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English Gardens Stamp Issue 1983
Great Britain is rich in gardens and garden landscapes. Gardening is in the British blood! Every week, you can watch a programme about gardens and gardening on BBC Television or another channel. Nearly every country estate is, or was, surrounded by gardens and parks. In 1983, the British Post Office…Read More
More Christmas 2025 Stamps
Germany’s Deutsche Post produced the 2025 Christmas period “Winter Landscape” stamp seen above and below a Nativity scene. Correos (the Spanish postal service) has launched a new series of Christmas stamps called “Christmas Cities.” This theme aims to showcase the cities across Spain that embody the Christmas spirit during the…Read More
The Druid Theatre Company
A theatre company founded in 1975 with the bold intention of creating Ireland’s first professional theatre company outside of Dublin has had its 50th anniversary commemorated with stamps issued by Ireland’s an post. There were few resources with which to build a theatre company in the West of Ireland in…Read More
Correction – Christmas 2025 Stamps
In the Christmas 2025 Stamps article just published the Australia 2024 Christmas stamps shown have been inserted by mistake. Below are the stamps that should have appeared in the article. A collaboration between the Isle of Man Post Office (IOMPO) and students from University College Isle of Man (UCM) has…Read More
Christmas 2025
Christmas 2025 is almost upon us so here we have a small selection of this year’s offerings. This stamp sheet from Great Britain has five self-adhesive stamps set against a beautiful backdrop featuring the three wise men carrying gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh as they follow the star to…Read More
Unusual Subjects on Stamps – Camping and Caravans
In this article we’ve excluded Scouting-related stamps as these are numerous. The “Camping in the Netherlands” stamp sheet seen here contains six stamps in different designs, each featuring a different camping vehicle: from caravans and camper vans to small tents. The stamps feature a cloud-shaped cutout and, together with the…Read More
Thomas de la Rue, Stamp Printer and More – Part Two
PostBeeld’s Dutch and Belgian stamp blog has some great contributors. Generally they go into far more detail with their articles than the English language blog, with its shorter stories. One of our Dutch authors is Cees Janssen whose superb articles have graced the pages of the Dutch website for many…Read More
Maliavanka?
Maliavanka (painted carpet) is a special type of folk art in Belarus. Classified as a so-called naive art, a branch of primitivism, Maliavanka is a large (up to 2 meters) carpet, usually painted on homespun cloth painted in black.Maliavanka became widespread in the period from the 1920s to the 1960s.…Read More
Thomas de la Rue, Stamp Printer and More – Part One
PostBeeld’s Dutch and Belgian stamp blog has some great contributors. Generally they go into far more detail with their articles than the English language blog, with its shorter stories. One of our Dutch authors is Cees Janssen whose superb articles have graced the pages of the Dutch website for many…Read More
YES! Rick Wakeman Honoured Again
Two giants of progressive rock have come together in a landmark collection of six stamps issued by the Isle of Man to celebrate the legendary British musician Rick Wakeman brought to life through the surreal artwork of his great friend Roger Dean. Above you can see a minisheet and below…Read More
