3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps/ Glow in the dark Under UV light

China 2025-12 World Cultural Heritage - Beijing Central Axis with Holographic foil and UV ink printing.

Issue date 27 July 2025

China Post has issued a special set of 5 stamps with holographic foil printing featuring - Yongding Gate, Zhengyang Gate, Tiananmen Rostrum, The Forbidden City & Jingshan Hill, and the Bell and Drum Towers.

This set of stamps showcases many major historical relics along the Central Axis from south to north, including Yongding Gate, Zhengyang Gate, Tiananmen Rostrum, the Forbidden City, Jingshan Hill, and the Bell and Drum Towers.

Under ultraviolet light, each main building is paired with a complementary background pattern, thus one stamp has 2 background scenes one under regular light and one under UV light.

 

  

These stamps were World's Best Stamps of 2025 by UPU under the mixed printing category.

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3D - Holographic Stamp

Glow in the Dark under UV Stamps

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Stamps printed on Special Paper - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps made from Special Traditional Paper

China 2026-4 Chinese Seal Engraving Xuan Paper Stamps

Issue date 20 April 2026

China Post has issued a special sheetlet of  2 sets of 4 stamps printed on Xuan (Rice) Paper featuring 4 carving art seal stamps.

Ding Jing’s Six‑Faced Self‑Seal  

Deng Shiru's The River Roars; Steep Cliffs Stretch a Thousand Feet  

Zhao Zhiqian's Hall of Two Golden Butterflies 

Huang Shiling's Studio of Sixteen Golden Tally Charms 

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Stamps printed on Special Paper

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Extra Wide Length Stamps - Update

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Sub Category - Extra Wide Length Stamps

Macau PRC 2026 Specialized World Stamp Exhibition – A Journey Through Day and Night Special Edition Stamp Roll

Issue date 27 June 2026

MacauPost to commemorate the 2026 Macau Specialized World Stamp Exhibition has issued a special sheetlet (390 x 75 mm scroll) featuring 12 stamps connected in a continuous sequence, without the usual perforation along the sides separating them to form a single extra wide length Stamp  with shifting light capturing the shadows and local cultural charisma during the length of a day and preserved within the length of the stamps.

The single scroll stamp is longer in length then the last recorded 2000 Liberia Stamp or the 2025 Romania Stamp. This sheet though as 12 stamps with a single perforation on the sides of the scroll.

The scroll stamp was sold inside a cylindrical container.

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Extra Wide Stamp

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Cloth Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Cloth Stamps

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Austria 2010 Embroidered Miniature sheet – Rose 

Issue date 17 September 2010

Austria Post has issued on 17 September 2010, a miniature sheet which has Petit Point embroidered flower “Rose” in the center of the paper sheet.

Petit Point got its name due to the fact that one can only recognize small dots (points) by looking at the embroidery. There is a substantial difference between 'Needlepoint' and 'Petit Point'.

Needlepoint is stitched with thick woollen threads on large canvas, whereas Petit Point is stitched with only one thread on a fine silk gauze. Patterns for needlepoint are printed on the canvas, while Petit Point requires hand painted patterns, which are being used by the artisan to count the stitches and carry them over to the silk gauze. Common Needlepoint work has around 80 stitches per square inch, while most of Petit Point articles have about 1,460 stitches.

The petit point stitch runs on diagonals and crosses over an intersection of one horizontal and one vertical thread making a slanted stitch at a 45-degree angle. The thread count or number of stitches to the inch is very small, whereby the name petit meaning small point. This stitch enables the sewer to create pictures and other objects to its minutest details.

Petit point is part of Viennese culture. Both the imperial and aristocratic classes have this habit of creating stitches as fine and valuable as that of petit point, used with the finest of threads. Austria, this time features another philatelic wealth, the incorporation of petit point on its postage stamps courtesy of Hammerle and Vogel, an embroidery company in Austria.

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Cloth Stamps

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Stamps with Crystals - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Crystals

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Thailand 2010 - 60th Royal Wedding Anniversary Swarovski MS 

Issue date 28 April 2010

Thailand Post Co Ltd has officially launched two special stamps for sale on 28 April 2010 celebrate the 60th anniversary of the royal wedding of Their Majesties the King and Queen and the royal coronation of HM the King. Each stamp is embellished with six Swarovski crystals while portraits of Their Majesties the King and Queen are in a heart shaped frame.

The pink stamp depicts a royal portrait of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, taken during their Royal Wedding Ceremony on 28 April 1950 while the yellow stamp celebrating the royal coronation depicts portraits of Their Majesties the King and Queen in golden dresses of the Chakri Dynasty at their current age.

This miniature sheet was sold in a special box as seen above

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Stamps with Crystals

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Stamps with Crystals - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Crystals

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Hungary 2011 – Holy Crown of Hungary with Glass Crystals MS

Magyar Posta celebrates Hungary’s new Fundamental Law by issuing a special commemorative stamp block on 25 April 2011.

On 25 April 2011 the President of the Republic of Hungary signed Hungary’s new Fundamental Law, which replaces the 1949 constitution that came into force at a time when the country was deprived of its self-determination. The new Fundamental Law is the foundation of all the country’s law and the symbol of a truly free and democratic Hungary, through which a transitional period has been brought to an end. It is a covenant between Hungarians of the past, present and future, and points to the paramount need for spiritual and intellectual renewal. The new Fundamental Law respects the achievements of the country’s historic constitution and the Holy Crown, which embodies the continuity of Hungary’s one-thousand-year-old constitutional state and national unity.

On Magyar Posta’s numbered philatelic specialty the Holy Crown of Hungary printed in 23 carat gold leaf rising from the plane of the paper is featured. The border is adorned with a work by Miklós Köllő, the statue of King Saint Stephen from the dome hall of the House of Parliament, as well as its vaults. When placed under UV light, the inscription in Hungarian “May there be peace, freedom and concord” is visible. On the special stamp block with red numbering, cut glass crystals sparkle in the place of the precious stones decorating the Holy Crown. Only 20,000 version with crystals.

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Wood and Wood Paper Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps made from different material - Wood

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French Andorra 2011 BOSCOS Wood effect Paper Stamp

                          

Issue date 09 May 2011

To celebrate the International Year of Forests, the theme for Europe Post’s postage stamps for 2011 is trees and forests. The self-adhesive stamp issued by Andorra Post is made with a special wood effect paper.

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Wood and Wood Paper Stamps

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