Beautiful lettering in Zutphen

In the province of Gelderland lies a town called Zutphen. There you can find the oldest koffiehuis in The Netherlands. A koffiehuis is a place where you can relax, drink coffee and such but no alcohol. The house was started by a group that wanted the working class to abstain from alcoholic beverages. Around the year 1900 there was the danger that workmen spent their wages immediately on liquor, leaving wife and many children pennyless.
The Volkshuis, as the facility was named, got an entirely new front in 1926. The facelift of the building included magnificent woodwork, masonry, stained glass and awesome lettering.

The challenge is there: how to turn this letter sample into a complete font. I'm willing to take that challenge.

First results from the stamps, dated 1934

It took some time to develop a complete (sort of) font from just 4 different letters on an old stamp. De D, E, I and N were the basis of my creative work. Was it easy? No, not quite, but with a little help from my friends the characters slowly took form.
I'm not there yet, but the intermediate result looks very promising. As always, you be the judge!

Three different pangrams (sentences with all characters in a specific language) were used. At the top the old faithful brown fox, then a line of Danish text and at the bottom a sentence in Íslensk, the language spoken on Iceland.

An idea from 1934

Peter Miebies drew my attention to a card to announce a change of address, from the Netherlands Indies. The country nowadays is called Indonesia, BTW. What struck me on this card was the font, or should I say 2 fonts, because the lettering on the printed "stamp" is a bit different from the font on the card itself.

This seems good material to work into a new font. I'll let it simmer for a while, and see what comes out.

Update:
The stamp on the card was preprinted, apart from that the postal service also sold individual stamps, with the same theme. Different colours for different values of the stamps. They look like this:

(picture found on website catawiki.nl)

Challenge - update 1

Presenting the first result of trying to capture the lettering in Amsterdam. Some letters still need some tweaking, but the overall appearance seems satisfying. At least, that's what I think.

Perhaps it is nice to have a 'filled' space as well, where the bottom of the characters runs through. Maybe I will sacrifice the pipe-character (|) for that. That should look somewhat like this, then:

Just fooling around I stumbled on the new embedded version of WordArt in Word. The combination with my new font is nice:

Okay, variation on a theme gives the following result:

To answer a question about the letter Q, I solved it like this:



But perhaps it could be a little more pronounced. There is room within the character envelope to do that. Having said that, it was time to get back to the drawingboard. After some tweaking the result now looks like this: