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Delftware Tulip Vases (Netherlands 2022)

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[from a press release]
Date of issue: 21 March 2022
Form: sheet with six stamps in six different designs, with value 1 for post up to and including 20 grams for a destination within the Netherlands
Item number: 420161
Design: Jeremy Jansen, Amsterdam
Lithography: Marc Gijzen, Voorburg

The six different stamps in this sheet feature tulip vases from the collections of a number of Dutch museums. The production of these unique glazed earthenware vases reached its peak at the end of the 17th century. The denomination on these stamps is ‘1’, the denomination for items weighing up to 20g destined for the Netherlands.

The history of Delftware is closely linked to that of Chinese porcelain. Delft was one of the VOC’s trading posts, with warehouses where large stocks of this porcelain were stored. [“VOC” stands for “Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie,” the Dutch East India Company. — VSC] Delft potters developed a type of tin-glazed earthenware that could be compared to Chinese porcelain in terms of shape, shine and decoration. Delftware owes its fame mainly to the flower vases with spouts, known since the 19th century as tulip vases. From 1680 onwards, these vases appeared on the market in all shapes and sizes: from gourd bottles, triumphal arches, bowl shapes and goddesses with spouts on their heads to flower pyramids. The pyramids consist of spherical or square segments that are stacked to incredible heights, with the tallest one being almost 2 metres tall. Flowers such as tulips, carnations, Sweet Williams, hyacinths, daffodils and Persian ranunculus could be inserted into the spouts. Often they were also displayed empty on a table, as a showpiece. Because of their decoration, often with Far-Eastern figures and motifs, the vases evoke associations with the Far East. Their construction can also be reminiscent of Chinese pagodas.

The Delftware tulip vases issue features nine different vases, with some vases appearing several times on a number of stamps. Three stamps feature a single vase, two stamps feature three vases, and one stamp features four vases. The three large vases on the stamps are varnished, giving them a porcelain-like sheen. The edge of the sheet not only features all the vases again, but also the names of the museums that have these tulip vases in their collections. The background colour behind the name of each museum corresponds to the colour beneath their vases. Some of the typography on the stamps is placed in a vertical reading direction. On all stamps, the sorting hook is placed at the bottom right-hand side.

Designer Jeremy Jansen studied the subject by consulting catalogues of Dutch museums that have Delftware tulip vases in their collections. ‘For example the Kunstmuseum in The Hague published a wonderful book about a retrospective exhibition in 2007. This catalogue is also an inventory of where all these vases can be found around the world. For practical reasons, I limited myself to vases in Dutch museums. I kept the idea of an inventory in mind, so the stamp sheet has become a sampler, a visual overview of the vases that can be viewed in the Netherlands.’

The stamp sheet features nine different tulip vases from four different museums, using existing images.

The order on the sheet edge, clockwise from top left:

  • Bowl-shaped flower vase, pottery De Grieksche A, tin-glazed earthenware, height 28.8 cm, circa 1690 (Kunstmuseum Den Haag)
  • Flower vase with a blue and white decor of Chinese motifs, pottery De Metaale Pot, tin-glazed earthenware, height 61 cm, 1685-1691 (Keramiekmuseum Princessehof Leeuwarden)
  • Flower pyramid in the style of a Chinese pagoda, pottery unknown, tin-glazed earthenware, height 108 cm, circa 1700 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
  • Octagonal gourd flask with spouts, pottery De Grieksche A, tin-glazed earthenware, height 29.7 cm, circa 1690 (Het Loo palace, Apeldoorn)
  • Flower vase with spouts, in the shape of a gourd flask, pottery De Grieksche A, tin-glazed earthenware, height 28.2 cm, circa 1690 (Kunstmuseum Den Haag)
  • Flower vase with five spouts, pottery De Metaale Pot, tin-glazed earthenware, height 16 cm, circa 1690-1715 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
  • Flower vase, pottery De Metaale Pot, tin-glazed earthenware, height 28.4 cm, circa 1691-1724 (Kunstmuseum Den Haag)
  • Flower vase with mirror monogram WR (Willem Rex) and bust of king-stadtholder Willem III, pottery De Metaale Pot, tin-glazed earthenware, height 39.8 cm, circa 1695-1702 (Het Loo palace, Apeldoorn)
  • Flower pyramid consisting of 11 segments, attributed to pottery De Metaale Pot, tin-glazed earthenware, height 156 cm, circa 1692-1700 (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

The Delftware tulip vases stamps are available while stocks last at the post office counter in Bruna shops and at https://shop.postnl.nl/webshop/collect-club/delftse-tulpenvazen-6-vel-nl1 [in Dutch]. The stamps can also be ordered by phone from the Collect Club customer service on telephone number +31 (0)88 868 99 00. The validity period is indefinite.

