Netherlands 1940 Summer Stamps: Famous Dutch Personalities

Netherlands · 1940 · 1½c, 2½c, 3c, 5c, 7½c, 12½c

A block of six Dutch semi-postal stamps from 1940, each featuring a portrait of a famous Dutch personality, including artists Vincent van Gogh and Jan Steen, writer E.J. Potgieter, scientist Petrus Camper, and linguist J.J. Scaliger.

Issued as 'Zomerzegels' (Summer stamps) in 1940, these stamps likely carried a surcharge to support social or charitable causes during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, celebrating national heritage amidst wartime.