Where Is The Netherland Antilles (In Scott's Albums) ?

Hi,
I'm at a loss here, and need help..........
I won an auction of older worldwide stamps and succeeded in identifying and placing all but one.

It is the 15c Netherland Antillen dark blue Queen Juliana (Scott 218) stamp that I can't locate in the Scott's Big Blue Vol 2 or 3.

The thing is, I can't even locate the Antilles in any of the first 3 Scott's Albums. I'm obviously missing something, or my eyesight is worse than I thought.

Please Help !!

Thanks,
Mobilman44

Try looking under Curacao.

Is Netherlands Antilles the same as Netherlands Indies? If so, it might be under Dutch Indies?

Nevermind, Tomiseksj is correct I believe.

Hey, you guys are good !!

Yep, there it is, right in the Volume 3 Scotts under Curacao.

Thanks, your help is really appreciated.

I believe the old Netherlands Antilles was comprised of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, but I have no idea why Scott grouped the stamps only under the last. Perhaps only Curacao issued stamps and they were valid on all three islands. I'm sure a better historian than I is in the Forum and can enlighten us.

Donald

Donald, the old Netherlands Antilles were compromised of six islands: Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, St. Eustatius and St. Maarten. Maybe the folks at Scott in their infinite wisdom decided that since the capital of the N.A. was Willemstad on the island of Curacao, they list everything under Curacao? Peter

Thanks, Peter. I totally forgot about the last three islands.

Donald

Folks, I gotta say.............
I've learned so much about historical geography in the last year - and history too. This stuff is fascinating!

OK, just for the record. The Netherlands Antilles broke up into several different countries. In 1986 Aruba became an independent country, and issues its own stamps now. Later Curacao and Sint Maarten also became independent, and issue stamps. The other three islands, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba are now separate municipalities in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Peter

You know, the basic land formations have been the same for hundreds of years. But country names, borders, affiliations, "ownership" has bounced all over the place. For awhile, especially from the '40s thru '60s, a world map would change at least annually. And, being stamp enthusiasts, we have to sooner or later track those changes down.

I may sound like I'm complaining, but in fact the satisfaction of locating the proper "spot" for a stamp definitely overshadows the difficulty.

In 1828 Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten & Dutch Guiana (ie Suriname) were unitied as the Dutch West Indies with the seat of goverment in Dutch Guiana until 1848.
The islands were seperated in 1848 and were united as Curacao & Dependecies, postally only known as Curacao.
This group would be renamed the Netherland Antilles in 1948. Aruba seperated in 1986. The rest dissolved into special municapalities of Bonaire, Saba & Sint Eustatius with Curacao & Sint Maartin as autonomous countries within the Netherlands in 2010 ending the Netherland Antilles.

Hello -- 7 years later -- is NA part of a Scott Specialty album? If so, which one?

@johndann834: welcome to the Forum. My best guess is that overseas territories of The Netherlands would be in the same specialty album as the home country.

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I believe the reason for why all of the Netherlands Antilles stamps were listed in older albums under Curacao is simply because the stamps were inscribed "Curacao" until 1948.

And just to clarify, while Curacao and Aruba have autonomy, they are still overseas territories of the Netherlands proper, similar to the way a number of French territories are part of France proper as "Departments." The Netherlands Antilles broke up in 2010, and aside from Aruba and Curacao stamps for the other islands are imprinted "Caribisch Nederland" (Caribbean Netherlands).