Jip & Janneke with an elefant and a camel

Postcard ID: NL-3292476
Country: Netherlands

here is one more postcard with Jip and Janneke in addition to my small collection. All received card syou can check by the tag Jip%Janneke.

I receive such cards not so often, and each time I'm so happy to find them in my mailbox :)

Jip and Janneke by Fiep Westendorp

Postcard ID: NL-2745039, NL-3139825
Country: Netherlands

Here is one more postcard painted by talented Dutch illustrator Fiep Westendorp. But the most interesting information for me was in the message. Do you know the reason why citizens of Zwolle are called like Bluefingers?)

Citizens of Zwolle are colloquially known as Blauwvingers (Bluefingers). This dates back to 1682, when the St.Michael's church tower collapsed. The authorities were strapped for cash and saw no option but to sell the church bells to neighbouring city Kampen. To make sure that Kampen would not make too much profit from the deal, the local authorities asked a high price for the church bells. Kampen accepted, yet after the arrival of the bells it became clear, they were too damaged to be played. In revenge, Kampen paid in copper coins of four duiten (the equivalent of 2-and-a-half cents). Zwolle distrusted Kampen and wanted to be sure they truly paid the entire price. After the rigorous counting of this vast amount of money, their fingers had turned blue from the copper

P.S. As I received duplicated card, I added Postcard ID of the second card at the top.

Here is the stamp from this card:

Jip and Janneke by Fiep Westendorp

Postcard ID: GB-552485
Country: United Kingdom

When I saw this postcard in my mailbox, I was sure that this card came to from Netherlands. But no! This is the postcard from United Kingdom :)

It was sent to me by a woman that is Dutch but live in England. Manon grew up with lots of books illustrated by Fiep Westendorp. By the way, I've known about this author due to postcrossing activity :)

Two children from this card are Jip and Janneke. Every Dutch child knows them :)

Here is a UK stamp:

Jip and Janneke

Postcard ID: NL-2177420

Country: Netherlands

Jip and Janneke is a series of children's books in the Netherlands, written by Annie M.G. Schmidt and illustrated by Fiep Westendorp.

The series was originally written for Het Parool. Between 13 September 1952 and 7 September 1957 a weekly episode of no more than 250 words was published. Each episode is an independent story in itself. The stories were later collected and published as books.

I like this series of cards and already have a few postcards with Jip and Janneke.

Here is the Dutch stamp: