Multi-Sensory Stamps Sets - Update

Category - Multi - Sensory 
Subcategory - Stamps set with different printing technology

Rearranging an earlier post to reflect the correct country and category.

South Africa 2010 International Stamp Show Joburg 2010 : Celebrating print techniques on South Africa stamps

Issue date 09 October 2010


At the South Africa,  Joburg 2010 International Stamp Show, South African post issued a miniature sheet with each stamp showcasing the different print techniques used on South African Stamps. 

First South African Stamp – Reprint of the first stamp of the Union of South Africa, issued on 10 November 1910 for the opening of the First Union Parliament. It was a 2 1⁄2d stamp which portrayed the monarch King George V along with the logo arms of the four British colonies which formed the Union: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony and Transvaal. 

First South African stamp using Rotogravure printing process. Reprint of 1927 - 1s stamp featuring two large African antelopes Gnus.

First South African stamp using Letterpress printing process – Reprint of 1929 Biplane 4d Stamp issued on16 August 1929 with South Africa inscribed bilingually on the Stamp.   

First South African stamp using Process colour – Reprint of 1963 - 50 years of Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens in Cape Town on a 2 ½ c multicolored Stamp featuring Red Disa Orchid (Disa uniflora) with table mountain on the background issued on 14 March 1963. Multicolour printing process.

First South African stamp printed with Gold Foil – Reprint of 1970 – 150th anniversary of Bible Society of South Africa Stamp celebrating the Year of the Bible issued on 20 August 1970 featuring an open book on a 12 ½ C stamp. Combination of photogravure and embossing with gold foil printing process.

First South African stamp printed using intaglio printing process – Reprint of 1974 Voortrekker Monument and Encampment 4c Stamp issued 6 December 1974 commemorating the 25th anniversary of Voortrekker Monument (Monument to the Pioneers) in Pretoria.

First South African Stamp printed using Offset Lithography printing process – Reprint of 1974 100th Anniversary of the first official coin struck in South Africa, the Burger’s pond, a one-pound sterling gold coin on a 9-cent stamp issued on 6 April 1974.

First Stamp in the world printed using Superlitho printing process. Reprint of a stamp issued in a 1997 Year of Cultural Artifacts miniature sheet which featured a Tswana Knife handle on a Stamp. 

First South African Stamp printed with Braille – Reprint of 2005 Prevent Blindness Braille Stamp issued on 20 November 2005 featuring the word HELLO embossed in Braille.

First South African Stamp printed with a fragrance – Reprint of a 2008 South African Nanaqualand Flowers Stamp set which featured a Karoo Gazania Daisy flower self-adhesive stamp, issued on August 22, 2008. The flower on the stamp is a Karoo Gazania Daisy or (Gazania rigida).

First South African Stamp embossed and printed gold foil – Reprint of 2009 - 75th Anniversary of South African Airways Stamp Set - issued on 13 March 2009 featuring the Captains Badge & Insignia on an embossed and printed gold foil Stamp.

First South African Stamp printed with a 3D effect – Reprint of 2009 3D Anaglyph Dinosaurs Stamp issued on 2 November 2009. Two views of the picture was printed in two colours, usually red for the left eye and blue or green for the right that required special glasses with red and green (or blue) lenses for 3D viewing.

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Stamp with Braille

Scented Stamp

Stamp with Gold foil embossing

3D - Anaglyph Stamp

Multi-Sensory Stamps Sets

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps - Update

Category - Sight  
Subcategory - Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps 

South Africa 2001 Bats of South Africa with glow in the dark printing

Issue date 22 June 2001

South Africa Post has issued a special stamp sheet featuring the bats of South Africa. The stamps on the sheets are self adhesive .

The bats features on the stamp sheet are 

Cape horseshoe bat 
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat
Egyptian Fruit Bat
Egyptian Free-tailed Bat 
Welwitsch's hairy bat
Short eared trident bat
De Wintons's long eared bat
Schreiber's long fingered bat
Common slit faced bat
Large eared free tail bat

The sheet also features phosphorous fluorescent printing on the heading and the moon glows in the dark under UV light

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps 


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Stamps with Rock Dust - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with matter affixed - Rock dust

South Africa 2010 Taxi Hand Signs

Issue date 29 January 2010

A set of postage stamps depicting taxi hand signals has been issued by the SA Post Office. The project was the brainchild of Susan Woolf, who is currently doing her PhD in Anthropology at Wits. Woolf's thesis is called 'Taxi hand signs and social spaces'

The stamps, released in a blind-friendly raised-relief set of 10 by the South African Post Office, highlights the unspoken language used to reach a desired destination: an upward index finger goes to Johannesburg’s inner city, a gun style-point is for Alexandra township, and a splayed hand will go to upmarket Rosebank.

