Number by catalogue:  Michel: 3222KB  

Perforation type: 14 ½x14 ¼

Subject:

The small sheet (souvenir sheet) includes 5 non-nominal stamps suitable for payment of sending correspondence up to 50 gr in the Netherlands.

In the design of the stamp and sheet, plots of the famous ceramics from Makkum* were used.

There are no mills on the stamp, but there are fragments in the fields of the block.

Additional:

*Makkum is a village of Súdwest-Fryslân municipality in the province Friesland of the Netherlands. It had a population of around 3,460 in January 2017, making it the largest village of the former municipally Wûnseradiel.

Historically Makkum is a fishing village.

Royal Tichelaar Makkum is a Dutch pottery company in Makkum. After initially producing bricks and later pottery and tiles, the company has focused on traditional decorative pottery since 1890. As the company in Makkum has always made ceramics, Royal Tichelaar Makkum is regarded as one of the oldest companies in the Netherlands.

In 1960, the company received the designation Koninklijk (Royal), on the occasion of its 300th anniversary. Later research showed that the company had been active even earlier and it celebrated its 400th anniversary in 1994, on the basis of the results of historical research. In 2007, documentation was discovered showing that the company was already active in 1572, as a Spanish map of that date shows bricaría (in Spanish - brickworks) in Makkum.

Topics: Mills in Art Mills within the landscapes Various Windmills