Dutch Embassy Discussions - International Union of Mail-Artists2024-03-29T09:10:55Zhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/dutchembassy/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noAdresses Dutch Mail-Artiststag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2012-04-06:2496677:Topic:9487642012-04-06T07:38:11.243ZRuud Janssenhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/RuudJanssen
<p>Omdat de posttarieven zo hoog zijn gaat iedereen weer op zoek naar contacten dichtbij. Waar zijn de Nederlandse mail-Artiesten bereikbaar? Laat hier je adres achter......</p>
<p>Omdat de posttarieven zo hoog zijn gaat iedereen weer op zoek naar contacten dichtbij. Waar zijn de Nederlandse mail-Artiesten bereikbaar? Laat hier je adres achter......</p> Dutch Mail Art anniversary project?tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2010-12-10:2496677:Topic:2189552010-12-10T05:18:14.422ZValentine Mark Hermanhttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/ValentineMarkHerman
<p>Goede morgen jonges en meisjes!</p>
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<p>Are any of you interested in this idea for a new Group:</p>
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<p>To start, a little bit of personal background.</p>
<p>I reached Mail Art and the IOUMA community via my life-long interest in postage stamps and postal history -- including, after living for almost 25 years in Rotterdam and Maastricht Dutch stamps and postal history..</p>
<p>I would like to see we Mail Artists celebrating their -- and others' -- national postal history.We…</p>
<p>Goede morgen jonges en meisjes!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Are any of you interested in this idea for a new Group:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>To start, a little bit of personal background.</p>
<p>I reached Mail Art and the IOUMA community via my life-long interest in postage stamps and postal history -- including, after living for almost 25 years in Rotterdam and Maastricht Dutch stamps and postal history..</p>
<p>I would like to see we Mail Artists celebrating their -- and others' -- national postal history.We would do so by sending a special 'commermorative' piece of Mail Art to other Group members on the anniversary of the first ever issue of a postage stamp in 'their' country.</p>
<p>For example: the world's first ever postage stamp, the Penny Black, was issued in Great Britain on 6 May 1840. To celebrate the 171st anniversary of this, those of us in any Group-to-be -- perhaps only Brits, perhaps everyone, who knows? -- would issue a Penny Black Commemorative Mail Art piece on 6 May 2011.The same would take place on other dates -- for the US on 14 August, for the Netherlands on 23 May, for Austria and Spain on 1st June, etc.</p>
<p>This could be -- but I don't think that it is necessary -- linked to the activities of the existing IUOMA national (eg Dutch,Greek, Italian, French etc), local (Brittanish) and regional Groups (Hispanic). [No doubt Snooky and Angie will want to commemorate the first ever postage stamp that featured a dog, and others would want mice, cats and other beasties and other things commemorated too]</p>
<p>I recognise that the definition of the date of the first ever postage stamp is not all that easy in some countries -- are we talking about the first federal stamp or the first national stamp? What happens when countries break up and reform? Pre- or post-independance issues? etc.But it should be possible for 'Local Heros' (including David Bowie, of course) and 'Local Experts' do set the date.</p>
<p>That's the basic outline of the nascent Group as I see it now. If the Group gets off the ground -- or in the post (sorry) -- we'd have to think of a name for it like Postal History Commemorative Group. </p>
<p>Let me end, as I began, with another bit of personal background. I don't want to be the leader of this Group, but hope someone else will be.</p>