Extra Wide Length Stamps - Update

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Sub Category - Extra Wide Length Stamps

China 2014 Scroll of Bathing Horses

Issue date 01 March 2014 

The Scroll of Bathing Horses from the Palace Museum is a horizontal silk scroll colored painting by Zhao Mengfu of the Tang Dynasty. 

The scroll paints a hot summer scene where nine Xiguan (a position of official in charge of horse keeping) have 14 fine horses bathing in the river.

The horses are drinking water, or eating grass, or tied to a tree with saddle untied, or standing still with the head held high. Xiguan are painted in different positions : some are bathing the horses, some are riding the horses to the bank, and some are leading the horses to the river. 

The water is clear and the trees on the bank are blooming with flowers. This painting shows the ease of life during the Tang Dynasty.

Stamp Size - L  155 mm x W 31 mm.  (Horizontal-measured from perforation to perforation)

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Stamps with Rock Dust - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with matter affixed - Rock dust 


Norway 2009 – Astronomy Europa Stamps MS with real meteorite dust printed.     

Issue date 12 June 2009  
 The subject of the miniature sheet is a solar eclipse, where the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun. The graphic presentation on the miniature sheet shows the planets in our solar system, with their relative size, surrounded by the largest moons. The table gives their maximum and minimum distances from the Sun and the number of years it takes the planets to circle the Sun.

The stamp shows an explosion on the Sun. As a result of such explosions, solar storms occur. These are streams of charged particles ejected from the Sun, usually at relatively low speeds but sometimes considerably faster. Clouds of electrons and protons are hurled towards Earth and this can affect, for example, space satellites.

The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,400 km. It is always the same side of the Moon that faces the Earth. The first men on the Moon were American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, who landed there with Apollo 11 on 21 July 1969.

Real meteorite dust has been sprinkled beside the country name on both stamps. Meteorites are about 4.6 million years old, much older than the oldest rocks that have been found on earth.

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3D - Motion Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - 3D - Motion Stamps 

Netherlands 2006 Skating legends Ard Schenk and Yvonne van Gennip ‘Going for Gold’ Lenticular Motion Stamps   

 

Issue date  10 February 2006 

TPG Post and Atos Origin are honouring the top sport by immortalising two special athletes on the postage stamp 'Going for gold'. It has unique moving images of Dutch skating legends Ard Schenk and Yvonne van Gennip. These special postage stamps have been produced by TPG Post in collaboration with Atos Origin, Worldwide IT Partner for the Olympic Games through to the 2012 London Olympic Games.     

To honour both these two greatest Dutch skating legends and to mark the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, TPG Post and Atos Origin have taken the opportunity to issue a special postage stamp, a stamp on which both skaters are seen in action through the use of an innovative ‘lenticular’ technique. There is a sequence of twelve film stills taken from the winning races at Sapporo and Calgary, to portray Ard and Yvonne skating in full flight over four square centimetres. The snowy images of Ard in 1972 and those of Yvonne come from the early years of colour TV, presenting the designers with a major challenge.

All other Dutch gold-medal winners at Winter Olympic Games are also honoured on the stamp by displaying their names below the two stamps.

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Stamp with a Miniature Book Attached - Update

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Subcategory - Stamp with Materials attached - Miniature Book

Netherlands 2010 Book-Week with Miniature Stamp Book 

Issue date 9 March 2010

Dutch designer Richard Hutten has designed a postage stamp that consists of a tiny eight-page book for Dutch postal company Royal TNT Post. Famous Dutch author Joost Zwagerman wrote the book-week 500 word story 'Wat is erger' (or What is worse?) on the book. It is world's first stamp issued in the form of a book. The book is a combination of a stamp and eight pages.

In this story, Zwagerman leads us on an exciting and humorous journey through the thoughts of the main character, Jelmer Verhooff, the manager of a museum who has just seriously damaged one of the most precious paintings in the museum's collection. In this way Zwagerman literally makes the stamp a literary jewel.

The stamp measures 3 by 4 centimeters and contains a 500-word story, and commissioned to mark the 75th Dutch Boekenweek (book week). The value of the stamp is € 2.20, enough to mail 500 grams, for example a book.

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps

Hong Kong 2014 Chinese Dinosaurs Animals Stamp

Issue date 20 Feb 2014

Hongkong Post has issued a set of six special stamps under the title "Chinese Dinosaurs" and featuring six unique Chinese dinosaur species to increase public understanding of dinosaurs in China. This set of six "Chinese Dinosaurs" special stamps is printed with a luminous effect which allows the unique features of the Chinese dinosaurs to glow in the dark and introduces six unique Chinese dinosaur species.

