3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D Holographic foil 

Hong Kong 2016 Rio Olympic Games Stamps with Holographic foil printing 

Issue date 5 August 2016 

Hong Kong Post to commemorate the Games of the XXXI Olympiad held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has issued a set of four stamps where the holographic silhouettes of the sportsmen portrays eight games of the Olympiad, six in which the Hong Kong, China Delegation has won or participated, plus the two newly introduced sports of rugby and golf.

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Flavoured Stamps - Update

Category - Taste
Subcategory - Stamps with flavored Gum 

Germany 1956 200th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Peppermint flavored Gum Stamp

Issue date 27 January 1956 

On the occasion of the Birth Bicentenary of the famous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsch Post had issued a special 10pf stamp depicting the piano with a piece of Mozart composed music. The stamp had a special peppermint flavored gum.  

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Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps

Maldives 2015 Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Maldives Silk Miniature sheet

Issue date 15 April 2015

To commemorate Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Maldives (September 14 to 16, 2014), Maldivian Post issued a special Silk miniature sheet in the April of 2015.

The Miniature sheet depicts the President Xi Jinping with Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen. President Xi Jinping visit was to get support from the Maldivian President for his vision to create a "Maritime Silk Road for the 21st Century".

The Maritime Silk Road, an initiative by Beijing to revive an ancient trade route running from China through Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Europe.

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Transparent Stamps - Update

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Subcategory Transparent Stamps

Updating on a previous post..

UAE 2009 Second Arab Stamp exhibition transparent stamp

Issued on 13 February 2009

Unique stamps from 20 Arab countries was showcased at the 2nd Arab Stamp Exhibition organized by Emirates Post and Emirates Philatelic Association at Wafi Centre, Dubai, from March 5 to 9, 2009, under the patronage of HH Majid Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Art and Culture Authority. 

Postal corporations from Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Djibouti and the UAE, took part in this major event in the world of philately. 

The unique exhibition coincides with the start of the centenary celebrations of Emirates Post, one of the oldest postal corporations in the region. The event is designed to give a boost to the hobby of stamp-collecting, which is the world's most popular hobby, but is still in its infancy in Arab countries. 

Worlds second transparent stamp issued by UAE Post.

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Stamps with Crystals - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Crystals/Odd Shaped Stamps/Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet

Maldives 2016 Maharaj Agrasen Stamp with 4 Swarovski Crystals

Issue date 01 October 2016

On the occasion of Agrasen Jayanti on 01 October 2016, Maldives Post has issued a special stamp on Maharaja Agrasen under the series of "Inventions and Explorations" along with personalities like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and others.

The stamp was released to highlight the growing trade relationship between the Maldives and India and chose to focus on one of the country’s main business groups. 

The Agarwal and Agrahari communities are descendants of Maharaja Agrasen, who is considered the founding father of the entire Marwari community. There are about 17 gotras – or clans – under the Agarwals, including the Jindals, Bansals, Mittals, Singhals, Goyals, Gargs and Tayals. Agrasen is credited with establishing a kingdom of traders in North India named Agroha.

The limited-edition stamps – 1,200 in number – are in the shape of a kalash (urn) decorated with gold foil with four crystals embedded. 

The miniature sheet is also of an unusual shape and each sheet is numbered. A special folder with gold foiling has been designed to preserve the miniature sheet. It opens as a window and explains various aspects and details of Maharaja Agrasen and the Agarwal community 


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Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet 


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3D Anaglyph Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D Anaglyph Stamps

Brazil 2016 Rio Olympics Special Edition with 3D Anaglyph Stamps

Issue date June-August 2016 (on Brazil Post Website the Souvenir Sheet is placed between 26 June 2016 issue and 08 August 2016 Souvenir sheets issue)

To commemorate the Olympic flag handover to Brazil, in a ceremony promoted by the Rio 2016™ Organising Committee for the  Olympic Games (5-21 August 2016) and Paralympic Games (7-18 September 2016), at Somerset House, London, where Casa Brasil (Brazil House) is located, Brazil Post has issued a 2 set Souvenir Sheet with 3D Anaglyph printing.

Printed in June 2012 in time to celebrate the handover of the Olympic Games from London to Rio, these souvenir sheets were being withheld from release by Brazil Post because of a licensing dispute with the Olympic Games organizing committee. 

