Have you stumbled on any unusual stamps lately? Maybe they’re made of a different material, hide a secret somewhere… or maybe they’re just an unusual shape and super cool!
Like this one from Spain, featuring a real net over the stamp:
How interesting! I have this one, in silk, and it’s very particular as it has a double use. You may use it as a huge stamp (it measures 14,3cm x 9,2cm) OR you may use it as an envelope, keeping the backside protection and opening one side.
I have never seen such stamps from unusual materials. But if we speak about shape, Rusmarka has issued several series of triangular stamps and some round/oval stamps.
As far as I know Olympic stamps are only allowed to be sold on the year of the event, after that they all should be taken out (like Olympic Committee rules)
Last year I received this Austrian fabric / embroidered stamp. When I was young we always went to Austria for summerholidays and we saw many of these typical hats. I don’t collect stamps and give them away to other PCers, but this one I just had to keep for all those good memories
I remember those!.
A couple of years ago, you could “built” a Nativity scene with the Christmas stamps from Correos.
They were very lovely. And the Baby Jesus stamp, was the smaller stamp ever issued in Spain.