Some great additions to stock this week include many fine fauna and flora stamps from Albania. Illustrated beautifully, these Albania bird stamps show a European Crested Tit, an Atlantic Canary, a Common Linnet, a Rock Thrush, a Goldcrest and...
The charitable foundation Pro Juventute was set up in Switzerland in 1912. It is dedicated to supporting the rights and needs of Swiss children and youth. Since 1912 (with the exception of 1914, the year the First World War began), ...
This commemorative miniature sheet features an illustration by Chinese artist Wang Huming.
The miniature sheet seen here, issued by Jersey Post, shows two tiger cubs playing with their mother. The Chinese hanzi (written character) for Tiger is featured in the...
Great Britain's Royal Mail has produced some fantastic new products celebrating the career of the Rolling Stones, including 12 stamps. The images on the stamp sheet here capture The Rolling Stones at their energetic best at various big concerts...
There are approximately 30 to 40 recognised cat breeds and the cat is one of the most popular household pets. This article features some cat breeds portrayed on stamps over the three-year period 2019-2021. We begin with 2019 Angola...
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 fish depicted on the stamp shown, issued in 1965 by Mongolia, is the Siberian Sturgeon (Acipenser Baeri). Sturgeons are among the largest fish on Earth, can grow up to eight metres long and weigh...
The set of definitives shown here was issued in 1903 by Madagascar, a French colony from 1897 to 1958. The stamps' artwork features a Zebu (a cattle breed) a small tree and a Lemur. The tree is the ornamental...
Unfriendly dogs can often be hindrance to postmen when delivering mail and although this story doesn't have a particularly happy ending, one medium-size mongrel's memory lives on at America's Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington D.C.
In America towards the...
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...
