SEPAC stamps, what are they?
Most collectors occasionally come across stamps from different countries that feature the same SEPAC logo. In this blog, we delve deeper into the background and meaning. Naturally, we will also show some SEPAC stamps...
Gibraltar
Below you will find articles about Gibraltar. Or click here to view stamps in the catalogue with the subject Gibraltar.
The Royal British Legion – 100th Anniversary 2021
Guernsey 2021 The year 2021 marked the 100th anniversary of an organisation - the Royal British Legion - founded in England to support members and ex-members of the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Many postage stamps have...
Europa Stamps, May-September 2024
Latvia 2024 The Europa Stamp Competition for the period 9th May-9th September 2024 has "Underwater Flora and Fauna as its subject. Latvia's colourful entry shows on the left the water plant najas flexilis, now rare and threatened throughout its European...
Happy Christmas
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 a...
Horatio Nelson – A Chip Off the Old Block
Gibraltar 2005 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...
Stamp Errors Part 9 -In a Permanent State
For Christmas 1983 and also to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Italian artist and architect Raphael (1483-1520), the postal administration of the British Crown Colony of Gibraltar issued a series in November 1983, consisting of three...
Supersonic Collaboration
Gibraltar produced stamps in 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the inaugural flight of the supersonic aircraft "Concorde". The Concorde was designed and built by four collaborating companies, two in the United Kingdom - British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce - and two...
Christmas 2019
Sweden Each year we feature a small selection of stamps issued by countries that celebrate Christmas. We begin with an example from Sweden, complete with a Goldfinch (Steglits) and a Yellowhammer (Gulsparv) observing children building a snowman. Gibraltar Gibraltar's offering...
Get in Shape!
As a young boy collecting stamps I was often more attracted to those with colour and shape rather than rarity. Diamond-shaped stamps from Hungary, Monaco and the Burundi particularly caught my eye. The stamp on the left is from Hungary...
Islands in the stream
This year’s SEPAC theme is ‘Seasons’. SEPAC stands for Small European Postal Administration Co-operation and consists of the following group of small European postal administrations: Greenland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Åland, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, Malta, Monaco,...
