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The first stamp on which an automobile was pictured is Michel #134 (Scott #296) of the United States from 1901. It was issued for the Pan-American World Exposition, held in Buffalo, New York. The automobile pictured is a so-called...
Below is a small selection of stamps recently added to PostBeeld's vast stock.
Stamps from Kenya (1981) commemorating the International Year for Disabled Persons and also from Kenya (1978) a set of "Road Safety" warning stamps.
Above, 2020 issue "Transportation in...
Daniel Defoe's book "Robinson Crusoe" is regarded as the first true English novel. It is also the first novel with a first-person narrator. Crusoe ends up on an uninhabited island where, after some time, he experiences various adventures with...
Below are some examples of the hundreds of stamps recently added to PostBeeld’s vast stock.
A few attractive booklets from the Channel Islands including this from Guernsey:
Issued in 2008 to celebrate 100 years of the Model T Ford.
To commemorate the...
Investigating the origin of the English-language term “Gordon Bennett”, once commonly used as an expression of surprise, I came to the conclusion that there does not seem to be a definitive explanation. Various theories abound.
What is certain is that...
Strangely, during the Second World War, on the remote islands of Tristan da Cunha - a British Overseas Territory and dependency of St. Helena – the islanders actually used the humble potato as a form of currency!
And in 2015...
Among the thousands of stamps recently added to PostBeeld’s ever-increasing stock are some nice stamps for the thematic collector interested in railway stamps and, in particular, stamps featuring railway stations.
This stamp is the station at Maryborough, Victoria - built...
In 1981 Mongolia issued a set of stamps to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the German LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin airship polar flight. The special feature of the set is Arctic fauna, with the inclusion of copies of stamps issued...
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...
Most of us have heard of Venice's Grand Canal, seen below. But perhaps fewer people are aware of the longest canal in the world, the Grand Canal in China, also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
On June 22, 2014,...
