Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes - Update

Category - Hearing/Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes 

Germany 2024 Christmas for Children - Christmas Bakery Stamp printed with Interactive Codes Read with Special Tiptoi Pen

Issue date 2 November 2024

Deutsch Post (Germany) has issued a special Stamp with Interactive code featuring Christmas for Children - Christmas Bakery, suitable for franking standard letters up to 20g and postcards within Germany. 

The Stamp is printed with Interactive Codes when read with a Pen Reader from Tiptoi Pen brings out the music of Christmas. You need to buy the Tiptoi Pen from Ravensburger.de and download the audio file onto the pen which will play the file when pressed on the Start Button Icon (as in all Ravensburger books). A special charger station which can download the audio file to the pen but it is not necessary. Just connect the pen to you PC via USB and copy the downloaded audio file (gme* file) and insert it into the  drive of your tiptoi® pen. Once the audio file is copied disconnect the pen and use as discussed above.

Another Stamps was issued in December of 2025 featuring Sponge Bob and Friends

Other Stamps with Interactive codes using a pen reader was issued by China and Netherlands

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Netherlands 2011/2012 60 Years of Television Personalized Stamps with Interactive Codes

Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes - Update 2

China 2010 Kunqu Opera Stamps with Interactive Multimedia codes

China 2009 Three Hundred Tang Poems with special printing codes and microprinting

China 2012 - 23 Song Poetry with Interactive Codes read by a Special Aigo Pen and Micro Text Printing and one version printed on Xuan Paper

China 2014 - 29 Yuan Qu (Yuan Drama) with Interactive Codes read by a Special Aigo Pen and Micro Text Printing

Netherlands 2016 Dutch Music Personalised Stamps

Netherlands 2016 Dutch Birds Personalised Stamps

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Stamps with Interactive Codes

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Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes - Update

Category - Hearing/Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Interactive (QR/Bar/Augmented Reality/C) codes 

Germany 2026 Sponge Bob Stamp printed with Interactive Codes Read with Special Tiptoi Pen

Issue date 2 Mar 2026

Deutsch Post (Germany) has issued a special Stamp with Interactive code featuring Sponge Bob Square Pants and Friends (Patrick and Sandy) from Bikini Bottom by creator Stephen Hillenburg (1961-2018), suitable for franking standard letters up to 20g and postcards within Germany. 

The Stamp is printed with Interactive Codes when read with a Pen Reader from Tiptoi Pen brings out the music of SpongeBob's exciting world at Bikini Bottom. You need to buy the Tiptoi Pen from Ravensburger.de and download the audio file onto the pen which will play the file when pressed on the Start Button Icon (as in all Ravensburger books). A special charger station which can download the audio file to the pen but it is not necessary. Just connect the pen to you PC via USB and copy the downloaded audio file (gme* file) and insert it into the  drive of your tiptoi® pen. Once the audio file is copied disconnect the pen and use as discussed above.

Click on the Stamp to download the .gme audio file for SpongeBob

Keep Sound ON to listen pen interaction 

SpongeBob on Cover

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Stamps with Interactive Codes

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Unofficial issue

Category - Touch/Sight
Subcategory - Unofficial Issue / Stamps with NFC technology 

Germany 2020 250th Anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven Birth

Issue date 02 January 2020

 Deutsche Post has issued a special stamp marking the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven which pictures a stylized version of the famous Beethoven portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, a musical clef and the lettering “250 Jahre BTHVN” (250 Years of Beethoven). Ludwig van Beethoven often signed letters and scores using the “BTHVN” abbreviation, which is printed on the stamp in a special “metallic silver” color..

A set of 250 unique stamp pieces were issued as a private with the NFC chip attached at the back and available for sale from a Dealer Nordfrim.com (Denmark). The number of stamps issued was reportedly 250 pieces with a NFC chip attached at the back of stamp and when scanned with an NFC enabled Smartphone and one can listen to Beethoven's symphony no. 5 'Fate'.  This issue with the NFC chip is not officially issued by Deutsche Post. 

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Stamps with NFC technology

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Flavoured Stamps - Update

Category - Taste
Subcategory - Stamps with flavored Gum  

Germany 1956 Olympic Games Year

Issue date 9 June 1956

The 1956 Summer Olympics (Games of the XVI Olympiad) was held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As part of the special occasion, Deutsche Post issued a special stamp which had a special peppermint flavored gum.   

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Flavoured Stamps - Update

Category - Taste
Subcategory - Stamps with flavored Gum 

Germany 1956 200th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Peppermint flavored Gum Stamp

Issue date 27 January 1956 

On the occasion of the Birth Bicentenary of the famous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsch Post had issued a special 10pf stamp depicting the piano with a piece of Mozart composed music. The stamp had a special peppermint flavored gum.  

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Flavoured Stamps - Update

Category - Taste
Subcategory - Stamps with flavored Gum

Germany 1955 Adalbert Stifter peppermint flavored gum

Issue date 22 October 1955

Deutsche Post  to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of the Austrian poet Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) has issued a 10 Pf. denomination stamp with peppermint flavored gum on the back. This was first in the series of stamps issued by Deutsche Post (German postal authorities) which featured a peppermint gum backed stamps.

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Wood and Wood Paper Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps made from different material - Wood/Odd Shaped Stamps

Germany 2011 Germany's first wooden stamp comes from Dresden issued by Private Post Modern  

Issue date 25 November 2011

The first wooden Stamp from Germany issued by private postal operators POST MODERN in the form a miniature sheet with 8 triangular self adhesive stamps made from real wood shows a spanning tree to depict a Christmas Tree.

A smaller self adhesive wooden stamp featuring a candle stand was also issued at the same time.


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Wood and Wood Paper Stamps
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Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps  

East Germany 1963 Chemistry for Peace and Socialism Miniature Sheet Stamps made of Dederon (Polyamide/Nylon material)

Issue date - 12 Mar 1963  

Stamps issued by the East German Post features a 50 Pf stamp depicting a chemical worker at Technology Laboratory  and a 70 Pf stamp depicting a Chemical Plant. 

Dederon (usually as a brand dederon) was  the trading name of Polyamide Fibers in the GDR from 1959.  

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Cloth Stamps

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