Tuesday 25 June 2019

Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet / Odd shaped Stamps 

Canada 2019 Sweet Canada Odd shaped Miniature Sheet with odd shaped stamps



Issue date 17 April 2019

Canada Post to commemorate traditional Canadian Deserts has issued a set of 5 odd shaped stamps on an odd shaped miniature sheet in the form of an index card featuring the following Deserts - Sugar Pie, Butter Tart, Saskatoon Berry Pie, Nanaimo Bar and the Blueberry Grunt. These stamps are Permanent Stamps for domestic use.

The Nanaimo bar, a no-bake dessert bar, is named after the city of Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. A crumb crust of chocolatey coconut is topped with rich, creamy custard and covered with a layer of melted chocolate.

An original Canadian recipe, Saskatoon berry pie is a local delight, with the berries, tasting like a mix of almonds and apples, wrapped in flaky pastry. A staple for Indigenous peoples and early settlers, the berries are high in fibre, protein and antioxidants. Their name is derived from the Cree word misâskwatômina, which also inspired the name of the city of Saskatoon, meaning “at the Saskatoon berry.”

The earliest published Canadian recipe of butter tarts dates back to 1900. An integral part of eastern Canadian cuisine, this sugary treat has inspired tours and tasting festivals. Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival and Contest, held annually in Midland, attracts bakers from across the province and is the largest celebration of its kind in Canada.

A staple of Quebec patisseries, sugar pie (tarte au sucre) traces its origins to France. Colonists brought the recipe for the pie along with them – but since brown sugar was a rare commodity in New France, early French-Canadian versions used maple syrup as a sweetener.

Believed to be an early adaptation of an English steamed pudding, blueberry grunt gets the name from the sound it makes as the blueberries bubble and steam under a dumpling topping. The popular dessert has been enjoyed by generations of Maritimers, who came up with this delicious way to use a bumper crop of local blueberries.


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Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet
Odd Shaped Stamps


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Monday 24 June 2019

Stamps with Interactive Games - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Interactive Games  

Austria 2019 A Letter’s Journey Jigsaw Puzzle Miniature Sheet




Issue date 24 April 2019

Austria Post has issued a special jigsaw format self adhesive stamps depicting the Journey of a Letter from the time it is written till it is received by the recipient.

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Stamps with Interactive Games
Odd Shaped Stamps

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Sunday 23 June 2019

Stamps with Crystals - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Crystals

Liechtenstein 2019 Kascholong Personal Stamp with Crystal 



Issue date 31 January 2019

A special issue Personal stamp created by the a Philatelic company Hermann E Sieger GmbH as part of a subscription service, and issued by Liechtenstein Post, a  Kascholong crystal stuck to the stamp featuring a Roman Sculpture on the stamp.

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Stamps with Crystals

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Saturday 22 June 2019

3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight / Touch
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps / Plastic stamps / Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes / Stamps with Scratch Off Printing

Austria 2019 Crypto Stamp 




Issue date 11 June 2019

Austria Post has issued a special stamp reflecting the use of modern day technology for Crypto-Stamp based on the open source programmable block chain Ethereum with its own cryptocurrency called Ether (ETH).

For more information on the Ethereum see https://www.ethereum.org/beginners/

The stamp has been issued on a Plastic Card with a QR code and a tearaway part with scratch off printing. 

The stamp set comes in two parts. As pictured below, the left part, with a 3D Hologram unicorn logo associated with Ethereum, functions as a standard stamp that can be used to send mail. The right section, on the other hand, contains the credentials used to authenticate the crypto collectible via blockchain ( a special kind of decentralized data storage). This defines a digital Wallet/purse in which this stamp is stored as  “a virtual collector’s item”   which is exclusively owned by the wallet owner.

The brand block is in the form of a bank card. The right side of the block contains all credentials hidden under scratch layers. The holder of the Wallet-related access code as well as another attached code, the "Secret Word List", thus has the digital Crypto stamp. If the digital version of the stamp is sold or transferred from one wallet to another, the transaction is fully documented in the blockchain.





A limited 150,000 unit run of five different virtual/crypto stamps colors– black, red, blue, yellow, black – allows the owner to use a physical stamp, but then save its image in their wallet. The distribution is as follows: 1,500 red stamps; yellow, 10,000; blue, 20,000; green, 40,000; black, 78,500. The stamps retail for 6.90 Euro, meaning the entire project will bring in just over $1 million. The color represents the "Virtual image of the stamps" and not the physical image of the stamp


Virtual image of the stamps


Video of my FDC with a Virtual Red Stamp after QR code Scan




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Friday 21 June 2019

Stamps with Metals affixed - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Metals

Liechtenstein 2019 Stamp with Silver piece affixed





Issue Date 1 December 2018

A special issue Personal stamp created by the a Philatelic company Hermann E Sieger GmbH as part of a subscription service, and issued by Liechtenstein Post, a 1 gram silver ingot is stuck to the stamp featuring a clear blue December night sky on the stamp.

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Stamps with Metals affixed

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