Amsterdam (NL)

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Amsterdam is the capital city of and the most populous within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.Amsterdam's name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city's origin as a dam of the river Amstel. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world during the Dutch Golden Age (17th century), a result of its innovative developments in trade.Amsterdam is located in the western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

The river Amstel terminates in the city centre and connects to a large number of canals that eventually terminate in the IJ. Amsterdam is situated 2 metres below sea level.

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Postmark Examples

Postmark Amsterdam, no date, Cancel on first issue of the Netherlands, probably between 1852 and 1860. Stampset

Postmark Amsterdam 1856. Stampset

Coded Obliterator 5

Coded Postal Obliterator nr 5 (= Amsterdam) c.1867. Stampset

Coded Postal Obliterator nr 5 (= Amsterdam) c.1869. Stampset

Coded Postal Obliterator nr 5 (= Amsterdam) c.1872. Stampset

Coded Postal Obliterator nr 5 (= Amsterdam) c.1876. Stampset

Coded postal obliterator nr 5 (= Amsterdam) c.1881. Stampset

Coded postal obliterator nr 5 (9= Amsterdam) c.1891. Stampset

19th century other cancels

DC in 1882

DCAmsterdam in 1892 on a card cut.

DC Amsterdam 1892 on Postage Due issue from 1881.

Postmark Amsterdam 1894 with special "double-ring" cancel. Stampset

Amsterdam Oct 2, 1896, on Postage Stamp with Queen Wilhelmina, in StampSet

Postal Order Stamp Amsterdam 1896. Stampset

Postmark Amsterdam 1899. Stampset

20th century cancels

Postmark Amsterdam 1900. Stampset

Postmark Amsterdam 1914. Stampset

AMSTERDAM Mass cancellation on 31 JAN 1907 on Charity Stamps Anti-Tuberculosis

Postmark Amsterdam 1906. Stampset

Amsterdam 1906, Columbia Machine Cancel. "FLAG" cancellation with text "NEDERLAND"

Advertising/Event Hand Franking Stamp Amsterdam 1912 on Postage Due Stamp.

Postmark , as used by the "Filatelieloket" (=philatelic counter in the post office). The illustration in the cancel shows the former Head Post Office of Amsterdam. .

Amsterdam Sub Offices

Central Station

Postmark Amsterdam C:Station 1890. Stampset

Postmark (Small round) C:Station 1892. Stampset

Postmark Amsterdam Centr:Station 1898. Stampset

Postmark (Large round) Amsterdam-Centr:Station 1900. Stampset

Postmark Amsterdam Centr:Station 1907. Postage stamp from Stampset

AMSTERDAM CENTRAAL STATION, 1932

Postmark Amsterdam C.S. (Central Station) 1937. Postage stamp from Stampset

Line Cancel Amsterdam C.S., ca 1930

Amsterdam-Centraal 61, bridge on 22 VIII 1938

Amsterdam C.S. * , circle on 1 X 1938

Arrival Mark Amsterdam CS Centraal Station, 1952

Slogan cancel Amsterdam CS Centraal Station, 1932

Amstel

Postmark Amstel 1880. Stampset

Postmark Amstel 1885. Stampset

Amsteldijk

Postmark Amsteldijk 1885. Stampset

Amstelstraat

Postmark Amstelstraat 1887. Stampset

Postmark/Name cancel Amstelstraat c.1876. Stampset

Postmark Amstelstr. 1893. Stampset

Overtoom

Postmark OVERTOOM 1886. Stampset

P.C.Hoofdstraat

Postmark P.C.Hoofdstraat 1886. Stampset

Postmark P.C.Hoofdstraat 1893. Stampset

Piet Hein Kade

Postmark PietHein kade 1890. Stampset

Postmark P.H.Kade 1895. Stampset

Postmark PietHein Kade 1897. Stampset

Spiegelstraat

Postmark Spiegelstraat 1894. Stampset

Postmark Spiegelstraat 1893. Stampset

Postmark Spiegelstraat 1893. Stampset

V.D.Helststraat

Postmark V.D.HELSTSTR. 1931.

