Stamps with Textured Rough Surface - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with Textured Rough Surface

Philippines 2014 Heritage month - Filipino textiles

Issue date 30 May 2014

PHPL Post to commemorate the Heritage Month of Taditional Filipino textiles has issued a special stamp on an odd shaped miniature sheet. The stamp features a tactile printing giving a rough feel to the stamp

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Stamps with Textured Rough Surface

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Embossed Gold Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Embossed Gold Stamps

Australia 2017 1916 WWI Centenary Gold minisheet

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Australia Post has issued 2 special gold minisheet commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the First World War . The 2 gold minisheet have been placed is a special folder as part of the Impression series and has a limited print of 250 prints. The print on my collection is No.21.

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Embossed Gold Stamps

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Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet - Update

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Subcategory - Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet/Odd shaped stamps           
 

France 2007 Le Parc de la Tête d'Or Lyon - French Gardens  

Issue date 30 April 2007

La Poste France has been issuing odd shaped souvenir sheet featuring the various Gardens of France. The 2007 souvenir sheet features "Le Parc de la Tête d'Or" in Lyon.

Two odd shaped stamps are also featured on the Souvenir Sheet

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Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet

Odd Shaped Stamps

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Odd Shaped Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Odd Shaped Stamps

United Kingdom 2017 David Bowie Stamp Set 

Issue date 14 March 2017

The Stamps features the six iconic album covers from throughout Bowie’s career with each self adhesive stamps having a ‘vinyl’ breakout detail.

The stamps comprise: 

1st Class: Hunky Dory, 1971

1st Class: Aladdin Sane, 1973

1st Class: “Heroes”, 1977

£1.52: Let’s Dance, 1983

£1.52: Earthling, 1997

£1.52: Blackstar, 2016

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Odd Shaped Stamps

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps / Pearlescent Stamps

Australia 1996 Pearls and Diamond Stamps 

Issue date 5 September 1996

Australia is a producer of both Diamonds and Pearls. Australia Post has issued a set of 2 stamps featuring a Diamond stamp with holographic printing and a Pearl stamp featuring Pearlescent printing.


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Pearlescent Stamps


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Personalised Stamps - Update

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Canada 2003 Alaska Cruise Personalised Stamps 

Issued 19 July 2003

These stamps were issued as a pilot project by Canada Post and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines for trips between Canada and Alaska. They were advertised as Picture Postage Plus: Canada-Alaska Cruise Edition.

The stamps were placed on sale aboard cruise ships for passengers to purchase, and the passenger’s photo was to be printed on the right-hand side, within the stamp frame. A separate keepsake portion of the sheet, on the left side with three images, is decorative only and cannot be used as postage.

The stamps ($1.25 International Rate) could used on post cards or letters, posted on board ship and inducted at Canadian ports of call, or used on personal mail after the passengers arrived home.


The stamps were place on sale July 19, 2003, with 40,000 available to the cruise company, and 10,000 sold to collectors through the National Philatelic Center.

The sheet includes 10 self-adhesive frames of official postage for international, plus 3 non-postage labels.

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Cloth Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Cloth Stamps

Morocco 2013 50th Anniversary of S.M.Le Roi Mohammed VI 

Issue date 21 August 2013

Moroccan Post has this time issued a special "silk" souvenir sheet devoted to the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Moroccan sovereign S.M.Le Roi Mohammed VI 

King Mohamed VI is indeed born on August 21, 1963 in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, and became King on July 23, 1999 after the death of his father, King Hassan II. Mohamed VI is the third King of Morocco and the 22nd monarch of the Alawite dynasty that ruled the country since the second half of the 17th century.

The silk miniature sheet printed by Cartor Security Printers has 2 Stamps of 8.40 Dirhams each. 

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Plastic Stamps - Update

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Subcategory -  Plastic stamps

Russia 2010 Polar Year Plastic Stamp sheet

 

Issue date  2017

On the occasion of the International Polar Year 2007-2008, Russian Post had issued a special souvenir sheet on 21 March 2007 depicting the floating polar stations "The North Pole", the researches of the ice surfaces, the cultural and the natural heritage of the Arctic are depicted on the stamps.

A special commemorative plastic stamp sheet was issued in 2017.

