veenhuys was stationed at the marine corps barracks on Biak, an island which is situated in the so-called Geelvink Bay in what is now Indonesia. Besides its …
After the Dutch East Indies became independent Indonesia in 1949, there remained several disputes unresolved between the new republic and the Netherlands. One of them was the gigantic province of New Guinea which equals Poland in size and which landmass is about 8 times larger …
It is not every day that one comes across of complete sheets of municipal tax stamps. Gouda tax stamps are not that common at all.
One of the identity cards shown here cost ƒ 1,-, which was the normal rate. This person moved several times to several places and was evacuated twice. The last update is of September 1946, which is long after the liberation.
Except for the known former colonies, the Dutch had for a shorter or longer period numerous possessions around the world for trading. Elmina is situated on the west coast of Africa, Gold Coast, nowadays in Ghana.
Today I present to you 2 original letters that I am very pleased to put in my collection! The 1st one below was sent to me by Velu, a blogger friend from India, who travels the world on board his merchant ship, the MT Maroni, …
The First cycling course after the Tour de France is always the classic “8 of Chaam” which in the mean time has merged to Alphen-Chaam with the former municipalities Alphen en Riel, Chaam and Nieuw – Ginneken, being originally Ginneken and Bavel (up to 1942).
My next post will be devoted to this extraordinary postcard which was sent from Netherlands New Guinea to Budapest, Hungary. In philatelic circles modern, post-war items rarely make the stage in exhibitions and – especially in the case of picture postcards – collectors of older …
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