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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 and Cyprus, 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.


For members of our Society with a digital subscription, a digital version of Hermes is available by following the link in the "Members's" page.


Jubilee: 50 Years of Hermes



In 2019 Hermes celebrated its 50th birthday. On this occasion there was a re-issue of four of the leading articles of prominent members of our society from the first 25 years of Hermes' existence. The articles have been updated, translated in english and some (new) illustrations have been added. See our Publications-page for the articles. To learn more about the history of Hermes, click here.

Hermes 199

April 2023

Hermes Edition 199

Page

Article

01

Message from our chairman

02

Report of the member meeting of the Hellenic Philatelic Society of The Netherlands on February 25, 2023

03

Frans Bruna: Iris and Hermes
The author pays attention to both messengers of the Gods.

04

Jan van den Berg: Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021) Part 1
The life story of this important Greek composer, political activist and favourite of the public.

09

Joost Meyer: Stamps on Stamps Part 1 - Greece
The author describes the Greek stamps with the image of a Greek stamp.

13

Ruud Verberne: A special addition to our collection of forgeries
Ruud shows a letter from 1883 in which a few things do not add up.

16

Joost Meyer: A forgery of a bogus issue - Samos
The author describes a simple forgery of a bogus issue of Samos.

Hermes 198

January 2023

Hermes Edition 198

Page

Article

01

Message from our chairman

02

Report of the member meeting of the Hellenic Philatelic Society of The Netherlands on November 26, 2022

03

Marco van de Mortel: Translation assistant

The author discusses the virtual translation app “Google Lens”. See also: https://lens.google/

04

Eugène Endenburg: Oudjaarsbeurs 28-29 December 2022

Our society was also present at this successful fair. A report.

05

Ruud Verberne: The Cycling Races of the 1896 Olympic Games

Ruud discusses the Neo Faliron neighbourhood and its relationship to sport, which began in 1896 with the construction of a velodrome and sports arena.

10

Joost Meyer: The “Parthenon among shipwrecks”

Attention to the so-called “Peristeri” wreck and maritime archaeology.

11

Rien Smit: An unusual forgery (continued)

The author again reports about a seller of forged Greek stamps on Delcampe.

12

Joost Meyer: The Haymarket Incident

The author discusses the significance of a 1987 Greek stamp (Hellas 1745) and its relationship to events in Chicago leading up to the establishment of May 1st as Labour Day.

15

Frans Bruna: Searching the indexes of the 'Bulletin Hermes'

A handy tool to search the indexes of our Hermes archive. See for the indexes: https://www.pvgriekenland.nl/library/

15

Eugène Endenburg: What was in these newspaper wrappers?

Eugène shows a newspaper wrapper, sent in 1938 from Greece to the “Studentenhaus” in Dresden.

Hermes 197

November 2022

Hermes Edition 197

Page

Article

01

Message from our chairman

02

Oscar van der Vliet: Report of the members meeting on September 3, 2022

The secretary reports on this meeting.

03

Eugene Endenburg: Thank you! Ευχαριστω!

The author thanks the members who contributed to the promotional material.

03

Joost Meyer: Order of new issues

Attention to the digital philatelic counter of the ELTA (philotelismos) and Cyprus Post.

04

Joost Meyer: Where is the Hand of Angelos

The author discusses the icon art in Crete with special attention to Angelos Akotantos.

08

Rien Smit: An unusual forgery

Rien reports on his struggle against the sale on Delcampe of a block of four stamps from the 1896 Olympic Games series, two of which have a false AM imprint of 25 lepta.

09

Eugène Endenburg: Field hockey (keretizein)

The author discusses the relationship between Greece and field hockey and, more generally, the collection of stamps with an image of this sport.

11

Hans Paul Soetens: The book “cancellations” of shipping agencies …” - additions

Hans Paul comes with a first addition to his book.

12

Ruud Verberne: The classical Greeks: Hipparchos (ca 190 – 120 BC)

The author describes the life of this astronomer and the recently more or less accidentally discovered piece of his long-lost texts.

Contents of older issues of Hermes

For the contents of older issues of Hermes, see the indexes in the library.

Click here to see the contents of our digital news letters (Dutch only), number 1, number 2 and number 3.