Sunday Stamps: Children

Google shows this picture today, 20th of November, because it is the International Children’s (Rights) day. This day marks the anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.

Today's Sunday Stamps theme also is 'Children'.
So I like to share this 'kinderpostzegels' stamp sheet, issued in 2006 for children's welfare, showing the diversity of children in nowadays Netherlands:



You can see more children's welfare stamps and learn about this project at Eva's blog of today (thank you very much, Eva, a nice surprise that you paid attention to these stamps today!).

Besides children's welfare stamps, Dutch Post issues the less well-known 'elderly welfare stamps', in cooperation with the National Foundation for the Elderly.
In 2005 these two stamp sheets have been issued, which I thought matching for today's Sunday Stamps theme.
They are showing pictures from the famous Dutch children's books 'Ot & Sien', issued more than a decade ago and illustrated by Cornelis Jetses. The sheets also show present pictures of children.





See more children's stamps at and via today's Sunday Stamps.

In: from Japan

This beautifully designed philatelic Monkey, created for the Year of the Monkey, I received from the designer herself, Hana from Japan.

She added a nice stamp and postmark, both showing Miffy (Nijntje), a character originally designed by Dutch illustrator Dick Bruna:



Also from Japan I received this great card, sent by Natalie:



And also she added stamps showing illustrations, of food and of music:



Thank you very much, Hana and Natalie!

Sunday stamps: Se-tenant stamps

This Sunday Viridian choose for 'se-tenant stamps' as the Sunday Stamps' theme.

Nice topic!
However first I had to look up what 'se-tenant' means. This term is used in philately for stamps printed from the same plate and sheet, adjoining one another, unsevered in a strip or block. They differ from each other by design, color, denomination or overprint.

According to the English wikipedia, se-tenants may have a continuous design, but this is not necessarily so (see also the example showed in wikipedia).
In contrary, according to the Dutch wikipedia continuation of design is a main characteristic of 'se-tenants'. 'Se-tenant' is translated into Dutch as 'doorloper', which literally means that the picture is continuing one in the other.

So I thought this one, according to the Dutch word 'doorloper' is not a real se-tenant:



Although according to the English description they are. Furthermore these two stamps form a continuing part of the story (and of course I love to show you these characters: the bear Ollie B. Bommel and the cat Tom Poes).

Via Postcrossing I received this beautiful se-tenant from China:



According to the sheet edge on bottom of the card (how I love it when people add these parts, too!), this Czech stamp must be part of a se-tenant sheet, too:



In the Netherlands, every now and then continuing stamps are issued.
Several of the so-called 'children's stamps' are se-tenants. I posted one here already.

The following stamp sheet obviously is a continuing picture (alas the sheet isn't complete anymore as I've used two of the stamps):



The se-tenant of the maps and 'Bos Atlas' I showed in January (see here).

Some other Dutch se-tenants:
'Day of the Stamp' (2012), showing former queen Juliana:



Stamp sheet commemorating 150 years of Blijdorp, the Rotterdam Zoo (in 2006). The sheet shows threatened species:



Six (from ten) stamps issued due to the 100 years celebration of the Royal Dutch Forestry Association:



Stamp sheet issued for the 100th anniversary of the Dutch Open Air Museum (in 2012), subtitled '100 years tribute to the daily life':

Sunday stamps: of children and for children

This Sunday the theme of Sunday stamps is 'of children and for children'.

Every year in November, Dutch school children pass along the houses to sell 'kinderpostzegels', 'children's stamps', which means both stamp sheets and postcards. I did so when I was young, and many years later, that is, last year, our daughter was old enough do so, too.

Above you can see the envelope in which she gathered the orders, of our neighbours and family (and me, of course), and when ready to deliver, she went along the houses again to deliver the stamps and postcards.
The stamps have an increased rate, and the money earned goes to children's welfare projects.

So in all those many years, many children's stamp sheets have been issued.

Here I'll show only a few (some of them are not complete because I used them, of course).

Out: to Spain

"Tien geboden voor ouders", illustratie voor het Parool van 20 oktober 1960, door Fiep Westendorp (1916-2004), een van mijn favoriete Nederlandse illustratoren.
Haar tekeningen voor de toenmalige vrouwenpagina van het Parool zijn ruim 50 jaar later nog steeds actueel.

"Ten commandments for parents", illustration published in the Dutch / Amsterdam newspaper 'Het Parool', 20th October 1960, by Fiep Westendorp (1916-2004), one of my favourite Dutch illustrators. Her illustrations about women and children still are modern, more than 50 years after creating them!
Fiep Westendorp is also well-known by the Jip and Janneke illustrations.

Verstuurd naar Spanje, met gulden-postzegels (ik had in de loop van jaren een eigen voorraad opgebouwd die ik toch maar eens moest versturen, maar je blijkt ze ook nog te kunnen kopen!).
Links de binnenkant van het schip van de Domkerk in Utrecht. Rechts de oudste vuurtoren van Nederland, de Brandaris, op het waddeneiland Terschelling.

Send to Spain, with old postage stamps: gulden (florin, guilder) instead of euro.
The one on the left shows the inside of the Dom church in the city of Utrecht; the one on the right the oldest lighthouse of the Netherlands, the Brandaris on the Wadden island Terschelling.