South Africa is probably the only country in the world that has special hand signals that indicate to the taxi driver where his prospective client wants to go. Hand Signals depicted on the stamp shows hand signs for travelling to destinations from : 

Alexandria to Randburg
Randburg to Tembisa
Tembisa to Sebenza
Turffontein to Mulbarton
Gauteng to Johannesburg CBD
Germiston to Kathlehong
Johannesburg to Sandton
Johannesburg to Phola Park
Emdeni to Highgate
Local to the Area

Limestone has been used in the screen printing on the hand signs on the stamp. 




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Stamps with Rock Dust


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Stamps with Moving Parts - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with moving parts / Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet / Odd Shaped Stamps

South Africa 2013 International Year of Water Cooperation with moving part

Issue date 20 March 2013

To raise awareness of the importance of using water wisely, an international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day. The main aim of World Water Day is to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and to encourage the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater management.

The drop-shaped stamps issued by South African Post reflects five recognised water uses.

Human consumption

Clean drinking water is a precious resource and is essential for human health.

Purifying tap water is an expensive process; so it is important to close taps properly after use to prevent water loss. Taking shallow baths and short showers also uses less water.

Agriculture

Water is vital for irrigation and the production of food crops. South Africa’s water resources are limited and should be used sparingly. 

One way to do this is to irrigate at in the eary morning or in the late afternoon to prevent water loss through evaporation or to install a drip irrigation system.

Industry

The use of wind turbines as a form of electrical generation has considerable environmental benefits when compared to the traditional method of burning fossil fuels, which uses a lot of water. Like all man-made things, wind power turbines have an impact on bat and bird species, but they are water-saving sources of electricity, because they hardly use any water.

Working for Water Programme

The South African Government established the Working for Water Programme to champion the fight against invading alien plants.

Invasive alien trees are being removed because they use tremendous amounts of water. Shown here is a previously unemployed worker removing alien trees from a riverbank.

Biodiversity

The Clanwilliam redfin (Barbus calidus) is one of many small fish species from South Africa that are found nowhere else. It is severely threatened by water abstraction for agriculture, industry, pollution, urban consumption and by alien bass and trout.

The Mauve Bluet damselfly (Proischnura polychromatica) illustrated here, which was thought to be extinct, was rediscovered after invasive alien plants and trees had been removed from the banks of rivers.

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 Stamps with Moving Parts
Odd Shaped Miniature Sheet 
Odd Shaped Stamps


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Stamps with Interactive Folds

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Interactive Folds

This category has been started for stamps with interactive folds which allows one to fold the stamps on a sheet to a particular 4 or 3 dimensional object like a box, a pyramid (like a tree), etc

South Africa 2014 World Post Day - Stamps which fold into a Parcel box   

Issue date 09 October 2014

World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October, the anniversary of the founding of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. The main aim of the UPU is to create and maintain a structure, which ensures the free flow of international mail around the world.

To mark the UPU’s anniversary and to highlight the importance of the work done by postal services worldwide, the day was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan in 1969. Since then, World Post day has been commemorated annually by more than 150 countries worldwide in various ways, including philatelic exhibitions, special stamps and date cancellation marks, conferences, seminars and workshops.

South Africa’s World Post Day stamp issue comprises a self-adhesive stamp sheet with five stamps which features a small box-shaped parcel from a die-cut design, which can be folded into a small box. One side of the stamp sheet shows the stamps illustrated with hands performing various tasks, while the other side looks like a small parcel. When folded, the stamps seem to be hidden inside the box.

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps - Update

Category - Sight / Touch
Subcategory - Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps

South Africa 2014 Lighthouses - Glow in Dark MS under UV

Issue date 20 August 2014

For about 400 years, from the 15th to the 19th century, sailing around the southern tip of Africa, was a deadly business, as evidenced by some 2 000 shipwrecks along our 3 000-km coastline. In the 1800s, the first South African lighthouses were built to warn ships of the treacherous conditions. Today, there are 45 lighthouses along South Africa’s beautiful coastline. South African Post has featured a set of five self-adhesive stamps designed by JWS Longland, a student from North-West University featuring some of the lighthouses along South African coastline.

Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and replacement by modern electronic navigational aids. In South Africa, some of these beacons of light from days gone by, are now national monuments and popular tourists attractions. The lighthouses featured on the stamps were chosen either for their historical value, their particular location or their special features.

Green Point - Cape Town

The Green Point lighthouse in the Mother City is famous for its ‘Moaning Minnie’ foghorn, and has been prominent landmark in Table Bay since 1824. It was the first solid lighthouse structure on the South African coast and is the oldest structure of its kind in South Africa. The lighthouse, with its distinctive diagonal red and white candy stripes, was first lit on 12 April 1824.

Most likely designed and built by Hermann Schutte, the original building consisted of a tower surrounded by two lanterns. The present light was erected in 1865, improved in 1906 and electrified in 1929. Standing 19,5 m above high water, its light has a range of over 20 km. It was declared a National Monument on 12 January 1973.

Cape Agulhas - L’Agulhas/Bredasdorp

The Cape Agulhas lighthouse presides over the southernmost tip of Africa, a coastline that was once a frequent graveyard for ships along the route. It boasts the only lighthouse museum in South Africa and is the second oldest working lighthouse in South Africa.
Building started in 1847 on land donated by Michiel van Breda, the founder of Bredasdorp, and the lighthouse started operating on 1 March 1849. It is built from limestone in the style of the ancient lighthouse at Pharos in Egypt, which was famous as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

The lighthouse, which was declared a national monument in 1973, is a popular tourist attraction. Visitors who climb the narrow ladder to the top are rewarded with a panoramic view of the Indian Ocean.

Robben Island - Cape Town

Commissioned in 1865, this historically important lighthouse is a well-known landmark on an island that has become world-renowned for its most famous “”resident””, Nelson Mandela. Being situated in the middle of the notorious Table Bay at the Cape of Storms, the lighthouse is still very active, with a focal plane of 47 m and an 18-m round white brick tower with a red lantern and gallery.

The white light flashes around Table Bay, and a red light is pointed to the south south-east to warn ships leaving Cape Town away from the island. Today the entire island is part of the Robben Island Museum and a World Heritage Site.

Bird Island - Alexandria/Port Elizabeth

Bird Island lighthouse stands on the largest of a group of islands and rocky formations north-east of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. It houses the largest population of Cape gannets in the world, and a substantial number of penguins.

A wooden structure was first built on this site in December 1852, but was replaced by a masonry tower in 1873. The tower was further heightened by 6 m in 1893, and now stands at 26 m tall. The focal plane is 30 m above sea level. Now fully automated, a helicopter visits it every few weeks to take technical staff across for maintenance.

Umhlanga Rocks - Umhlanga/Durban

The lighthouse on the beach at Umhlanga Rocks, which is a popular tourists destination, was completed in 1954, and has been the subject of numerous paintings and memorabilia. It stands guard to some of the most treacherous waters of Southern Africa and not only warns ships of the hidden dangers, but the flashing light also welcomes ships sailing into the safety of the Durban harbour.

The circular concrete tower, painted white with a red band at the top, stands 21 m above the beach and has a focal plane height of 25 m. The fixed red light enables ships waiting to anchor in the outer anchorage, to monitor its position.

Slangkoppunt lighthouse at Kommetjie/Fish Hoek is featured on the stamp sheet.

This majestically tall lighthouse within the boundaries of the marine protected area of the Table Mountain National Park, is the tallest cast iron tower in South Africa. One of South Africa’s oldest lighthouses, it has been a beacon of light to ships on the rocky shore since 1914, becoming fully automated in 1979.

Painted white like a guardian angel, the tower’s light shimmers 33 nautical miles out to sea from its 33 m circular construction. It emits four flashes every 30 seconds with a candlepower brightness of 5 000 000 CD on a focal plane of 41 m above high tide. Tourists can take guided tours up the steep internal spiral staircase for a breathtaking view of the surrounding area.


The stamps contain an extra exciting feature, which is glow-in-the-dark ink.

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Glow in the Dark Stamp Under UV Stamps 

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Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs - Update

Category - Touch
Sub-Category - Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs / Odd shaped Stamps

South Africa 2013 Gift of Givers MS with Stamps with unique perforations

Issue date 22 February 2013

In recognition of the selfless humanitarian work done by the NGO Gift of Givers foundation, South African Post Office has issued a miniature sheet with 2 stamps in the form of a puzzle shape. The stamps are self adhesive in nature.

