3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps / Odd Shaped Miniature sheet

South Korea 2023 10 Years of BTS debut Stamps with 3D Holographic Foil

Issue Date 13 June 2023

South Korea Post to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Debut of Korean Pop Band BTS first album on 13 June 2013 has issued a special edition mini-sheet of 10 Stamps priced at KRW 7,770 featuring their 10 album covers with holographic foil around the album and on its headings.

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3D - Holographic Stamps

Odd shaped Miniature Sheet

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps 

Australia 2025 Opals Stamps with Holographic foil Printing

Issue date 17 July 2025

Australia Post has issued a special Folder "Opals Embellished Stamp Pack" featuring Australia's national gemstone, Opals which display a wide play of colors, produced by the diffraction and interference of light by the microscopic spheres of silica that form the structure of the opal. (Brought to light with the holographic foil printing)

The Opals depicted are some of the wide variety of Opals found in opal-mining sites of Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales. Regular stamps of the Opal series without the holographic foil were also printed for sale.

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3D - Holographic Stamps

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Scented Stamps - Update

Category - Smell / Sight
Subcategory - Scented Stamps  / Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet

Spain 2024 Strawberry Train Madrid-Aranjuez Scented Stamps

Issue date 25 Jun 2024

Correos Spain has issued a special strawberry-scented stamp on the Strawberry Train to commemorate the historic train line from Madrid to Aranjuez (famous for local Strawberries). 

The Strawberry train connects the Capital of Spain Madrid to the Mediterranean Sea (Aranjuez). Currently the train makes a tourist route where passengers can enjoy a pleasant trip from the 19th-century Delicias station in Madrid to the Aranjuez station.

The die cut odd shaped miniature sheet features 6 stamps of the Strawberry Train.

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Scented Stamps

Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet

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Stamps with Crystals - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Materials affixed - Crystals

Oman 2025 Omani Gemstones with Crystals affixed

Issue date 30 October 2025 

Oman Post issued a special set of 6 stamps each of 2 Omani Rials featuring the Gemstones of Oman - Amethyst, Black Agate, Dendritic Agate, Green Agate, Quartz and White Agate. The Special limited Edition of the miniature sheet of the Stamps were affixed with their respective Crystals. Miniature sheet with just stamps 500 Omani Baisa value was also issued on 27 October 2025.

My Stamp sheet number is 912/1000

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Stamps with Crystals

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps 

Costa Rica 2010 Swarm of Fish in the Gulf of Papagavo Holographic ATM stamp

Issue date 18 August 2010

Costa Rica Post has issued an ATM stamp depicting a swarm of Fish in the Gulf of Papagavo. The one that I have is mint with no values.

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3D - Holographic Stamps

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Odd Shaped Miniature Sheets - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Odd Shaped Miniature Sheets/Odd shaped Stamps

On a snowy day with 40 cm of snow.. thought I pick up one of the many odd shaped miniature sheet in my collection to update on my blog ...Hope you like it.

Belgium 2024 Universe Stamp shaped Miniature sheet 

Image taken from the net for illustration purpose

Issue date 26 August 2024

BPost or Belgium Post has issued a self adhesive miniature sheet in the shape of a stamp with 10 round stamps depicting the planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in eight stamps. The ninth stamp depicts the James Webb telescope which confirmed the existence of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. The tenth stamp depicts the 7 planets around the star TRAPPIST-1 habitable zone, located about 40 light-years from Earth.

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Odd shaped Miniature Sheet

Odd Shaped Stamps

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3D - Motion stamps - Update

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

Waiting for new Stamps in this category - meantime adding my old collections not updated yet on this blog

North Korea 2007 Beijing Olympics 3D motion Stamps (multiple images)

Image taken from the net for illustration purposes

Issue date 15 October 2007

North Korea Post as part of the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics has issued a souvenir sheet with set of 5 Stamps depicting the 5 mascots of the Beijing Olympics in one angle and when tilted at a different angles shows the various icons of Chinese and Korean culture.

Image 2 of the same souvenir sheet

The stamps/ souvenir sheet were made of plastic and the stamps were round shaped. Be careful when buying this sheet. Dealers are showing 2 different images to entice customers to buy 2 sheets instead of one using different 2 images as above. There is however a perf and an imperf version of the same sheet.

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3D - Motion Stamps

Odd Shaped Stamps

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Lottery Stamps

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Lottery Stamps

Lottery Stamps are usually stamps sold with a chance to win a prize. Was contemplating to introduce this category for a long time but never got to it.. Will recategorize some of the earlier post with scratch and win stamps to include this category of Stamps. 

Japan 2025 Lunar New Year of the Horse Lottery Prize Stamps

Issue date 30 October 2025

Japan Post has issued its annual Lunar New Year of the Horse Lottery Prize Stamps. A set of 4 stamps were issued of which 2 stamps has a unique number in the selvage attached. These numbers if winning usually offers prizes from Japan Post The draw date for the Japan Post New Year's lottery stamps (nengajo) in 2026 is scheduled for January 19, 2026. The winning numbers are typically announced on the official Japan Post website. 

Prizes typically range from cash and e-money to gift catalogs and special stamp sheets.

These stamps are first in my collection though I have posted stamps earlier which were special stamp sheets won in the lottery.

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Holographic Stamps / Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet

Happy New Year to my subscribers.. My first post for the year 2026

South Korea 2025 Chinese Lunar New Year of the Horse 2026

Issue date 1 December 2025

South Korea Post as part of the Annual Series of New Year's Greetings, has issued a special odd shaped souvenir sheet with 16 stamps of 2 different stamps with horse image - 2026 being Year of the Horse in the Chinese Zodiac signs. One of the stamp has embossing with silver foil printing while the other stamp is printed with Red holographic foil.

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3D - Holographic Stamps

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