Technical Details:
Stamp size: 25 x 36mm
Sheet size: 75 x 144mm
Paper: normal with phosphor print
Glue: synthetic
Printing technique: offset, varnish
Printing colours: cyan, magenta, yellow, black, blue and orange
Edition: 91,000 sheets
Appearance: sheet of six stamps in six different designs
Design: Jeremy Jansen, Amsterdam
Lithography: Marc Gijzen, Voorburg
Printing company: Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé B.V., Haarlem
Item number: 420161

ESPER President Warachal Faison Dies

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Warachal E. Faison, president of the Ebony Society for Philatelic Experiences and Reflections (ESPER), died March 19th at her home in Jersey City, NJ. She was 54. We do not know the cause of death at this time.

“Certainly her passing was a shock to all of ESPER,” group vice president Howard Ingram told The Virtual Stamp Club. “She will be missed.”

Faison was scheduled to graduate in May 2022 with her MBA from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ and will be awarded her degree posthumously. She was working as a geriatric psychiatrist and Medical Director, Women’s and Men’s Health at Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company. Dr. Faison has been recognized for her work as a health care provider, researcher, and community advocate in health disparities, minority recruitment into Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials, women’s health issues, and mental health.

In philately, she was recently named one of philately’s Most Influential people by Linn’s Stamp News. According to an interview in the Most Influential Philatelists report, Faison collected stamps “relating to health care and medicine along with materials of the African diaspora, particularly anything showing African-American women.”

She spoke to The Virtual Stamp Club about Dorothy Height, civil rights and women in civil rights for a 2017 radio feature, which you can hear here.

“Warachal Faison was ESPER’s first female president, and she was very passionate about continuing the female founder’s ambition of ESPER being a beacon in the philatelic community,” Don Neal, editor of ESPER newsletter Reflections told VSC. “During her tenure, Warachal was instrumental in establishing several collaborations between ESPER and others. Hopefully, these will continue in her honor.”

Faison joined ESPER in 2014 and soon revolutionized the use of social media, not only for ESPER, but for stamp collecting organizations in general.

“Mentor those who are interested and you might even gift them a membership into a society,” she told Linn’s. “Just watch what happens.”

Her funeral will be held Friday, April 1st, at St. Joseph AME Church in Durham, NC.

The family’s obituary, on the funeral home’s website, can be found here.

Typically Dutch – Hockey (Netherlands 2022)

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[from a press release]
Issue: Typically Dutch – Hockey
Date of issue: 21 March 2022
Appearance: sheet of six stamps in six identical designs
Item number: 420361
Design: Claire Bedon and Edwin van Praet (Total Design), Amsterdam

This issue is the second in the Typically Dutch series this year. In 2022, the multi-annual series is dedicated to five sports in which the Dutch excel. Other stamps in the series are Skating (3 January), Cycling (4 April), Sailing (9 May) and Football (15 August).

Pim Mulier introduced hockey to the Netherlands in 1891. The first hockey clubs were soon established in Amsterdam, Haarlem and The Hague, followed in 1898 by the Nederlandsche Hockey & Bandy Bond, now called Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond (KNHB, ‘Royal Dutch Hockey Association’). On 23 January 1926, the Dutch men’s hockey team played its very first international match. In Antwerp, they defeated the national team of Belgium, scoring 1-2.

Hockey is a major sport in the Netherlands, with over 250,000 active hockey players based at more than 300 clubs across the country. They play field hockey (September-December and March-June) and indoor hockey (December-February). The Dutch women’s and men’s teams have been competing at the highest level for many years. Both teams won many awards, including Olympic titles (women’s team in 1984, 2008, 2012 and 2020, men’s team in 1996 and 2000). The women’s team has won the world title eleven times, while the men’s team has won it three times.

