Beautiful Netherlands. Prestige Booklet

    Netherlands  2006.10.10

    In issue: Booklet(s): 1   

    Printing: multicoloral offset

  • Perforation: Comb   Perforation type: 13 ½x13

    Subject:

    The prestige booklet consists of 6 pages with a small description of cities and 5 souvenir sheets with 2 stamps each.

    The second illustration shows the blocks with mills and fragments with them (respectively numbered).

    Pages 4 and 5 show the tower mill de Koornbloem in Goes* and the mills at Weesp** on the Vecht river.

    Additional:

    *Goes is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, in the province of Zeeland. The city of Goes has approximately 27,000 residents.

    In 1801 Pieter Remijn built the corn mill De Koornbloem on the northwestern city wall. The predecessor of this mill was an oil mill, a post mill that burned down in 1771. Goes once had 5 mills, where the Koornbloem is the only one still in existence.

     

    **Weesp is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It had a population of 19,334 in 2019. It lies on the river Vecht and next to the Amsterdam–Rhine Canal in an area called the Vechtstreek. Weesp is part of the Amsterdam metropolitan area even if the city is surrounded by open grassland and lakes.

    Size (of sheet, booklet) mm: 149x102