Odd Shaped Stamps - Update

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Canada 2017 Canada 150 years of Confederation Stamps Set

Booklet with stamps removed

Issue date 01 June 2017

Canada  celebrate’s 150th anniversary with this issue of 10 Permanent domestic stamps. Each stamp in this special sesquicentennial issue captures iconic images and defining moments from the past 50 years. The issue is of 2 types - a booklet of Maple Leaf odd shaped stamps and a pane of 10 round stamps.

Expo 67: The futuristic world fair, held in Montréal for six months during Canada’s centennial, drew more than 50 million visitors. The Expo 67 stamp depicts internationally renowned Montréal architect Moshe Safdie’s revolutionary Habitat 67 housing complex, which still remains an eye-catching feature of the city’s waterfront

The Constitution and The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: The proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982 on April 17, 1982, by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II signified a symbolic step in Canada’s independence as a nation. In addition to giving Canada full control over future constitutional amendments, the Act embodies the Charter, which guarantees essential rights and freedoms for citizens and everyone who lives in Canada. The stamp depicts a section of the cover of the printed Act.

Canadian Innovation – the Canadarm: Highlighting the achievements of Canada’s innovators, this stamp depicts the Canadarm I, which made its operational debut on the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2) on November 13, 1981. Ingenious Canadian technologies – from the walkie-talkie and the snowmobile to the electric wheelchair and the electric oven, from the snow blower and the pacemaker to keyframe animation and the IMAX motion picture system – have contributed to virtually every aspect of daily life.

Marriage Equality: On July 20, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world to pass federal legislation that gave all citizens the right to marry the one they love. The stamp depicts a section of a rainbow flag, which is a familiar symbol of pride for the LGBTQ2S (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Two Spirit) community. This stamp will also be available in a booklet of 8 stamps.

Trans-Canada Highway: Canada’s coast-to-coast highway runs through all 10 provinces and links to roads leading into the Yukon and Northwest Territories, spanning nearly 8,000 kilometres in total. The stamp displays the familiar Trans-Canada Highway white-on-green maple leaf route markers.

Marathon of Hope: On April 12, 1980, Terry Fox embarked on a quest to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He ran nearly a full marathon a day before he was forced to abandon his run in Thunder Bay, Ont., when his cancer spread. Fox died at age 22 in 1981 but his legacy lives on; the annual Terry Fox run has raised more than $700 million worldwide. The stamp shows Fox running in his iconic Marathon of Hope T-shirt.

Nunavut (ᓄᓇᕗᑦ): On April 1, 1999, Nunavut became Canada’s newest territory. The largest, most northerly and least populated territory covers an area the size of Mexico, yet is home to only about 32,000 people – most of them Inuit who have occupied the vast Arctic Archipelago part of the region for some 4,000 years. The stamp bears an image of Ejangiaq Kines, photographed by spouse Clare Kines. Both live in Arctic Bay, Nunavut. This stamp will also be available in a booklet of 8 stamps.

Summit Series, 1972: On September 28, 1972, millions of Canadians watched as Team Canada defeated the Soviet national hockey team in game 8 of the Summit Series. Team Canada beat the odds, overcoming an early two-goal deficit and scoring the thrilling winning goal in the final seconds of the third period. The stamp shows Canadian forward Paul Henderson celebrating his game-winning and series-clinching goal against the Soviet team.

Olympic Games: Canada has hosted the Olympics three times: the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal from July 17 to August 1, 1976; the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary from February 13 to 28, 1988; and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, from February 12 to 28, 2010. The stamp shows a triumphant freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau after capturing Canada’s first Olympic gold medal on Canadian soil in the men’s moguls event.

Paralympic Glory: Commemorating Canadian achievement in the Paralympic movement and Canada’s role as host of two Paralympic Games, this stamp features Para alpine skier Lauren Woolstencroft, who became the first Canadian Paralympian to win five gold medals at a single Winter Games.

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

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South Korea 2016 Year of the Rooster 2017 Embossed 3D Holographic foil Stamp Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet

Issue date 01 December 2016

The Chinese year 2017 lasts from 28 January 2017 to 15 February 2018 and stands under the rule of the rooster.

In Korea, the rooster appeared as an animal announcing the birth of the ruler of a new country in the myth of Kim Alji, the progenitor of the Gyeongju Kim clan and the Kim dynasty of Silla.

To predict a good harvest, farmers used to count the crows of the first rooster at dawn on New Year’s Day or January 15th by the lunar calendar.


It was believed that a good harvest was on the way if the rooster crowed more than ten times.

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Trading Card Size Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Trading Card Size Stamps

St.Vincent 1992 Baseball Hall of Fame Trading Card Stamps

 

Issue date 11 June 1992

St. Vincent Baseball Hall of Fame cards that can be used as postage in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Issued in 1992. These card stamps contain Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, Bob Feller, Whitey Ford, Lou Gehrig, Rogers Hornsby, Mel Ott, Satchel Paige, Babe Ruth, Casey Stengel, Honus Wagner, and Cy Young; 12 stamps in all. Stats are on back of card which can be peeled off and put on a large envelope as postage.