Hockey matches last 4 x 17.5 minutes and are played by two teams of eleven players. Each team may use up to five substitutes. Indoor hockey matches are played by two teams of six players each. An indoor team may have up to six substitutes on the bench. Unlike football, players may be substituted an unlimited number of times in hockey.

The stamps show an illustration of a hockey player in action. She has the ball on her stick and is about to make a passing move. In the background are the 23m line and the shooting circle, representing the typical layout of a hockey pitch. At the bottom of each stamp is a white strip with the sorting hook, the year 2022, the country (Netherlands) and the denomination 1. The ball and the hockey player’s right shoe run through this strip. The same is happening with the ponytail in the white strip at the top. The logo for the Typically Dutch series is printed above each stamp, with a folded Dutch banner on the left and right. The picture is repeated in enlarged form on the edge of the sheet.

The 2022 stamps for the multi-annual Typically Dutch series were once again designed by Total Design from Amsterdam.

‘We explored two types of sports,’ explains Edwin van Praet, creative director at Total Design. ‘On the one hand, there were the Old Dutch sports often tied in with a particular region. Like klootschieten, beugelen, kaatsen and fierljeppen. On the other hand, we had the sports loved by everyone in the Netherlands. Sports linked to our culture, with water and with large numbers taking part in them: football, hockey, horse riding, swimming, korfball, sailing, golf, et cetera. Often, these are the sports the Dutch excel in, where we’re at the top internationally. Based on that initial selection, we created mood boards, a collection of photographs and images to establish the tone. Then we started sketching.’

A striking feature of the design is that both the ball and the right shoe protrude out of the picture and continue onto the strip at the bottom of the stamp. The same is happening with the ponytail in the white strip at the top. ‘They’re very small details,’ explains Van Praet, ‘but it reinforces the impression that the hockey player is coming towards you.’ You’re involved in the action, you’re the fan sitting in the stadium, watching a sportsperson coming towards you.’

The stamps are available while stocks last at the post office counter in Bruna shops and at www.postnl.nl/bijzondere-postzegels [in Dutch]. The stamps can also be ordered by phone from the Collect Club customer service on telephone number +31 (0)88 868 99 00. The validity period is indefinite.

Technical Details:
Postage stamp dimensions: 30 x 40 mm:
Sheet size: 170 x 122 mm
Paper: normal with phosphor print
Gum: gummed
Printing technique: offset
Printing colours: cyan, magenta, yellow, black and orange
Print run: 75,000 sheets
Appearance: sheet of 6 stamps in 6 identical designs
Design: Edwin van Praet and Claire Bedon, Total Design, Amsterdam
Printing company: Cartor Security Printers, Meaucé-La Loupe, France
Item number: 420361

Typically Dutch: Cycling (Netherlands 2022)

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[from a press release]

Issue: Typically Dutch – Cycling
Date of issue: 4 April 2022
Appearance: sheet of six stamps in six identical designs
Item number: 420461
Design: Claire Bedon and Edwin van Praet (Total Design), Amsterdam

On 4 April 2022, PostNL will publish the Typically Dutch – cycling stamp sheet. This issue is the third in the Typically Dutch series this year. In 2022, the multi-annual series is dedicated to five sports in which the Dutch excel. Earlier this year, stamps featuring ice skating (3 January) and hockey (21 March) were published as part of this series. Later this year, PostNL will publish stamps featuring the typically Dutch sports of sailing (9 May) and football (15 August).

There’s nothing more Dutch than a bicycle. The Netherlands is home to more bicycles (22.9 million) than people. With all those bicycles, we travel some 17.4 billion kilometres per year, which is around 1,000km per person, with an average speed of 15.6km/hour. Relatively, the most kilometres are covered by the 36,000 cyclists who are members of the over 370 cycling clubs in the Netherlands. Their interests are protected by the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU, ‘Royal Dutch Cycling Union’), which was founded in 1928. Besides road cycling, there are many other cycling disciplines: BMX, track cycling, cyclocross, mountain biking, beach racing, para-cycling and artistic cycling.

