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It began with an announcement in the English leisure magazine The Field on 9 June 1877 that "The All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon, propose to hold a lawn tennis meeting, open to all amateurs, on Monday...

August 20th marks the day in 1897 when the British physician Ronald Ross confirmed that the female anopheles mosquito transmitted malaria to humans. Each year that day August is commemorated as World Mosquito Day. Dr. Ross’s research and discovery earned...

Lake Baikal (15K stamp above) is a rift lake in Russia, located in southern Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast. Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world,...

In February the United States of America will release the stamp sheet shown below. This issue commemorates the 250th anniversary of the repeal of the Stamp Act, British legislation that galvanized and united the American colonies and set them...

Before we continue with this article featuring a selection of 2020 Christmas stamps, I would like to take the opportunity to offer seasonal greetings from all of the staff here at PostBeeld to all readers of the Freestampmagazine and...

The beautiful pictographic map by the artist William Henry Jackson seen in this article shows the first United States of America Pony Express mail delivery route, a distance of 1,800 miles, from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. It...

New stamps appear regularly with a variety of subjects. Below is a selection of recently-published stamps from around the globe. From Malta, as part of the World Wildlife Fund’s endangered species series, this sheet features the Levantine Shearwater (puffinus...

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...

Childhood memories came flooding back when I saw the stamp sheet below featuring classical toys. This mint item was issued by Great Britain in 2003. And further memories for me as my father-in-law worked on the installation of the radar...

Italy has for many years promoted tourism by way of beautifully illustrated postage stamps. In this second article we feature some of the later stamps with the theme of tourism. The artist/designer G. Veluzzo helped produce the 2015 stamp set...