• Vacations

    Netherlands  1996.05.31

    In issue: Stamp(s): 4   

    Printing: multicolored

    Issued in: sheets of 50 stamps. First and forth stamps of issue was also printed in mini-sheets of 10 (2*5) stamps

    Printable Version

  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1579   Yvert: 1547   Scott: 930  

    Perforation type: 13 ¼x12 ¾

    Subject:

    100 cents. Windmills (pumps) at "Zaanse Schans" open-air museum, anemone**.

     

    Additional:

    *Zaanse Schans is a neighbourhood of Zaandam, near Zaandijk in the municipality of Zaanstad in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It has a collection of well-preserved historic windmills and houses. Zaanse Schans is one of the popular tourist attractions of the region and an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Approximately 900 000 visitors in every year.

    The windmills were built after 1574.

     

    **Anemone (pfrom Greek Άνεμος 'wind'), is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae in the north and south temperate zones.

     

    Topics: Wind pumps and farm windmill Windmills