Postcard Fold Souvenir Sheets - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Postcard Fold Souvenir Sheets

Spain 2024 Charming Villages Series XIX

Issue date 29 April 2024

Since 2016, Correos Spain has issued this series of four self-adhesive stamps that simulate old postal strips, folded in a bellows format where the back of the stamp is also printed as if it were a postcard, to disseminate Spain's geographical heritage and promote the large number and variety of charming towns that make up Spain.

This year, the Town featured in the stamps are: - Betancuria, Hita, New Baztan and Peniscola

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Postcard Fold Souvenir Sheets

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Stamps with Holes - Update

Category - Touch/Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations 

Germany 2026 70th anniversary of EUROPA Stamps 

Issue date 07 May 2026

Deutsch Post in a joint release with SEPAC nations  (Small European Postal Administration Cooperation) has issued a special stamp of 0.95 € to commemorate the “70th anniversary of EUROPA Stamps”. The winning motif selected was the one submitted by Finland. 

The diagonally ascending dotted line represents the progressive work of the PostEurop. The seven dots, connected by a straight line, symbolize seventy years of unified effort by postal operators across the continent. The blending gradients and dotted patterns in the background form a cohesive and vibrant surface, reflecting the joyful mix of colors from the European flag and symbolizing the unity of all member nations.

The uniqueness of this stamp issue by Germany is different from other countries stamps with the same design in that the seven dots has an actual perforations in the German stamp as compared to the white filled dot on the other European countries stamps. 

Back View of the Stamps

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Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/CutOuts

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Stamps with Moving Parts = Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with moving parts

Austria 2026 100 Years of the Rax Cable Car

Photo taken from the net for illustration purposes

Issue date 12 June 2026

Austria Post to commemorate 100 years of the operations of the RAX Cable Care has issued a special Stamp placed inside a miniature sheet in the shape of a modern cabin car with doors that opens out to reveal the Stamp, featuring a historic photo of the cable car, behind the doors.

The Rax is one of Vienna’s local landmark mountains, providing an important recreational area close to the city and the RAX Cable car provided first aerial cableway for passenger transport in Austria.

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Stamps with Moving Parts

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Scented Stamps - Update

Category - Smell / Sight
Subcategory - Scented Stamps / Stamp with holes/Perforations / Odd Shaped Stamps

Austria 2026 Coffee Bean Scented Stamp

Issue date 01 October 2026

Austria Post to commemorate World Coffee Day on 01 October, has issued a coffee bean shaped Stamp with a narrow white opening down the center representing the groove found in coffee beans. The Stamp is printed on Coffee leather, which has fleece backed paper sprayed with a binding agent along with used ground coffee powder collected from offices and Hospitals. The used ground Coffee powder gives off the aroma of the coffee beans.

Reverse view of the Stamp

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Scented Stamps

Odd Shaped Stamps

Stamps with Holes and Special perforations.

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps - Update

Category - Sight 
Subcategory - Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps

Canada 2026 Canadian Wolves Stamps 

Taken from the net as Scanned image not clear

Issue date 13 August 2026

Canada Post to commemorate International Wolves Day on 13 August 2026, has issued 4 Domestic Rate Permanent Stamps featuring Wolves which live in different parts of Canada -

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) - found everywhere in Canada except the Maritimes,

The eastern wolf  (Canis sp. cf. lycaon) - found s mainly in central Ontario and southwestern Quebec,  

The Arctic grey wolf (Canis lupus arctos) - found in the northern Canadian climate and 

The coastal grey wolf (Canis lupus crassodon) - found along Canada’s Pacific coast and near-shore islands.

My stamps are from a booklet of self adhesive Stamps of 4.

Spoiler Alert

Bought these stamps for the visuals of the wolves on the stamp but found surprisingly Under UV Light the borders of the stamps glows in the dark revealing Paw prints on the top Left corner of the Stamps

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps 

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Silver Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps made from different materials - Silver

Netherlands 2026 Dutch Ships – Orange Nassau Silver Stamp

Issue date 07September 2026

Post NL has issued a Silver Stamp to commemorate the Dutch Ship - The Oranje Nassau. Built in 1957 for the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company (KNSM) at the Gebroeders Pot Shipyards in Bolnes, a village just outside Rotterdam. The ship carried both cargo and passengers and was the last classic Dutch passenger/cargo ships to maintain the connection between the Netherlands and the former colonies in the Caribbean.

The Stamps is enclosed in a special folder to prevent any oxidation of the Silver Stamp.

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Silver Stamps

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps - Update

Category - Sight 
Subcategory - Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps

Canada 2026 Jack-O’-Lanterns Halloween Stamps with Glow in the Dark under UV printing.

Issue date 13 October 2026

Canada Post has issued a special Set of 3 Permanent Stamps (Domestic rate) featuring specially designed hand-carved Jack-O’-Lanterns (the Mummy, the Witch and the Monster) Stamps for Halloween. 

Spoiler Alert

The Stamp's hollowed out portion of the Jack-O’-Lanterns glows in the dark under UV light. The stamps also shows hidden sweet treats around the border of the Stamps under UV light.

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps 

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