The Australian Post issued a set of four stamps in honour of writer Banjo Paterson.
Poet, journalist, editor and solicitor, Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson is arguably Australia’s master balladeer. The late 19th and early 20th centuries were the peak of...
Every year, PostNL issues a set of stamps entitled 'The Netherlands and Beyond". This year’s stampset spotlights and celebrates Japan, a country with which the Netherlands has enjoyed close ties for many centuries. Starting out as trading partners, the...
This year’s Gibraltar Christmas stamps are artworks extracted from a magnificent Christmas collage created by 33 artists at the St.Bernadette Resource Centre in Gibraltar to celebrate the International Day of People with Disability in December.
The stamps are extracted from...
New stamps appear regularly with a variety of subjects. Below is a selection of recently-published stamps from around the globe.
On May the 4th it was International Firefighters' Day. For this occasion, South Africa issued a stamp sheet with eight...
The United States Postal Service (USPS) unveiled a stamp last Tuesday to honor the late poet Maya Angelou. The presentation was attended by Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey.
Maya Angelou is depicted on this stamp with the quote 'A bird...
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...
Almost on a daily basis new stamp-issues are being released worldwide.
We at Freestampmagazine see a lot of new stamps every day and have decided to make a selection of nice stamps that we spotted.
Today we will highlight some of...
After dogs and cats on postage stamps of the series Children's World – Pets, there are now also our four legged pets of somewhat smaller size but nonetheless lovable – rodents.
Four new, fanciful postage stamps depicting hamster, guinea pig,...
Each year the Estonian Post (Eesti Post) issues a birdstamp entitled 'Bird of the year'. The partridge, the plover, the shrike, the yellow wagtail, and the elk were the subject in previous issues in this series. This year, on...
As long ago as 1966, Belgium issued a stamp with a dinosaur on it. Very revolutionary for the time. On May 28 of that year, a stamp was released with a picture of the skeleton of an Iguanodon.
This...
