Sluis (NL)

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Sluis is a small city in West Zeeuwsch-Vlaanderen in the Netherlands with historic importance. In the Middle Ages it was a crucial harbour for the 100-years' war. Now the city is no longer connected to the North sea by silting up.

The belfry of Sluis is a town hall whose construction may have started in 1386. It is the only belfry that is located within the borders of the present-day Netherlands, next to the Wijnhuistoren in Zutphen. Building belfries is a Belgian and Northern French tradition. The belfry of Sluis is located less than a kilometer from the Belgian border.

Read more @ http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluis_(stad)

Postmark Examples

Postmark Sluis 1885. Stampset

Postmark Sluis 1870. Stampset

Coded Postal Obliterator nr 98 (= Sluis). c.1891. Stampset

Postmark Sluis 1893. Stampset

Postmark Sluis 1893. Stampset

Cards and Covers

Letter from Sluis in the Netherlands to Paris in France, February 1869. Routed via Erquelinnes (railway station on the border between Belgium and France). Postage stamp from 1867-1868, catalogued NVPH-10, depicting King Willem III.

Registered letter from Sluis to Terneuzen (1981). The R-label from the neighboring village Cadzand was used for registration where name of the village was changed with a handstamp

Special cancels

Special cancel Sluis 1988. From philatelic counter in local post office

Meter stamps

Sluis, 1979. Town hall and Belfry.

Sluis, 1985

Sluis, 1987. Town hall and Belfry

Sluis, 1990

Sluis, 1996