The iconic stamp shown here, issued by the United States of America in 1948, features Palomar Observatory, located atop Palomar Mountain in north San Diego County, California. Conceived of nearly 100 years ago, the observatory has been in continuous...
Shown below is a small selection from the thousands of new stamps added to PostBeeld's stock recently.
A 1956 stamp showing the provinces of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan that came together to form modern Libya in 1951. We have...
The artist responsible for the images on these stamps from Curacao, Mirjam Griffioen, loves to paint animals and she finds goats particularly interesting. Goats, like many other grazing mammals, have horizontal eye pupils that allow their eyes to stay...
PostBeeld continues daily to add hundreds of new stamps to its vast stock, among some of the new additions is a great amount of British Commonwealth stamps. The first examples show the profile of Queen Victoria on stamps from...
Here we have a small selection of items recently added to PostBeeld's vast stock. We kick off with these se-tenant PHILEXAFRIQUE '85 stamps from Central African Republic issued for the exhibition held in Lomé, Togo, in 1985.
Great set of Cook...
Here's a small sample of stamps from the thousands added to PostBeeld's vast stock in the last weeks.
With cancellation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility of the games taking place this...
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...
A stamp issue from the South Arabian postal administration of Aden in 1968 was dedicated to the old and, what might have been considered by its designers in 1968, new wonders of the world. The stamp sheet has two...
Some very fine examples of stamps from China, Estonia, United States of America, Antigua, Trinidad & Tobago and Sarawak recently added to PostBeeld's vast stock:
The first stamps here commemorate the 50th anniversary of China's People's Liberation Army, the armed...
The Deutsche Post (DP) was the state-owned postal and telecommunications monopoly of what was - from 1949 until the reunification of Germany on the 3rd of October 1990 - the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). DP issued the above stamps in 1981....
