The $10 postage stamp is the highest face value of stamp ever issued in Canada, so it’s perhaps fitting that it features the enormous Blue Whale. This one was printed on wood by Djibouti to celebrate a Japanese royal wedding: This Moroccan stamp contains real sand from dunes in the Sahara Desert: Printed on cork, this Ecuador stamp commemorates 200 years of independence:Īpparently the only country to issue stamps printed on tinfoil, Bolivia produced this example in 1986 celebrating the Winter Olympics, which took place in Calgary in 1988: These are also from Brazil, featuring local species of bats: This is the world’s first embroidered stamp, from Switzerland in 2000:Īnother embroidered stamp, issued in Micronesia for the Year of the Dragon:įrom Brazil, this stamp is printed on synthetic fabric, and has invisible ink that’s luminescent under UV light: (image via, click to see the whole animation) At a certain angle, the stamp has animation in which Dutch actress Carice van Houten bites someone’s finger: In 2008, Finland issued the world's first transparent postage stamp (printed on plastic):Īlthough this 2010 Netherlands stamp only measures 3 cm by 4 cm, it actually contains a book complete with a story:Īlso from the Netherlands, is this 2010 stamp featuring what is claimed to be the smallest and shortest film in the world. More scented stamps from Germany, these smelling of apple, huckleberry lemon or strawberry: This UK scratch and sniff stamp, which smells of eucalyptus, was issued in 2001 for the centenary of the Nobel Prize:įrench Polynesia produced this pineapple-scented postage stamp in 2005: There have been a number of scented stamps around the world over the years. To commemorate the Davis Cup, these Russian stamps in 2003 depicting a clay tennis court contain have genuine clay particles: The Swarovski Crystal souvenir sheet of stamps issued in Austria in 2004 is embedded with tiny Swarovski crystals: This stamp was originally valued at 200 marks early in 1923, but had been surcharged to cost 800,000 marks later that year: ![]() We’ve covered high denomination currency from Germany’s hyper-inflation period in the 1920s in previous articles here at Dark Roasted Blend, but here are some postage stamps from that time. (image credit: Copyright 2009 by Linn's Stamp News ( Used with permission.) Here’s a Paraguayan stamp printed on cedar: ![]() This was part of a set featuring famous science fiction authors including Wells, Jules Verne and Isaac Asimov: Wells and the time machine from his novel. This Israeli stamp has a portrait of H.G. Instead, here is just a selection of some of the more unusual and often very strange postage stamp designs that have appeared in various countries over the years. Since philately and stamp collecting are somewhat specialized fields of study, this article doesn’t examine postage stamps in terms of their financial value to collectors. Today we have another fascinating look at some of the more peculiar, quite unusual, slightly odd and downright weird postage stamps from around the world. Stamps with embedded volcanic ash, sand from Sahara dunes, and even precious crystalsĪ while ago, we took a look at examples of strange and noteworthy stamps from around the world. Link - article by Simon Rose and Avi Abrams Send us your topic ideas, suggestions, etc.
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