$1.70 – Daxiatitan Binglingi  
Daxiatitan Binglingi was a gigantic herbivorous sauropod dinosaur in the Early Cretaceous period (around 130 million years ago). Its fossils were discovered in the Lanzhou Basin in Gansu Province. Its name comes from the famous Bingling Temple near the origin of the fossils and the Daxia River, a branch of the Yellow River, which runs through the excavation site. With a total length of some 30 metres and a neck around 12.5 metres long, Daxiatitan binglingi lived in forests along the riverbank and fed mainly on tree leaves. It is one of the largest dinosaurs discovered in Asia.

$2.20 – Microraptor Gui 
Microraptor Gui, a carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur in the Early Cretaceous period (around 120 million years ago), was the most well-known kind of feathered dinosaurs. Its fossils were unearthed in western Liaoning Province. The species was named after the famous palaeontologist Gu Zhiwei. Microraptor gui was about 1 metre long with a massive tail more than half of its body length. It lived mostly in woods, and had the ability to glide between trees. A batch of feathered dinosaur fossils, discovered in Liaoning Province in 2000 by researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, provides evidence to support the theory that birds are descended from dinosaurs.

$2.90 – Lufengosaurus Magnus 
Lufengosaurus Magnus was a herbivorous presauropod dinosaur that lived in the Early Jurassic period (around 180 million years ago). It was named after Lufeng County in Yunnan Province where the fossil was first discovered. About 6 to 7 metres long, its strong and powerful hind limbs enabled it to walk on two limbs, while its big tail helped to balance its body. Mostly living on the lakefront and swamp shores, Lufengosaurus consumed mainly the new growth of thick foliage. The first colossal fossil of Lufengosaurus was unearthed in China in 1938.

$3.10 – Tuojiangosaurus Multispinus 
Tuojiangosaurus Multispinus was a herbivorous stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (around 150 million years ago). Its fossil was discovered near River Tuo, Sichuan Province, from which the species gained its name. Tuojiangosaurus was 7 to 8 metres long, with a triangular head, two rows of upward spiked plates running down over its neck, spine and tail, and two pairs of outward pointing spikes at the end of its tail. Mainly living in forests, the species fed predominantly on low vegetation. The fossil of Tuojiangosaurus is the first well-preserved stegosaurus skeleton ever discovered in Asia on record.

$3.70 – Protoceratops Andrewsi 
Protoceratops Andrewsi was a herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period (around 75 million years ago). Its fossil was unearthed in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia and it was named after the expedition leader, palaeontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Protoceratops was about 2 to 3 metres long, with a slightly protruding nasal bone, a parrot-like beak, and a huge bony frill behind the skull that protected its neck and back. It usually lived in dense woods and fed on low-lying, ground vegetation. Extremely rich in remains of Protoceratops, China is one of the important excavation sites of Protoceratops fossils.

$5 – Yangchuanosaurus Shangyouensis 
Yangchuanosaurus Shangyouensis was an enormous carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (around 150 million years ago). It was named after the excavation of the first fossil during the construction of a reservoir in Yongchuan, Chongqing. It was about 8 to 10 metres long, with sharp teeth and nimble forelimbs ending with three large and razor-sharp claws. Adept at living in hillocks and woods, it mainly preyed on small animals. The skeleton discovered in 1976 is the most intact fossil of a sizable theropod ever found in China.

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Ceramic Stamps

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Subcategory - Stamps made of Ceramic material

Austria 2014 Augarten Porcelain - Rose of Vienna Ceramic Stamp

Issue date 20 March 2014

The world-famous Viennese Augarten porcelain for almost 300 years has been made by hand. Famous products are Coffee and Tea sets, exquisite vases and lamps. Austria Post with the Augarten company has created an extraordinary stamp made of porcelain decorated with the "Viennese Rose". The Viennese Rose has been an icon for the  Vienna Porcelain Manufactory since 1740.

For the production of the stamp made of porcelain since the usual molds of plaster can be used only for about thirty times, the stamps were not made by casting with casting material, but with a more solid form ("rotational mass" or "press material") by a pressing process. Subsequently, the sheets were baked in the porcelain first oven firing at 960 degrees Celsius for 24 hours, then glazed and again cured at even higher temperature. In the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory, the workpieces are always painted by hand. Due to high numbers and the lack of time, the most expensive and highest quality screen printing method was used. To ensure color fastness and contrast in this special stamp made of porcelain, the colors were eventually "burned" at 820 degrees Celsius.

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