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A lot of mail can be found to passengers (or workers) on board of a ship. Quite a number of them are returned to sender or redirected, mainly because the person is not on board or because the ship has left.
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A lot of mail can be found to passengers (or workers) on board of a ship. Quite a number of them are returned to sender or redirected, mainly because the person is not on board or because the ship has left.
“Kinderbedankkaarten” (Children’s thank-you cards) are a small collection area. These cards were cataloged and given a value in the 2016 edition of the “Speciale Catalogus BVPH”. There are cards in various categories, each with a separate print and circulation. The smallest edition was 250 pieces.
Since the issuing of the book ‘Met de meeste spoed en promptitude’ by Arie Zonjee and Ot Louw (2013) collecting express labels of the Netherlands has become a more structured hobby. This book with 294 pages describes all known Dutch labels between 1863 and 1999. …
The postal card shown here was sent February 19, 1877 from Zutphen to Harderwyk (Gld.) to a Mr. H. Portheine. Note the dual spelling of the city Harderwyk and Harderwijk on this card, a not unusual usage during this period. As seen here, there is …
A long-time friend of mine from the Netherlands gave me the slightly tattered envelope shown in Figure 1 when I visited him last May. According to the address on the back, the envelope was mailed from Wageningen to Brunssum. It carries a 10 ct + …
Generally, correspondence originating from government agencies will be sent free of postage. I always thought that this meant that ‘nobody’ paid for this but this was not the case. The Government had a contract with the P.T.T. stipulating that the P.T.T. would handle the Government’s …
As recently as 2016 a letter has been found with a VOC postmark from Cape Town, South Africa, which has really been sent from Cape Town. Till 2014 it was even doubted that there had been any VOC postmarks at all in Cape Town in …
On January first, 1922 the uniform postal identity card was introduced, as agreed on the Congress in Madrid of the Universal Postal Union in 1920. The cards were uniform for all member countries and were produced in Switzerland. In basic they were the same (a …
On March 12, 1945, Surinam re-issued three of the older 1930 and 1941 airmail stamps with surcharged new values. Apparently they were running short of some of values that were needed, so they overprinted the 60 cent dark lilac with a 22 ½ cent surcharge, …
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 …