Today's
Sunday Stamps theme is the letter 'k'.
Inspired by Violet's
post of today, I thought to share the Dutch word for 'newspaper', illustrated by stamps from Mexico, Russia and the Netherlands. In Dutch we name the newspaper 'krant'.
As far as I know, in several languages words for 'newspaper' contain some part meaning news, or time, or day, and so. For example in the German word 'Zeitung', Zeit means time. Or the French 'journal', jour = day, and in the Spanish 'periódico', 'period' has to do with time also. And 'newspaper' of course contains the word 'news'. See more translations of the word 'newspaper' via
Wikipedia. The Dutch word 'krant' appears to have nothing to do with day (dag), time (tijd) or paper (papier). However, it origins from the French word 'courant' which means current, commonly, present, and the old word (plural) 'couranten' meant 'current notifications'.
I found a few stamps showing newspapers. I don't know most of these newspapers so I cannot tell which signature they have or on what 'level of quality' they are.
For example, Dutch most
well-known newspaper was 'wrong' in WW2 and nowadays brings news in a sensational, not always fair way. Despite of that, and to my surprise, it alas is the best selling newspaper in the Netherlands.
Kranten (plural of krant) have been pictured on stamps from Mexico:
From Russia:
From the Netherlands:
(A newspaper and a cup of coffee to my opinion is a very pleasant combination :-) )
In contrary to the above-mentioned best selling newspaper, the '
Parool' was 'right' in WW2. It has been founded in 1940 and helped positively in the Dutch resistance against the Nazis.
The stamps above and below have been issued in 1985, 40 years after WW2 has ended.
A newspaper which is considered being of good quality (though not selling as much as the first-mentioned newspaper), is the
NRC Handelsblad. When I was a child this newspaper published stories of
Ollie B. Bommel and Tom Poes every day. A kind of comics, that is, pictures above and printed text below.
In 1996 the following stamp sheet was issued. I immediately had to think of the NRC newspaper. And first I thought to not post this sheet here, but then I noticed the selvage on the left, and the text, which starts saying: 'Spring had come and mister Bommel was sitting under the blooming pear tree, reading his newspaper.'
After reading the newspaper, before putting in it the recycling bin, you can make all kinds of nice things of it:
It might be clear that I have a strong preference of some of the Dutch newspapers to some other newspaper. Do you have strong opinions on the different newspapers issued in your countries?
An other word starting with the letter 'k', and probably immediately understood by all of you, is 'kasteel'.
In
2017, the Europe stamps theme is 'castles', and I am so lucky to have received some of these stamps.
From Turkey, Belarus, Russia, Estonia, and of course one of the two Dutch castle stamps:
From Greece:
From Spain, with a funny postmark:
From Spain, with a modest postmark - thus showing more of the stamp:
From Serbia:
And the other of the two Dutch stamps:
By the way, thanks to Eva
, recently a postcard arrived which happens to show an other Spanish castle, the Almodovar Castle:
Worth a stamp, too, don't you think so?!
Find more stamps on the letter 'k' at and via today's
Sunday Stamps!
