NETHERLANDS 1852-1871

Nederland - Pays-Bas - Niederlande

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Currency: 100 Cent = 1 Gulden

The Netherlands (also sometimes referred to as 'Holland') is a country is Western Europe. The capital is Amsterdam. The first stamps had the inscription 'POSTZEGEL'.

1852 King William III (Willem III) facing the right, inscription "POST ZEGEL" on top, imperforate, no country name indicated

15 c orange

  5 c blue
  10 c red
  15 c orange

The stamps have watermark 'Posthorn' and first appeared on 1 January 1852.

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	RR	***
10 c	RR	**
15 c	RR	R

Reprints:

Non-official reprints ere made by A Moesman in 1896 of the 10 c value in various colours. The reprints have no watermark. Some of them have "NADRUK" printed on the backside. Examples:

Moesman reprint of the 10 c red value

Moesman reprints of the 10 c value in blue and orange; I have also seen a vertical pair of 10 c red Moesman reprints.

Front and back of a sheet of Moesman reprints.

Cancels:

Typical cancellation: "FRANCO" in rectangle and "NA POSTTIJD" (after closing time) in rectangle. The "FRANCO" cancel also exists in a different type without the rectangular enclosure.

Town name and 'FRANCO', so-called 'Halfrondstempels'

Town name and 'FRANCO' cancel on a 5 c stamp, reduced size.

So-called 'Langstempel' or town name in a straight line

I've seen 'Langstempels' for several other towns: Eibergen, Gorredijk, s'Heerenberg, Irnsum, Nes, Rhoon, Smilde, Vollenhove, Winsum. Others probably exist. They also exist on the 1864 issue.

A 'reprint' made in 1984 for the 'Salon der Philatelie' in Hamburg (Germany).

Zoom-in of this 'Reproduction'

1864 King William III facing the right, inscription "POSTZEGEL" below, perforated, no country name indicated

  5 c blue
  10 c red
  15 c orange

These stamps are perforated 12 1/2 x 12 and appeared on 12 May 1864.

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	***	*
10 c	***	*
15 c	RR	***

1867 King William III facing the left, inscription 'NEDERLAND', perforated

  5 c blue
  10 c red
  15 c brown
  20 c green
  25 c violet
  50 c brown

These stamps exist with several perforations. Specialists distinguish two types of the value inscription for each value. They first appeared on 1 October 1867.

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
10 c	***	c
15 c	R	***
20 c	***	**
25 c	R	***
50 c	RR	R

A very strange cancel:

With strange cancel!

Forgeries:

(Fournier forgery)

There exist forgeries made by Fournier of the 50 c stamp. I do not know if these forgeries were always imperforated. Genuine imperforate stamps do not exist.

Forgery listed in the book by P.v.d. Loo on forgeries; it has the bottom frameline tripled and broken below the "50" and "CENT". The neckshading is wrong and the background behind the head is too well done.

According to www.bondskeuringsdienst.nl/BKD.pps, the stamp forger Pierre Vos also made forgeries of the 50 c and also made imperforate 'proofs'.

Could this be Pierre Vos reprints?

1869 Arms with lion and crown

. 2 1/2 c lilac

  1/2 c brown (1870)
  1 c black
  1 c green
  1 1/2 c red
  2 c yellow
  2 1/2 c lilac

These stamps exist with several perforations. They were intended to be used on newspapers and the first values appeared on 1 January 1869.

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
1 c black	***	***
1 c green	*	c
1 1/2 c	***	**
2 c	*	*
2 1/2 c	***	***

A typical double ring cancel with 'FRANCO' at the bottom outside the outer ring ('Frankotakje stempel'). The word 'Takje' refers to the ornaments in the bottom part of the circle which resemble sticks of wood with leafs.

I've seen this Francotakje Stempel for the following towns: Alphen, Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Assen, Bergen op Zoom, Bodegraven, Delfshaven, Delft, Deventer, Doesborgh, Doetinchem, Dokkum, Dordrecht, Driebergen, Edam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Franeker, Goes, Grave, 'sGravenhage, Haarlem, Harderwijk, Heerenveen, Heerlen, 'sHertogenbosch, Heusden, Hoorn, Kampen, Leerdam, Leeuwarden, Maarssen, Nijmegen, Noordwijk, Onderdendam, Oudenbosch, Rijssen, Rozendaal, Schiedam, Sittard, Sluis, Sneek, Steenbergen, Steenwijk, Ter-Neuzen, Tiel, Utrecht, Veendam, Venlo, Vianen, Vlaardingen, Wageningen, Weert, Willemstad, Workum, Wormerveer, Zaandam, Zierikzee.

Netherlands 1872-1897

Dutch dictionary

gestempeld = cancelled
getand = perforated
herdruk = reprint
kopdruk = inverted print
nadruk = reprint
Nederland = The Netherlands
nvph = Nederlandse Vereniging van Postzegel Handelaars (Dutch association of stamp dealers)
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':