Musicians
In 2023 Great Britain's Royal Mail issued various philatelic items to commemorate the remarkable 70-year career of the Welsh-born singer Dame Shirley Bassey. Shown above is the cover of a Royal Mail Prestige Stamp Book, an informative 24-page publication...
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...
Continuing with our series of articles regarding the U.S. Post "Black Heritage" series of stamps we begin with the 1979 stamp featuring Martin Luther King (born 1929 - assassinated 1968). Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Christian minister and...
You have possibly seen certain stamps and wondered: “Who gave the authority for these stamps to be released?”
Stamps whose design or illustration is so poor that you think they might even make an amusingly-collectible topic.
The king of ugly stamps
Below...
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...
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 this second part of the story we provide an analysis of the song Bohemian Rhapsody.
Freddie Mercury never really gave a clear explanation about the meaning of the song’s lyrics. The text contains many philosophical and religious elements. According...
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,...
As the second highest value of a stamp series in honour of famous musicians/composers, this stamp from Paraguay appeared on July 1, 1980 with an edition of 35,000 copies. The stamp shows a reproduction of the painting 'Dancers,...
..... the song with the above title has been recorded on more than 200 singles and albums and by many famous singers, including Bing Crosby, Connie Francis, John McCormack and Roger Whittaker. Ireland is a country renowned not...