1024) Butterflies and Moths of Netherlands: A set of 10 Postage Stamps brought out ny PostNL on 11.06.2019 under its ongoing Postage Stamp Series titled "Experience Nature":
PostNL has on 11.06.2019, issues a set of 10 stamps titled "Experience Nature - Butterflies and Moths, which are presented in ten different designs.
These postage stamps are marked "Nederland 1", the denomination for items up to 20 grams in weight destined for the Netherlands.
This issue is the seventh in the "Experience Nature Series" and the third for 2019. On 02.01.2019, PostNL issued a set of 10 stamps under this series titled "Mammals" and on 25.02.2019 PostNL issued postage stamps illustrating "Stinzen plants". This year (2019). PostNL will be issuing four sets of stamps in this series, releasing a total of 40 postage stamps- one set per season. The third issue illustrating "Butterflies and Moths" has now been released and represents summer, while the last issue this year will include "Trees and Leaves" and is slated for release on 16.09.2019.
The photos featured on these postage stamps were procured from Buiten-Beeld, the Dutch image bank and picture library for nature stock photography.
About Experience Nature - Butterflies and Moths:
Butterflies and Moths are winged insects from the order of Lepidoptera. In Greek, the word "lepis" means "scale" and "pteron" means "wing". The name literally means "scale wing". Butterfly and Moth wings are indeed covered in scales, which also absorb light in different ways. These scales give them the colours and markings that are visible to us. Butterflies and Moths reproduce in a special way. A caterpillar hatches from an egg, and then undergoes a metamorphosis in a chrysalis or cocoon, to emerge as a Butterfly or Moth.
The Netherlands is home to more than 2,400 species of moths and butterflies. Most of them are Moths and Micro-Moths. Only 53 Butterfly species remain in the Netherlands and many species have disappeared due to loss of habitat.
The "Experience Nature - Butterflies and Moths postage stamps feature the following ten Butterflies and Moths:
The Alcon Large Blue, the Grizzled Skipper, the Green Hairstreak, the Small Tortoiseshell, the Blood-vein, the Sooty Copper, the Common Blue, the Six-spot Burnet, the Small Emperor Moth and the Nine-spot Moth.
Each of the ten Postage Stamps features a photo of a Butterfly or Moth on a flower.
Seven other Butterfly and Moth illustrations have been included in a separate graphics layer on the Postage Stamp Sheet, in transparent, monochrome shades - the Old World Swallowtail (as a Caterpillar and as a Butterfly), the small Tortoiseshell (Pupa), the burnished Brass, the Camberwell Beauty, the Elephant Hawk Moth and the Polygonia c-album.
The transparent images on the Postage stamp sheet devote attention to the reproduction cycle of Butterflies and Moths.
In their short lives, these fascinating insects undergo a bizarre metamorphosis - starting with an egg from which the caterpillar hatches, then it spins itself into a cocoon or makes a chrysalis, from which emerges a beautiful, colourful Butterfly or Moth.
A First Day Cover (FDC) which has five stamps included in this set affixed to it, displays colourful butterflies and the emergence of a multi-coloured butterfly from its pupa is seen at bottom left.
The Cancellation Handstamp shows a butterfly in its centre and is dated "11.06.2019"
The second FDC has the remaining five stamps affixed to it. It bears the same Cancellation Handstamp. The Cancellation Stamp on this FDC is identical - "11.06.2019".
The Stamps/Sheet Designs:
Graphic designer Frank Janse from Gouda has brought in the sensory and associative aspects of experiencing nature play a sensitive part/central role in the stamp designs. He drew inspiration for his designs from three books - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Erik of het klien insectenboek by Godfried Bamans and De kliene Johannes by Frederik van Eeden.
The photos were all taken in summer, with the green leaves dominating the background. Each of the ten butterflies and Moths is depicted on its own stamp, with images of the Butterflies and Moths in their natural surroundings. In some instances, the illustrations run into the background colour or onto the adjacent postage stamp and onto the edge of the Sheet. The photos have been captured in a graphic layer of overlapping circles of different sizes, breaking through the perforated edges. The circle pattern returns as small droplets on the edge of the sheet and on the tabs.
