page_title: G. C. van Balen Blanken
hierarchical_section_title: G. C. van Balen Blanken
caption_attribution_description: English: G. C. van Balen Blanken book cover.
context_page_description: Dr. G. C. van Balen Blanken was a philatelist who in 1975, with photographer Bert Buurman, was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his multi-volume work on the plating of the 1852 Netherlands 5 and 10 cent values. The work was composed of seventeen volumes each of which was 80 to 100 pages long and very copiously illustrated. It took nearly a decade to publish.
context_section_description: Dr. G. C. van Balen Blanken (10 September 1914 – 29 February 1984) was a philatelist who in 1975, with photographer Bert Buurman, was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his multi-volume work on the plating of the 1852 Netherlands 5 and 10 cent values (Amsterdam 1968-77). The work was composed of seventeen volumes each of which was 80 to 100 pages long and very copiously illustrated. It took nearly a decade to publish.
caption: De cover of one of van Balen Blanken's volumes.
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