Netherlands issue stamps for new King

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08 December 2013
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imports_CCGB_thenewpostnlstampssho_77248.jpg The new PostNL stamps showing King Willem-Alexander
The Netherlands have issued the first definitives featuring a portrait of the recently crowned King Willem-Alexander ...
The Netherlands have issued the first definitives featuring a portrait of the recently crowned King Willem-Alexander, and presented the designs to the King at a special ceremony at the The Hague’s Museum voor Communicatie.

The three definitive stamps each show the same portrait of the king, based on a photo taken by photographer Rineke Dijkstra, and designers have said the new designs were influenced by the first Dutch stamp of 1852.

PostNL have produced a specail video to mark the new definitive stamps…




Read more anout the stamps in the February 2014 issue of Stamp & Coin Mart magazine.
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