All from Netherlands..

 

Here are ten new stamps from Netherlands featuring 10 icons of Netherland. It’s a wonderful issue…as these stamps truly depict the specific items  associated Dutch  life and culture . Such iconic stamps have also been issued  by Italy, USA, France and some other countries. The iconic stamps are  always very attractive and  collectors find them a good collectible item !! 

Central to the new permanent stamps as introduced by PostNL, are ten Dutch objects associated with the Netherlands throughout the world. Icons such as the windmill, bicycle and tulip are among the images portrayed on the stamps. The print run of this stamp is in the millions.

Ten objects associated with the Netherlands are portrayed on the stamps. The ten images are a Frisian flat-bottomed boat, a smockmill (windmill), a piece of Gouda cheese, a farmer’s clog, a step-gable from Amsterdam, a delftware kissing pair, a bicycle, a tulip, a cow (Holstein-Frisian) and a Frisian ice-skate. Five of the icons – the bicycle, the windmill, the step-gable, the cow and the tulip – recur on the Dutch Icons International stamp sheetlet.

3D

The stamps were developed by graphic designer Joachim Baan and concept developer Fleur Derogee. They portrayed the icons as though made with a 3D printer. “We depicted the images as iconically as possible, concentrating purely on form and leaving out all colour and frills. The use of blue-coloured areas created a kind of display case to embed the objects in which the icons are displayed, like in a museum. Yet we also wanted to show each icon in its own environment. That’s why there is an extra graphic layer, with ice crystals around the ice-skate, water with the sailing ship and the form of stretchers at the cheese market,” said Joachim Baan.