A second graphics layer is positioned on top of the circles, with transparent images of a caterpillar, a pupa and five Butterflies and Moths displayed almost abstractly in monochrome shades.
In the layered design, circles were used to reflect the dynamic, organic aspects of nature.
The Font:
For the typography, Janse designed his own font, named "Fdot" which was developed from tiny circles. The TT Milks Light and Demibold fonts (2017, Ivan Gladkikh for Typetype) are used in capitals for explanatory notes/texts on the edge of the sheet.
The Technical Data/Details:
Stamp issue date: 11.06.2019
Designer: Frank Grafisch (Frank Janse), Gouda
Printer: Joh Enschede Security Print, Haarlem
Printing Process: Offset
Colours: cyan, magenta, yellow and black
Stamp Size(s): 30 mm x 40 mm
Size of Sheet: 170 mm x 122 mm
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The "Experience Nature - Butterflies and Moths postage stamps feature the following ten Butterflies and Moths:
The Alcon Large Blue, the Grizzled Skipper, the Green Hairstreak, the Small Tortoiseshell, the Blood-vein, the Sooty Copper, the Common Blue, the Six-spot Burnet, the Small Emperor Moth and the Nine-spot Moth.
Each of the ten Postage Stamps features a photo of a Butterfly or Moth on a flower.
Seven other Butterfly and Moth illustrations have been included in a separate graphics layer on the Postage Stamp Sheet, in transparent, monochrome shades - the Old World Swallowtail (as a Caterpillar and as a Butterfly), the small Tortoiseshell (Pupa), the burnished Brass, the Camberwell Beauty, the Elephant Hawk Moth and the Polygonia c-album.
The transparent images on the Postage stamp sheet devote attention to the reproduction cycle of Butterflies and Moths.
In their short lives, these fascinating insects undergo a bizarre metamorphosis - starting with an egg from which the caterpillar hatches, then it spins itself into a cocoon or makes a chrysalis, from which emerges a beautiful, colourful Butterfly or Moth.
The Cancellation Handstamp shows a butterfly in its centre and is dated "11.06.2019"
The Stamps/Sheet Designs:
Graphic designer Frank Janse from Gouda has brought in the sensory and associative aspects of experiencing nature play a sensitive part/central role in the stamp designs. He drew inspiration for his designs from three books - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Erik of het klien insectenboek by Godfried Bamans and De kliene Johannes by Frederik van Eeden.
The photos were all taken in summer, with the green leaves dominating the background. Each of the ten butterflies and Moths is depicted on its own stamp, with images of the Butterflies and Moths in their natural surroundings. In some instances, the illustrations run into the background colour or onto the adjacent postage stamp and onto the edge of the Sheet. The photos have been captured in a graphic layer of overlapping circles of different sizes, breaking through the perforated edges. The circle pattern returns as small droplets on the edge of the sheet and on the tabs.
A second graphics layer is positioned on top of the circles, with transparent images of a caterpillar, a pupa and five Butterflies and Moths displayed almost abstractly in monochrome shades.
In the layered design, circles were used to reflect the dynamic, organic aspects of nature.
The Font:
For the typography, Janse designed his own font, named "Fdot" which was developed from tiny circles. The TT Milks Light and Demibold fonts (2017, Ivan Gladkikh for Typetype) are used in capitals for explanatory notes/texts on the edge of the sheet.
The Technical Data/Details:
Stamp issue date: 11.06.2019
Designer: Frank Grafisch (Frank Janse), Gouda
Printer: Joh Enschede Security Print, Haarlem
Printing Process: Offset
Colours: cyan, magenta, yellow and black
Stamp Size(s): 30 mm x 40 mm
Size of Sheet: 170 mm x 122 mm
For other interesting posts on issues from the Royal Dutch Mint, Netherlands and PostNL, please visit the following links:
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