The Netherlands has produced many famous cyclists, including big names such as Jan Jansen (Tour de France winner), Hennie Kuiper (gold medallist at the Olympic Games), Joop Zoetemelk (Tour de France and Vuelta de España winner) and Tom Dumoulin (Giro d’Italia winner). The Dutch are often also world leaders in disciplines such as track cycling (Jeffrey Hoogland, Harrie Lavreysen) and cyclocross (Lars Boom, Matthieu van der Poel). The achievements of Dutch female cyclists are even more impressive. Especially over the past few decades, Dutch women have dominated global cycling. Well-known champions are Leontien van Moorsel (four Olympic gold medals, Tour de France Féminin winner; shown on the right), Marianne Vos (one Olympic gold medal, twice World Championships winner in road cycling, three times Giro Rosa winner), Anna van der Breggen (one Olympic gold medal, twice World Championships winner in road cycling, once World Championships winner in time trial, four times Giro Rosa winner) and Annemiek van Vleuten (one Olympic gold medal, once World Championships winner in road cycling, twice World Championships winner in time trial, twice Giro Rosa winner).

The stamps on the Typical Dutch – cycling stamp sheet feature an illustration of a cyclist gaining momentum by getting out of the saddle and pushing the bicycle to the left. In the bottom right-hand corner, three diagonal lines can be seen in the background, representing the lines on a cycle track and on public roads. At the bottom of each stamp is a white strip with the sorting hook, the year 2022, the country (Netherlands) and the denomination 1. The tyre of the front wheel continues onto the strip a little way. The same is happening with the bicycle helmet in the white strip at the top. The logo for the Typically Dutch series is printed above each stamp, with a folded Dutch banner on the left and right. The picture is repeated in enlarged form on the edge of the sheet. The dominant colour blue continues on the two tabs on the right. The Typically Dutch logo appears once more on the top edge of the sheet, while the bottom edge features a short explanatory text.

The mood of the Typically Dutch – cycling stamps is created by the colour blue in the background, with orange (helmet, front fork), red (cycling shirt), yellow (face, arms, legs) and black (glasses, bib shorts, handlebars, cycling shoes, front wheel, pedals and bottom bracket) as contrasting colours. Van Praet: ‘All five issues this year include the colours of the Dutch flag. In the right order: first red, then white, then blue and finally two kinds of orange. Diversity was essential. The series features two female athletes, two male athletes including the cyclist, and one neutral figure.’

Technical Specifications:
Postage stamp dimensions: 30 x 40 mm:
Sheet size: 170 x 122 mm
Paper: normal with phosphor print
Gum: gummed
Printing technique: offset
Printing colours: cyan, magenta, yellow, black and orange
Print run: 75,000 sheets
Appearance: sheet of 6 stamps in 6 identical designs
Design: Edwin van Praet and Claire Bedon, Total Design, Amsterdam
Printing company: Cartor Security Printers, Meaucé-La Loupe, France
Item number: 420461

Postal Stationery Group Aids Boston 2026 Show

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[press release]
Boston 2026 “Society Major Sponsor” Named

The United Postal Stationery Society has been named a Boston 2026 World Expo “Society Major Sponsor.”

UPSS President Edward Heir and past President Wayne Menuz met with Boston 2026 officers at show headquarters in Boxborough, Massachusetts, to discuss ways the society could assist the upcoming international philatelic exhibition. As a result, the UPSS Board of Directors appointed Convention Coordinator Bob Thompson as their Boston 2026 liaison and made a $50,000 major contribution to the expo.

Quoting the society’s donation letter announcing their plans, “It has been the mission of the United Postal Stationery Society, since its formation in 1945, to support the collection, research and promotion of worldwide postal stationery. Certainly, our society’s active participation in Boston 2026 international exhibition, the once in 10 years philatelic event, is in line with that mission.” Their homepage is at upss.org.

Nancy Clark (left), President of Boston 2026 World Expo and an active collector and exhibitor of postal stationery, said, “We welcome the strong support of the postal stationery community to our celebration of philately and the study and collecting of postal communication.”

Boston 2026 World Expo takes place May 23-30, 2026, at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Full show details may be found at boston2026.org and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Sign up to be added to the Boston 2026 email list and receive updates when available.

