2830) "Cheese Markets - Typically Dutch", Netherlands: PostNL (Netherlands Post) has issued a Postage Stamp of ‘Nederland 1’: Date of Stamp issue: 15.05.2023:
The multi-annual series started in 2020 and, in 2023, is dedicated to a variety of sights and attractions that are significant for and typical of the Netherlands.
As part of this stamp series, stamps featuring "Museums" (02 January) and "Mills" (13 February) were published earlier this year.
Stamps featuring "Cheese Markets" (15 May) and the "Wadden Mud Flats (14 August) will follow later this year.
Typically Dutch - Cheese Markets:
On 15.05.2023, PostNL has issued the Typically Dutch – Cheese Markets stamp sheet.
This issue is the fourth in the Typically Dutch series this year.
The six identical postage stamps are marked ‘Nederland 1’, the denomination for items weighing up to 20g destined for the Netherlands.
The Typically Dutch Cheese Markets:
Cows, milk and cheese – a trinity that is inextricably linked to The Netherlands.
The figures are impressive - The Netherlands produces 650 million kilos of cheese every year, two-thirds of which is sold abroad.
This makes The Netherlands the world’s largest cheese exporter, with Gouda and Edam the most popular cheeses among foreign buyers.
The relationship between the Netherlands and cheese goes way back.
Archaeological findings show that cheese was being made in The Netherlands even before the Common Era. In the Middle Ages, cheese production and trade conquered their central place in Dutch life.
Cheese markets flourished and towns with weighing rights set up weigh houses to determine the weight of the cheeses.
Five cheese markets still operate in The Netherlands, all with roots in a distant past. They are in Alkmaar, Edam, Hoorn, Gouda and Woerden.
In Gouda and Woerden, one finds real trade - the other cheese markets are tourist attractions.
The fact that these markets are mainly situated in the Western part of Netherlands is due to the damp soil, which is most suitable for grazing and rearing cows and therefore for milk production and cheese making.
Each cheese market has its own history and customs.
Alkmaar, for instance, is best known for its cheese carriers, who carry cheeses on their characteristic barrows, and Edam was granted the permanent right to operate a cheese weighing house by Prince William I of Orange in 1573.
The cheese market in Hoorn concentrates on the medieval Roode Steen square, where horse-drawn wagons take the cheeses and pick them up.
In Gouda, the cheese market has been held at the Gouda Cheese Market, right in front of De Waag, for centuries, and in Woerden it has been held every Saturday morning since 1885, with traditional handjeklap (bartering by slapping hands) negotiations between the region’s cheese farmers and the market master.
The Stamp Sheet:
The Typically Dutch – Cheese Markets Stamp Sheet features illustrations of large cheeses shaped like wagon wheels. The Stamp Sheet is titled "KAASMARKTEN" ("Cheese Markets").
Each stamp features four cheeses lying down and one cheese standing up. The cheeses fill the stamp up to the perforation edges.
A pale-yellow banderole (ornamental streamer) runs across the middle of the cheeses on the right of the stamp.
Each cheese throws a shadow on the right, suggesting that the light is coming from the left. The iconic shapes of the cheeses are grouped in a tight pattern across the stamps.
The edge also features stacks of cheeses, but the pattern is interrupted. The background of the stamp sheet and stamps is coral red.
At the bottom of each stamp is the sorting hook, the year 2023, the country (Nederland) and the denomination (1).
The logo for the Typically Dutch series is printed above each stamp, with a folded Dutch banner on the left and right. The Typically Dutch logo appears once more on the top edge of the sheet, while the right edge features a short explanatory text. The title of this issue on cheese markets in the Netherlands is printed in yellow on the sheet border between the large pictorial logo at the top of the stamp sheet and the stamps.
The Nexa Thin and Nexa Rust (Svet Simov, Fontfabric, 2012) fonts have been used for the text on the stamps and stamp sheet.
The 2023 stamps for the multi-annual Typically Dutch series were designed by Total Design from Amsterdam. The design concept behind the latest stamp sheets takes one back in time.
In 2021, Total Design developed presentations for the 2022 Typically Dutch series, suggesting Dutch sports and Dutch festivals as possible themes.
At top right is affixed a single stamp cancelled with a special Handstamp/Postmark showing cheese slabs in the centre. The date of cancellation is - "15.05.2023".
Technical Details:
Date of Stamps issue: 15.05.2023
Stamp size: 40.00 mm x 30.00 mm:
Sheet size: 122.00 mm x 170.00 mm
Paper: normal with phosphor print
Gum: gummed
Printing technique: offset
Printing colours: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK)
Print run: 75,000 sheets
Appearance: sheet of 6 stamps in 6 identical designs
Designers: Adam Lane and Edwin van Praet, Total Design, Amsterdam
Printer: Cartor Security Printers, Meaucé-La Loupe, France
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