Netherlands Antilles

If you are looking for issues of the autonomous island of Curaçao first issued in 2010, go here.

The Netherlands Antilles, or Nederlandse Antillen was an island group that was a colony of the Netherlands.
 * Its first issue was in 1873 inscribed CURAÇAO.
 * Circa 1901, Dutch stamps were provisionally overprinted CURAÇAO.
 * In 1904, some issues were inscribed POSTZEGEL / KOLONIE CURAÇAO. 1906 guilder values were inscribed KOLONIE CURAÇAO.
 * In 1918 an improvised typeset issue was released.
 * Stamps continued to be inscribed CURAÇAO until 1949, when the name was changed to NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN, often abbreviated NED. ANTILLEN.
 * Netherlands Antilles stamps were used up to October 2010 when the country was split postally into three entities: Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao and St. Martin/Sint Maarten.





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