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image: THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2024
Netherlands
THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2024
Date of issue: 13 May 2024
The Underwater Nature stamps depict a chub (fish) and a water gentian (plant). The chub (Rhodeus amarus) is a small plant-loving fish with a highly built, laterally flattened body. The males have a purplish-red glow in the spawning season. For reproduction, the chub seeks out a live freshwater mussel and lures a fertile female to it. She lays her eggs in the gill cavity of the mussel, after which the male releases his roe at the inlet opening. The Dutch name for the chub (bittervoorn) comes from the bitter taste of its flesh, probably a repellent against predatory fish.
 
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image: THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2023
Netherlands
THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2023
Date of issue: 09 May 2023
 
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image: THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2022
Netherlands
THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2022
Date of issue: 09 May 2022
The Lady of Stavoren is a legend about how pride comes before a fall. The story is about a rich merchant's wife. In a fit of rage, she throws grain overboard in the harbour of Stavoren. When bystanders are outraged, the woman throws a precious ring into the waves and says she will only regret it when the sea returns her ring. And the sea does just that, as she finds the ring in the belly of a fish. From then on, things start to go downhill: the woman loses all her money, the harbour silts up and Stavoren’s prosperity becomes a thing of the past.
 
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image: THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2020
Netherlands
THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2020
Date of issue: 11 May 2020
The stamp sheet features 6 postage stamps in 2 designs. The first design features an etching of a postillion on horseback with a post horn at his mouth. On the right-hand side of each stamp there are identical vertical cut-outs of a painting of a resting horse with its head in a feeding trough. All images have been printed in the same blue as the Priority logo.
 
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image: THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2019
Netherlands
THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2019
Date of issue: 23 Apr 2019
The stamps depict the goldfinch and the Bohemian waxwing: two colourful birds with a centuries-old name in Dutch history. The (watercolour) illustrations are the work of illustrator Michelle Dujardin. On the tabs on the left and right, next to the Priority logo, there is a reference to the CEE app, which can be used to listen to the distinctive birdsong.
 
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image: THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2018
Netherlands
THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2018
Date of issue: 26 Mar 2018
The Kwakelbrug in Edam is a narrow wooden bascule bridge that dates back to the eighteenth century. The bridge was already marked in a map published by Frederick de Wit after 1698, the original copperplate for which was engraved in 1650. The bridge, which spans the Boerenverdriet canal, is located at the end of Scheepmakersdijk.
 
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image: THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2017
Netherlands
THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2017
Date of issue: 20 Feb 2017
Ammersoyen Castle. The 10-stamp sheetlet contains two stamp varieties and was designed by Hague-based graphic designer Bart de Haas. It features images of two Dutch moated castles, Doornenburg and Ammersoyen.
 
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image: THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2016
Netherlands
THE NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2016
Date of issue: 09 May 2016
 
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image: NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2015
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2015
Date of issue: 28 Apr 2015
The Old Toys stamp sheet has two toys from the olden days: a tin robot with a wind-up key (from the 1930s) and the board game “mens-erger-je-niet” (similar to Parcheesi, from the 1890s). The New Toys stamp sheet shows more recent toys: The Rubik’s cube (introduced in 1974) and the latest-generation video game (first introduced in the mid-1990s). In keeping with the theme, PostNL will individually release a New Toys stamp sheet on the same day, with the value 1 The Netherlands for all mail to destinations within the Netherlands.
 
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image: NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2014
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2014
Date of issue: 22 Apr 2014
Dutch street organs are large organs that play book music. The stamp shows detail of dutch street organs.
 
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image: NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2013
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS - EUROPA 2013
Date of issue: 08 Apr 2013
2 stamps showing the different vans the postal service of the Netherlands used over the last 100 years. Every stamp shows 4 different vans.
 
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image: NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2012
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2012
Date of issue: 26 Mar 2012
Visit the Netherlands
 
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image: NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2009 issue 1
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2009 issue 1
Date of issue: 07 Apr 2009
Astronomy
The lens of Huygens with which he observed Saturnus
 
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image: NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2009 issue 2
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2009 issue 2
Date of issue: 07 Apr 2009
Astronomy
The LOFAR telescope
 
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image: NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2008
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2008
Date of issue: 20 May 2008
 
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image: NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2007 issue 1
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2007 issue 1
Date of issue: 26 Jul 2007
100 years of scouting - 100 ans de scoutisme
Scouting and land
Le scoutisme et la terre
 
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image: NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2007 issue 2
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS EUROPA 2007 issue 2
Date of issue: 26 Jul 2007
100 years of scouting - 100 ans de scoutisme
Scouting and water
Le scoutisme et la mer
 
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