Westerdok

Postmark Westerdok 1890. Stampset

Postmark Westerdak 1892. Stampset

Numbered Sub Offices (large or small numbers!)

Amsterdam-1 1916

Amsterdam-2 1897

Amsterdam-3 1924

Amsterdam-4 1902

Amsterdam-5 1902

Amsterdam-6 1897

Postmark Amsterdam-7 1904

Amsterdam-8 1894

Amsterdam-9 1898

Amsterdam-10 1907

Amsterdam-11 1895

Amsterdam-12 1908

Amsterdam-13 1927

Amsterdam-14 1897

Amsterdam-15 1914

Amsterdam-16 1908

Amsterdam-17 1923

Special postmark AMSTERDAM - E

Amsterdam-E, 1893. This postmark was essentially (but not exclusively) used for the train connection between Amsterdam and Vlissingen (Flushing) for all the mail to and from England and to and from other countries via England, including the West-Indies, which went via the boat Vlissingen-Queensborough. Used in the period about 1892-1895.

Business Points

AMSTERDAM, Business Point Kerkstraat, Jan 2009

Amsterdam, Business Point Fred Roeskerstraat, no date!

AMSTERDAM, Business Point Amsterdam Zuid-Oost Hoogoorddreef, Jun 2009

Covers and Cards

The Germany-based Schaefer's Circus Lilliputs (The Gullivers) was allowed to cancel letters and postcards in their Fairy Tale Town Post Office in Amsterdam during their visit and performance with a specially designed postmark on March 11, 1937. The cards and letters were handled normally by the Dutch postal services.

This is an example of the Schaefer cards.

First stamped Letter card of the Netherlands, model 1871, privately overprinted with "Binnenlandsche Vaart - Risico-Societeit" (a company name), sent by train from Hoogeveen to Amsterdam. The card was offered at Hoogeveen Station to the post office in the train on the traject Groningen/Meppel on 24 OCT 1872. The Hoogeveen postmark is a typical train cancel. Also the cancel with "Meppel-Gron." has been set at the train office. The card arrived in Amsterdam on 25 OCT 1872. Note: the mark B3 is from the postman who delivered the card at the destination. Collection of Jan Boon.

Letter card, model 1871, sent from Amsterdam in the afternoon of Aug 20,1972, between 1200 and 1600 hrs (12M-4A), to Zaandam, where it arrived on Aug 20, 1972, between 4 and 8 hrs (4A - 8A). A postage stamp was not used. This is an error, caused by confusion of the postal authorities. Extra info on the first Dutch letter cards from 1871. On january 1, 1871, two types of letter cards were introduced in the Netherlands. One with a pre-paid stamp of 2.5 cents, meant for inland use. Another one with no value indication, meant for post to foreign countries. Both forms had an extensive footnote ("NOTA") on how to use the card. Later versions: In 1872/1874 the same letter cards were issued without the footnote. From the collection of Jan Boon.

Dutch stamped letter card, model 1871, sent April 2, 1871, from RHENEN (only name stamp in red color) via train on traject Amsterdam-Emmerik to Amsterdam. The coded postal obliterator 136 (stands for RHENEN) was also applied in the travelling post office (TPO), this was against postal regulations though. The card arrived in Amsterdam the same day between 4 and 8 hrs in the afternoon: arrival stamp April 2, 1871. The postman delivering the card put the postmark A.24 in oval. (Courtesy of Jan Boon).

1905 London to Amsterdam

1960 First scheduled KLM flight from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Started at Central Station Amsterdam on April 25, Schiphol stamp on April 26 and Arrival stamp on Jeddah at April 27.

10 DEC 1904

Letter card sent from Amsterdam to Rijswijk (Z.H.) 1920. With boxed Postman's cancel A.11. Netherlands Postal Stationery 1909.

Stampless Cover, sent from Amsterdam to Rotterdam 1942.

