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Message from our chairman

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Joost Meyer: Signed Greek stamps - part 1

The author shows some Greek stamps from the period up to 1945 on which a name or the initials of the designer or engraver can be found.

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Eugène Endenburg and Frans Bruna: Greek Stamps and Banknotes (1)

The authors show Greek banknotes with images also known from postage stamps. In this episode: national heroes.

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Joop Herrewijn - Varieties

Joop shows a number of perforation errors and plate / printing errors on Greek stamps.

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Frans Bruna / Peer van Meetelen - Averoff - a benefactor of the Greek state

The writers discuss George Averoff and the armoured cruiser named after him.

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Joost Meyer - Post for Papandreou

Using a postcard from Hungary, the author pays attention to the political career of the Papandreou family and the turbulent history of the 1960s in Greece.

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Joost Meyer - A Greek holiday greeting with a Dutch touch

Joost shows a postcard, sent from Zakynthos to England via Rotterdam in the summer of 1999 with the TNT courier service.

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Frans Bruna: From Euphoria to Great Unrest - Some Letters from Asia Minor 1919-22

The author illustrates this turbulent period with examples of correspondence.

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Joost Meyer: The Daïs cancellation catalogue - a book review

The author discusses Ionnis Daïs' book, “The cancellations of the Greek post offices” (Οι σφραγίδες των Ελληνικών Ταχυδρομικών γραφείων).

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Rien Smit - FAKES on the internet

Rien discusses the so-called Spiro forgeries of the LHH and the way in which internet auction Delcampe deals with them.

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Ruud Verberne: Smyrna at the time of the Greco-Turkish war (05/15/1919 - 09/8/1922)

The author discusses the situation in Smyrna from 1919 to 1922 and the postal consequences.

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Frans Bruna - Émile Gilliéron and Classical Archaeology

Frans pays attention to father and son Gilliéron, their relationship to Classical archaeology and Greek stamps.

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Ruud Verberne - Icons: a very special form of cultural object

The author discusses the Saints St. George and St. Demetrios, important to Greece, and their depiction on icons (and stamps).

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Hans Paul Soetens: Greek postal rates, a confusing matter (III)

This time an analysis of a postcard with postage due markings from Athens to Budapest in 1925.

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Bob de Hon: In memoriam Koos Mostert

In remembrance of our honorary member Koos Mostert

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Frans van Limpt: From Aidinion to Aydin. The Greek Zone in Turkey – from 1912 till 1922

The author describes the troubled history of the Greek orientated part of Asia-Minor in this period.

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Ruud Verberne: A ‘plain’ little stamp: The 10 Lepta with control-figure on cream paper from 1875

Ruud describes the varieties in colour and control-figures of this LHH.

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Ad van Groesen: A golden stater of Philippos II? (continued)

Ad adds some new information on his report of Hellas 2304 with a silver coin instead of gold. Is it a real printing error or a fake?

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Joost Meyer: The engravers of Thomas de la Rue

The author shows some of the engravers who worked for De la Rue, producing engravings of Greek stamps.