Wednesday 31 May 2017

Flock Stamps - Update

Category - Touch 
Subcategory - Flock Stamps 

Iceland 2017 Icelandic Sweater Flock stamp



Issue date 27 April 2017

The Icelandic stamp features an Icelandic sweater with ”Álafoss pattern no. 51" which is typical to the icelandic state. The stamps has a flock type feel (like woven cloth feel) paper type.

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Flock Stamps

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Sunday 28 May 2017

Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations

Canada 2002 Jean Paul Riopelle Masterpiece with design perforations







Issue date 07 October 2002.

Jean-Paul Riopelle was born in 1923 in Montreal. He began learning to paint at the age of 10 with painter and sculptor Henri Bisson as his teacher. He later attended École Polytechnique de Montréal, Académie des Beaux-Arts and École du meuble. It was at École du meuble, that he met Paul-Émile Borduas, a painter and sculptor who was on the cutting edge of the avant-gardist and surrealist movements. Riopelle quickly embraced the thinking of this new master and joined him, and others, in the creation of Les Automatistes, a group of artists whose works were inspired more by emotion than the reproduction of tangible objects. 

The Riopelle issue also features a hidden copyright date that appears as a drop out in the fluorescent tagging. The Souvenir sheet features a dove made from perforations 

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Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs

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Thursday 25 May 2017

Stamps with Crystals - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Crystals

Liechtenstein 2017 Sunset in Ruby Red P-Stamp with Ruby Crystal




Issue date 01 March 2017

A special issue Personal stamp created by the a Philatelic company Hermann E Sieger GmbH, and issued by Liechtenstein Post, a Sunset in Ruby Red Stamp with a Red Ruby stuck to represent the Ruby Red Sun at Sunset. 

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Stamps with Crystals

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Wednesday 24 May 2017

Stamps with Moving Parts - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with moving parts/Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet/Odd Shaped stamp

Colombia 2016 Centro De Relevo Miniature sheet with a moving parts


Numbered Miniature Sheet


Issue date 3 December 2016

To facilitate communication between Deaf people within the country, the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications, ICT and the National Federation of the Deaf of Colombia have created the Centro De Relevo (or The Call Relay Centre for the Deaf ) was formed 15 years ago. To commemorate the 15 years of operation, Colombia Post has issued a special Circular Miniature sheet with an odd shaped oval stamp with a inside moving circle.

The movement of the inner circle flap highlights the various services provided by the National Call relay centre for the deaf so that a deaf person can make a normal phone call. 

The Online Interpretation Service (SIEL) facilitates the communication between deaf and hearing people who are in the same space by having an online interpreter available to them, which can be accessed from a computer, a tablet or a cell phone with internet connection and Audio amplification system and microphone.

Through the SIEL, deaf people and listeners will be able to communicate in the user's points of attention of public and private entities of the whole country, in meetings of work or in medical consultations.

The ICT Appropriation Tool offers contents and spaces where sign language and written language prevail for access to information, learning, understanding, knowledge building and above all the motivation to use ICT in the deaf,

The Relay Center constantly trains virtual interpreters on topics such as communication, translation, sign language, deaf culture and customer service.

The mobile application is a virtual platform that can be downloaded to a cell phone or tablet and is useful because it allows communication through text chat or video chat.

The website on the miniature sheet provides lots of information for the deaf to be an active participant in the various walks of life.

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Sunday 21 May 2017

Unusual Postal Souvenirs - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Unusual Postal Souvenirs

Portugal 2016 100 years of Tin Can Industry Stamps in a Can 






Issue date 16 November 2016

The CTT Correios de Portugal have found an original way to mark this issue of stamps dedicated to the National Canning Industry. Collaborating with the CTT on this unusual venture was the oldest cannery still in operation in the world, “Conservas Ramirez”, established in 1853. 

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Unusual Postal Souvenirs


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Thursday 18 May 2017

Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet - Update

Category - Sight 
Subcategory - Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet 

Switzerland 2017 200 years of the Bicycle Odd shaped Sheet



Issue date 23 Feb 2017

Today the bicycle is seen as an efficient and highly ecological means of transport that enhances the quality of life. It doesn’t create exhaust or noise emissions and only takes up a few square metres of parking space. 

On 12 June 1817, German inventor Karl Drais from Baden  rode through Mannheim on his self-constructed “running machine” which he patented under the name “draisine”. This invention was soon forgotten but the invention of pedals in 1866 soon led to the development of the high wheel or penny-farthing, which proved quite dangerous and was immediately banned in many places. The modern bicycle took off with the introduction of the rear wheel chain drive in the 1880s.

 Swiss Post has printed two special stamps in black-and-white show both the draisine and a modern bicycle on a odd shaped sheet. One stamp has the former in the foreground, the other the latter.

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Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet


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Wednesday 17 May 2017

3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps / Odd Shaped Stamp / Embossed Stamp

Canada 2017 Star Trek Prestige Booklet with Embossed Holographic Stamp of Borg Cube ship 






Issue date 27 April 2017

The Borg cube was the primary starship class of the Borg Collective's fleet in the Star Trek movies. Borg cubes are designed as a combined weapons platform and factory. Their main purpose was for destroying the military capacity of a species and assimilate the survivors into the Collective. The Borg Cube starship was captured in an odd shaped stamp with Holographic embossed printing in the prestige booklet issued by Canada Post.





The stamp was also issued as part of the First Day Cover Set.


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3D - Holographic Stamps
Embossed Stamps
Odd Shaped Stamp


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Trading Card Size Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Trading Card Size Stamps

Guyana 1995 Babe Ruth Trading Card Stamps Set



 




Issue date 16 February 1995

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Babe Ruth’s birth, the Family of Babe Ruth and Babe Ruth Baseball League Inc. authorized this rare set of cards. This highly collectible set of standard sized cards features 12 sepia-toned photographs of the Great Bambino set inside a gold foil with a foil signature at the bottom of each card. 



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Trading Card Size Stamps
Stamps Featuring Autographs

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