Netherlands: Stamps

stanley64...Your welcome

I am a fanatic about perforation accuracy, especially Canada and Newfoundland stamps.
I have been working with a gentleman at BNAPS with respect to Newfoundland perforation accuracy on stamps.

I am also involved with a Canada accuracy project with Canada stamps...I found a couple so far...And helped to add the a Catalouge.

EVERYONE..Do not take perforations as law..CHECK all perforations.

Keep up the good work stanley64

Robert

I had another look Stan (stainlessb ) and the stamps are identical in terms of their design. The fine lines of the background, frame, etc. are the same in both examples.
Let me see if I can not post better images of the entire set here in the coming days.

For now though, I must say these are beautiful stamps and one of the loveliest designs I can recall...


Happy collecting!

The year is in the botom of the cancel, 1954

Or Cancel no 26 in Rotherdam (Main post office). 

Mounted the King William III (1817-1890) series. Several different perforations. I was surprised how much I had laying around. Homemade pages by myself, Michel numbers. 

paul1


The cancellation is for 27 March 1954, between 12:00 h (12 a.m.) and 13:00 h (1 p.m).

rod222 and tobben63 kind of got it right. The ‘26’ is the hammer number. It is 26th hammer issued to the post office in Rotterdam. But there is a twist, as, actually, this was one of the earliest of this type to be issued to that post office. You can find the information on the site of the ‘Nederlandse Academie voor Filatelie.’


left to right: 'langebalkstempel' (12-hour time indicator), replacement 'kortebalkstempel' (12-hour time indicator), your re-issued 'kortebalkstempel' (24-hour time indicator) before recovery after 10 May 1940.  

Your type of cancellation is called ‘kortebalkstempel.’ This translates to short-beamed cancellation. The ‘balk’ (beam) is the area that holds the date and time. The ‘kortebalkstempel’ is the successor to the ‘langebalkstempel’ (long-beamed cancellation). The long ‘balk’ in the latter extends to the outer circle. The short ‘balk’ in your example extends to the inner circle.

The first ‘langebalkstempel’ was made in Germany issued to the main post office in Rotterdam on 7 August 1907. The 26th hammer was made by the Royal Dutch Mint in March 1907 and issued to the post office in Rotterdam on 29 March 1907. It remained in use from 30 March 1907 until 22 January 1918. It was returned to the Royal Dutch Mint the next day and destroyed. (see leftmost example)

The hammer was replaced by a ‘kortebalkstempel.’ A ‘kortebalkstempel’ replacing a ‘langebalkstempel’ had the same sequence number as the hammer it replaced. This new hammer was issued to the post office in Rotterdam on 8 February 1918. The new hammer again had a twelve-hour time slug. The month, now, was in Roman numerals. (see example at centre)

At some time between 1918 and May 1940, it was sent back to the Royal Dutch Mint. At that time, the time slug was replaced by a 24-hour type. This hammer may have been among those lost during the bombardment of Rotterdam on 10 May 1940. It, probably, was recovered from the rubble and cleaned at the Royal Dutch Mint. It was sent back to the ‘bureel aankomsten’ (received bureau) and used again from 20 December 1941 until 17 August 1962. During this time, it was used to cancel your NVPH nr. 534.

The hammer was considered inadequate on 15 February 1962(?) and returned to the Royal Dutch Mint to be destroyed in April 1963.

rod222



The earlier Dutch self-adhesive stamps should, easily, be soaked off. The later ones, like Belgian ones: submerge in what we call 'wasbenzine.' After about a minute, the self-adhesive can, easily, be peeled of the paper. Dust the back with talcum powder to prevent gum residue to stick to anything. Clean the front as it will pick up talcum powder.

The English version of the Wikipedia page for 'wasbenzine' is 'Coleman fuel,' generically known as white gas. Apparently, when successful in removing the stamps from the piece, you can use the stuff to celebrate your success with a fire dance.

Received a lot today with various stamps with the special coil perforations. And some Officials. 

Michel 151B-159B



Michel 146B-150B


Michel 268D-271D


Michel 245D-248D


And official Michel D16-D19

Thanks for very useful information. I have ben wondering about that perforation. 

In your image tobben63 , you have shown two of the known varieties for these special coil perforations; more commonly referred to as syncopated perforations or 'Roltandingzegels' in Dutch.

In 1930, PTT reverted to a two-sided 'roltanding' of the Lebau and Veth designs. This, however, differed from that of 1926. The pins, only, were removed in the top and bottom corners. The 1926 stamps also had pins removed at the centre of the top and bottom perforation.

rod222

This is the second ship of that name, that made its first journey in April 1901. It, later, was acquired by the VOC.
I have my doubt about both the flag and the ensign.

This ship participated in the discovery of Australia that sailed from the East Indies in November 1605. At the time the VOC would have flown the ensign you post with the orange, rather than the red band and the logo of the VOC. Although the red-white-and-blue did exist, it was mostly used from a later time. The flag was similar to that of the VOC, but without the logo.

The lion on the ensign is not that of the Zuid Holland. Zuid Holland is a province that did not exist until 1840 when Holland was divided into the provinces of North and South Holland that exist today. It is holding the arrows and sword of the Union of Utrecht.

I've found 5 pages containing hinged, used pre-1957 Netherlands postal stamps in one of my Dad's 6x9 inch approval booklets, as well as some semi-postals and postage due stamps in glassine envelopes. With a few exceptions, the numbers of duplicates aren't great, so I will work on putting the pages and loose stamps for sale on eBay. My dad had his (1956/57) prices in the approval booklet, with most stamps going for 2 cents. The most expensive was a Scott #89, shown below, listed for 15 cents. The information in this thread on Netherlands post marks was interesting and informative, and enticed me to see what variety of post marks were in the booklet stamps. Here are four: Scott #119 10c on 3c issued in 1923 (postmark 2 August ? -- year below circle?); Scott #89 2 1/2c issued 23 March 1907 (postmark 5 Apr 07); Scott 147 5c dull green, issued 1924-26 (postmark 30 March 1925 --year is below "69" outside inner circle); Scott #174 7 1/2c dark violet, perf. 12 1/2, issued in 1927 (postmark ?15 Sep ? - year below circle?).