About us

Dear collector and / or buyer,

My name is Martin Bos. I have been collecting stamps from the Netherlands and its colonies for 45 years. In the beginning I was happy with every addition I received or could buy with my pocket money. From my student days in the 1990s I started collecting more seriously, focusing mainly on the older issues from before 1900. I was especially interested in the types of cancels, such as small round, half-round franco, large round and dot cancels. In those years I also stood at various fairs around Wageningen as a collector/buyer to sell surplus and duplicate material. During that time I laid the foundation for my current knowledge by talking with many other collectors and dealers.

From 1997 I started buying and selling on eBay myself in order to expand my collection further. This gave me many contacts all over the world and additional knowledge, and I saw the stamp trade develop from a regional approach into an international business. After having had less time for my hobby for a few years, I picked it up again from 2013, and in January 2014 I turned my hobby into my work by registering with the Chamber of Commerce in Arnhem under number 59735724.

The focus of my shop and the material on offer is on classic (and scarce) material of excellent quality, mainly from the Netherlands and its colonies. In the future I will expand this to other Western European countries such as France, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries.

We work closely with a number of renowned colleagues. This enables us to supply MNH, unused (mint hinged) or used stamps from almost all of Western Europe (where not offered on our site) at more than reasonable prices.

If you are looking for particular items or countries that are not on our site, please feel free to send us a message via the contact form.

We also work with a wants list system: new purchases are matched against this list and customers are informed about them. This means customers do not have to keep checking the webshop for our new purchases.

Bosstamps - Filatelie - Philately