Sunday 30 August 2015

Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps 

France 2011 – 
Traditional laces from Calais, Le Puy en Velay, Chantilly and Alencon - Laces on Stamps



Issue date 10 October 2009

Four interesting stamps has been released in France on 10 October 2009 honoring machine-made lace. Hot glue is applied to a large piece of lace to stiffen it.  The lace is then cut into sections by hand, and fixed to the stamp. 

The lace represent Leavers Chantilly (Red background), Puy-en-Velay (green background) and surrounding regions bobbin lace, Leavers Alençon (Yellow background), and Leavers Calais (Purple background). A stamp issued in this format called a ‘souvenir sheet’ and measure 10.5 cm by 7.15 cm.

The symbol Φ is included in the design of three of the stamps – you are supposed to find it. It is in the lace itself, and is not the Le Puy one.

France Post has designed stamps in four blocks of real lace. Four blocks that highlight the immense richness and diversity of regional lace know-how from Calais, Le puy en Velay, Chantilly and Alencon.

Each block contains a stamp which is affixed a piece of real lace industry of a different type. Lace is hot-glued in a process for depositing the adhesive only on the lace, which heated, making the complex lace / very strong paper. The cutting is then done by hand using a pastry cutter or scissors. This complex lace / paper are then pasted on the stamp. Small feature: the sign phi is drawn in the lace of 3 stamps (Chantilly, Alencon and Calais).

Chantilly lace evokes haute couture with its transparent side, sensual, ethereal. Inspired often floral, black is the color of choice. The round holes superimposed on the block refer to the boxes that guide drilled weaving lace.

Alencon lace identified by the embossed designs is recognized by needle technique, punctuated by delicate floral motifs and elaborately pierced. The white highlights its subtlety and freshness. The bottom block contains an air mesh honeycomb so typical of this lace. In 2010, Alencon lace has been included in intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.

In this type of lace, geometric patterns are preferred, as here on the stamp which contains this delicate diamond partitioned. In general, the off-white but also black, are dominant in natural materials such as linen or cotton for the Puy lace. The time for producing mechanical fashion and decor strips of lace refined. The block diagram on the left recalls the basic principle of crossing time is respected in the mechanical process.

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Tuesday 25 August 2015

Embossed Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Embossed Stamps

Canada 2015 Lost Ships - The Franklin Expedition




Embossed Effect seen at the back of booklet


Issue date 6 August 2015

Canada Post issued stamps which pays tribute to the discovery of HMS Erebus, the lost flagship of the Franklin Expedition.

Erebus was one of two ships that became trapped in ice during an ill-fated 1840’s voyage in search of the Northwest Passage. Their crew eventually died in a desperate southbound march. Erebus remained lost until 2014, more than a century and half later, when Parks Canada and its partners located the ship off the Nunavut coast.

This booklet contains five pairs of se-tenant domestic stamps. One stamp depicts a stricken Erebus encased in ice, while the second is a map of the Arctic region where the expedition met its grisly fate. Locations on the map are written in Inuktut, a tribute to the stories of Inuit eyewitnesses, passed down through oral accounts that helped pinpoint the eventual discovery.

The stamps on this booklet have an embossed effect.



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Saturday 22 August 2015

Odd Shaped Stamps - Update

Category - Sight/Touch
Subcategory - Odd shaped stamps/Embossed Stamps     

Croatia 2014 Minerals and Rocks Round Shaped Stamps with Embossing    





Issue date 24 October 2014

Rocks are aggregates of one or more kinds of minerals, while minerals are natural parts whose composition can be expressed by chemical formula.  Minerals are characterised by regular inner structure and regular position of atoms, which is reflected also on the outer form of a mineral (such regular forms of minerals are called crystals).

Round Stamps issued by Croatian Post depict the Rocks found in different parts of Croatia and the stamps have an embossed glossy lacquer printing process.

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Tuesday 18 August 2015

Stamps with Hidden image - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Hidden image

USA 1998 Space Discovery - Stamps with Hidden Images




Issue date 01 October 1998

The U.S. Postal Service issued of a pane of stamps called "Space Discovery" to commemorate Space Exploration. The five 32c -stamp issue pictures the artist's conception of what it would be like to live on another planet, complete with space vehicles, a futuristic space city, and space explorers.

Also the stamps include a hidden image which can be viewed by a Special Stamp Decoder issued by USPS (featured in an earlier post on this blog).

