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Message from our chairman

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Report of the members' meeting on the 7th of  March 2020

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Peer of Meetelen: Varieties of Greek stamp booklets

The author shows a number of deviations on the covers of stamp booklets.

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Joost Meyer: Personal annoyance

The author addresses the stream of personal stamp booklets from the past two years.

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Joost Meyer: An old acquaintance

Joost shows a picture of Myron's discus thrower on a tab of a new personal stamp on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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

The writer delves into the wonderful world of the Greek postal rates. This time two cards from 1923-4, stamped with 1 Drachma and with postage due to Germany

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Ruud Verberne: The 20 Lepta of the definitive Athens printings (1862 - 1867)

The author discusses various variants of the 20 lepta LHH.

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Ad van Groesen: A golden stater of Philippos II? (or is it a silver four-drachma?)

Ad shows Hellas 2304, but the coin is silver instead of gold?

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Jan van den Berg: Herzlichst Eure, Nana Mouskouri

Jan tells about an advertising postcard for the record label Fontana regarding a recording by Nana Mouskouri.

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Joost Meyer: A digital tour through the museum

A brief discussion of the new website of the Greek Postal Museum in Athens.

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Marco van de Mortel / Joost Meyer: The printing plates of Thomas de la Rue

The authors discuss the printing plates of this London company. For the complete article, see also the publications page on this website.

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Rien Smit: The mystery of the small ΕΛΛΑΣ imprint

Rien tells of his investigation into a false imprint on Hellas 414.

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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.