Preview of Stamps Catalogue: VOLUME 2

NETHERLANDS 1872-1897

Nederland - Pays-Bas - Niederlande

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Currency: 100 Cent = 1 Gulden

1872 King William III, smaller head, inscription "NEDERLAND" curved at the top, perforated

  5 c blue
  7 1/2 c brown (1888)
  10 c red
  12 1/2 c grey (1875)
  15 c brown
  20 c green
  22 1/2 c green (1888)
  25 c lilac
  50 c brown
  1 G violet (1888)

Larger size

  2 G 50 c red and blue

These stamps exist with many different perforations. The first stamps appeared on 1 July 1872.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
5 c	c	vc
7 1/2 c	*	*
10 c	*	c
12 1/2 c	**	c
15 c	***	c
20 c	***	c
22 1/2 c	***	***
25 c	***	c
50 c	***	*
1 G	***	**
2 G 50 c	R	***

Postal stationary in the 5 c blue design.

Besides numeral cancels, double ring cancels with a cityname also exist, here a railway cancel "AMSTERD. ANTW. IX" from 1890. Besides it much rarer linear townname cancels, here "BEEKBERGEN" and "VEESSEN".

Typical letter from Zwolle to Liederholthuis.

Forgery (more a dealer label probably) with cancel "UNIV.. W. WAGENSTRAAT 75 ROTTERDAM"

20 c design with "PAYS BAS" oveprinted. This is a cut from a souvenir card.

1876 Value in a circle, "NEDERLAND" straight on top

  1/2 c red
  1 c green
  2 c yellow
  2 1/2 c lilac

These stamps exist with many perforations and were issued in January 1876.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
1/2 c	c	vc
1 c	c	vc
2 c	c	c
2 1/2 c	c	vc

Postal stationary exist of the 2 1/2 c lilac value.

1891 Queen Wilhelmina facing the right

  3 c orange
  5 c blue
  7 1/2 c brown
  10 c red
  12 1/2 c grey
  15 c brown
  20 c green
  22 1/2 c green
  25 c lilac
  50 c brown
  1 G violet

Larger size and two colors

  50 c green and brown
  1 G brown and green
  2 G 50 c red and blue
  5 G green and brown

A very rare misprint 5 c orange (instead of blue) exist.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
3 c	c	c
5 c	c	vc
7 1/2 c	*	c
10 c	*	vc
12 1/2 c	*	c
15 c	**	*
20 c	**	c
22 1/2 c	**	**
25 c	**	c
50 c brown	***	*
50 c green and brown	***	*	larger size
1 G violet	***	***
1 G brown and green	***	***	larger size
2 G 50 c	R	***
5 G	RR	RR

5 c blue postal stationary in the same design.

A bisected stamp cancelled in "BATHMEN" to "COLMSCHATE".

Railway cancel 'UTRECHT-BOKSTEL'

Towncancel "RAALTE" and "FREDERIKSOORD"

A forgery of the 2G50c stamp exists and usually has the cancel "'T LOO":

'T LOO forgeries of the 2.50 G value

The same forgery with a "TIEL" cancel.

Forgery (actually a dealer advertisement) of the 50 c value with cancel 'P.BLAD UTRECHT 1887 1912' to commemorate the 25 year existence of the P.Blad company.

Similar reproductions of the 50 c and 2.50 G exist with the cancel "BERLINER ETIKETTENFABRIK AMSTERDAM" and an unreadable date in the center (sorry, no image available yet).

A forgery of the 5 G value was made by the forger Lucien Smeets (from Brussels, Belgium). Smeets used the double circle cancel "SITTARD 24 MEI 07 1-2 N". See also www.bondskeuringsdienst.nl/hh48.pdf.
Other forgeries listed in the book by P.v.d. Loo on forgeries are:
A 5 G forgery with cancel "Scheveningen Kurhaus 5 Juli 1920"
A 5 c blue (imperforate) with cancel "Amsterdam 31 AUG 1893"
A 5 c orange with "Rootlieb & Co Rokin 4 Amsterdam Postzegel handel in en verkoop" (advertisement label).

Sold as a genuine stamps for 117 Euros, but it looks like a photographic forgery to me.

A Zechmeyer forgery of the 5 c value in mirror image.

Another strange product with the face of the Queen different. Probably issued for some commemorative purposes, since the cancel date "31 AUG. 1898" corresponds to the 18th birthday of the Queen.

For stamps issued from 1898 to 1920 click here.

Dutch dictionary

gestempeld = cancelled
getand = perforated
herdruk = reprint
kopdruk = inverted print
nadruk = reprint
Nederland = The Netherlands
ongetand = imperforate
plakker = hinge
postfris = unused with no hinge
postzegel = stamp
samenhangend = se-tenant
stempel = cancel
tanding = perforation
te betalen port = to be paid (text on postage due stamps)
vals = forged
vervalsing = forgery
verzamelen = to collect
verzameling = collection
voor het kind = child welfare stamps ('for the child')

Forgeries

Recently (2005), a lot of so-called 'facsimiles' are offered on Internet auctions of many stamps of the Netherlands and Netherlands Indies, examples of such 'fac similes':

Even facsimiles of proofs are offered, reduced sizes