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Transparent Stamps - Update

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Spain 2017 Spanish cinema - Malaga Film Festival Transparent stamps

Issue date 16 April 2017

Correos Spain to commemorate the hosting of the Malaga Film Festival has issued a special transparent stamp like that of one frame of a film.

The stamp shows a anchovy, a fish closely linked to the city of Malaga, emerging from a can containing a film, on a few strokes in blue tones that simulate the sea.

The miniature sheet also presents an illustration of a film camera that projects a beam of light represented by the famous "Farola" of Malaga, the lighthouse that guides the ships that arrive to its bay.

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Stamps with Interactive Folds - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with Interactive Folds / Odd shaped stamps / Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations

Spain 2017 World Heritage - Monuments of Oviedo and kingdom of Asturias

Issue date 16 May 2017

Correos Spain has issued World Heritage series block featuring Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of Asturias.

The foldable block sheet has, among its die-cut arches, an image of the green Asturian landscape, with a lake surrounded by mountains and vegetation, crowned with an intense blue sky adorned with white clouds.  The round stamp represents the front of the two-euro coin that is put into circulation this year.

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Stamps with Thermochromic Ink Printing - Update

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Spain 2017 Arcade Game with thermochromic ink printing

When heat applied

Hexagonal Stamps

Issue date 16 May 2017

To commemorate the 30th Anniversary of  Spanish video game: The Abbey of crime, Correos Spain has issued a special odd shaped miniature sheet with 6 hexagonal Stamps featuring heat sensitive printing.

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Stamps with Liquid Crystal Gel

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Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Liquid Crystal Gel

Bhutan 1973 Scouts Souvenir sheet with stamps with liquid crystal gel (LCD)

Issue date 28 December 1973

These stamps was to be issued on 28 December 1973 as per the mail dated 6 December 1973 but due to unknown reasons they were not issued. Some of the stamps made it to dealers before the issue date and were sold before the letter was sent out that the issue was being cancelled. 

These stamps features liquid crystals gel which changes color as per the heat applied to it. But due to some reasons the liquid crystal gel remains black permanently.

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Cloth Stamps - Update

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China 2017 Belt and Road Forum Silk Stamps

Issue date 14 May 2017

Commemorative stamps for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (the two-day infrastructure summit) were issued in Xinle, north China's Hebei province on Sunday, May 14, 2017. China Post released the silk stamps, with a face value of 1.2 yuan (0.174 USD) to mark the two-day Belt and Road Forum which takes place in Beijing on May 14 and 15, 2017.

The Belt and Road Initiative, President Xi’s signature foreign policy project, aims to build ports, railways and pipelines that connect a sprawling sea and land network from Asia to Europe. This multi-trillion-dollar plan spans more than 60 countries and 30% of the world’s GDP.

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations / Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps

China 2017 Chinese Dinosaurs Stamp Set with design perforations

Design perforations on the reverse

Design perforations on the reverse

Issue date 19 May 2017

China Post has issued a set of 7 stamps (Souvenir sheet 1 stamp and Miniature sheet with 6 stamps) featuring Chinese Dinosaurs with dinosaur perforations

1.20 Tsintaosaurus
1.20 Yangchuanosaurus
1.20 Huayangosaurus
1.20 Sinosauropteryx
1.50 Gigantoraptor erlianensis
3.00 Microraptor
6.00 Mamenchisaurus

The two sheets show the diversity of dinosaurs, spanning some 200 million years, from the early Jurassic to the late Cretaceous periods, fossilized remains of all of them are found in various locations of China.

The stamps printed with special ink and used fluorescent technology that allows to see the dinosaurs bones and normally invisible security number of every stamp under UV light. 

Left Side image under UV light - Skeletal bones seen

Another features of these stamps are the different dinosaurs silhouette on the sheetlet. The image on the top right side of the sheetlet has different numbers and different silhouette perforations (to be updated)

The Mamenchisaurus,  featured on the souvenir sheet, existed during the Late Jurassic. Fossils of this specimen have been discovered in Sichuan, Chongqing, Xinjiang and other regions of China. It had a huge body that was approximately 22 meters in length, of which its slender neck accounted for almost half of its total body length. The neck of the Mamenchisaurus was set at an angle from the ground, in order to raise its head higher. Moreover, it had a very broad chest and rounded abdomen, in addition to an enormous “tail hammer” that was positioned at the end of its tail.


The dinosaur  was first discovered in 1952 on the construction site of the Yitang Highway in Sichuan, China.  The partial skeleton fossil was then studied, and named Mamenchisaurus constructus in 1954, by the renowned Chinese paleontologist Professor C. C. Young.

Tsintaosaurus as a large-sized hadrosaurid, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossil was discovered in Laiyang, Shandong Province. The Tsintaosaurus had a very strong and powerful body, which was approximately 8 meter long, as well as a large and flat snout, and a tube-like nasal bone, which was positioned vertically on its head. This creature moved with four limbs and preferred to live with others together in a herd. 


