There were even people who no longer believed that the PTT had an Aesthetic Design Service when they became aware of the deception, but there really was one. It commissioned me in 1981 to make a set of Dutch postage stamps for the PTT about design and emission-detail stamps. The introduction is by Gerrit Komrij: an autobiography of the first stamp (1881) of Salmagundia: ‘When I was born, I had all my teeth straight away.’ At the presentation of the book, I dressed up again as the king of this central African country. No one recognised me…