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In January 1983 the first issue of the magazine "Het Baltische Gebied" ("The Baltic Area") was published. This club magazine is published in Dutch, twice yearly, in June/July and in December/January. We are a "Philatelists Group" and the club magazine is a way to spread knowledge. All kinds of articles can be found in it: original articles and reprints, news on the latest philatelic developments in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, members' free advertisements and literature reviews.
Table of contents of the most recent issues:

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HET BALTISCHE GEBIED NR 57, december 2010
  • Dear fellow members..... / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • Report 56th meeting March 27, 2010 / Olav Petri (p. 3)
  • Repost 57th meeting September 25, 2010 / Olav Petri (p. 4)
  • Again: the brewery Waldschlösschen / Jan Kaptein (p. 5)
  • The 20.Waffen-Grenadier-Dividion der SS (estnische Nr. 1) / Wilbert Manders (p. 6)
  • The German consulate in Memel / Sijtze Reurich (p. 13)
  • The postmark of the occupation 2 : Riga 1941 - 1944 / A.J. van Oosten and Sijtze Reurich (p. 14)
  • Why changed the arms of Lithuanis? The vytis and other Lithuanian symbols / Olav Petri (p. 22)
  • A puzzle [card World War I] / Sijtze Reurich (p. 25)
  • Estonian currants [Estonian items in a Latvia-collection] / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 26)
  • Latvia franking stamps, design arms / Joop van Heeswijk (p. 36)
  • Some remarks about the post in Soviet Lithuania [1919] / Alexander Epstein (p. 38)
  • Read for you / Joop van Heeswijk, Jan Kaptein, Olav Petri, Ruud van Wijnen (p. 40)
  • For sale (p. 43)
  • Coming back on, and About our library (p. 44)

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HET BALTISCHE GEBIED NR 56, june 2010
In colour, 124 p. , in English, re-issue and adaption of the articles of Jan Kaptein en Eugenijus Uspuras:
Railway post in Lithuania
  • Foreword... / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • Chapter 1 Czarist period (p. 4)
  • Chapter 2 German period until 1923 (p. 18)
  • Chapter 3 Polish period (p. 32)
  • Chapter 4 Routes 1-2 and 3-4 (p. 48)
  • Chapter 5 Lines 5-6 and 17-18 (p. 62)
  • Chapter 6 Lines 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12 (p. 72)
  • Chapter 7 Lines 13-14, 15-16, 19=20, 21-22 and the unnumbered line Ukmergė - Jonava (p. 84)
  • Chapter 8 Ostland period (p. 94)
  • Chapter 9 Soviet period (p. 104)
  • Additional illustrations: p. 83, 103, 124

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HET BALTISCHE GEBIED NR 55, december 2009
  • Dear fellow members... / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • Report 55 meeting September 26, 2009 / Olav Petri (p. 3)
  • Kemeri, health rort since 1838 / Jan Kaptein (p. 4)
  • From Riga / Igor Irikov (p. 15)
  • Examples of local post delivery in Estonia during the first decades of the 2th century / Alexander Epstein (p. 16)
  • Falsifications / Jan Kaptein (p. 20)
  • Nidden, Haus Hermann Blode / Olav Petri (p. 22)
  • The Latvian company-perfins / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 26)
  • Strange flags on a Lithuanian postage stamp / Olav Petri (p. 40)
  • 1000 year Lithuania : part 2 / Leonas Veržbolauskas (p. 42)
  • Latvia : written Piemaksat' / Igor Irikov en Ruud van Wijnen (p. 48)
  • Read for you / Joop van Heeswijk, Jan Kaptein, Olav Petri, Ruud van Wijnen (p. 61)
  • For sale (p. 64)

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HET BALTISCHE GEBIED NR 54, june 2009
  • Dear fellow members... / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • Report 54e meeting March 28 2009 / Jan Kaptein (p. 3)
  • The Baltic Riviera : part 2 / Jan Kaptein (p. 4)
  • A trip to Tallinn / Thomas Löbbering (p. 24)
  • A misunderstanding: where is Annopol located? / Sijtze Reurich (p. 26)
  • A letter from a prisoners of war camp in the Lithuanian Soviet republic / Jan Kaptein (p. 28)
  • Coming back on Memel ... Molėtai RRM / Sijtze Reurich (p. 31)
  • A letter, which is not possible / Sijtze Reurich (p. 32)
  • Who knows it, may say it / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 35)
  • Fieldpost .... a reconnaissance / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 36)
  • 1000 year Lithuania : part 1 / Leonas Veržbolauskas (p. 48)
  • Coming back on / Ruud van Wijnen, Jan Kaptein (p. 51)
  • A modern falsification / Jan Kaptein (p. 53)
  • Selling list HBG publications (p. 54)
  • Read for you / Joop van Heeswijk, Jan Kaptein, Olav Petri, Ruud van Wijnen (p. 55)

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HET BALTISCHE GEBIED NR 53, december 2008
  • Dear fellow members... / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • Report 53e meeting September 27 2008 / Olav Petri (p. 3)
  • The Baltic Riviera : part 1 / Jan Kaptein (p. 4)
  • Official presents / Torsten Berndt (p. 16)
  • Baltic stamp-booklets / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 18)
  • Review / Ton Welvaart (p. 29)
  • 1939: Memel back to Germany / Sijtze Reurich (p. 30)
  • From Riga : unusual postage due postmarks / Igor Irikov en Ruud van Wijnen (p. 42)
  • Post coach stations in Estonia frim the last kwarter of the 19e century up to 1918 / Alexander Epstein (p. 47)
  • Coming back on / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 58)
  • Read for you / Joop van Heeswijk, Jan Kaptein, Olav Petri, Ruud van Wijnen (p. 59)

