Philately Fridays: The Netherlands, 1972

Two stamps from The Netherlands in honor of the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Philately Fridays: Netherlands Antilles, 1966

Philately Fridays: The Netherlands, 1973

Two great Dutch graphic stamps from 1973. If anyone knows what these were made to commemorate, say the word.

Philately Fridays: Netherlands, 1965 / 1966

Two jet set era stamp designs from The Netherlands.

Philately Fridays: The Netherlands, 1975

A Dutch stamp celebrating 150 years of Louis Braille's "night writing."

Philately Fridays: Netherlands, 1967

5 cool stamps from The Netherlands. Loving the minimal illustration style, warm color scheme, and animal-themed imagery reminiscent of children's books.

Philately Fridays: Amsterdam's Postzegelmarkt

While in Amsterdam in early April, I was pretty excited to discover a small cluster of shops specializing in old coins, postcards, and most importantly, vintage postage stamps. If that weren't enough, each Wednesday morning, local stamp and coin dealers set up booths about 20 paces around the corner from these shops and sell their goods. I'm used to crotchety record dealers who hardly make up in tact what they lack in hygiene. By way of comparison, these Dutch stamp dealers were all super friendly and the general atmosphere of a stamp sale was much more enjoyable than that of a record fair. Here's a small sample of the great stamps I came up on at the market and surrounding shops.



Netherlands, 1972
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Germany, 1986
I finally foud the other two stamps from this set I featured two years ago.





Netherlands, 1974









Netherlands, 1984
Four stamp set from Dutch comic artist and master of the "clear line" style, Joost Swarte.



Netherlands, 2001 / Click image for larger view
Six stamp set by Dutch graphic artist and screenprinter Harmen Liemburg. While we were visiting his studio, Harmen mentioned this stamp set he had designed and I was really happy to find it in the first shop we set foot in.

If you're ever in Amsterdam on a Wednesday between 10am and 4pm, I recommend stopping by the Postzegelmarkt right here.

Philately Fridays: World Cup Edition

Copa Mundial fever is running the F wild. In honor of this morning's match, here is a little NED vs BRA stamp-off. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!

Philately Fridays: Netherlands 1972

I want to share this set of stamps from Netherlands created to promote the Red Cross. I thought it was only appropriate after this week when the notion of first aid seemed to be heavy on a lot of peoples' minds. I really love the illustration style and monochromatic color schemes in these.

Philately Fridays: Netherlands 1974

Here's a really nice super-70s set from The Netherlands.

Philately Fridays: Netherlands 1978

Welcome to 2009! Time to figure out the strategy for the new year.

Christmas Bonus

If you're spending Christmas day on the internet, you may as well have some new stuff to look at! Enjoy!