CAN YOUR STAMP COLLECTION REALLY MOVE YOU?

Part of the fun of collecting world-wide new issues is seeking out the exotic and unusual. With new printing technologies, stamps can be issued with unusual textures, smells, and shapes. In the early 1960's, Bhutan issued the world's first 3-D simulated stamps and souvenir sheets. These stamps primarily were thematics related to space exploration.

Recently, Netherlands and New Zealand have improved on the 3-D simulated stamp issues and printed sports stamps. Tilting the plastic images can actually show athletes running across a finish line, clearing the bar on a high jump, or skating to victory in a race.

You can see these stamps pictured at www.StampCenter.com, but get the true effect intended, you have to place them in front of you. Either holding them individually, or tilting them within their album mounts, the effect is magical! It can really move you, and add some great variety and fun to your collection.

View the Netherlands stamps at: http://www.stampcenter.com/product_info.php?products_id=75808

View the New Zealand issue at:

http://www.stampcenter.com/product_info.php?products_id=75808