2532) Donald Duck characters feature on Children's Welfare Stamps, Netherlands: PostNL (Netherlands Post) has issued a set of five stamps featuring the popular Walt Disney characters: Date of Stamp set issue: 10.10.2022:
About Children’s Welfare Stamps:
Children’s Welfare Stamps were first issued in 1924 to give children orphaned due to the Spanish flu a safe home.
The rich history shows many milestones.
In 1948, children started selling stamps from door to door for the very first time.
Since then, many princes and princesses have been depicted on the stamps, and major organisations and projects such as the "Children’s helpline" were established thanks to the money raised by the Children’s Welfare Stamps campaign.
Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland advocates equal opportunities for children and is the leading charity organisation for and by children. Because children want to help other children.
Working together with children, Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland helps thousands of children become more confident, in both the Netherlands and beyond.
The foundation offers exciting programmes and works together with a number of partners to raise funds to develop and facilitate these.
The present issue:
On 10.10.2022, PostNL (Netherlands Post) issued a new stamp sheetlet with Children’s Welfare Stamps marked with ‘1’ for destinations within the Netherlands.
This year, the five stamps are dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Donald Duck magazine.
Since 1924, PostNL has been issuing Children’s Welfare Stamps to raise money for projects aimed at improving the welfare of vulnerable children.
This is achieved by adding a € 0.48 surcharge to each stamp.
The proceeds from all surcharges will be used for projects developed by the independent Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland.
The foundation is committed to giving children in both the Netherlands and in other countries a chance of a better life. To make this aid possible, the foundation organises, among other things, the Children's Welfare Stamps campaign.
The campaign has been listed in the Dutch National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2017.
This year, more than 140,000 students from the last two years of primary schools took orders for the Children’s Welfare Stamps from 28.09.2022 up to and including 05.10.2022.
PostNL has begun delivery of all orders from 11.10.2022.
The proceeds from the 2021 campaign amounted to 8.5 million Euro.
This year’s Children’s Welfare Theme is "give children the wind in their sails."
Some children have difficulty concentrating or lack self-confidence due to personal circumstances. As a result, they do not manage to achieve their full potential.
The Stichting Kinderpostzegels helps these children by, for example, coaching them individually or training them to increase their self-confidence and motivation.
The 2022 theme of the stamps is "Donald Duck":
The first Dutch Donald Duck weekly magazine was published on 25.10.1952, (70 years ago this year).
In other countries, similar monthly or weekly magazines had already existed for some time, such as "Topolino" in Italy, "Micky Maus" in Germany, "Mickey Magazine" in Belgium and "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" in the USA.
Over the first few years, the Dutch pages were alternately printed in colour and black-and-white, but in 1954 the first issue appeared entirely in colour.
The current Donald Duck magazine is published by DPG Media Magazines B.V. in the "BeNeLux" ("Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg").
Presently, most of the stories in the magazine are conceived and drawn in the Netherlands.
According to DPG Media, Donald Duck weekly magazine is the largest family and men's magazine in the Netherlands, with a circulation of over 200,000 copies.
Through the use of both offline and online media, the magazine’s brand awareness is almost 100%, and the loyalty of its readers is incredibly strong.
This year, the Museum of Comic Art in Noordwijk aan Zee has organised a special exhibition dedicated to the Netherlands' most cheerful weekly magazine until 30.10.2022.
This isn’t the first time PostNL has issued stamps and stamp products featuring Walt Disney characters.
In 2009, for example, a stamp booklet dedicated to the "101 Dalmatians" appeared, followed in 2010 by the first issue in a long-running series of personal stamps starring "Donald Duck".
In 2012, PostNL issued a 12-part series with post sets featuring cards and stamps about Donald Duck in relation to the 12 Dutch provinces.
The 2022 Children’s Welfare Stamps feature various characters who appear in the comic strips in Donald Duck magazine.
The following inhabitants of Duckburg make their appearance: Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey and Louie, April, May and June, Chip and Dale and Neighbour J. Jones.
The action takes place in Donald Duck's house and front yard.
The illustrations on the stamp sheet feature various recurring themes of Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland, including children helping each other and every child getting to school safely.
The illustration continues on the edge of the sheet, which also features the logos of 70 years of Donald Duck, the Children's Welfare Stamps campaign, and PostNL.
On the stamps themselves, the denomination and the surcharge are printed in the top left-hand corner, with the country (Netherlands) in the bottom right-hand corner.
The typography of the texts features the Burbank Big (font designer Tal Leming, 2007, for Type Supply) and the Helvetica Neue LT Std (font designer Max Miedinger, 1983, for Lynotype).
Just like last year, the illustration on the Children’s Welfare Stamps was created by comic strip artist Tim Artz from Nijmegen.
While Tom Puss and Olivier B. Bommel took centre stage in 2021, Donald Duck plays the lead in 2022. The focus on the Disney comic characters coincides with the 70-year anniversary of the most cheerful weekly magazine in the Netherlands: Donald Duck.
For the first time in the long history of Children’s Welfare Stamps, they feature a true international cartoon hero - Donald Duck. And with a story to boot. One sees May help Huey with his homework (symbolic of children helping other children).
Louie, April and June go to school without a care in the world: this is the mission PostNL is so passionate about.
Technical details:
Issue Date: 10.10.2022
Designer: Ellen Hagenaars, Amsterdam
Illustrator: Tim Artz
Printer: Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé B.V., Haarlem
Process: Offset
Colours: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black
Size:
Stamp Size: 4 stamps measuring 36.00 mm x 25.00 mm and 1 stamp measuring 36.00 mm x 50.00 mm
Sheet Size: 144.00 mm x 75.00 mm
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