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In memoriam - our secretary

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Report of the members' meeting on the 7th of  December 2019

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Olav Petri: Wilhelm II went on a journey and the philately went with him

Olav discusses the journey of the German Emperor Wilhelm II in 1898 and a postcard sent from Athens that seems to have been made in honour of that journey.

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Joost Meyer: Edge phenomena - part 2b: traffic lights, a small addition

The author shows the Greek Christmas stamps of 2019 with traffic light.

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Ruud Verberne: A piece of Greek (postal) history from the end of World War II - Part 3 (final): Historical context

Ruud sketches the historical events that led to the liberation of Greece in the period 1943-45.

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Ad van Groesen: About double printings (republished)

Ad shows an example of a double printing from the  "Flying Hermes" stamps.

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Joost Meyer: About Herodotos, Persians and Greeks

The author examines the Persian wars and the link between Albert Barre and the first Persian stamps.

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Rien Smit: The blue mystery of the Dodecanese series

Rien has a copy of the .250 Dr from the Dodecanese series 1947-53 (Hellas 684) in the colour light blue. He also shows a light blue 450 Dr (Hellas 688).

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Hans Paul Soetens: Greek postal rates, a confusing subject (I)

The writer delves into the wonderful world of Greek postal rates. To begin with, two cards were sent to France in 1934 and 1935 for Dr 3.50?

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Hans Paul Soetens and Olav Petri: Thessaly revisited, the cancellations

The authors have already paid attention to the stamps of Thessaly. Now it's time for the cancellations.

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Report of the members' meeting on the 7th of  September 2019

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Walter de Rooij: Greece confuses the stampbooklet collector

The author describes the development of the Greek stamp booklets from the first issue in 1930 to the current version with self-adhesive stamps.

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Rien Smit: How a stamp comes to life (Hellas 676): the battle of Crete

Rien reports on his trip to West Crete in search of traces of WW II.

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Ruud Verberne: A piece of Greek (postal) history from the end of World War II - Part 2: resumption of postal connections abroad

Ruud analyses the complex tariff structure of the post at the end of the German occupation and the resumption of postal traffic abroad after the liberation in November 1944. He illustrates this with a number of rare postal items.

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Ad van Groesen: About double printings

Ad shows an example of a double printing from the  "Flying Hermes" stamps.

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Ad van Groesen: New discovery at Soc. Surcharge stamp from 100 years ago (continued)

The author complements the information regarding his find of the surcharge stamp with missing “ones”, as described in Hermes 183.

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Identification markings by judges

An overview of the way  the judges set their markings in Germany.

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Joost Meyer: Edge phenomena - part 2: traffic lights and marginal sheet counting numbers

Joost shows Greek stamp issues with traffic lights and issues with a counting number on the margin.

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Report of the members' meeting on the 18th of  May 2019

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Ad van Groesen: New discovery regarding Social Allowance Stamp from 100 years ago

Ad describes a new imprint variant of the Social Allowance Stamp of 50 lepta from 1917.

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Frans Bruna and Joost Meyer: The issuing-policy of the Greek Post has run wild

The authors comment on a new product from ELTA, the “personalized stamps” (self-adhesive stamps, issued in stamp booklets) and express the hope that the Greek Post will stop this soon..

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Marco van de Mortel: Fluorescent prints

Marco shows a number of Greek tax stamps that contain a wealth of new information under UV light (see also the article in the Publications section).

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Joost Meyer: A mobile musical greeting

The Greek Europe stamps from 2019 contain a musical greeting (see also the description on this website).

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Frans Bruna: The Siege of Mesolongi and the Memorial Stamps

Frans discusses the sieges of this city during the Greek struggle for independence in 1822-1825 and shows the stamps that Greece has issued over the years regarding that subject.

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Rien Smit: 40 L 1896/1901 fiction or reality?

The author discusses counterfeits of this stamp from the 1896 Olympic Games series, with and without the 1901 imprint.

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Joost Meyer : Edge phenomena - part 1: the experiment with the coin-date

The author writes about the 1958 airmail stamps with an imprint on the border of the lower right corner of the sheets.

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Ruud Verberne: A piece of Greek (postal) history from the end of World War II - Part 1: postal items of a special date

Ruud describes the postal effects of the German occupation in Greece and illustrates this, among other things, with two special postal items.