Out: to Sri Lanka

Update Sunday 8 March 2015: this Sunday stamps' theme is 'Riding the rails', so I'd like to share this previously posted Dutch stamp sheet with all of you Sunday Stamp fans (I'm a fan, too :-) ). For the ones who don't know yet Sunday Stamps, please check the Sunday Stamps blog and the links for many more postal beauties!



[Original text, Sept 2014: ]
Afgelopen maandag bracht PostNL een postzegelvel uit ter gelegenheid van 175 jaar Spoorwegen in Nederland.
Natuurlijk moeten de verschillende postzegels stukje bij beetje naar Ravindra gestuurd worden. Voor de bovenste postzegel vond ik onderstaande toepasselijke kaart, die hij zo te zien nog niet heeft.

Last Monday the Dutch post issued a stamp sheet for the 175th anniversary of Dutch railways.
Of course these ten stamps have to be sent, little by little, to Ravindra for his collection. Fortunately I found this suitable train card, which he hadn't received so far, to accompany the first stamp-to-send.



En eerder vond en stuurde ik deze auto, voor Ravindra's autoverzameling.
And some time before I found this car, to send for Ravindra's car collection.

Sunday stamps: Clocks

This Sunday stamps' theme is open: 'anything you wish'.

Some time ago I had the theme 'Clocks' in mind, but due to the fact that I'm too busy these weeks and there's only little spare time, I initially thought to skip my contribution this time. However, I happened to have received mail art from Romania yesterday, and the stamps showed, besides flowers... Clocks! No coincidence, I suppose, and thanks to the Romanian (mail) artist Mariana Serban I tried - and succeeded - to find some time to scan these and some more clocks-on-stamps.



One place where clocks are important, is the railway station. You can see the clock on top of this railway station in Brazil:



And in 1989 the Dutch post issued this stamp for the 'Nederlandse Spoorwegen' (Dutch railway company), which were a national company for 150 years then. The stamp shows a clock (and train), too:



A wellknown clock stamp is of course the American clock:



A clock on an other building is this one, on the Beurs van Berlage:



At the end of the year, of course all of us are watching the clock.
In the Netherlands:





And in Spain, where it's tradition to eat a grape every time the clock strikes at the turn of the year:



And for the ones who like technics (among them, I do), the inside of clocks is very interesting, too. 'Uurwerk' means 'clockwork':



Check for more contributions to this Sunday's Sunday Stamps via Viridian's Postcard Blog. Various and very interesting themes!

Out: to the Netherlands

Verzonden naar een postcrosser die van klokken houdt, deze Westertoren door Marit Törnqvist.
Op de postzegel de Beurs van Berlage.

Sent to a postcrosser who loves clocks, this Westertoren which was designed by Marit Törnqvist.
On the (real) stamp you see the 'Beurs van Berlage'.

Out: to the Netherlands

Verstuurd naar een postcrosser die van klokken houdt, deze klok op de markante toren van de Nijmeegse Sint Stevenskerk. De foto is uit 1930, dus 't is nog de oorspronkelijke toren, vóór de grote verwoesting van de binnenstad.

Sent to a postcrosser who loves clocks, this clock on the typical tower of the Saint Steven's church in Nijmegen. The picture has been made in 1930, so it's the original tower, before it was destroyed by the horrible bombardment on 22th of February 1944.

Ook klokken op de postzegels! Clocks also on the stamps!

Out: to the Netherlands

'Utrecht, zomer 1902, Minrebroederstraat 9'.
De wijzers van de klok van de Domtoren. Voor een Utrechtse postcrosser die van klokken houdt. (Al weet ik niet zeker of incomplete klokken ook gewenst zijn!..)

'Utrecht, summer 1902, Minrebroeder street, 9'.
For a postcrosser who lives in the city of Utrecht and who loves clocks. (Although I'm not sure whether incomplete clocks would be appreciated, too, or not!..)
The text says: "The clockwork and it's clock striking work and the 4 clock hands works were repaired in my house and were cleaned in the end of July and during the whole month of August 1902. W.J.C. Haak, municipal clock repairer".
The clock hands are of the Dom Tower; the length of the minute hand is 3.75 meters, the hour hand measures 2,88 meters.

On the stamp sheet a few more clocks, in the city of Schoonhoven.