issued each year gradually crept upward, but still at a relatively restrained pace. The focus of issues was generally on local wildlife and tourism themes. After Aruba obtained the status of country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it formed its own postal area. After the dissolution After the Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, three issuing identities formed: Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Caribbean Netherlands. See also Postage stamps and postal history of Aruba Postage stamps and postal history of the Caribbean Netherlands Postage stamps and postal history of Curaçao Postage stamps and postal history of Sint Maarten Postage stamps and postal history of the Netherlands References and sources References Sources Frank W. Julsen and A. M. Benders, A Postal History of Curaçao and the other Netherlands Antilles (The Hague: Van Dieten, 1976) The most comprehensive work on the subject. Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues AskPhil – Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms Encyclopaedia of Postal History Communications in the Netherlands Antilles History of the Netherlands Antilles Postal system of the Netherlands Philately of the Netherlands