2961) "Wadden Mudflats - Typically Dutch", Netherlands: PostNL (Netherlands Post) has issued a Postage Stamp of "Nederland 1": Date of Stamp issue: 14.08.2023:
About Typically Dutch - Wadden Mudflats:
The multi-annual series started in 2020 and, in 2023, will be dedicated to a variety of sights and attractions that are significant for and typical of the Netherlands.
On 14.08.2023, PostNL has released the "Typically Dutch - Wadden Mudflats" stamp sheet.
This issue is the fifth in the Typically Dutch Stamp Series this year.
The six identical postage stamps are marked ‘Nederland 1’, the denomination for items weighing up to 20g destined for the Netherlands.
As part of this stamp series, stamps featuring Museums (2 January), Mills (13 February), Flower Fields (20 March) and Cheese Markets (15 May) were published earlier this year. The issue about the Wadden Mudflats is the final Stamp Sheet in the series this year.
About Wadden Mudflats:
The word ‘wad’ is related to the Latin word "vadum", meaning 'fordable place'.
In the Netherlands, mudflats are mostly associated with the Wadden Sea, which is a Nature Reserve on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
The name Wadden Sea was first used in the early 20th century for the Northern part of what was then called the "Zuiderzee".
This area is the site of ebb and flow, Earth's tidal action caused by the attraction of the moon. At flow (high tide) the water rises, while at ebb (low tide) the water retreats.
This gives people the opportunity to walk on the seabed at low tide. That seabed is anything but flat, and mudflat walkers have to overcome salt marshes, bay mudflats, sandbanks and sometimes deep gullies.
Mudflat walking as an organised form of exercise and relaxation dates back to some time after 1945.
Since 2020, the "Veiligheid Adviescommissie Wadlopen" (‘Safety Advisory Committee on Mudflat Walking’) has overseen the quality of training for mudflat walking guides based on criteria set by the Northern provinces.
The Nature Management Plan (NMP) for the Wadden Sea includes a special code of conduct for mudflat walking and rambles through the mudflats.
On each mudflat walk, the mudflat walking guide uses maps showing bay mudflats, sandbanks and the location and depth of gullies and tidal creeks. A timetable is key to each trip, as the tide times are different every day.
The Composite Stamp Sheet:
The "Typically Dutch – Wadden Mudflats" Stamp Sheet features illustrations of iconic shapes of footprints made from the sole and heel of a shoe.
Each stamp features three full footprints as well as footprints that extend across the perforations to the other stamps and to the sheet edge.
To the right of the centre, the stamps feature an illustration of a fan-shaped shell. The seemingly randomly scattered footprints are grouped in a set pattern across the stamps.
The footprint and shell pattern continues on the sheet edge. Only the position of the shell on the sheet edge on the right-hand side differs.
The background of the stamp sheet and stamps is light blue. 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 Stamp 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 the "Wadden Mudflats" in the Netherlands is printed in cream on the sheet edge 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.
Technical details:
Issue Date: 14.08.2023
Designer: Adam Lane and Edwin van Praet, Total Design, Amsterdam
Printer: Cartor Security Printers, Meaucé-La Loupe, France
Process: Offset
Colours: cyan, magenta, yellow and 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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DeleteRaj Kumar Srivastava has commented:
ReplyDelete"Thank you for the information😍 Do we have such mudflats over here? 😳"
Yes, mostly in the state of Gujarat in the Rann of Kutchh.
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