2653) Experience Nature - Marker Wadden Nature Reserve: A set of Stamps issued by PostNL (Netherlands Post) featuring the Flora & Fauna of the Nature Reserve: Date of Stamp Set issue: 02.01.2023:
About "Experience Nature" - Stamp Series:
On 02.01.2023, PostNL has released the "Experience Nature – Marker Wadden issue" - a sheet of ten stamps in ten different designs.
The denomination on these stamps is ‘1’, the denomination for items weighing up to 20g destined for the Netherlands.
The stamp sheet is part of the multi-annual Experience nature 2021-2023 series. In the series, four stamp sheets are issued every year, each comprising ten different stamps. The stamps feature images of plants and animals in unique Dutch Nature Reserves across the country.
In 2023, it is the turn of the provinces of Flevoland, Friesland, Overijssel and Noord-Brabant.
The Experience Nature – Marker Wadden issue of 02.01.2023 highlights the landscape of the new natural environment of the Marker Wadden archipelago, located in the Markermeer in the province of Flevoland.
Later this year, further stamp sheets will be released focusing on Skrok and Skrins in Friesland (13.02.2023), the Wieden in Overijssel (12.06.2023) and the Oisterwijkse Bossen en Vennen in Noord-Brabant (24.08.2023).
About Experience Nature - Marker Wadden Nature Reserve, Flevoland:
Marker Wadden is a Nature Reserve consisting of a group of five uninhabited islands with a combined area of 1,000 hectares.
They were constructed in the Markermeer between 2016 and 2021, with the aim of boosting nature recovery and improving birdlife.
The sixth and seventh island will be completed in 2023.
Together with Oostvaardersplassen and Lepelaarplassen, Marker Wadden is part of Flevoland's Nieuw Land National Park. The islands were largely created using sand, clay and sediment from the Markermeer itself.
Natuurmonumenten manages the conservation of this new Nature Reserve.
The tranquillity of the area attracts vulnerable waterbirds. Vital for fish-eating birds in the Markermeer is the presence of their main food source, especially smelt.
Research in 2020 showed that, due to the construction of Marker Wadden, the availability of nutrients in the water increased significantly in a short time. It attracted large quantities of insects and other tiny life such as algae, water fleas and fish larvae. These, in turn, are food for birds and fish.
Early spring is a great time for the birds at Marker Wadden, from late winter visitors like the goosander, Lapland longspur, teal and horned lark to the first summer visitors like the black-tailed godwit, little ringed plover, spoonbill and avocet.
A permanent ferry service to Marker Wadden started operating in 2022, with sailings from Lelystad from April to October.
The Stamp Sheet:
Each has its own stamp. The stamp sheet also features many more images of flora and fauna typical for this area.
These are featured in a separate graphic layer as monochrome images: marram grass (top left and right), bearded reedling (top centre), common tern (centre left), mute swan (centre right), earthworm (centre), smelts (centre and right), buckthorn (bottom left) and little ringed plover (bottom right).
The Experience Nature – Marker Wadden stamp sheet was designed by graphic designer Frank Janse from Gouda.
On the Sheet, the ten plants and animals are depicted in their natural environment, each on their own stamp.
In some cases, the image or background colour continues onto the adjacent stamp and onto the sheet edge. All photos are incorporated in a graphic layer of different-sized overlapping circles, which break through the boundaries of the perforations.
The circle pattern returns as small droplets on the sheet edge and the tabs. There is another graphic layer on top of the circles featuring monochrome images of animals and plants from this area. These images are almost abstract and extend across the perforations to link the stamps together.
For the typography, Janse used his own font, which he designed especially for the Experience Nature Series.
The font, which consists of tiny circles, was given the name "Fdot". The explanatory texts on the sheet edge are set in the TT Milks Light and Demibold in capitals (2017, Ivan Gladkikh for Typetype).
In the captions, the designer creatively expressed his associations with the names, features and appearance of the plants and animals depicted, adding a touch of humour.
The Nature Reserves were chosen in consultation with experts from the Nature Conservation Organisation Natuurmonumenten.
A number of considerations played a role in the selection of these diverse landscapes.
Each area had to have plenty of interesting flora and fauna, for example. There had to be enough diversity, so every species could be represented: from plants, trees and mammals to insects, reptiles and amphibians.
The Two First Day Covers (FDCs) each bearing five stamps each have been cancelled with a special Cancellation Stamp/Postmark dated - "02.01.2023".
At left they show Mute Swans swimming in a water-body.
The two Presentation Packs (PPs).
Technical details:
Issue Date: 17.01.2023
Designer: Frank Janse, Gouda
Printer: Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé B.V., Haarlem
Process: Offset
Colours: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key - Black (CMYK)
Size:
Stamp size: 40.00 mm x 30.00 mm,
Sheet size: 122.00 mm x 170.00 mm
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