Unusual Postal Souvenirs - Update

Category - Sight / Touch
Subcategory - Unusual Postal Souvenirs/Stamp with NFC/Stamp with LED

Poland 2022 200 Years of Rozewie Lighthouse Stamp Folder 

Issue date 10 September 2022

Poland Post to commemorate the 200 Years of Rozewie Lighthouse with a miniature sheet. The Lighthouse located on the Kashubian Baltic Coast on Cape Rozewie in Poland. 

A special folder was also issued along with a cancelled souvenir polycarbonate stamp with a special Yellow LED which lights up when a NFC activated Smart phone is brought close to the Souvenir Stamp sheet. This polycarbonate souvenir Stamp cannot be used for Postage and is a replica of the Normal stamp sheet produced (Bottom miniature sheet in the folder).The stamp souvenir is pre cancelled, does not have perforations and made of polycarbonate materials with an embedded NFC chip and micro LED attached. The normal souvenir Stamp however does not have the LED attached (Top miniature sheet in the folder).

Portugal Post issue a similar stamp in 2019 with a flashing LED activated by NFC technology which can be used for postage.

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Unusual Postal Souvenir

Stamps with NFC Technology

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Card Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Card Stamps 

North Korea 1995 50th Anniversary of First North Korean Stamps - Rose of Sharon Card Stamp 

Back of the Stamp Card

Issue date 25 October 1995

North Korea Post, to commemorate 50th Anniversary of First North Korean Stamps, has issued a Credit Card Size sheet of 8 stamps depicting the reprint of the first North Korean Stamp issued 12 March 1946 - Sharon of Rose Stamp. 

A specimen issue is also seen below.

Back of the Specimen Stamp Card

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Card 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

Luxembourg 2025 Christmas Stamps with Glow in the Dark under UV 

Issue date 25 November 2025

Luxembourg Post to commemorate the beginning of Advent season has issued 2 special stamps featuring two landmarks of Luxembourg City - the Ferris Wheel and the City Hall in their festive Christmas Spirit.

I have purchased the sheetlet of the 2 stamps with glow in the Dark under UV printing.

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps 

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Stamps with Seeds - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamp with seeds 

Luxembourg 2025 LUGA (Luxembourg Urban Garden) Stamp sheetlet

Issue date 6 May 2025

Post Luxembourg in collaboration with LUGA a.s.b.l. (Luxembourg Urban Garden) has issued a special sheetlet with 8 stamps in the form of an envelope containing a packet of wild flower seeds. The seeds are not part of the stamps but inside a packet put inside the sheetlet envelope.

LUGA (Luxembourg Urban Garden) is an open-air exhibition in Luxembourg from 7 May to 18 October 2025, featuring urban gardens, landscape and artistic installations, agricultural projects and living spaces designed by local and international landscape architects, artists and experts.

Front of the envelope Sheetlet + Front of Packet of Wild flower seeds

Back of the envelope Sheetlet + back of Packet of Wild flower seeds

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Stamps with Seeds

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps

This Post has been updated to reflect correct Country and Category from an earliest Post where many Holographic Stamps were clubbed together. (May 2013 - updating still in progress). 

Kyrgyzstan 1999 WWF Fox Hologram Stamps

Issue date 27 April 1999

Kyrgyzstan Post has issued as a special souvenir sheet at the IBRA  '99 World Philatelic Exhibition Stamp in Nuremberg Germany (April 27 to May 4, 1999) to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of WWF - Fauna of Kyrgyzstan souvenir sheet featuring 4 holographic Corsac Foxes stamps . 

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3D - Holographic Stamps

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3D - Stamps with Laminated Prismatic Ribbed Plastic Surface - Update

Category - Touch / Sight
Sub category -  3D - Stamps with Laminated Prismatic Ribbed Plastic Surface

Yemen 1996 9th Asian International Philatelic Exhibition Beijing China Lenticular Stamp Sheet

 

Issue date 18 May 1996

Yemen Post has issued a special Lenticular Stamp Sheet to commemorate the 9th Asian International Philatelic Exhibition Beijing China (18 - 24 May 1996). A normal Stamp sheet was also issued.

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3D - Stamps with Laminated Prismatic Ribbed Plastic Surface

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3D - Stamps with Laminated Prismatic Ribbed Plastic Surface - Update

Category - Touch / Sight
Sub category -  3D - Stamps with Laminated Prismatic Ribbed Plastic Surface (Lenticular)

Ivory Coast 2013 30th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Ivory Coast and China Souvenir Sheet

Issue date 02 March 2013

Cote D'Ivoire Post had issued a special lenticular stamp (printed and Gifted from China for issuance by Ivory Coast Postal Authorities) to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations Between Ivory Coast and China. A normal paper imperf Souvenir sheet was also printed. 

The souvenir sheet depicts the flags of Ivory coast and the flag of China. The stamps depicts the two Presidents - Ivory Coast President  Alassane Ouattara and Chinese President Hu Jintao.

The lenticular stamp is printed on non gummed plastic (with a silver backing).

Silvery non gummed back of the souvenir sheet

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3D - Stamps with Laminated Prismatic Ribbed Plastic Surface

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