The two souvenir sheets – one for the 2016 Olympic Games  and the other for the 2016 Paralympic Games – show the same scene in the background: Rio’s Sugarloaf Mountain and city below. The two stamps on the Olympic sheet bear the 2016 Olympic Games logo. One of the se-tenant stamps depicts Big Ben and Tower Bridge, while the other is an artistic representation of Sugarloaf Mountain. The Paralympic Games logo appears on each of the two stamps on the second sheet. In this case London’s Olympic Eye Ferris wheel is displayed on the first stamp while the second shows the famous Christ the Redeemer statue atop an artistic representation of  Corcovado mountain. The two souvenir sheets were issued in quantities of 15,000 sheets of each. The stamps in the two souvenir sheets are each denominated at R$2.60.

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D Holographic foil 

San Marino 1993 Inauguration Of Television Studio MS with Hologram 

Issue date 26 March 1993

On the occasion of the Inauguration of the State Television, San Marino Post has issued a Miniature sheet with 3 Stamp, with a hologram on the middle stamp. The stamps depicts the following

1) Finish of the men's 100m in Tokyo World Championships, 25 August 1991
2) Panoramic view of Monte Titano, San Marino, at night. Hologram depicts: Communications satellite in sky
3) Neil Armstrong saluting USA flag on lunar surface, 21 July 1969

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Flock Stamps - Update

Category - Touch 
Subcategory - Flock Stamps 

Australia 2016 Endangered Wildlife Flocked Stamp sheets Set

Issue date 20 September 2017

As per Australian Post Website - 

This stamp issue represents endangered animals that are part of current zoo and/or other conservation programs in Australia. These animals are at risk of extinction and are classified as either Endangered or Critically Endangered according to Australian and international measures. Three animals are exotic and four are native.

The large definitive stamp, representing the Southern Corroboree Frog Pseudophryne corroboree, commemorates the centenary of Taronga Zoo in NSW, which has breeding programs for this rare frog. At just 2.5–3cm in length, this small, brightly coloured amphibian is one of the world’s rarest frogs.

The carnivorous Snow Leopard Panthera uncia syn. Uncia uncia is a large cat native to mountain ranges of central and south Asia at altitudes of 3,000 to 4,500 metres. These cats are rarely seen because they inhabit harsh terrain with an extreme climate and are distributed across a range of over two million square kilometres across 12 countries.

The Asian Elephant Elephas maximus used to roam over most of Asia, but is now restricted to just 15 per cent of its original range. The population has declined by at least 50 per cent over the last 60–75 years. The most recent estimate of the global population is 41,430.

The Western Lowland Gorilla Gorilla gorilla gorilla is a large primate native to the rainforests of central Africa, specifically in lowland forest and swamp forest from sea level to about 1,600 metres. Gorillas are mainly herbivorous. Their staple foods are pith, shoots and leaves. They also eat many species of fruit.

The short-necked freshwater Western Swamp Tortoise Pseudemydura umbrina is found only in two locations in a small area of the Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia. It is Australia’s most endangered reptile and measures just 11 to 13cm from nose to tail.

One of the world’s rarest and most endangered species, the Orange-bellied Parrot Neophema chrysogaster, is on the brink of extinction. It is listed as Critically Endangered under the EPBC Act and on the IUCN Red List.

The Northern Quoll Dasyurus hallucatus is a small, omnivorous marsupial that once occurred across extensive areas of northern Australia. It has now contracted to only isolated populations.

The above information helps us to decide their future now..

The stamps have been printed with a flock relief effect.

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Multi-Sensory Stamps Sets - Update

Category - Sight / Touch
Subcategory - Multi-Sensory Stamps Sets 

Australia 2016 New York Stamp Show - Beautiful Butterfly Stamps Set

Day 1 Butterfly Shaped Sheet - Front

Day 1 Butterfly Shaped Sheet - Back

Day 2 Holographic Sheet 

Day 2 Holographic Sheet - Tilted view

Day 3 Laser Cut Sheet - Front

Day 3 Laser Cut Sheet - Back

Day 4 Embellished/ Embossed Sheet - Front

Day 4 Embellished/ Embossed Sheet - Back

Day 5 Imperforate sheet

Day 6 Embossed / Holographic/Laser Cut Sheet - Front

Day 6 Embossed / Holographic/Laser Cut Sheet - Tilted view of holograph printing

Day 6 Embossed / Holographic/Laser Cut Sheet - Back

Date of Issue : 28 May 2016 (Day 1), 29 May 2016 (Day 2), 30 May 2016 (Day3), 31 May 2016 (Day4), 01 June 2016 (Day5), 02 June 2016 (Day6)

Australia Post at the World Stamp Show NY 2016 has issued limited number of 6 unique butterflies overprint mini sheet on each day of the show. From day 2 to day 6, different finishing techniques and selvedge designs will distinguish the minisheets released each day.