Meter and Machine cancels

Slogan Cancels

AMSTERDAM 1920

AMSTERDAM 1920

AMSTERDAM 1924

AMSTERDAM Centraal Station, 1933

AMSTERDAM 1935

AMSTERDAM C.S.1937

AMSTERDAM 1939

AMSTERDAM 1942

AMSTERDAM 1944

AMSTERDAM 1945

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Slogan Cancel Amsterdam, 1966

Slogan Cancel Amsterdam, 1967

AMSTERDAM, 1967. Slogan: "Post your letters as soon as they are ready"

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AMSTERDAM, 1986. Slogan: "400 years City of Diamonds"

AMSTERDAM, 1998. Postage stamp with Queen Beatrix, cancelled with slogan: "Dutch postage stamps, you can also collect them!

Meter cancels

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1935. De Bijenkorf heeft het!

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1945. HEMA, (originally an acronym for "Hollandsche Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam", "Hollandic Standard Prices Company Amsterdam"), is a Dutch variety store-chain. It began operations as a variety store. The chain is characterized by relatively low pricing of generic household goods, which are mostly made by and for the chain itself, often with an original design. The first HEMA opened in Amsterdam on 4 November 1926, set up by the owners of the luxury department store "De Bijenkorf" at the Dam Square in the Center of the City.

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1976. By the 1950s, all typewriters were hammer-type machines. In 1961 IBM resumed the old principle of the "single element typewriter" and introduced the IBM 72, an electric typewriter, in which all characters were arranged on a "ball". The ball itself moved along the paper, turned into the desired position and struck the ink ribbon in a cassette, thus printing characters on the paper, not yet proportionally. Now other fonts could also be used by placing other "balls"

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1988	1988. Barclays Bank Club.

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1989	1990. NJHC = Dutch Youth Hostel Central.

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Meter cancels from Amsterdam, devoted to KLM

Meter cancel 1947

Meter cancel 1956

Meter cancel 1957

Meter cancel 1958

Meter cancel 1960

Meter cancel 1960

Meter cancel 1966

Meter cancel 1973

Meter cancel 1974

Meter cancel 1974

Meter cancel 1975

Meter cancel 1976

Meter cancel 1976

Meter cancel 1977

Covers and meters

Meter cancel Amsterdam 1982. Meter from AMRObank, addressed also AMRObank. Registered letter and Airmail label?

Roller Cancels

The following Roller Cancels (or Continuous Cancels) are all coming from the Amsterdam Central Station (Amsterdam CS).

Amsterdam CS, 1927

Amsterdam CS, 1928

Amsterdam CS, 1931

Amsterdam CS, 1934

Amsterdam CS, 1936

Amsterdam CS, 1937

Amsterdam CS, 1938

Registered labels

Registered labels from 3 different post offices in Amsterdam

Registered labels from different post offices in Amsterdam

Railway cancels

AMSTERDAM-EMMERIK-a 1881

AMSTERDAM-EMMERIK-1 1890

AMSTERDAM-EMMERIK . Emmerich lies 110km SE of Amsterdam, and 30km SE of Arnhem. Cancelled in 1898.

AMSTERDAM-EMMERIK II. Emmerich lies 110km SE of Amsterdam, and 30km SE of Arnhem. Cancelled in 1909.

AMSTERDAM-EMMERIK 1912

Letter card, sent from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Berlin (Germany). Departed by train on March 19, 1888 from Amsterdam to Emmerik. Scheduled route VII. Emmerik is on the border between Netherlands and Germany. The other mark is probably an arrival stamp (20/3) from German Post. The letter card is from 1886 (two languages) with portrait of King Willem III. (Courtesy of Don Dominique Mela.)

Letter card sent from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Wald bei Solingen (Germany). Printed stamp and additional stamp were cancelled by railway cancel Amsterdam-Emmerik, scheduled route VI, on 12 OCT 1882. Courtesy of Sten Eriksson.

Reverse of letter card Amsterdam-Wald, showing the impressed seal of the company J.G.van Tertholen, Amsterdam.