zondag 18 mei 2014

Sunday stamps: Telephones

Today's theme of Sunday Stamps is 'Anything you wish'.
It was hard to think of one theme, because there are so many beautiful stamps and so many themes to choose.
First I thought of musical instruments, always a favourite theme, and Hawwa inspired me by this blog post (it's this year's theme for Europe!) and by sending beautiful Spanish stamps showing string instruments, like these ones.

But then I thought that 'Musical instruments' might have been, or will be one day, a theme for Viridian's Sunday Stamps already. As have been/will be themes like 'Postage stamps on stamps', 'Mailboxes' and other popular themes for snail mail lovers like us.
So it would be good to choose something else. Finally I found it:

Telephones!

These three stamps have been issued in 1994 'for the elderly':




The present main Dutch telephone company ('KPN') used to be part of one national government-owned enterprise, which also included the Mail company: PTT (Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie: mail, telegraph and telephone).
In 1989 the PTT became independent of the government, and the name changed into KPN (Koninklijke PTT Nederland: Royal PTT Netherlands), including PTT Post and PTT Telecom as main companies.
The state was the only owner until KPN went to the stock market in 1994. In 1998 there was a dissociation: the mail went on in a company named TPG, later TNT, now PostNL, and the telephone branch as KPN.
These stamps have been issued for the aforementioned milestones in 1989 and in 1994:






Here you can see a complete Telephone:



And how times have been changing! Nowadays most telephones have lost their 'line'.
This stamp, issued as part of a 10-pieces stamp sheet for the 100th anniversary of the Dutch Open Air Museum, is titled 'youngsters with a smartphone':



16 opmerkingen:

  1. i am impressed with how many stamps you found on the telephone theme..!

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  2. So many changes, so many 3-letter names to remember!
    and how cool is that that you even a modern day cell phone to your list!

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  3. Can you believe I was thinking in posting a stamp with a phone I received some time ago?!? How funny! I love it, and I still want to post it one day in the blog. In the meanwhile, you can see it here: http://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/227401-Map_of_Cable_Route-General_Issues-Japan

    Very original choice, by the way. I like specially the stamps with elderly people. The way it seems that they are speaking each others (with the little squared pictures)

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    1. How coincidental!
      And thank you for the link, the Japanese phone stamp is a nice one, too!

      The theme of the three 'elderly' stamps is 'telefooncirkel', 'telephone circle'. I think they mean, that people call each other every now and then (or daily), to hear if everything is o.k., and to prevent from loneliness.

      After I posted this contribution to Sunday Stamps, I realized there is a link between Mail and Telephones: both are about communication, about connecting people.

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    2. I saw your post of today, I love it!!

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    3. I saw your post of today, I love it!!

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  4. I'm an elderly fellow without a smart phone; our land line is cordless though. My mobile is a mini-brick which does not ring (!) when someone calls me. So as you might image your stamps struck a c(h)ord with me.

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    1. Your words about your mobile sound like a description of mine :-)

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  5. Don't remember seeing a phone pictured on a stamp before.

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  6. I like the one with the complete phone best.

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  7. A great assortment. I did not think there would be that many stamps with telephones on them.
    thank you for joining in this week.

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  8. yes,phone is rarely to be seen on a stamp and my son asked me, what is that? :D

    Willa @ Postage Journal

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  9. I like the large hall and KPN lettering stamp. Who knew there were so many stamps on this theme.

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  10. All of them are interesting. The first set of stamps reminds me of an ad campaign years ago to encourage people to use the phone.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3pEsJyk6Uw

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    1. Thank you for the link. I see there are more movies in this campaign, they're funny!

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  11. Thank you all for your comments!
    And for your blog postings to Sunday Stamps, I've nejoyed it a lot. All choices are so interesting, such a great variety!

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