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Ruud Verberne: From the President: 60 Years of the Hellenic Philatelic Society of The Netherlands.

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Eugène Endenburg: Our Society’s Exhibition Displays at Postex 2026.

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Report on the Members’ Day on May 2, 2026.

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Joost Meyer: Dove of Peace – Follow-up Note
A brief addition to the article in Hermes 210 about the joint issue by Cyprus and other countries in the fall of 2025.

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Ruud Verberne/Eugène Endenburg: HPS 101 Years
A look at some of our members’ entries in the HPS 101 exhibition in Athens.

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Ruud Verberne: The Issues of the EDES (the Greek Democratic League)
Ruud recounts the history of the EDES resistance movement at the end of World War II and the stamps issued in connection with it. Special attention is given to several preprinted envelopes from 1939, featuring Gorgopotamos stamps with an overprint dated November 25, 1944.

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Rien Smit: Spot the Differences
Rien draws attention to a (partially) forged set of stamps for the 1896 Olympic Games that continues to persistently surface on the internet.

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Rien Smit: Counterfeit 2 Drachma – 1875
Rien presents a Fournier forgery bearing the distinctive dot cancel 103.

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Oscar van der Vliet: The Reresby—A Greek Tragedy
Based on a fiscal document, Oscar recounts the history of the steamship Reresby at the beginning of the last century.

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Ruud Verberne: The Discovery in the Dakla Oasis, Egypt
A look at this recent archaeological discovery, complete with the necessary historical background.

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Joost Meyer: A Brochure with a Mistake
This promotional brochure from the 1990 series of stamps featuring rare and endangered animal species proves that even an ELTA brochure can sometimes cause a stir.

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Joost Meyer: Father and Son Make a Mistake
A look at father and son Raftopoulos and some special “creations” for Epirus from 1935.

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Hans Paul Soetens: Special Mail Transport During the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1923
Hans Paul showcases some less common postal items and mail transport from the Greek-Turkish War of 1919–1923.

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Ad van Groesen: HELLAS 42 I c + H2O = HELLAS 42 I b
The effects of water damage to a Large Hermes Head stamp.

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Joost Meyer: Counterfeit “Ελληνικη Διοικησις” and “Λημνος” overprints
A review of the booklet “Παραποιησεις και παραχαραξεις επισημανσεων ‘Forged Overprints’ ‘Ελληνικη Διοικησις’ – ‘Λημνος’” by Zisis Katsonis.

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René Gerritsen: Study of the Colours of the 1-lepton Consecutive Athens Printings, 1862–1867
An overview of the colours of this issue of the Large Hermes Heads.

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Ruud Verberne: An Intriguing Postcard
Ruud describes a 1945 postcard with New Year’s greetings, mailed within Athens.

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Peer van Meetelen: The Imvros Envelope
Peer discusses the history of the special envelopes that were temporarily used for correspondence from the island of Imvros during the early period of the occupation by Greek troops in 1912.

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Frans Bruna: War Scenes on Postcards: Depictions of “the Enemy”
Frans displays several heroic postcards depicting the fighting in the Balkan Wars.

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Peer van Meetelen: Boston 2026 World Stamp Expo and Dimitris Papitsis
Highlighting the fact that the impressive book “The Large Hermes Heads of Greece” by our member Dimitris Papitsis received an outstanding score of 95 points.

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Message from our chairman

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Report of the members' meeting of the Hellenic Philatelic Society of The Netherlands on February 7, 2026

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New addition to our forgeries collection
Focus on a fake “ET” overprint (Hellas 368a).

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Ad van Groesen: Double overprint or not
Ad shows a double Σ.Δ.Δ. overprint in red over silver on the 10/2000 Drachma stamp of the Dodecanese from 1947. The cause was likely to be a printing plate that was not properly cleaned.

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Jan Kaptein: Mistake from 1961
Jan shows the stamp with an image of the Parthenon from the Tourism series from 1961 (Hellas 867). A column is missing!

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Olav Petri: Postal items and my iPad
The author shows six Greek postal items and discusses their background.

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Joost Meyer: The island of Patmos and the Apocalypse
Focus on this island of the Dodecanese and its art treasures, which are quite often depicted on Greek stamps.

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Eugène Endenburg: Modern Registered Mail
Although registered mail from Greece should technically now be provided with a white label instead of stamps, a beautiful letter still occasionally slips through.

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Ruud Verberne: The Airmail Stamps with Mythological Depictions
Ruud discusses the images on the impressive airmail stamps that Greece issued in 1935 (Hellas A22-30) and the reprint on white paper from a few years later.

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Message from our chairman

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Report of the member meeting of the Greece Stamp Association on November, 22, 2025

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Joost Meyer: The ELTA is closing 204 post offices

Attention is given to the Greek Post's plans for a major reorganization.

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Frans Bruna: Greek sailors traditionally sought their destinations far and wide
The author provides a brief summary of his lecture at the members' meeting on November 22, 2025, focusing on the distribution of Greek coins in classical antiquity.

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Ruud Verberne: Almost 55 years ago
Ruud shows three express letters from 1966 that were sent from Athens to Berlin. The sender and addressees are always the same. The article serves as an example to show members what information can be retrieved from a letter envelope.

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Joost Meyer: A stamp we are at peace with?
Joost tells about a new issue from Cyprus in September 2025. This is an embroidered stamp featuring a dove of peace that was issued not only in Cyprus but also in several other countries.

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Joost Meyer: The British Postal Strike of 1971
Attention is given to several (cinderella) issues related to mail to Greece and Cyprus that were made in response to this major postal strike.

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Ruud Verberne: A Tariff Puzzle
Ruud shows a heavier letter from 1952 from Piraeus to Amsterdam. It bears Greek stamps with a value of DR 5,900. This proved insufficient, so the letter received an additional 8 cents tax.

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Joost Meyer: Unequal Greek-German Relations
Joost focuses on the Greek stamp issued in 1992 to commemorate the creation of the European Union's internal market (Hellas 1928). The map of Germany was already different back then.

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Joost Meyer: Regional Post Offices – A New Study
A review of the book " ΤΑ ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΑ ΤΑΧΥΔΡΟΜΕΙΑ" by Ioannis Daïs.