Day 1 Butterfly Shaped Sheet
Day 2 Holographic Sheet
Day 3 Laser Cut Sheet
Day 4 Embellished/ Embossed Sheet
Day 5 Thick Card Imperforate Sheet
Day 6 Embossed / Holographic/Laser Cut Sheet

Day 7 and Day 8 Sheets had a cancellation stamp on the Sheets (not in my collection) - record selling prices

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Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet
Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations


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Multi-Sensory Stamps Sets - Update

Category - Sight / Touch
Subcategory - Multi-Sensory Stamps Sets/3D Hologram / Embossed Gold Stamps   
   
New Caledonia 1999 Philexfrance '99. International Stamp Exhibition

Issue date 02 July 1999

On the occasion of the 140th Anniversary of the First Stamp of New Caledonia, a special souvenir sheet containing 5 stamps with 5 different printing methods - the center stamp has a hologram,the bottom right stamp is gold foil embossed, the top left stamp has been printed with a copper plate, The top right stamp is printed using the thermographic printing process leaving a relief on the stamp, and bottom left stamp with offset printing.



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Postcard Fold Souvenir Sheets - Update

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Subcategory - Postcard Fold Souvenir Sheets

Spain 2016 Charming Villages

Picture from internet - too large to fit on my A4 size scanner

Issue date 21 March 2016

Correos Spain has issued a special set of Stamps in a Post card Z-fold depicting some of the charming villages of  Albarracin, La Alberca, Alcala del Jucar, Santillana del Mar. The stamps are self adhesive and is first in a series of stamps which will be issued by Correos Spain under the theme of 'Charming Villages'.

The reverse of the stamp looks like a mini post card. 

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Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps   

Taiwan 2015 Ancient Qing Dynasty Paintings on silk MS

Issue date 08 October 2015

Chunghwa Post (Taiwan Post) has issued a special souvenir sheet on special silk paper featuring Golden Pheasant in Spring from the Giuseppe Castiglione - Qing Dynasty Exhibition at the National Palace Museum. The painting depicts 2 pheasants perched on a garden rock beside a mountain stream. Surrounding the rock are flowers, bamboo and spirit fungi which brings to the mind of the Chinese Expression "a brocade of spring radiance".

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - 3D Hologram   

Hungary 2015  Hungarian Saints and Blesseds III - St Astrik Special Edition SS  

Issue date 07 August 2015

The design of the stamp was based on Saint Stephen Offering the Holy Crown of Hungary by Vilmos Aba-Novák, painted between 1938 and 1941, which adorns the dome of the Millennium Chapel in Pannonhalma Abbey.

Saint Astrik stands next to Queen Gisela, on the left of King Saint Stephen, who is offering the crown and is depicted in a dark robe. In the background of the stamp, buildings of ecclesiastical locations
which played an important role in the life of Astrik are shown. 

Saint Astrik (ca 1034) was a Benedictine monk, the abbot of several monasteries, ambassador, bishop and archbishop. He became the abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Pannonhalma. In 998 or 999 he founded a monastery in honour of Saint Benedict in Pécsvárad, whence he was summoned by King Stephen in 1000 to accomplish his most important diplomatic mission, to bring a crown and, legend has it, permission to establish an ecclesiastical organisation in Hungary from Pope Sylvester II in Rome. In the summer of 1001 he probably acted as a papal nuncio in Hungary and became the bishop of Kalocsa sometime after the autumn of 1002. During the illness of the archbishop of Esztergom, for three years Astrik took temporary control of the archbishopric of Esztergom. After this, he returned to Kalocsa, and the first Hungarian king, Saint Stephen, appointed him archbishop. Astrik’s activity was invaluable in establishing Christianity in Hungary and he constantly strove for the salvation of souls by leading an exemplary holy life.

The offset printed special edition has a shiny surface which was supplemented with so-called diffraction film printing. 