Normal Sheet

The plastic sheet looked like a plexi glass of 1mm thick

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Plastic Stamp
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Embossed Silver Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Embossed Silver Stamps


Canada 2017 Canadian Hockey Legends Embossed Silver Stamps

Issue date 28 September 2017

Canada Post to honour the Canadian Hockey Legends has issued a souvenir sheet featuring an embossed silver foil printing of the Stanley Cup with permanent stamps featuring Hockey Legends Greats who have been instrumental in winning the Stanley Cup for their teams - Jean Béliveau, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Lemieux, Orr, and Maurice Richard.

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Embossed Silver Stamps


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Extra Wide Length Stamps - Update

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Sub Category - Extra Wide Length Stamps 

China 1994 Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Chibi Battle    

Issue date 24 November 1994

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is a famous classical novel reflecting the contradictions and struggles among China's feudal ruling cliques in the last of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD25-220) and during the whole period of the Three Kingdoms (AD220-280).

China Post has issued a souvenir sheet featuring a painting depicting "Fierce battle at Chibi"  

Size of S/S: 182*65 mm 
Size of S/S stamp: 162*40 mm

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Stamps with Interactive Games - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with Interactive Games / Odd shaped Stamps

Finland 2014 Sign of the Sky

Issue date 08 September 2014

Posti Finland has issued a playful booklet of stamps depicting different signs of the sky like planets, a shooting star, the sun, clouds and a rainbow in different sizes and shapes containing eight 1st class self-adhesive stamps. In addition to stamps, the booklet contains many tiny stickers which allows one to modify the postal stamp to your liking.


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Stamps with Interactive Games
Odd Shaped Stamps

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Stamps with Braille - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with Braille 

UAE 2015 International White Cane Day

Issue date 15 October 2015

On the occasion of the International White Cane Day, Emirates Post in association with Emirates Association of the Visually Impaired has issued two Dh3 commemorative stamps on a miniature sheet which carry the slogan "UAE with You" in different languages like Arabic, English, French, Hindi as well as in Braille. The Braille printing consists of raised dots which the visually impaired can read by touch.

The stamps were issued to raise awareness of the visually impaired people and services offered to ensure the safety of the visually impaired in public places. The stamp depicts an image of a person walking with a cane. 

The Braille printing has raised dots on the sheet which a visually impaired person can read by touching the raised dots.

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Tête-Bêche Stamps - Update

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Sub-category - Tête-Bêche Stamps

USA 2017 History of Hockey Tête-Bêche Stamps

Issue date 20 October 2017

USPS and Canada Post has issued a Tête-Bêche pair of Stamps celebrating the history of hockey shared by both countries. This is the sixth joint issue for Canada Post and the USPS.

The earlier post featured the Canadian version of the Joint issue

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Tête-Bêche Stamps

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Embossed Stamps

Finland 2017 Coat of Arms

Issue date 24 May 2017

Finland Post Posti has issued  a special stamp featuring printing of the Country Name and Mailing amount of 10 Euro on the mini sheet with golden foil and there is embossing of the Finland Coat of arms on the stamp (embossing visible on the back of the sheet). In UV light, the map of Finland and a graph depicting the genetic background of Finns appear on the miniature sheet and the stamp. 

Embossing is seen on the back of the sheet

Stamp under UV light

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Photomosiac Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Photomosaic Stamp

Netherlands 2017 Dirk Kuijt Photomosiac Stamp Sheet

Issue date 06 October 2017

Post NL to honour retired Dutch Footballer Dirk Kuijt with a special stamp sheet featuring 24 stamps which together makes a whole picture of the footballer. 

Dirk Kuijt retired from football on 17 May 2017 spanning an exciting football career with Feyenoord, Liverpool and has represented Netherlands. Google his name name you will see an exciting football career.

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Photomosiac Stamps


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Cloth Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Cloth Stamps

China 2017 China International Collection Expo (Nanjing 2017) Silk sheet

Issue date 8 September 2017

China Post has held the first China International Collection Expo (CICE) on 8 and 11 September 2017 at the Nanjing International Exhibition Center, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, PRC. To commemorate this event, China Post has issued a special silk sheet featuring 2 stamps one with a magpie and the other with a rooster (the design of which was seen in last years stamp for year of the Rooster). 