Churchill FDC Exhibit Presentation April 3

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AFDCS Zoom Program: U.S. Churchill Stamp FDCs
Free Online Presentation April 3

Todd Ronnei, whose exhibit on the 1965 Churchill stamp has won top honors on many occasions, will guide a tour of his exhibit live on Zoom on Sunday, April 3, at 8:00 pm EDT. It will be offered afterward on the American First Day Cover Society’s YouTube Channel. During the seminar, he will explain what is included and why and provide tips about exhibiting in general.

“The U.S. Winston Churchill Memorial Stamp and Its First Day Covers” has won 13 Gold and Large Gold awards, three of them Reserve Grands. The most recent of those was at the Americover 2021 exhibition at Great American Stamp Show.

Ronnei’s exhibit began in 2007 with five frames, and has since grown to ten. It is a traditional FDC exhibit. Reflecting Churchill’s stature on the world stage, Scott 1264 was a five-cent stamp issued less than four months after the British statesman died. A memorial issue for a non-American issued so quickly after death was, and remains today, nearly unprecedented.

Ronnei is a paralegal in Minneapolis. He is also Exhibits Chair of Minnesota Stamp Expo and Exhibiting Chair and webmaster of the AFDCS. Other recent exhibits include first day covers for 1967’s Urban Planning (Sc. 1333) and the Fort Snelling stamp of 1970 (Sc. 1409), and stamps and FDCs for Churchill’s centenary in 1974. He has also written articles for First Days, Scott Stamp Monthly and others.

The Zoom address for the tour of “The U.S. Winston Churchill Memorial Stamp and Its First Day Covers” is here, or the meeting ID 879 5273 7174 with a passcode of 974882.

Membership in the AFDCS is not required to attend the seminar, but with memberships starting at $24 for Internet-only access or $35 with the printed magazine, it is very affordable and a good asset for any first day cover collector, anywhere in the world.

The AFDCS publishes handbooks, catalogues, directories and a bimonthly award-winning journal, First Days. The society also advocates for first day cover collecting and exhibiting, and is a co-host of Great American Stamp Show, which next will be held August 25-28, 2022, in Sacramento, Calif.

For more information on the AFDCS, visit its website www.afdcs.org, email afdcs@afdcs.org or write to the society at Post Office Box 246, Colonial Beach, VA 22443-0246.

Heroes of the Covid Pandemic (UK 2022)

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[press release] [click on any of the pictures for larger versions]
Heroes of the Covid Pandemic

Issue Date: 23rd March 2022 • Webpage for ordering Products
Stamp set AS8300 £6.80
Presentation Pack AP504 £7.70
First Day Cover – Stamps AF484 £8.80
Stamp Souvenir Cover AW213 £8,80
First Day Envelope AE439 £0.30
Postcards AQ320 £3.60
Full Sheet 48 x 1st Class AS8300AFS £40.80
Half Sheet 24 x 1st Class AS8300AHS £20.40
Full Sheet 48 x 1st Class AS8300BFS £40.80
Half Sheet 24 x 1st Class AS8300BHS £20.40

In Spring 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Royal Mail Chief Executive, Simon Thompson launched a special stamp design competition. School children from across the UK were invited to design a postage stamp featuring their own hero or heroes of the Covid pandemic. The response was unprecedented, with surplus 600,000 children taking part.

With over a world record-breaking 600,000 entries, Royal Mail carefully selected 120 regional finalists. From this, a special panel of judges, including the Prime Minister, picked 24 regional winners. The final eight winning designs, featured below, were personally selected by HRH The Prince of Wales, with the finished stamps approved by Her Majesty The Queen.

Stamps Technical Details
Number of stamps: Eight
Design: Royal Mail Group
Illustrations: By competition winners Jessica Roberts, Shachow Ali, Raphael Valle Martin, Alfie Craddock, Logan Pearson, Isabella Grover, Connie Stuart and Ishan Bains
Stamp Format: Landscape
Stamp Size: 37mm x 35mm
Number per sheet: 24/48
Printer: International Security Printers
Print Process: Lithography
Perforations: 14 x 14.5
Phosphor: Bars as appropriate
Gum: PVA

Presentation PackThe Heroes of the Covid Pandemic Presentation Pack includes all eight stamps in mint condition. Designed to reflect the nature of the children’s competition, the colourful theme from the eight final stamps is weaved throughout the pack too.

