Namibia Frog shape miniature sheet

A nice looking frog shaped sheet with 4 stamps featuring 4 different types of frog from Namibia.

Pororo, The Little Penguin character shape stamps

The first installment of “Korean-Made Characters Series” features “Pororo, The Little Penguin”. "I love to play all day. Come join me all my friends. Always happy as can be. Little penguin Pororo ♪." Pororo is a hip, little penguin wearing a aviator hat and aviator goggles. A beautiful and colorful sheet with lot of fun character shape stamps.

100th anniversary of the first South African airmail flight

On 7 oct 2011, South African Post issued a stampset with aircraft on stamps, aviation history, occasion of the anniversary 100th anniversary of the first South African airmail flight. The South African Post office will commemorate this historical flight with a miniature sheet which has odd shaped same as aircraft.

This set depicts the aircraft in flight in 1911, the first South African airmail flight between Kenilworth and Muizenberg. The Muizenberg Post-office is the first in South Africa has received an airmail.

Muizenberg Post Office are selling commemorative FDC with R8.10 of each.

Front and Back of FDC 100th anniversary of the first South African airmail flight

Oval Shape Stamp - Rugby - New Caledonia 2007

A cute looking Oval Shape Stamp from New Caledonia released on the year 2007 by the title Rugby World Cup 2007.

Design: André LAVERGNE
Engraving: André LAVERGNE
Printed by: Phil @ poste
Printing: Gravure
Format: 25 mm x 39 mm
Sheet of 10 stamps
Circulation: 140 000
Postage: Speed Zone 2 outside
Price: 110 XPF or € 0.92

Butterfly Shape - Pitcairn Islands - Salt and Pepper moth

This cute odd shape miniature sheet is from Pitcairn Islands on fauna or insect or butterfly theme.

The Salt and Pepper moth Utetheisa pulchelloides, is also known as the Heliotrope Moth. It is found on Henderson Island and grows to have a wingspan of approximately 30mm and a body length of 20mm. The moth looks quite white when it is flying, but at rest, the interesting pattern of red / orange and black spots on the white fore wings can be seen. Each hind wing is white with two black spots and an irregular black margin.

The moth is active during the daytime hence the bright colours, which are unusual for a moth. It uses the colours to attract others instead of the usual pheromones emitted at night. It feeds on various plants found throughout the Pacific eg. Octopus Bush Argusia argentea, Salvation Jane / Paterson’s Curse Echium lantagineum, Heliotrope Heliotropium arborescens and Forget-me-Not Myosotis arvensis.
It is believed that they do not cause damage to crops. The eggs are pale green and laid in a row on a leaf tip. The insect pupates in a loose cocoon spun in the leaf litter on the ground below the food plant. The caterpillars have sparse grey hairs and are black with orange spots and broken cream lines along the body.
Moths Designer - Sue Wickison BA (Hons), SBA
Following a degree in scientific illustration, Sue spent nine years as a Botanical Illustrator with the renown Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. A prestigious Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship took her to the Solomon Islands to collect orchids where a new species she found, Coelogyne susanae, was named after her.

Sue has designed over 50 natural history stamp issues for nine Pacific countries, including New Zealand and she now lives in New Zealand as a freelance artist.Her last issue for the Pitcairn Islands was Butterflies. Sue recently held a series of successful solo exhibitions in the UK, including Savill Gardens where her work was recognised by Royal patronage.

Technical Details
Designer: Sue Wickison, Wellington, New Zealand
Printer: Southern Colour Print, Dunedin, New Zealand
Process: Offset Litho
Stamp Size: 33.00mm x 33.00mm,
Format: 2 square stamps plus one die cut miniature sheet with same 2 stamps.
Mini Sheet Size: 135mm x 65mm horizontal
Perforation Gauge: 14.5.x 14.5
Sheet Configuration: 50 stamps per sheet, 2 x panes of 25
Denominations: Stamps $2.00 and $4.00.
Paper: 104gm Tullis Russell Non phosphor stamp paper
Period of Sale: 22 August 2007 for a period of 2 years.

Peculiar Odd Shape Stamps - Youth Sports - Canada

A youthful snowboarder sweeps across a mountainside in a spray of glittering powder. A helmeted boy flies up a ramp, spins in mid-air and lands with a rumble of skateboard wheels. On a winding trail in a pine forest, a boy on a mountain bike hurtles around a curve. And in a cavernous indoor wall climbing gymnasium, a young competitor inches her way up a towering wall of artificial holds.

On October 1, 2005, Canada Post issued four domestic rate (50¢) snowboarder shaped stamps (Odd Shaped Stamps) to commemorate these youth-oriented, high-energy sports. It's an issue whose time has come, because the popularity of these activities - especially among the young - has been increasing by leaps and bounds for the past 20 years.

"These partially perforated odd shape stamps represent the excitement, the attitudes and the risks involved in these sports," says Alain Leduc, Manager of Stamp Design and Production at Canada Post. "This new issue has been specially created to be attractive to young people, and we think the style will draw their interest."