Cyber Philately Articles
by Wobbe Vegter
Published in: Brainstorm, October 2001, Vol.1:3
Interview gepubliceerd in: Thema, (Nederlands) Tijdschrift
voor Thematische Filatelie, september 2006, jaargang 19 nummer 4
Published in:
The South African Philatelist, December 2001, Vol. 77:6
ThemNews, December 2001, Vol.2, no.5
Philamath, January 2002, Vol.XXIII, no.3 [#1]
Topical Time, March-April 2002, Vol.53, no.2
[#1] Philamath is the quarterly journal of the
Mathematical Study Unit (MSU)
Published in: The South African Philatelist, February 2002, Vol. 78:1
Published in: The South African Philatelist, December 2002, Vol. 78:6
Published in: ThemNews, December 2002, Vol. 3, no.5 [#2]
[#2] ThemNews is the bimonthly journal of
Thematics Southern Africa
Published in:
ThemNews, February 2004, Vol. 4, no.6
Philamath, October 2007, Vol.XXIX, no.2
Reprinted with permission from the March 1, 2004, issue of
Linn's Stamp News.
Published in: ThemNews, April 2004, Vol. 5, no.1
A series of monographs published in ThemNews
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This is a “Vegter”.
It depicts a night watchman, an occupation immortalised by Rembrandt. In medieval times, the
Vegter would patrol the streets of the city,
lantern in hand, protecting citizens from bandits and other unsavoury elements.
The formidable greatcoated figure would be armed with a “
goedendag” (literally “good day”), known in English as a “morningstar”.
With a spiked iron ball mounted on a heavy staff, it was sufficient to tame even the most unruly
of the characters operating under cover of night.
The figure features in the masthead of the Vegter Kroniek
[Vegter Chronicles], the Vegter family newspaper which is published every two months. The
VK, as readers have come to know it since 1987, is written by and distributed among
the extended Vegter family across four continents.
The origin of the name Vegter" and the Vegter family tree can be found
(in Dutch language) on the following site "
de Vegter familie ". |
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