My Odd and Unusual stamps collection

Malaysian Medicinal plant issue, If you rub the stamp you can feel the Aroma of that plant. Issued in 2012.

 

Circle shaped Varnish coated stamp issued in 2015 by Pos Malaysia.

 

Country:
France
Series:
Marianne in the boat
Catalog codes:
Yt:FR 1216, Mi:FR 1259, Sn:FR 927, AFA:FR 1274
Themes:
Sailing Ships | Ships
Issued on:
1959-07-25


no mention of type II ? seen many secondary types harder to figure out

 

There are no two different types !
The stamp is bi-coloured: grey-black and orange-brown.
Both colours were printed seperately.If the sheet was not fixed
exactly at the second printing,the two parts are shifted against
each other.
Such shifts can look quite spectacular,but are accidential and
are not catalogued.
When you look at your stamps,you can see that shift nicely at
the 25.
In another post I will show an example of such a shift.

 

Here the pomised example of a rather spectacular shift of the
blue colour:

Ceylon 1966,normal stamp and pair with shifted blue.

I wonder if any of the English speakers knows a translation
for the german philatelic terminus technicus "Passverschiebung".
I could not find any and therefore use "colour-shift".

 

Hello all, "colour-shift" is a good description of the problem, in the printing world it is known as colour plane registration (CPR). When either the printing plate/drum or the paper is not in the correct registration. A roughly similar problem occurs when perforations are misaligned.

Regards, James.

 

Issued in 9th March, 2017 by Spanish Andorra under Andorrian artists. Though it looks like made of cloth material it is not so, but the shape of the MS is odd.

 

Issued in 2010 by Australian post. The coins are embossed.

 

The letters in the stamp are gold foiled. 2008 Year of Rat.

 

Belarus's first Hologram stamp. Shows the coat of Arms.
http://philateli.blogspot.in/2015/02/hologram-stamp-belarus.html

 

Odd shape and letters are gold foiled.
http://philateli.blogspot.in/2016/03/belarus-azerbaijan-joint-issue.html

 

Bhutan Hologram stamps.

 

Canada Post commemomated 100 years of Toronto Maptle leaves by issuing Fabric stamp. I am lucky to have this Souvenir sheet in Mint and on cover.

 

Canadian Hockey legends (series 4) on Playing card sized stamps, 2017 Canada Post issue.

 

Hello all, some more heart shaped stamps, these depicting lilies. These from Turkey 2011.



Regards, James.

 

Now a days selfies are very popular. Swiss post issued an Silver foil Selfie stamp under the title Letter Vs Email on 7th September 2017.
(The scanner couldn't able to reflect the beauty of the stamp. The stamp is silver in colour and it reflects the image of the viewer.)

 

Qipao dress shaped MS printed on Taffeta Silk fabric. Issued by HK post on 17th October 2017.

 

Qipao dress shaped MS(printed on paper), issued by HK post on 17th October 2017.

 

I just wonder,why the inscription (Helvetia 100) seems to be
in mirror writing.

 

Fan shaped stamps from PRC issued in 5th May, 2016 under the theme "24 Solar Terms".