Category - Multi - Sensory
Subcategory - Stamps set with different printing technology
Great Britain 2005 – Centenary of the Magic Circle - Multi -sensory Stamp set
Issue date: 15 March 2005
On a summer's day in 1905, twenty three amateur and professional magicians gathered together at London's Pinoli's Restaurant with the intention of forming a magic club. The result was the founding of The Magic Circle. The Magic Circle today, is a premier magical society in the fascinating world of magic and illusion.
Royal Mail celebrated the Centenary of the Magic Circle with a set of 5 novelty stamps. Each stamp sought to bring a very simple magic trick to life.
1st class - 'Heads or Tails'. The design shows a coin, and the blank centre can be scratched away to reveal either the head or reverse side.
40p - 'Rabbit and hat'. This is an optical illusion.
47p - 'Knotted scarf trick'. Thermographic ink on the spotted scarf will reveal a different scarf when warmed.
69p - 'Card trick'. Another optical illusion.
£1.12 - 'Three-cup trick'. A variation on the three-cup trick using a pyramid under one of 3 fezzes. Thermographic ink reveals which fez the pyramid is under.
Great Britain 2001 – Centenary of Noble Prize - Benham “Silk” Limited Edition First Day Cover
Issue date: 02 October 2001
Benham “Silk” First Day Cover No. 0733 of a Limited Edition of 5000.
The Stamps issued by UK Post is a set of 6 stamps to commemorate the Nobel Prize Centenary. The Dutch Printers have used six different printing processes, one for each Nobel Prize category commemorated.
The first class stamp, denominated 1st, utilizes the intaglio, or recess, embossed printing process and features a red and blue globe commemorating economics.
The second-class issue, celebrates the Chemistry Prize, and depicts a Carbon 60 molecule. The stamp is heat sensitive, and firm pressure from a fingertip reveals an ion hidden behind the black on white design.
The E stamp, for European mail, bears an embossed Dove marking the Peace Prize.
The stamps not marked 1st, 2nd, or E bear numeric rates, but no currency designation, presumably foreshadowing the U.K.'s eventual entry into a European Economic Union.
The 40 (p), Medicine, stamp shows a green cross, which releases a Eucalyptus scent when scratched and sniffed.
The 45, airmail rate, Literature commemorative includes the micro-printed text of T.S. Eliot's The Addressing of Cats.
Finally, the 65 airmail rate, Physics, high value carries a boron molecule hologram--a technology pioneered by the British 30 years ago, but only now featured on a U.K. stamp.
Subcategory - Stamps set with different printing technology
Great Britain 2005 – Centenary of the Magic Circle - Multi -sensory Stamp set
Issue date: 15 March 2005
On a summer's day in 1905, twenty three amateur and professional magicians gathered together at London's Pinoli's Restaurant with the intention of forming a magic club. The result was the founding of The Magic Circle. The Magic Circle today, is a premier magical society in the fascinating world of magic and illusion.
Royal Mail celebrated the Centenary of the Magic Circle with a set of 5 novelty stamps. Each stamp sought to bring a very simple magic trick to life.
1st class - 'Heads or Tails'. The design shows a coin, and the blank centre can be scratched away to reveal either the head or reverse side.
40p - 'Rabbit and hat'. This is an optical illusion.
47p - 'Knotted scarf trick'. Thermographic ink on the spotted scarf will reveal a different scarf when warmed.
69p - 'Card trick'. Another optical illusion.
£1.12 - 'Three-cup trick'. A variation on the three-cup trick using a pyramid under one of 3 fezzes. Thermographic ink reveals which fez the pyramid is under.
Issue date: 02 October 2001
Benham “Silk” First Day Cover No. 0733 of a Limited Edition of 5000.
The Stamps issued by UK Post is a set of 6 stamps to commemorate the Nobel Prize Centenary. The Dutch Printers have used six different printing processes, one for each Nobel Prize category commemorated.
The first class stamp, denominated 1st, utilizes the intaglio, or recess, embossed printing process and features a red and blue globe commemorating economics.
The second-class issue, celebrates the Chemistry Prize, and depicts a Carbon 60 molecule. The stamp is heat sensitive, and firm pressure from a fingertip reveals an ion hidden behind the black on white design.
The E stamp, for European mail, bears an embossed Dove marking the Peace Prize.
The stamps not marked 1st, 2nd, or E bear numeric rates, but no currency designation, presumably foreshadowing the U.K.'s eventual entry into a European Economic Union.
The 40 (p), Medicine, stamp shows a green cross, which releases a Eucalyptus scent when scratched and sniffed.
The 45, airmail rate, Literature commemorative includes the micro-printed text of T.S. Eliot's The Addressing of Cats.
Finally, the 65 airmail rate, Physics, high value carries a boron molecule hologram--a technology pioneered by the British 30 years ago, but only now featured on a U.K. stamp.
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