Staff at Freestampmagazine and PostBeeld wish our readers and buying customers a very happy time over the Christmas and New Year period. Christmas (from the Anglo-Saxon: Cristesmæsse, meaning "Christ's Mass") is the annual festival that commemorates the birth of...
The two Austrian stamps in this article feature the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria, considered the biggest of its kind in Central Europe, comprising nine buildings of historic interest available for its five million items in 20 collections. The Kunsthaus's...
This article was originally published in December 2013:
The United States Postal Service (USPS, which is heavily in debt) is destroying an entire run of stamps because the activities illustrated on three of the stamps in the fifteen stamp...
Here we have a very small selection of stamps recently added to PostBeeld's vast stock. Please visit PostBeeld's website for a more comprehensive view of newly-added items.
We begin with a few examples taken from a sizeable addition of...
This stamp set was issued by the Dutch postal service postnl in 2023 and entitled 'Typically Dutch'. The images seen on the sheet show: a vase with tulips, a carrier pigeon with a letter, a carrier bicycle with plants,...
Daniel Defoe's book "Robinson Crusoe" is regarded as the first true English novel. It is also the first novel with a first-person narrator. Crusoe ends up on an uninhabited island where, after some time, he experiences various adventures with...
In the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, travelling via the railway was the most comfortable and practical way of covering the often great distances between towns and cities. The first stations were built in the...
On 15 April 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sank within three hours, with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Recent events, with the tragic loss of life of those in the OceanGate Expeditions'...
The Spaniard Juan Sebastián de Elcano and the Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan were navigators and explorers who jointly sailed under the flag of both Portugal and Spain. Magellan organised an expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, which...
Here we have a very small selection of stamps recently added to PostBeeld's vast stock. Please visit PostBeeld's website for a more comprehensive view of newly-added items.
In 1906 Mauritania, at that time a French Colony, issued its first postage...
