Netherlands East Indies
1925
Railway Company stamp.
Designer:
print:
paper:
Glue:
Watermark: no
Value:
Perforation:
Not in official catalogue
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1933 - 1937
Queen Wilhelmina. The stamps show a goods waggon on the dockside and a railway viaduct.
Designer: Ir. A. Kreisler
print: Johan Enschedé
paper: photogravure
Glue: ?
Watermark: no, except: NVPH 253-265: horizontal rings
Values: 10, 12½, 15, 20, 25, 30, 32½, 35, 40, 42½, 50, 60, 80 cents, 1, 1,70 , 2, 2,50 , 5 guilders
Perforation: L12½
Valid till: 30 - 6 - 1941 (12½, 32½, 42½ cents, 1,75 , 2,50 , guilders) / 31 - 12 - 1945 (rest)
Catalogue numbers:
Stanley Gibbons 334 - 345 - 348 - 349 - 350 - 352 - 353 - 354 - 355 - 356 - 357 - 358 - 359 - 403 - 404 - 405 - 408 - 414 - 415 /
Michel 193 - 214 - 215 - 216 - 217 - 218 - 219 - 220 - 221 - 222 - 223 - 224 - 225 - 226 - 227 - 228 /
Yvert Tellier ? - 169 - 188 - 189 - 190 - 191 - 192 - 193 - 194 - 195 - 196 - 197 - 198 - 199 - 200 - 201 /
NVPH 181 -195 - 196 - 197 - 198 - 199 - 200 - 201 - 202 - 203 - 204 - 205 - 206 - 207 - 208 - 209 -210 - 253 - 254 - 255 - 256 - 257 - 258 - 259 - 260 - 261 - 262 - 263 - 264 - 265
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2-12-1940
Queen Wilhelmina overprinted Red Cross.
Designer: Ir. A. Kreisler
print: Johan Enschedé
paper: photogravure
Glue: ?
Watermark: no
Values: 10 + 5 cents
Perforation: L12½
Valid till: 30 - 6 - 1941
Circulation: 500,000
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons 428 / Michel 287 / Yvert Tellier 284 / NVPH 273
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1946
Railway bridge at Soekaboemi.
Designer: Jan Staal
print: Nederlandsch Indische Gouvernementsdrukkerij, Melbourne
paper: offset
Glue: ?
Watermark: crown
Values: 1 cent
Perforation: K14½ : 14
Valid till: 31 - 12 - 1949
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons 484 / Michel 333 / Yvert Tellier 298 / NVPH 317
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1947
Railway bridge at Soekaboemi overprinted.
Designer: Jan Staal
print: Nederlandsch Indische Gouvernementsdrukkerij, Melbourne
paper: offset
Glue: ?
Watermark: crown
Values: 4 cents on 1 cent
Perforation: K14½ : 14
Valid till: 31 - 12 - 1949
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons 504 / Michel 340 / Yvert Tellier 305 / NVPH 324
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1947
Queen Wilhelmina overprinted.
Designer: Ir. A. Kreisler
print: Johan Enschedé
paper: photogravure
Glue: ?
Watermark: no
Values: 45 cents on 60 cents
Perforation: K14½ : 14
Valid till: 31 - 12 - 1949
Circulation: 495,850
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons 505 / Michel 341 / Yvert Tellier 310 / NVPH 325
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1947
Queen Wilhelmina overprinted.
Designer: Ir. A. Kreisler
print: Johan Enschedé
paper: photogravure
Glue: ?
Watermark: no
Values: 12½, 25, 50, 80 cents
Perforation: K14½ : 14
Valid till: 31 - 12 - 1949
Circulation: NVPH 326: 2,975,600; 327: 589,800; 329: 388,900; 330: 284,750
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons 506 - 507 - 509 - 510 / Michel 342 - 343 - 345 - 346 / Yvert Tellier / NVPH 326 - 327 - 329 - 330
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1948
Queen Wilhelmina overprinted.
Designer: Ir. A. Kreisler
print: Johan Enschedé
paper: photogravure
Glue: ?
Watermark: no
Values: 15 on 10 cents
Perforation: K14½ : 14
Valid till: 31 - 11 - 1948
Circulation: 495,252
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons 513 / Michel 349 / Yvert Tellier 314 / NVPH 333
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5 - 12 - 1955
Petroleum Refinery in Aruba with railway lines.
Designer: E. Bartels
print: offset, Johan Enschedé
paper:
Glue:
Watermark: no
Value: 25 cents
Perforation: L 12¼
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons 353 / Michel 51 / Yvert Tellier 244 / NVPH 256
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26 - 6 - 1992
Willemstad harbour, container port with railway track. Below the stamps there are two maximum cards with the subject.
