Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps 

United Nations 2025 Dove of Peace Embroidered Stamp
 

Issue date 19 September 2025

UN Postal authorities in collaboration with Austrian embroidery specialist Hämmerle & Vogel and other Postal Authorities (Aland Post, Armenia, Austria Post, Barbados, Cyprus Island, Faroe Island, Greenland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Swiss Post) has issued a special set of 3 embroidered stamp featuring a Dove which always has been a symbol of Peace. The UPU paix embroidered label with the Dove of Peace motif was also issued at the Koreapex 2025 exhibition with no postage value (Cinderella stamp)

The United Nations Stamps features 3 stamps from its 3 stations - New York (USD 6), Vienna (EUR 5) and Bern (CHF 6)

(Total 13 embroidered stamps and 1 UPU embroidered label issued)

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Cloth Stamps

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Crypto Stamp - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Crypto Stamp / Stamps with QR code / 

United Nations 2020 Sustainable Goals Crypto Stamps

Issue date 24 November 2020

United Nations Postal Authorities has issued a 3 set of Crypto stamps each featuring the UN headquarters in New York, Vienna and Geneva issued in the local currency of each country. Each Stamp has a unique secret code hidden behind a scratch off area. The secret code enables its owner to activate exactly one counterpart of that stamp on the Ethereum blockchain as a digital collectible.

Taken from net to protect privacy of each stamp

Each stamp is linked to one Sustainable Development Goal - There are 17 Goals

Goal 1 No poverty

Goal 2 Zero hunger

Goal 3 Good health and well-being

Goal 4 Quality education

Goal 5 Gender equality

Goal 6 Clean water and sanitation

Goal 7 Affordable and clean energy

Goal 8 Decent work and economic growth

Goal 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Goal 10 Reduced inequalities

Goal 11 Sustainable cities and communities

Goal 12 Responsible consumption and production

Goal 13 Climate action

Goal 14 Life below water

Goal 15 Life on land

Goal 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions

Goal 17 Partnerships for the Goals

There are 51 variations of the UN Crypto Stamp in the collection as there are 17 goals and stamps issued by 3 locations. (17x3 = 51) i.e. each location will have 17 variations. There is a total of 90000 stamps issued i.e. 30000 for each locations

The stamps has a 3D holographic printing on the Stamp and Miniature sheet. A QR code hidden under the scratch area provides a link to the Crypto Stamp website and a second QR code provides the secret code when scanned.

To activate and register the Crypto stamp use this link 

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Crypto Stamp

Stamps with QR Code

Stamps with Scratch off Printing

3D Holographic Stamps

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Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations

United Nations 2018 Macao Stamp Show - Hua Mulan SS

Issue date 21 September 2018

The United Nations Postal Authority (UNPA) has issued a special commemorative miniature sheet based on the ancient Chinese poem the Ballad of Mulan on the first day of  the 35th Asian international stamp exhibition in Macao with the stamps in the sheet printed using a special laser-cut technology.

The sheet contains three stamps denominated in three different currencies:

-  USD 1.15 for use from the post office at U.N. headquarters in New York City; 
-  CHF 2 for use from the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland; and 
-  EUR 1.80 for use from the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria.

Reverse view of sheet

The laser-cut design on the USD 1.15 stamp shows Bao Zheng, also known as Justice Bao. The CHF 2 stamp features Guan Yu, a warrior and general. The EUR 1,80 features Hua Mulan, the heroine of the folk tale of a girl who joins the army in the place of her elderly father.

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Stamps with Holes/Design Perforations/Cut Outs


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3D - Holographic Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - 3D Holographic foil 

United Nations 2003 UN Headquarters N.Y. Holographic stamp

Issue date 28 March 2003

UNPA’s first holographic 70cents stamp. The United Nations Headquarters complex is displayed and the text “Greetings from the United Nations” appears on the holographic stamp.

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3D - Holographic Stamps

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