Stamps with Thermochromic Ink Printing - Update

Category -  Touch / Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Thermochromic Ink Printing 

Alderney 2017 Coastal Eclipses

Issue date 19 July 2017

To commemorate the Eclipse occurring on 21 August 2017, Alderney Post has issued 6 stamps featuring 6 coastal locations which will be treated with a partial eclipse.

The stamps feature heat sensitive ink which reveal full eclipses when warmed with the finger tips revealing the altitude and direction of the eclipse for each coastal location - 

44-penny stamp - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  (altitude is 38.76 degrees, and that the direction is 120.64 degrees, east-southeast 21 August 2017 time 10:21 )

59-penny stamp - Miami, Florida USA (altitude is 64.29 degrees, and that the direction is 242.44 degrees, west-southwest 21 August 2017 time 14:58 )

60-penny stamp - Hamilton, Bermuda (altitude is 46.49 degrees, and that the direction is 252.34 degrees, west-southwest 21 August 2017 time 16:12 ),

73-penny stamp - Dakar, Senegal (altitude is 1.19 degrees, and that the direction is 282.09 degrees, west-northwest 21 August 2017 time 19:22 ), 

80-penny stamp - Saint Anne, Alderney (altitude is 0.77 degrees, and that the direction is 288.27 degrees, west-northwest with time 21 August 2017 time 20:07 ),

90-penny stamp - Anadyr, Russia (altitude is 5.70 degrees, and that the direction is 72.92 degrees, east-northeast with time 22 August 2017 time 05:19 )

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Stamps with Thermochromic Ink Printing

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Stamps with Hidden image - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Hidden image

Alderney 2009 Sherlock Holmes Mystery Presentation Pack - “Curious Case Of The Alderney Bull” containing a Miniature Sheet with hidden image

Decoder lens

Presentation Pack - Front

Presentation Pack - Back

Presentation Pack Unfolded

Issue date 29 Oct 2009

Sherlock Holmes was one of the famous creations by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born on 22 May 1859.

'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,' were published in 1892 featuring short stories of crime detective and became quite popular very quickly.

The Sherlock Holmes Mystery Presentation pack tells the story of Sherlock Holmes and the Curious Case of the Alderney Bull and includes a special decoder lens which help in solving the mystery in the story on the presentation pack.

The pack also includes a set of 6 stamps which tells the story and by scouring the pictures and stamps for clues (hidden images), one can set about solving the mystery. The Stamps were issued by Alderney Post in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birth.

The story starts with the theft of an Alderney bull, a breed of livestock much valued in the 19th century for the quantity and richness of milk produced by the cows.

The drawings incorporate buildings and landscapes from Alderney, an island within the Guernsey boundaries.  

Guernsey is a group of islands in the English Channel, dependent of the British Crown.


Part of the Guernsey bailiwick and situated at the northernmost of the Channel Islands, is the Alderney Island, who started issuing their own postage stamps in 1983.

The hidden image (Spoiler alert) - The culprit can be seen with the decoder lens (when tilted to the left at 15 degrees) in the area of the magnifying glass on the miniature sheet.

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Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps   

Alderney 2014 Final Panel of the Bayeux Tapestry miniature sheet made of cotton cloth

Issue Date 28 May 2014

Alderney Post has issued a GBP 3 Miniature Sheet which has been printed on to 100% combed cotton with a thread count of 167 x 167 based on Jan Messent's book The Bayeux Tapestry embroiderers' story. The second image shows the presentation pack of the miniature sheet.

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Cloth Stamps

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