Gift of Givers Foundation was founded on 6 August 1992 by Doctor Imtiaz Sooliman. Gift of Givers is one of the largest disaster relief agency of South African origin which has provided life saving aid in the form of search and rescue teams, medical personnel, medical supplies, medicines, vaccines, anti-malarial medication, food and water to the most vulnerable and challenged members of society worldwide irrespective of race, religion, color, class or political affiliation. 

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Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs
Odd Shaped Stamps


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Stamps with Interactive Games - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Stamps with Interactive Games / Odd Shaped Stamps

South Africa 2010 30 years of the Pan African Postal Union: Bridging the digital divide MS with Tangram Design/ Hologram on sheet

Issue date 7 January 2010

South African Post to celebrate 30 years of the Pan African Postal Union has issued a miniature sheet ‘Bridging the digital divide to highlight how the postal service technology has helped in daily tasks. This miniature sheet was issued to raise awareness of the power of technology in the African daily life.

The stamps issued have various forms (square, triangle, rectangle and trapezoidal shape) and can used as a Tangram logic puzzle. It also features hologram foil on the ms in panes 5, 1(box part), 2(circle part) and pane 7 (behind 2 children).

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Stamps with Interactive Games

Odd Shaped Stamps
3D - Holographic Stamps

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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D Hologram 

South Africa 2004 - 75th Anniversary of Airmail Hologram miniature sheet

Issue date 09 October 2004 

An attractive hologram foil miniature sheet celebrating World Post
Day and 75 years of South African airmail post was issued on 9 October. The hologram stamp shows a ‘flying’ dove and this is set against a sheet background of a DH60 Gipsy Moth aircraft. 

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3D - Holographic Stamps

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Recycled Paper Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps made from different material - Recycled Paper

South Africa 2010 International Year of Biodiversity Recycled Paper miniature sheet

Issue date 12 March 2010  

Year 2010 has been chosen by the United Nations to be the Year of Biodiversity. On this occasion, a lot of stamps have been launched by national Post Offices all over the world to celebrate the biodiversity and to encourage the protection of the fauna and flora.

South Africa Post has come out with a Miniature sheet made from recycled paper to encourage the protection of the trees used for making paper.

The stamps picture various animals (and one tree) that can be found in South Africa. Clockwise the species that are represented are:

- Giant African Mantis (Sphodromantis viridis) a species of praying mantis  and Devil fire fish (Pterois miles) also known as the common lionfish

- Black Rhinoceros (Dicero bicornis) with the Red Billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus)

- Common Chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) and Argus Reed Frog (Hyperolius argus)

- Lilac-breasted Roller (Coracias caudatus) and African Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata)

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Recycled Paper Stamps

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3D - Motion stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D - Motion Stamps

South Africa 2013 Flight of the African Fish Eagle Motion Stamp miniature sheet

Issue date 14 June 2013

The unmistakable call of the African Fish Eagle – often referred to as the call of Africa – has the power to send shivers down one’s spine. Equally powerful is the sight of a fish eagle gracefully swooping down to catch its prey just under the water’s surface. This captivating eagle has been captured as a moving image on a stamp sheet with two different stamp designs.

The flight of the African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) stamp sheet issued on 14 June 2013 as part of the South African Post Office’s bird series, will for the first time in South Africa show a moving image on stamps featuring the lenticular technique.

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3D - Motion Stamps


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3D - Anaglyph Stamps

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D Anaglyph Stamps

An anaglyph is a stereo image that requires glasses with red lens and green (blue) for three-dimensional visualization. The two stereo images are printed one above the other, in offset. To the naked eye, the image appears on top, doubled and blurry. Traditionally, the image for the left eye is printed in red ink and the image of the right eye is printed in green ink or blue.

South Africa 2009  3D Dinosaurs Anaglyph Stamp Set

Issue date 02 November 2009

On November 2, 2009, South Africa came out with a set of ten dinosaur stamps with a 3D effect using anaglyphs. The South African Post website says that "an anaglyph is a stereo image that requires special glasses with red and green (or blue) lenses for 3D viewing. To achieve the effect, two views of a picture are printed in two colours, usually red for the left eye and blue or green for the right eye."

They called the stamps as 3D Dinosaur Stamps: Where Pre-history Meets Modern Technology. 

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