Space City - Hidden Image - Large and small spacecraft
Space Ship landing - Hidden Image - Small spacecraft
Person in space suit - Hidden Image - Small spacecraft
Space ship taking off - Hidden Image - Small spacecraft
Large Domed structure - Hidden Image - Large and small spacecraft









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Saturday 15 August 2015

3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with 3D Hologram   
  Macau 1999 Telecommunications Hologram Stamp




Issue date 17 May 1999

Macau Post issued a souvenir sheet commemorating the Telecommunication Services and Systems with a special stamp featuring a hologram.

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Monday 10 August 2015

Scented Stamps - Update

Category - Smell
Subcategory - Scented Stamps

France 2009 400 years of Chocolate in France - Chocolate scented stamps MS  




Issue date 25 May 2009

La Poste France has issued a miniature sheet commemorating 400 years of Chocolate's arrival in Europe in 1609, La Poste has created a block of chocolate-scented stamps.  

The block of 10 stamps (€0.56 each, for €5.60) is designed to look like a bar of chocolate and even smells like one. The stamps depict scenes from the history and manufacture of chocolate. 

The ink used on the stamps contains microcapsules which provide a chocolate scent that will reportedly last up to two years.

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Friday 7 August 2015

Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps 

Singapore 2015 "1960 National Day" World Stamp Exhibition 2015 Singapore - Silk Collectors Sheet in a Folder





Folder


Issue date 1 July 2015

SingPost issued a special set of stamps to commemorate “1960: National Day” on 1 July 2015. 

This stamp features the Singapore State Flag comprising of two equal horizontal sections.

The colour red in the upper section of the Singapore Flag epitomizes universal brotherhood and the equality of man, while the colour white in the lower section embodies pervading and everlasting purity and virtue. 

The crescent moon in the upper left red section of the flag represents a rising young country. The five stars arranged in a circle beside the crescent moon stand for democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality. 

The 2 stamp Collector Sheet in a folder is printed using Offset Lithography on Silk Fabric by Cartor Security Print. There are 3 different type of Collector sheets printed - one above in the folder, the other one with a number printed on it and the third type with a number printed on it along with 2 two stamps that are imperforated.

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Tuesday 4 August 2015

Stamps with Scratch Off Printing - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Scratch off coatings

Finland 1998 Valentine Day ‘With Friendship’ miniature sheet featuring Stamps with Scratch off coatings




Issue date 03 February 1998

On the occasion of Valentine's Day, Finland Post has issued a miniature sheet featuring the greetings and gifts given during valentine's day with a scratch-off heart. When the heart is scratched off, one of six different images appears. Each stamp has a heart-shaped scraping surface hiding a lovely picture of friendship

The images hidden by the overlaid heart are musical notes with two dogs, an elephant with a mouse and flowers, a puppy with a sealed envelope, kittens hugging, a dog with flowers and rodents with flowers.

The stamp's animal motifs - cats, dogs, mice and elephants -
are depicted on the margins of the miniature sheet as well. The
margins also provide friendship greetings in Finnish and Swedish.

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Saturday 1 August 2015

Stamps with Hidden image - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Hidden image

Alderney 2009 Sherlock Holmes Mystery Presentation Pack - “Curious Case Of The Alderney Bull” containing a Miniature Sheet with hidden image



Decoder lens

Presentation Pack - Front


Presentation Pack - Back


Presentation Pack Unfolded

Issue date 29 Oct 2009


Sherlock Holmes was one of the famous creations by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born on 22 May 1859.

'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,' were published in 1892 featuring short stories of crime detective and became quite popular very quickly.

The Sherlock Holmes Mystery Presentation pack tells the story of Sherlock Holmes and the Curious Case of the Alderney Bull and includes a special decoder lens which help in solving the mystery in the story on the presentation pack.

The pack also includes a set of 6 stamps which tells the story and by scouring the pictures and stamps for clues (hidden images), one can set about solving the mystery. The Stamps were issued by Alderney Post in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birth.

The story starts with the theft of an Alderney bull, a breed of livestock much valued in the 19th century for the quantity and richness of milk produced by the cows.

The drawings incorporate buildings and landscapes from Alderney, an island within the Guernsey boundaries.  

Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, dependent of the British Crown.


Part of the Guernsey bailiwick and situated at the northernmost of the Channel Islands, is the Alderney Island, who started issuing their own postage stamps in 1983.

The hidden image (Spoiler alert) - The culprit can be seen with the decoder lens (when tilted to the left at 15 degrees) in the area of the magnifying glass on the miniature sheet.







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