The Windmill Study Unit (WSU), founded in 1974, is an international club of people with a mutual interest in Windmills in general and the philatelic interest in particular. They therefore collect thematically Windmills on stamps, although it automatically broadened with an interest for all items which show a windmill, from matchboxes and sugar bags to golf balls, but also to Watermills and stamp meter marks on the same subjects.
Many of us have studied the way Windmills function in detail, even calling themselves Molinologists. The term "molinology" was first coined by the Portuguese Joao Miguel dos Santos Simoes at the first International Symposium on Molinology in 1965 to define the study of mills that the International Molinological Society (TIMS) refers to.
With regular meetings and interpersonal contact we now have one of the world's smallest, but very close communities in the enormous world of stamp collectors.
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Belgian way of living with Windmills
last updated: Oct.24, 2011
site manager: Steef van den Berg
The "Vrouwgeest" Mill in Alphen aan den Rijn, pictured here in the winter is a octagonal wooden Poldermill built in 1797. which drained the polder "Vrouwgeest" until 1968. Until 1970 the polder community owned the mill. Then it was sold to the "Rijnland Millsociety". The mill is now operated by volunteers, still in its old function.
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