Hellenic Philatelic Society of The Netherlands
Bulletin Hermes
Hermes
HERMES is the quarterly periodical of Hellenic Philatelic Society of the Netherlands. It contains 16 pages of information (in Dutch) for members of the society and a number of articles written by the members about the Greek collection area.
The subjects discussed are very varied. Of course, there is much attention to the stamps and postal markings of Greece, but also postal history, forgeries and, for example, fiscal stamps are included. In addition, there are thematic subjects like Greek history and classical antiquity. Related areas, such as the Levant, are also discussed.
For an impression, see the attached copy in pdf, which contains a selection of articles.
For the contents of the latest Hermes editions, see further below.
Hermes 175
August 2017
Page | Article |
01 | Eugène Endenburg: FACEBOOK – PAGES about our hobby / hobby’s. An introduction to a Facebook page on Greek banknotes. |
02 | Appeal: “A new working group on Greek Fiscals”. An appeal from the English Revenue Society to join a working group to make a new and more complete catalogue of Greek Revenue stamps. |
03 | News from the Study group. Our study group researches the correspondence of the firm Vlassopoulos from Trieste in the 19th Century. The participants of the Study group ask our members to help with an inventory of all existing letters from and tot this firm. |
04 | Hans Paul Soetens: The First World War and Greece in Timelines part 10- The Serbian field post in Northern Greece (1916-1918). Hans Paul tells about the postal communications by the Serbian Troupes in Thessaloniki and the North Western front. |
07 | Marco van de Mortel: A Variety of an air-mail letter. Marco shows an unknown variety of air-mail letter PA3 from Part V of the Hellas catalogue. |
08 | Frans Bruna: Thessaloniki 1917, before and after the Great Fire. Frans Bruna illustrates the effect of the Great Fire in Thessaloniki in August 1917 by comparing postal cards. |
10 | Ruud Verberne: The reach of Old Greece (Part 1): The Greek language rediscovered on coins from the East. The author shows the range of the Hellenistic influence in Asia and pays particular attention to the Uzbek city of Ai-Khanoum (most probably the old Alexandria at the Oxus, Alexandria Oxiana). |
12 | Rien Smit: 1896 Olympic Games – a new forgery. Rien again shows a forged copy of the 5 drachma of the Olympic Games 1896 issue which also has a forged cancel “ΠΕΙΡΑΙΕΥΣ 18” without a date. |
13 | Joost Meyer: Harry Pirie-Gordon, Fantastic Philatelist or Philatelic fantast? In this article the author pays attention to three remarkable stamp-issues from 1916: the never issued British stamps for Mount Athos, the British “Levant” issue from Thessaloniki and the type machine-stamps from Long Island, all invented by Harry Pirie-Gordon. |
16 | Still more fantasy; the missing column of the Parthenon Description of a design error on the Akropolis-stamp of the Tourism series of 1961. |
Hermes 174
March 2017
Page | Article |
02 | Joost Meyer: Help me, I have double vision! The author describes the joined issues of stamps by Greece and other countries, also known as “Twin-stamps”. |
06 | Eugène Endenburg: A Puzzle for loyal readers. Who loves to puzzle will enjoy this exercise. |
08 | Oscar van der Vliet: Maritime mysteries of Crete. Oscar shows two Fixed Fee stamps of the agency of Constantinople from the Messageries Maritime and ROPiT, with a mark for double taxation, normally only used on Crete. He also shows a stamp with a cancellation and wonders if this could be a mark by Lloyd or Florio-Rubattino. |
09 | Jan van den Berg: Von Auslande über … Jan tells about the labels used for registered mail, coming into Germany that had not been labelled by the foreign Post Office. If that was the case, in many cases a German label was added to the mail. Jan until now did not find any of these labels on 19th century incoming Greek mail. |
11 | Ruud Verberne: What age is our money-box? The money-box is older than many people would have thought. It already existed in Ancient Greece! Ruud describes this phenomenon and also tells about treasure chests and treasure houses, in particular those of Delphi and Delos. |
13 | Hans Paul Soetens: De Eerste Wereldoorlog en Griekenland in tijdlijnen deel 9- Wijzigingen in de censuurorganisaties na de troonswisseling van 11 juni 1917 After King Constantine I resigned and his second son Alexander became the new King in June 1917 the royalist part of Greece also introduced a postal censorship. Hans Paul describes the censor-markings and closing-strips that came into use from about September 1917. |
Hermes 173
December 2016
Page | Article |
02 | Members Day, November 12th, 2016. |
03 | Editor: Our Jubilee: 50 Years Hellenic Philatelic Society of the Netherlands. The editor reports about our Jubilee meeting. There was special attention for three members who have been members since the start of our Society and our secretary got a Royal Award. Then there was a successful auction and three interesting lectures. |
06 | Joost Meijer: Athos and the Year of Russia / Year of Greece The Year 2016 was proclaimed Year of Greece in Russia and Year of Russia in Greece. In this article the author tells about the special issue by the Greek postal service to mark this occasion and the special stamp issued by Russia, to mark the 1000 Year jubilee of Russian presence on Mount Athos (the Panteleimon monastery). Also in this article some details about stamps issued earlier by other countries (former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria) depicting monasteries of the Holy Mountain. |
08 | Editor: Thessaloniki and World War I: the Allies and other Forces. An illustration from 1916 depicting Thessaloniki, the camp of the allied troops and the bordering Bulgarians. |
09 | Hans Paul Soetens: World War I and Greece part 8d – Blockades of The Greek Coast by the Allied Forces. Hans Paul describes the three allied sea-blockades that were imposed on (royalist) Greece at the end of 1915, the middle of 1916 and the end of 1916 till June 1917 and the consequences of these blockades for the postal traffic. He illustrates these events with a number of postal letters. |
13 | Frans Lascaris: Welfare stamps or: War about stamps ? The author describes the desperation of some stamp collectors on the subject of the (non-postal) Welfare and Charity stamps. In 1931 the phenomenon was put on the agenda of the FIP but a conclusion was never reached. The collector has to decide for himself what he wants to collect. |
16 | Frans Bruna: The Brothers D. and M. Vlassopoulos – some notes Frans pays attention to the Vlassopoulos family in relation to the large number of mail addressed to their business in Trieste in the 19th century. He shows there is a lot of information available on the internet and calls for more research into this subject. |
Contents of older issues of Hermes
For the contents of older issues of Hermes, see the indexes in the library.
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