 In 1950, at Hsikou, near Chingkangkou, in Laiyang, Shandong, in the eastern part of China, various remains of large hadrosaurids were uncovered. In 1958 these were described by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian ("C.C. Young") described it as the type species Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus. The generic name is derived from the city of Qingdao, earlier often transliterated as "Tsintao". 

Yangchuanosaurus this dinosaur lived in China during the Bathonian and Callovian stages of the Middle Jurassic, and was similar in size and appearance to its North American relative, the Allosaurus. 
The earliest fossils of this specimen were discovered in Chongqing n 1976. During a thunderstorm in June 1976, Lyu Xiangzhi, deputy commander of a local reservoir, was on his way to check a dam with his colleague when they stumbled upon a white object exposed from a rock. It was very hard and looked similar to an animal bone. Later, an expert identified the fossil to be a carnivorous dinosaur head with well-preserved jaw teeth. The local government conducted a large excavation project around where the fossil head was found. About 20 days later, a complete fossilized dinosaur was found. This Yangchuanosaurus fossil is now preserved at the Chongqing Natural History Museum, as a major treasure of the museum.


The body of the Yangchuanosaurus was huge, with a length of approximately 8 meters. Moreover, it had a massively shaped head, and strong, razor-sharp teeth, which were serrated. They had well—developed hind limbs which allowed them to run at very fast speeds. 

The Huayangosaurus belongs to the Stegosauria, and lived during the Middle Jurassic. In 1979 and 1980, remains from twelve stegosaurian individual animals were recovered from the Dashanpu Quarry near Zigong in Sichuan. They were named and described by Dong Zhiming, Tang Zilu and Zhou Shiwu in 1982.
 It was approximately 4.5 meters long, it was also much smaller than its famous cousin Stegosaurus, with powerful and well-built limbs, and 32 bone plates that were lined along its back in two symmetrical rows. In addition, its shoulders and tail were girded with long spikes. Like other stegosaurians, Huayangosaurus was a quadrupedal herbivore with a small skull and a spiked tail.

The Sinosauropteryx was a carnivorous creature. It lived in the Early Cretaceous, and its fossils were discovered in Liaoning Province. Its body was only 1~2 meters long. Described in 1996, it was the first dinosaur taxon outside of Avialae (birds and their immediate relatives) to be found with evidence of feathers. It was covered with a coat of very simple filament-like feathers. Moreover, it is also the first dinosaur to successfully have its color determined by scientific restoration. 

Sinosauropteryx was a small theropod with an unusually long tail and short arms and had several features unique among all other theropods. It had 64 vertebrae in its tail. This high number made its tail the longest relative to body length of any theropod. Its hands were long compared to its arms, about 84% to 91% of the length of the rest of the arm (humerus and radius), and half the length of the foot. The first and second digits were about the same length, with a large claw on the first digit. The first fingers were large, being both longer and thicker than either of the bones of the forearm.

The Gigantoraptor is the largest known Oviraptor to have existed. It lived in the Late Cretaceous, and its fossil was discovered in Inner Mongolia. It was 8 meters in length and weighed more than 1,400 kilograms, which is comparable to the body size of the Tyrannosaurus.  Relative to its size, Gigantoraptor had unusually slender limbs and lengthy legs.The researchers theorize that Gigantoraptor may have used its feathers for display or for incubating its eggs. Past studies suggest oviraptorosaurs may have had long feathers on their arms and bodies for covering their eggs.
The diet of Gigantoraptor is uncertain. Although some oviraptorosaurs, are thought to have been mostly herbivorous, Gigantoraptor had long hind legs with proportions that allowed for fast movement, and large claws, a combination that is not usually found in herbivores of this size, therefore it is suggested that Gigantoraptor was also a herbivore and used its speed to escape predators.

The Microraptor is one of the smallest dinosaurs to have ever been discovered, and also is the first dinosaur to have been found that had four wings and was able to fly. It lived in the Early Cretaceous and its fossil was discovered in Liaoning Province. Its body length was only 55~70 cm, and it had a very petite body structure. 


Like Archaeopteryx, well-preserved fossils of Microraptor provide important evidence about the evolutionary relationship between birds and dinosaurs. Microraptor had long pennaceous feathers that formed aerodynamic surfaces on the arms and tail but also on the legs. This led paleontologist Xu Xing in 2003 to describe the first specimen to preserve this feature as a "four-winged dinosaur" and to speculate that it may have glided using all four limbs for lift. Subsequent studies have suggested that Microraptor was capable of powered flight as well.  Microraptor was among the most abundant non-avialan dinosaurs in its ecosystem, and the genus is represented by more fossils than any other dromaeosaurid, with possibly over 300 fossil specimens represented across various museum collections.

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

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Mongolia 2000 WWF Przewalski Horses 

Issue date 07 July 2000   

Called Equus Przewalski, after the Polish explorer, the takhi is considered the world's only genuine wild horse. The takhi has the figure of a compact, small domestic horse with a strong neck and heavy limbs with a typical height of about 1.32m, length of about 2.1m with a 90 cm tail. The takhi was declared extinct in the 1960s.

Currently all of the takhi in the wild today are descended from 12 that were caught around 1900's.

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