Designer: Humphrey C. Elisabeth
print: offset, Johan Enschedé
paper:
Glue:
Watermark: no
Value: 80 and 125 cents
Perforation: K14 : 12¾
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons / Michel 752-753 / Yvert Tellier 929-930 / NVPH 1006-1007
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27 - 4 - 2004
Diesel locomotive 1977.
First stamp of a series of 6 stamps.
Designer: Robert A. Willems
print: offset, Johan Enschedé
paper: non-phosphorescent
Glue: ?
Watermark: no
Value: 10 cents
Perforation: K13¼ : 12¾
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons / Michel 1286 / Yvert Tellier 1437 / NVPH 1507
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Surinam (Dutch colony till 1975)
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November 1945.
From a set of 9:
Goods waggon at bauxite Michelne in Moengo;
Michelne truck at a gold Michelne in Lore;
Steam sugar-cane train.
Designer:-
print: American Bank Note Co, New York
paper:
Glue: ?
Watermark: no
Value: 1 cent, 5 cents, 7½ cents
Perforation: L 12
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons 313 - 319 - 321 / Michel 241 - 247 - 249 / Yvert Tellier 207 - 213 - 215 / NVPH 220 - 226 - 228
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23 - 7 - 1945.
Steam sugar-cane train overprinted.
Designer:-
print: American Bank Note Co, New York
paper:
Glue: ?
Watermark: no
Value: 7½ cents + 5 cents
Perforation: L 12
Catalogue numbers: Stanley Gibbons 307 / Michel 268 / Yvert Tellier / NVPH 214
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12-04-2012: History of Railway transportation in Curaçao
This sheet issued by the island's Nieuwe Post N.V.(=Ltd.) shows the history of rail travel in the island of Curaçao.
The 200c stamp shows dumping cars at Tafelberg, where a phosphate Michelne was exploited by John Godden who leased Tafelberg mountain from
plantation owner Cornelis Gorsira. Godden also built a wharf at Fuikbay near the Michelne. To haul the Michelneral from the Michelne to the wharf
an inclined-plane, double track railway was built where donkeys used to haul the dumping cars. In 1887 Godden shut the Michelne after
a dispute over concession taxes with the government. In 1910 the Michelne was reopened by a new company: The Curaçao Michelning Co.
The 300c stamp shows a gasoline powered Plymouth 4-tonner loco manufactured in Ohio, which was purchased by the company in the 1930s.
It is one of the early series of locos of the Curaçao Michelning Company.
The 250c stamp shows the horse-drawn tram in Punda. In the 19th century Curaçao became a major trading centre where ships moored at Schottegat
harbour to buy coal. In the 1880s there was need for a transportation system to get people from their homes to wharfs and businesses, since
Waaigat bay separated the districts Punda, Otrabanda en Scharloo from each other. Two bridges, Queen Emma Bridge across St. Anna Bay and
Van den Brandhof bridge across Waaigat Bay, and a few ferries shortened travelling times. A horse-drawn tram, a light two-axle vehicle with
two bench seats and boarding steps for standing passengers, offered an hourly service along a one kilometre route: the tram set out from
Queen Emma Bridge, ran along Breedestraat in Otrabanda and then arrived at the Roman Catholic Cemetery.
The 350c stamp shows the motor tram at Otrabanda, which was introduced in Curaçao in 1910. The Curaçao Tramway Service was operated by
Mr de Sola and Mr Cardoze. The 30 gallon gasoline powered tram was made in Great Britain. The seven transverse seat could accommodate 35 passengers
and a few more could stand on the steps. It ran at a maximum speed of 15 kilometres per hour. The gasoline can was located under one of the car seats
and the muffer was on the roof of the tram. In 1920 the line was closed and taken over by a bus service, due wear because of hard usage and
lack of spare parts.
So in 1920 35 years of railway transport in Curaçao was over.
Furthermore you see the FDC for a stamp sheet issued by the island's Nieuwe Post N.V.(=Ltd.) showing the history of rail travel in the island of Curaçao. Issued 12 April 2012.
Design: Richmond Gijsbertha
print: BJohan Enschedé Stamps Security Printers, Haarlem, The Netherlands
paper: offset coated stamp paper
Glue: synthetic
Watermark: no
Value: 200 + 250 + 300 + 350 cents = 11 Curaçao Guilders
Perforation: 13¾ : 14
Size of stamps: 30 x 40 mm / 40 x 20 mm
Size of souvenir sheet: 110 x 110 mm
Circulation: -
Catalogue numbers: sheet: Stanley Gibbons 1205 / Michel 6 / Yvert Tellier 5 / NVPH 77
Catalogue numbers: stamps: Stanley Gibbons 1205a-1205d / Michel 92-95 / Yvert Tellier 5a-5d / NVPH 77a-77d
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Carribean Netherlands (Saba, St. Eustatius, Bonaire)
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No stamps with railway related subjects
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