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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

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USA 2006 X plane Express Mail and Priority Mail Stamp

Issue date 17 March 2006

USPS has issued a special Express Mail Stamp USD 14.40 which features a side view of the X-15 plane and a Priority Mail stamp USD 4.05  featuring the X-15 rocket . The X on the stamp features holographic printing.

The X-planes were experimental U.S. aircraft created to test the technology of supersonic and space flight. The X-1 was the first plane to break the sound barrier (1947). There were only 3 X planes made and they flew 199 flights from 1959 to 1968 with only 13 flights exceeded 50 miles in altitude, the U.S. criterion for spaceflight. The pilots on those flights qualified as astronauts.


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Wood and Wood Paper Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps made from different material - Wood

Russia 2010 Cultural Heritage of Russia and Serbia Iconography Wood Stamp sheet

Wooden sheet is on the right

Issue date 2017

A Joint Issue by Russia and Serbia featuring the icon paintings of both countries on 28 June 2010 was reproduced with a wooden sheet.The stamps depict the famous icons of both countries: "Archangel Michael" which belongs to the brush of Andrei Rublev from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and "Mother of God Odigitrija" from the collection of the National Museum in Belgrade.


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Stamps with Crystals - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Crystals

Liechtenstein 2017 Green Jade Forest Stamp

Issue date 16 August 2017

A special issue Personal stamp created by the a Philatelic company Hermann E Sieger GmbH as part of a subscription service, and issued by Liechtenstein Post, a Green Jade stuck to the stamp featuring a Forest.

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Stamps with Crystals

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Silver Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps made from different materials - Silver

Netherlands 2017 Dirk Kuijt Silver Stamp

Issue date 20 September 2017

Post NL to honour retired Dutch Footballer Dirk Kuijt with a special silver stamp commissioned through the Royal Dutch Mint to manufacture the postage stamp, which is made from pure silver. The stamp, in a deluxe storage box, is available for €25. The postage stamp has the ‘Registered Mail’ designation, and may therefore be used to send letters as registered mail. The stamps are valid for an unlimited period. Only 2500 stamps has been produced.

Dirk Kuijt retired from football on 17 May 2017 spanning an exciting football career with Feyenoord, Liverpool and has represented Netherlands. Google his name name you will see an exciting football career.

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Cloth Stamps - Update

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Subcategory - Cloth Stamps / Odd Shaped Stamp

Hong Kong 2017 QiPao Chinese Fashion Odd shaped Silk Stamp

$20 Silk Sheet

$10 Normal Odd shaped Stamp sheet

Normal Sheetlet as per Theme

Issue date 17 October 2017

Hongkong Post has issued a set of stamps on the theme of “Qipao” a traditional Chinese dress for women since 1920's. 

The Stamps featured on the Stamp sheetlet are 

$1.70 ─ Qipao in the 1920s inherited the wide and straight cut of long gowns of the Qing dynasty. The hemline fell between the calf and the ankle while the sleeves reached either the wrist or the elbow.

$2.20 ─ Qipao in the 1930s became the most popular daily attire among women. The qipao at that time mostly adopted a slim and slender cut, with higher slits on both sides to allow easier movements.

$2.90 ─ Qipao in the 1940s had its hemline raised to the calf and the collar lowered. The dresses were made of plainer fabrics with few embellishments. Summer qipao dresses were largely sleeveless.

$3.10 – Qipao in the 1950s was characterised by a slender cut, an indented hem and a higher collar. The qipao became the most elegant and decent dress for women for going out and the mainstream work attire for office ladies.

$3.70 – Qipao in the 1960s bore a similar style to that of the 1950s: shortened length, a slim waistline, a body-hugging fit and a narrow hemline to create an hourglass figure.

$5 – Qipao in the 1970s gradually fell from grace as western outfits won hearts. Nevertheless, the qipao continued to be worn as a ceremonial dress and thus became the attire for special occasions.

$10 Stamp Sheetlet – Contemporary qipao has retained the classical design while undergoing refinement and recasting by introducing contemporary fashion elements into the fabrics, cut and styles, hence reinforcing its prestigious status as a perennial classic. Stamp is odd shaped as per the theme

$20 Stamp Sheetlet – is printed with paper made of taffeta fabric to enhance the theme. Stamp is odd shaped as per the theme

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