As well as the eight winning designs, the pack celebrates the 24 regional winners, presenting 12 winners on each side. The final designs showcase the children’s heroes from all walks of life; from bus and delivery drivers to food banks, NHS workers and chemists.

The text of the Presentation Pack:
“From our family members, teachers, doctors and nurses to our vaccine scientists and fundraisers, we want to recognise and remember them.” Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Last spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Royal Mail Chief Executive Simon Thompson launched a special stamp design competition. School-aged children across the UK were invited to design a postage stamp featuring their own hero or heroes of the Covid pandemic.

The response was unprecedented. By the time the competition had closed some two months later, hundreds of thousands of children, all aged between 4 and 14, had taken part. With a record-breaking 606,049 entries, the competition had even achieved a new Guinness World Records® title. Over the following weeks, 120 regional finalists were carefully selected. From this shortlist, a special panel of judges, which included the Prime Minister, picked 24 regional winners. Finally, the eight winning designs were personally chosen by HRH The Prince of Wales. The finished stamps were approved by Her Majesty The Queen before being printed and issued.

First Day Cover
Includes all eight Special Stamps cancelled with a choice of either the Tallents House or alternative London EC1 postmark, dated 23.3.22.

The First Day Cover also includes:
• First Day Envelope – includes Heroes of the Covid Pandemic titling on the front
• Filler card – brings together a montage of all 24 regional finalist designs, as well as a brief summary of the stamp issue and the names of the competition finalists.

Stamp Souvenir
The Stamp Souvenir is a non-personalised version of the traditional First Day Cover, which unlike the FDC will not have the customer’s name and address printed on the front. This will be on sale for 90 days from the issue date; until 23rd June 2022. It includes the same Filler Card as the First Day Cover (see above) and is cancelled with the alternative postmark.

There is also a set of postcards:

Commenting Restrictions Due to Spam

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We are being flooded with spam, so much than the spam filtering software is demanding another $100 or more a year. (It had already doubled from 2021 to 2022.) You don’t see the garbage, but it takes time to clear out as many as a dozen messages an hour (and that’s after the ones that have certain words are sent right to the Trash).

Many offer clock parts, metal prefab buildings or family law (divorces, counseling). Overnight in the U.S., most of the incoming spam is in Chinese.

As of a few moments ago, all commenting has been turned off for posts older than two years. Recently, someone posted about a discovery for a 2016 issue. If you need to comment on an older post and can’t, please let me know in email: Lloyd@virtualstampclub.com

We regret the inconvenience.

The Netherlands from The Air, Set 1 (2022)

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Issue date: 22 March
Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe

Issue: The Netherlands from the Air
Appearance: 12 sheets of five different personal stamps marked ‘Nederland 1’, the denomination for post weighing up to 20g sent to an address within the Netherlands
Design: studio026, Velp
Photography: Karel Tomeï, Eindhoven

In 2022, PostNL will be issuing a series of 12 personal stamps entitled Kijk op Nederland (The Netherlands from the Air). Each stamp in the series features an aerial photograph of a prominent site in the Netherlands, based on the themes of architecture, buildings, infrastructure, nature and water. The sheets will be issued in four sets, 22 March, 14 June, 13 September, and 15 November.

More details on the series are here.

This set:
Groningen
Fortified village (Bourtange), salt marsh (Hornhuizen), Groninger Museum (Groningen), art installation De Natte Ogen (Winschoten), Damsterdiep (Eemskanaal)

Friesland
ir. D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station – Woudagemaal (Lemmer), Afsluitdijk (Kornwerderzand), Het Rif (Schiermonnikoog), skûtsjesilen (De Veenhoop), Achmea tower (Leeuwarden)

Drenthe
LOFAR telescope (Exloo), roundabout (Coevorden), brinkdorp (Noord-Sleen), Bargerveen Nature Reserve (Veenland), Hunebedcentrum dolmen (Borger)

Technical Details:
Sheet size: 102 x 148 mm (wxh)
Stamp size: 40 x 30mm (wxh)
Paper: normal with phosphor print
Gum: gummed
Printing technique: offset
Printing colours: cyan, magenta, yellow, black and blue
Print run: 5,000 sheets per issue