Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs - Update

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Sweden 2004 Swedish Rock Stars from 1954 to 2004 booklet

Issue date 02 October 2004

Swedish Post has issued a special commemorative booklet with 8 Stamps featuring special perforations "Rock 54-04" on the sheet. The stamps featured Rock Great Elvis Presley who inspired a list of swedish Rock artists/bands from 1954 to 2004 which included Jerry Williams,  Eva Dahlgren, Ulf Lundell, Tomas Ledin, Pugh Rogefeldt, Sahara Hotnights and Lousie Hoffsten

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Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs - Update

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Subcategory - Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs / Odd Shaped Stamps/ Stamps with Microtext

Sweden 2009 Journey into Space Stamp booklet with stamps with holes

Microtext on the side of the suit

Issue Date 24 September 2009

The Sweden Postal Service has issued 5 new booklet stamps "Journey into Space" featuring 4 triangle and one quadrangle shaped stamps. Each of the stamps depicts different events on the space mission STS-116 with Sweden Astronaut Christer Fuglesang's and 6 other NASA astronauts. The mission astronauts connected a new power and cooling system to the space station. 

The edge of Christer Fuglesang’s suit on the stamp bears the micro text “My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender”. The ABBA song Waterloo was a greeting via space control from Fuglesang’s family to the crew. 

All of the stars on the booklet pane have been star shaped cut outs on the stamps and on the booklet pane.

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Stamps with Holes
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