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HET BALTISCHE GEBIED NR 52, juni 2008
  • Dear fellow members ... / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • Report 52e meeting March 29 2008 / Olav Petri (p. 3)
  • From "Riga", by ship and forwarding agent / André de Bruin en Ruud van Wijnen (p. 4)
  • Estonia : postal stationeries from the Sovjet period 3 / Jan Kaptein (p. 12)
  • A postcard with surprise, to ШЛИССЕЛБУРГ (Schlusselburg)! ? Olav Petri (p. 18)
  • Railway post in Lithuania - 9 : Soviet period / Jan Kaptein, Eugenijus Uspuras (p. 20)
  • Lighthouse of Juminda with and without antenna / Joop van Heeswijk (p. 39)
  • Polish postal stationeries / Jan Kaptein (p. 40)
  • Neither front, nor back .... 2 / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 42)
  • In memoriam Vambola Hurt / Thomas Löbbering (p. 47)
  • Glancing through .... 1 / Keimpe Leenstra, Jan Kaptein (p. 48)
  • Coming back on / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 52)
  • Read for you / Joop van Heeswijk, Jan Kaptein, Olav Petri, Ruud van Wijnen (p. 55)
  • The Mezdunarodnoe-postmark : a myth refuted? / Olav Petri (p. 56)

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HET BALTISCHE GEBIED NR 51, December 2007
  • p. 1 Contents
  • Dear fellow members... / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • Report 51e meeting September 22, 2007 / Olav Petri (p. 3)
  • The postmark 'Tag der Briefmarke 1942' of Riga / Sijtze Reurich (p. 4)
  • An unexpected find in the archive of the Royal Dutch Botanic Society / Joop van Heeswijk (p. 8)
  • By ship to Pernov in 1914 and Pärnu in 1932 / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 9)
  • Private postsub-post offices in Estonia during the first decades of the 20th century / Alexander Epstein (p. 12)
  • Railway post in Lithuania 8 / Jan Kaptein, Eugenijus Uspuras [World WAr II: Ostland period] (p. 18)
  • From the library of the Union of Philatelic Societies in Baarn / Jan Kaptein (p. 27)
  • Book review / Ruud van Wijnen [Inflation and money reform in Eastern Europe] (p. 28)
  • Impressions of an Estonia-journey / Olav Petri (p. 30)
  • The Sovietizing of Latvia 1940-1942 / Rudd van Wijnen (p. 32)
  • From the HBG-library / Jan Kaptein (p. 43)
  • Neither front, nor back ... 1 / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 44)
  • Read for you / Joop van Heeswijk, Jan Kaptein, Olav Petri, Ruud van Wijnen (p. 47)
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HET BALTISCHE GEBIED NR 50, June 2007
  • p. 1 Contents
  • Dear fellow members... / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • Report 50e meeting March 24 2007 / Olav Petri (p. 3)
  • Lativia: in postcoach registered letters - 4 / Igor Irikov, Ruud van Wijnen [period from 1928: labels and written indications of registering of railwaypost in Latvia] (p. 5)
  • Some interesting postal covers with Tartu perfo-strips / Joop van Heeswijk (p. 10)
  • Railway post in Lithuania 7 / Jan Kaptein, Eugenijus Uspuras {line 13-14, 19-20, 21-22 and the unnumbered line Ukmerge-Jonava] (p. 12)
  • A innocent looking postmark with a strange history, alias a philatelic cry for help / Olav Petri [the postmark MEZHDUNARODNOE, 'International' , on covers to other countries, a censor mark or not?] (p. 22)
  • Russian letters without stamps to foreign countries : part 1 / Ivo Steijn [routes, transit-postmarks, regulations (p.24)
  • Riga, a choice from the collection of André de Bruin / André de Bruin, Ruud van Wijnen [description of Riga-covers from 1786 - 1917] (p. 30)
  • From Arensburg via Kuressaare to Kingissepa and again to Kuressaare 2 / Jan Kaptein {period from 1941 (Arensburg), 1951-1988 (renamed Kingisepp), and back to Kuressaare] (p. 48)
  • Read for you / Joop van Heeswijk, Jan Kaptein, Olav Petri, Ruud van Wijnen (p. 53)
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HET BALTISCHE GEBIED NR 49, december 2006
  • p. 1 Contents
  • Dear fellow members... / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • 25 jaar Arbeitsgemeinschaft Estland / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 2)
  • Report 49e meeting September 23, 2006 / Olav Petri (p. 3)
  • The adventures of the local rate in Estonia / Sijtze Reurich (p. 4)
  • Book review / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 15)
  • Postal formulars from the Lithuanian Soviet Republic / Olav Petri (p. 16)
  • How a real postal item can be true and yet false / Frits Gerdessen (p. 22)
  • Railway post in Lithuania 6 / Jan Kaptein, Eugenijus Uspuras (p. 24)
  • James Young Simpson and the border treaty between Latvia and Lithuania, 1920-1921 / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 35)
  • Sub-postoffices by the district administrations in Estonis in the beginning of the 20th century / Alexander Epstein (p. 40)
  • From Arensburg via Kuressaare to Kingissepa and again to Kuressaare 1 / Jan Kaptein (p. 60)
  • Prize contest 2 / Ruud van Wijnen (p.68)
  • Coming back on / Ruud van Wijnen (p. 70)
  • Read for you / Jan Kaptein, Olav Petri, Ruud van Wijnen (p. 72)


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