I like stamps that are like puzzle pieces, able to form a bigger picture when together.
Do you have such stamps in your country? I’ll start the ball rolling with a few sets.
2015 Stamps issued to commemorate the Botanic Gardens being awarded UNESCO status.
2009 Stamps celebrating 150 years of Botanic Gardens
2013 Our City in a Garden Stamps
2008 Stamps to commemorate Singapore being the first host city of the Youth Olympic Games
1989 stamps, map of Singapore
1986 Stamps to commemorate NTUC’s 25th Anniversary
2004 Stamps showing Chek Jawa’s marine life
EDIT: So these are known as Se-tenant stamps. The more you know!
Se-tenant stamps or labels are printed from the same plate and sheet and adjoin one another, unsevered in a strip or block. They differ from each other by design, color, denomination or overprint. They may have a continuous design. The word "se-tenant" translates from French as meaning "joined together" or "holding together".
There are differing ways of preparing a se-tenant sheet. One can have stamps of one design on half of the sheet and the second design on the other half. In this case, the...
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1998 Singapore Australia Joint Issue
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Hemang
December 11, 2022, 5:46pm
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India have these beautiful Musical instruments se-tenent stamps))
I loved using them
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pcronn
December 11, 2022, 5:59pm
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I’m sure we have more older stamps that are connected, but not too many new ones, so I really love the 2022 Christmas stamps
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Stamps like this exist in Germany too. They show panoramic views. Here are some examples, but there are more.
This was my favorite:
But I think it’s sold out. It had the right value for sending postcards abroad and I used lots of them
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honzuki
December 11, 2022, 7:16pm
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They are called se-tenant stamps.
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Thanks! Title duly edited.
I thought there was a name for this sort of stamps, but couldn’t remember it offhand.
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marora
December 11, 2022, 8:56pm
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There is also a 12 piece set Nature Of America stamp sheets that are really nice, here are a few I still have all stamps in:
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Some examples from Moldova are…
(BTW I do have the last one; saved it for the Souvenir Sheet tag but I can swap.)
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@marora - I remember those. They were beautifully done
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si356z
December 12, 2022, 4:32am
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Greece, Christmas 1972. The 2nd se-tenant pair issued by Greek Post Office.
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I adore Czech Flora and fauna setenant stamps!!
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Amazing examples. I love Se-tenant stamps too
Eef_NL
December 12, 2022, 5:43am
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Here’s a classic Dutch example from 1974:
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Hello. Thank you very much for starting this topic. Personally I didn’t know the word that describes those stamps. This year Cyprus postal services issued two se-tenant Christmas stamps (actually four).
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HeForShe gender-equality campaign stamps from 2016. This was a joint issue between India and the United Nations Postal Administration.
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Yunlong
December 12, 2022, 12:50pm
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The 60th Anniversary of the Victory of the Anti Fascist War
The Second Asian Winter Games
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