Stamps with Crystals - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Crystals

Oman 2025 Omani Gemstones with Crystals affixed

Issue date 30 October 2025 

Oman Post issued a special set of 6 stamps each of 2 Omani Rials featuring the Gemstones of Oman - Amethyst, Black Agate, Dendritic Agate, Green Agate, Quartz and White Agate. The Special limited Edition of the miniature sheet of the Stamps were affixed with their respective Crystals. Miniature sheet with just stamps 500 Omani Baisa value was also issued on 27 October 2025.

My Stamp sheet number is 912/1000

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Stamps with Crystals

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps 

Costa Rica 2010 Swarm of Fish in the Gulf of Papagavo Holographic ATM stamp

Issue date 18 August 2010

Costa Rica Post has issued an ATM stamp depicting a swarm of Fish in the Gulf of Papagavo. The one that I have is mint with no values.

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3D - Holographic Stamps

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Odd Shaped Miniature Sheets - Update

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

On a snowy day with 40 cm of snow.. thought I pick up one of the many odd shaped miniature sheet in my collection to update on my blog ...Hope you like it.

Belgium 2024 Universe Stamp shaped Miniature sheet 

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Issue date 26 August 2024

BPost or Belgium Post has issued a self adhesive miniature sheet in the shape of a stamp with 10 round stamps depicting the planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in eight stamps. The ninth stamp depicts the James Webb telescope which confirmed the existence of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. The tenth stamp depicts the 7 planets around the star TRAPPIST-1 habitable zone, located about 40 light-years from Earth.

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Odd shaped Miniature Sheet

Odd Shaped Stamps

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3D - Motion stamps - Update

Category - Sight / Touch
Subcategory - 3D - Motion Stamps / Odd Shaped Stamps

Waiting for new Stamps in this category - meantime adding my old collections not updated yet on this blog

North Korea 2007 Beijing Olympics 3D motion Stamps (multiple images)

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Issue date 15 October 2007

North Korea Post as part of the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics has issued a souvenir sheet with set of 5 Stamps depicting the 5 mascots of the Beijing Olympics in one angle and when tilted at a different angles shows the various icons of Chinese and Korean culture.

Image 2 of the same souvenir sheet

The stamps/ souvenir sheet were made of plastic and the stamps were round shaped. Be careful when buying this sheet. Dealers are showing 2 different images to entice customers to buy 2 sheets instead of one using different 2 images as above. There is however a perf and an imperf version of the same sheet.

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3D - Motion Stamps

Odd Shaped Stamps

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Lottery Stamps

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Lottery Stamps

Lottery Stamps are usually stamps sold with a chance to win a prize. Was contemplating to introduce this category for a long time but never got to it.. Will recategorize some of the earlier post with scratch and win stamps to include this category of Stamps. 

Japan 2025 Lunar New Year of the Horse Lottery Prize Stamps

Issue date 30 October 2025

Japan Post has issued its annual Lunar New Year of the Horse Lottery Prize Stamps. A set of 4 stamps were issued of which 2 stamps has a unique number in the selvage attached. These numbers if winning usually offers prizes from Japan Post The draw date for the Japan Post New Year's lottery stamps (nengajo) in 2026 is scheduled for January 19, 2026. The winning numbers are typically announced on the official Japan Post website. 

Prizes typically range from cash and e-money to gift catalogs and special stamp sheets.

These stamps are first in my collection though I have posted stamps earlier which were special stamp sheets won in the lottery.

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps / Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet

Happy New Year to my subscribers.. My first post for the year 2026

South Korea 2025 Chinese Lunar New Year of the Horse 2026

Issue date 1 December 2025

South Korea Post as part of the Annual Series of New Year's Greetings, has issued a special odd shaped souvenir sheet with 16 stamps of 2 different stamps with horse image - 2026 being Year of the Horse in the Chinese Zodiac signs. One of the stamp has embossing with silver foil printing while the other stamp is printed with Red holographic foil.

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3D - Holographic Stamps

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Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps 

Barbados 2025 Dove of Peace Embroidered Stamp

Issue date 08 December 2025

Barbados Post in collaboration with Austrian embroidery specialist Hämmerle & Vogel and 12 other Postal Authorities (Aland Post, Armenia, Austria Post, Cyprus, Faroe Island, Greenland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Swiss and UN Postal authorities) has issued a special embroidered stamp featuring a Dove which always has been a symbol of Peace. The UPU paix embroidered label with the Dove of Peace motif was also issued at the Koreapex 2025 Stamp exhibition with no postage value (Cinderella stamp).The UPU Dove label was available with the Swiss Stamp at its Headquarters in Bern Switzerland for Sale. (Total 13 embroidered stamps and 1 UPU embroidered label)

This is first unusual stamp for Barbados in my collection. This Stamp was issued last in the Dove Series. Barbados was mentioned to be participating in the Initial Dove Series Release but there was uncertainty in its issue till it was confirmed in the middle of November of its issue in early December of 2025.

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Cloth Stamps

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