Classic cars from the Louwman Museum immortalized on stamps

Classic cars adorn the new stamp sheet Classics from the Louwman Museum. Each of the ten stamps features an image of a historic car from the museum collection

Cornelie Petter Godin de Beaufort, sister of Carel Godin de Beaufort who was killed in one of the last gentlemen races, received the first sheet of stamps. This was presented by Barry Husman, Director Consumer & Small Business at PostNL, in the presence of the director of the Louwman Museum, Ronald Kooyman. One of the stamps shows the type of Porsche her brother drove. The sheet of stamps was designed by graphic designer Hans Bastiaan Busking, who had previously designed the museum catalog.

The first stamp at the top left of the sheet shows the oldest car from 1887, and at the bottom right is the newest one from 1965. Each stamp shows the make and the year in which the car went into production. Further model designations and any other special details of the car are printed in the sheet margin.

The Louwman Museum

The Louwman Museum in The Hague presents one of the oldest private collections in the world. It comprises more than 230 historic cars, carriages and motorcycles that have been brought together since 1934 by two generations of the Louwman family. For the period up to 1910, the museum holds the worlds largest collection of cars, including the second oldest car in the world. This 1887 Dion-Bouton & Trepardoux has been featured on its own postage stamp, as have, among others, James Bonds Aston Martin from the film Goldfinger, a rare Spyker and the only surviving Eysink from Amersfoort. Other car brands that appear on the stamps are Brooke, Bugatti, Duesenberg, Toyota, Porsche and Ferrari.

Availability

The stamps are available, while supplies last, at Bruna stores and via www.collectclub.nl The validity period is indefinite. The stamps are marked Netherlands 1, intended for mail up to 20 grams with a destination within the Netherlands.