Stamp design

A specialised world stamp exhibition, with FIP (Fédération Internationale de Philatélie) Patronage and FEPA (Federation of European Philatelic Associations) recognition, was held in May 2022 to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the "Sitting Helvetia", the first perforate Swiss stamp and the first...

The 2022 Royal Mail stamp miniature sheet seen here is a compilation of various stamp issues designed by a very special man - David Gentleman, the most prolific and influential stamp designer in UK philatelic history. Below are the...

Here we have a small selection of items recently added to PostBeeld's vast stock. We kick off with these se-tenant PHILEXAFRIQUE '85 stamps from Central African Republic issued for the exhibition held in Lomé, Togo, in 1985. Great set of Cook...

1st ClassLetter1st ClassLarge Letter 2nd ClassLetter2nd ClassLarge Letter Following a successful national trial Great Britain's Royal Mail will now be adding unique barcodes to all of its regular ‘everyday’ Definitive and Christmas stamps. Each barcoded stamp will have a digital twin...

It's that time of year again and on behalf of all the staff at PostBeeld here in The Netherlands I would like to sincerely thank you for visiting these pages and to all clients of PostBeeld I wish you...

In the period beweeen the two World Wars, particularly during the reign of King Albert I, Belgium produced many stamp pairs that included an advertisement ("Timbres-Publicitie"). Here at PostBeeld we have some great examples and also a large stock...

In June 1803 Admiral Horatio Nelson embarked on HMS Victory as Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean. This was the first year of the Napoleonic Wars and in the period leading up to the decisive 1805 Battle of Trafalgar...

In 2016, to celebrate the festive season, Isle of Man Post Office issued an extremely colourful set of six Christmas stamps. The attractive designs give clues to the famous stories depicted on the stamps and pay tribute to one of...

The artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) at one time actually worked nights sorting mail at the USPS. He filled notebooks with sketches of envelope shapes and folds, which served as 'ready-made' sources for his abstract compositions seen here. The fate of...

The subject for the 2020 Europa postage stamps was Ancient Postal Routes, a very interesting issue for the collector. Russia produced the first example we show here. The oldest Russian regular postal service between Arkhangelsk and Moscow was launched...