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Portugal 2024 King's Pine Forest (Pinhal do Rei) Souvenir Stamp sheet with Crushed Pine dust

Issue date 31 July 2024

CTT Portugal has issued a special Souvenir sheet with an odd shaped stamp featuring the King's Pine Forest (Pinhal do Rei), a coastal pine forest located in the principality of  Marinha Grande, on the coastal dunes to the south of the River Lis.

The stamp on the Souvenir sheet has been printed in parts with a special ink mixed with powder from crushed pines harvested for this purpose from the area. 

The Stamp on the souvenir sheet is also odd shaped.

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Australia 2015 The battle of Lone Pine Medallion Album with wood chips printed on the stamp

Wood chips printed on the tree trunk and branches as well on LONE PINE heading

Wood chips printed on the trench wooden bars of the stamp 

Wood shavings enclosed in the medallion on the album folder

Issue date 14 April 2015

As part of the Centenary of World War I commemoration, Australia Post has issued The Battle of Lone Pine Medallion Album folder which includes a minisheet featuring shavings from the Australian War Memorial - Lone Pine tree as part of the printing process. The stamp on the minisheet was issued as part of a set of 5 stamps for commemorating the Gallipoli Campaign Centenary.

The Battle of Lone Pine was fought between Australian and Ottoman Empire forces during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War, between 6 and 10 August 1915.

The folder contains a wonderfully designed medallion that contains shavings from the Australian War Memorial Lone Pine tree grown from a seed brought back from Gallipoli. Shavings used are from a branch that feel during a storm in 2008.

A limited edition of 3000 folders with the unusual minisheet was issued.

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New Zealand 2014 Hobbit The Battle of Five Armies Miniature Sheet Stamp with wood chips printed 

Issue Date 12 November 2014

New Zealand Post is giving fans everywhere the opportunity to own a real piece of Middle-earth with the The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies stamp. A piece of the Hobbiton Movie Set has been incorporated into a stamp 

The stamp feature the iconic door to Bag End in the Shire, home of the Hobbits Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit Trilogy, and Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Incorporated into the door part of the images of the Stamp on the miniature sheet are particles of wood from the ‘party tree’ on the Hobbiton Movie Set, which appeared in both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit motion picture trilogies.

Well known characters Bilbo, Gandalf the Grey and Bard the Bowman; Elves Tauriel and Thranduil; villains Azog the Defiler and his army of Orcs; and the fire-breathing Dragon Smaug also feature on the other official stamps.

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Gibraltar 2005 – Death of Lord Nelson - Battle of Trafalgar – Stamp printed with wood from HMS Victory

Benham Silk First Day Cover with the HMS Victory Stamp

Issued on: 31 January 2005 

The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on the 21st October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar on the Spanish Coast, between the combined fleets of Spain and France and the Royal Navy. It was the last great sea action of the period and its significance to the outcome of the war in Europe is still debated by historians. A Royal Navy fleet under the command of Admiral Nelson destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet, and in doing so guaranteed the United Kingdom uncontested control of the world’s ocean for more than 100 years.
In June 1803 Nelson embarked on HMS Victory as Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean. The next time he stepped off her on to land was on 20th July 1805 at Gibraltar. During that time he had been either blockading or chasing the French and Spanish fleets. Nelson's connection with Gibraltar was not finished as it was at Rosia Bay, Gibraltar on the 3rd November 1805 that his body was brought ashore from HMS Victory and re-interred in Spirits of Salts before sailing back to Great Britain.

Gibraltar HMS Victory stamp depicting the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar incorporate minute slivers of wood, cut from the original oak timbers of HMS Victory. Only the HMS Victory stamp (GBP1.60) is printed from paper made by pulping wood from the actual HMS Victory.


One stamp image depicts the barrel of brandy that Lord Horatio Nelson's body was returned to Britain in after he died during the battle.

Other countries too have printed the HMS Victory Stamps with the wood chip printed. The stamps of countries with the HMS Victory in my collection are - Ascension Island, Bahamas, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Kiribati, Jamaica, Nauru, St. Helena, St.Lucia and Tristan Da Cunha. 

The stamp from British Virgin Island (also from my collection) does not have the wood chip printed on the stamp though it has a similar design.

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