Well, I never. I managed to forget about both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day this year, how rude is that?! Well, I’m hopefully excused as far as Mother’s Day is concerned for that is on a different day here in GB so by the time the Dutch Mother’s Day arrives everything has gone quiet here. But it was only yesterday, when I bought a card for someone, that I saw it was Father’s Day today! Oh well, too late for a card now, so I’ll just have to show one!

And it is a very apt one, for it comes from my dad’s former collection! He used to work for Philips and that’s how he got hold of one of these special jubilee flight postcards, with a special cancel, special air mail sticker and of course a special air mail stamp. All in honour of 75 years of Philips. A quick look at various on line auctions tells me that the flight cover is rather common, but I’ve not come across one single flight postcard like this one. Maybe they were only produced for Philips staff!

Adrian

PS: Oh, and notice the handwriting! If I could write like that, I wouldn’t need a computer to write up my collection! But alas, I did not inherit my dad’s handwriting, for mine is awful!