Musicians
Small selection of stamps recently added to PostBeeld's stock:
Austria 2018, woven textile stamp with Tyrolean hat.
Also Austria 2018. Has the Viennese Tuba ever featured so prominently on a postage stamp?
Lovely colour-shaded Child Welfare Dutch stamps from 1925.
Germany Federal Republic...
This article features four Norwegian rock music performers well known in Scandinavia but possibly not so well known in other parts of the world. In 2009 Norway issued a set of four stamps honouring their musical achievements. On the...
Dancer with a Bouquet of Flowers is the title of a painting by Edgar Degas shown on a stamp in a series featuring famous composers with artwork by Degas, issued by Paraguay in 1980.
But some things were not quite...
In 1974 the first Swedish group to achieve worldwide success, ABBA, rose to fame after their song Waterloo won the Eurovision song contest. The band went on to become the second best-selling music group of all time with more...
The next instalment of Great Britain’s Royal Mail Music Giants Special Stamp series - a tribute to David Bowie, one of the most influential music and cultural figures of all time -
was released on 14 March 2017.
Alongside the Special...
In the first edition of the German magazine ‘Das Magazin für Briefmarken-Sammler’ from May 1863, there was an advertisement which announced the appearance of the "Briefmarken-Polka für das Pianoforte" (The Postage Stamp Polka for the Pianoforte) by J. V....
Here we have a very small selection of stamp sheets from Great Britain recently added to PostBeeld's vast stock. Please visit PostBeeld's website for a more comprehensive view of many more.
In 2012 Great Britain hosted the Olympic Games,...
At the end of May Royal Mail issued a set of 12 special stamps to celebrate one of the UK’s most successful songwriters and greatest music icons, Paul McCartney.
The main stamp set features a selection of eight LPs which have...
Undoubtedly there will be some Queen fans today who commemorate singer Freddie Mercury today because he would have turned 70 this day.
Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on 5 september 1946 in Stonetown in what was then Zanzibar.
He grew up...
Day after day new postage stamps are issued depicting a variety of topics. Here are some examples of recently-issued stamps featuring a variety of topics.
They might make some people’s skin crawl, but this recently-released set featuring snakes native to...
