Monday, 27 May 2019

Plastic Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory -  Plastic stamps

Republique of Burundi 2018 55th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations with China

Issue date 21 December 2018 

Burundi Post to commemorate the 55th Anniversary of China Burundi Diplomatic Relations, has issued a special plastic minisheet of stamps depicting the various images of China on the stamps

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Sunday, 26 May 2019

3D - Motion Stamps Update

Category - Sight / Touch
Subcategory - 3D - Motion Stamps

New Zealand 2019 Space Pioneers 3D Lenticular Stamp



Issue date 1 May 2010

To commemorate the 50 years of the Moon Landing and to celebrate the New Zealand Space Pioneers, New Zealand Post has issued a special 3D Lenticular mini sheet which celebrates the world’s achievements in space exploration. 

The four stamps feature spacecraft Voyager 1, which reached interstellar space; the Space Shuttle, America’s reusable spacecraft which launched many satellites including the Space Station; the first Moon walk on 20 July 1969; and the lightweight craft Apollo Lunar Module, used to transport astronauts to the Moon’s surface. The Solar System, a comet, nebula and the galaxy with exoplanets, and New Zealand's history-making Electron rocket by Rocket Lab form the background to the stamp sheet. 
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Saturday, 25 May 2019

Stamps with Rock Dust - Update

Category Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Rock Dust

New Zealand 2019 New Zealand Space Pioneers Stamp with Meteorite Rock Dust





Issue date 2 May 2019

To commemorate the 50 years of the Moon Landing and to celebrate the New Zealand Space Pioneers, New Zealand Post has issued a set of  stamps printed with meteorite dust.




The stamps are sprinkled with real star dust, collected from a meteorite found in Morocco, and celebrate six New Zealanders who have helped to advance the world’s knowledge about space and space sciences:

Beatrice Hill Tinsley: Pioneer astrophysicist Beatrice Hill Tinsley was a world leader in modern cosmology. Her 114 published papers are regularly cited today, showing her ongoing contribution to understanding the Universe. An asteroid, a mountain and a prize that recognises her outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics, of an exceptionally creative or innovative character, are named after her.

Charles Gifford: Charles Gifford was New Zealand’s most outstanding astronomer in the first half of the last century. He mathematically showed that the Moon’s craters were made by meteorite impact.

Sir William Pickering, ONZ KBE: A pioneer of the world’s space exploration, William Pickering directed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the United States for 22 years. On the cover of TIME magazine twice, he launched America’s first spacecraft, was instrumental in the success of the Apollo programme and the Voyager missions and retired after seeing Viking 1 on its way to Mars. Sir William also has a New Zealand mountain named after him.

Alan Gilmore and Pamela Kilmartin: Alan Gilmore and Pamela Kilmartin track near-Earth asteroids, objects that might be a threat to Earth in the long term. In the course of this work they have discovered 41 minor planets, a comet and a nova.


Albert Jones, OBE: One of the greatest visual observers of all time, Albert Jones monitored stars that change brightness called variable stars. With a telescope he built in 1948, he made more than 500,000 brightness estimates, more than anyone in history, and discovered two comets and a supernova (SN1987a).


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Friday, 24 May 2019

Wood and Wood Paper Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps made from different material - Wood

Central African Republic 2019 Wuhan, China Stamp Show 2019 - Chinese Classics Novels
Dream of the Red Chamber

Outlaws of the Marsh (Water Margin)


Journey to the West

Romance of the 3 Kingdoms

The Legend of the Condors

Issue date May 2019

Central African Republic Postal Authorities in a special issue for the Wuhan China 2019 Stamp exhibition in conjunction with a Chinese Dealer has issued a 5 Set of wooden miniature sheet featuring Chinese Folk Classics Novels- Romance of the 3 Kingdoms , Dream of the Red Chamber, Outlaws of the Marsh , Journey to the West and The Legend of the Condors.

The 4 sheets are numbered 95 while one sheet is numbered 145. Its is said that only 180 numbered each set was issued.

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