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Embossed Gold Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Embossed Gold Stamps

New Zealand 2016 One Ring - Journey through Middle Earth Embossed Gold Stamp

Issue date 19 October 2016 

New Zealand Post has issued a special "One Ring" embossed stamp with 22K gold foil printing which is the heart of the 2 iconic movies set in New Zealand - The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy The round $10 stamp sits within a miniature sheet featuring the iconic map of middle earth.

This miniature sheet is featured as a numbered sheet in the special edition 37 miniature sheet booklet on the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy series

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Postcard Fold Souvenir Sheets

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Subcategory - Postcard Fold Souvenir Sheets

Liechtenstein 2016 Without us - Postcard fold souvenir sheets

Issue date - 14 November 2016

Liechtenstein Post has issued a special 3 set souvenir sheet in the postcard fold style featuring Swiss illustrator Angelo Boog hypothetical question to himself - What would happen to Liechtenstein if there were no more people?

The collages depict buildings, monuments, everyday objects and sections of landscape from the Principality in an imagined future devoid of human beings in twenty, one hundred and five hundred years from now. The disintegration of buildings, objects and cultivated landscape is tangible, nature spreads its tentacles and reclaims its space, numerous new animal species establish habitats. The artist was inspired by American author Alan Weisman who tackled this subject head-on in his book “The World Without Us” published in 2007.

Sheet 1

Sheet 2

Sheet3

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Stamps Flip Book - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps Flip Book

Grenada 1997 Minnie Mouse in Hawaiian Holiday Animated Flip Book Stamps

Issue date 7 August 1997

Grenada Post for the Pacific 97, World Philatelic Exhibition held at San Francisco, California, has issued 2 special miniature sheets featuring stamps in Flip Book sequence showing Minnie Mouse doing the Hula Dance celebrating 100 years of Cinema..

The animated sequence is shown below. 

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Cloth Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Cloth Stamps

Bhutan 1969 Religious Thanka Paintings Silk Stamps Folder Set

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Issue date 30 September 1969

Religious Thankas or Banners are paintings of sacred and ceremonial subjects which are hung on Buddhist Temples. Bhutan Post has issued a set of 5 rayon silk stamps honouring his Holiness Jamyang Yeshey Singhay Rimpoche, late Head Lama of Bhutan, who attained Nirvana on 12 March 1969.

15 CH Stamp - Je Tsongkhapa (or Lobsangtrakpa). Religious Scholar of the 14th century who had visions of Lord Manjusri. He is addressed as Gyalwa (Lord) Tsongkhapa. On the stamp painting he is depicted in Dharmachakra Mudra seated on a white elephant. In Mahayana mythology, the white elephant stands for steadiness and balance of mind.

75 CH Stamp - Chana Dorji (Vajrapani) is a divine Bodhisattva emanating from the Dhyani Buddha Aksobhya. On the stamp painting he is depicted in a wrathful manifestation wearing the skull head dress of a Heruka with a vajra in this right hand and his left hand in karana mudra. He wears a chain of devil heads with a snake coiled around the chain. He symbolises the might of the Buddhas and is worshipped by those who seek cure from serpent spirits afflictions.

2 NU Stamp - Sangay Marmey-dzey considered the Sixth Buddha the enlightener and illuminator. In the stamp painting the Buddha is depicted as seated in vyakhyana (preaching) mudra

5 NU Stamp - Three great teachers - In Mahayana scriptures the noblest Bodhisattvas, out of compassion, refuse Nirvana so that they might benefit the afflicted humanity. They periodically descend to earth in human form to preach and illuminate the lives of mankind. The painting depict 3 great teachers.

6 NU Stamp - Chenresik, Jampeyang and Tashithagye - On the stamp painting, on the left side is Chenresik (Avalokiteswara), in the centre Tashi-thagye (Eight Auspicious Signs) in the form of a pot and on the right side is Jampeyang (Manjusri).

Chenresik in the painting is depicted in white color with four arms, one pair of which holds a rosary and the other pair a lotus flower. He is the supreme embodiment of compassion whose essence is expressed in the famous 6 syllable chant "Om Manipadme hum" He is believed to to perpetually incarnated in successive Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Tashi-thagye (Eight Auspicious Signs) spell sanctity and happiness

Jampeyang in the painting is depicted in red and is the symbol of saving knowledge. He holds a book and a sword for knowledge. The sword and book represents severing the fetters (chains) of ignorance.

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