Ceramic Stamps Of East China

Ceramic Stamps?! ... What next?

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english20...13565467.htm

I can understand why you wouldn't want your stamps to fade or corrode, but I didn't realise stamps catching fire was an issue! 0.3 mm is amazingly thin, they must have some technology that stops the ceramic being brittle. Interesting...

Maybe..what came before ?

2006 Austria, stamps from meteorites.

This is an interesting stamp and cover. Does the 2006 Austria meteorite cover/stamp qualify as a space cover or as an astronomy cover? Blank Page

Not that many would do this, but on another post someone asked about octagon-shaped and triagular-shaped stamps, commenting on what a chore it would have been to remove them on their perforations for postal use. The response was that most postal authorities have the perforations printed into the selvage to help ease that problem.

I'll ask the question again on this sort of a stamp ... how would one tear out the stamp for use on a piece of mail? I know the response is that they wouldn't because it would be more valuable to keep in tact. However, that also means that the stamp probably saw little or no postal use, just another item for the stamp collector's album.

BTW, if the stamp really contains ground pieces of a meteorite, I just wonder what it would do to the post office's cancelling machines ... (hand stamp only?).

I would suggest both, depending on the text
and discussion in the exhibit.



You are probably correct, hence in years to come, a premium
will be catalogued on used miniature sheet.
The meteorite content would be so minute, it wouldn't
affect and machinery.

Hmmm. Maybe some enterprising people will take a few of those souvenir sheets and use them for postage now in order that they have a contemporaneous cancel for future collectors.

I received a pair of them just this week on a parcel. The mineral is actually fairly prominent, noticeable to the touch. It glows orange-yellow under UV light.

Ryan

Those are nice Ryan, I will have to pick up one.

"The company will release only 10,000 limited edition sets of the "World Expo National Ceramic Stamp", made with Chinese traditional craftsmanship and modern techniques, the spokesperson added."

I believe this is the Chinese warning it will have lead in it, do not lick this stamp...

Nice one Ryan,
good to see examples of use.

Murau

You have a secret little Fraulein up on the ski slopes ?

Murau is located in Styria province of Austria. This small city with 2200 citizens is located 829 meters above sea level. The city is surrounded by Lower-Tauern and Nock Mountains. With its great location, it has grown to be a popular destination for skiers and mountain hikers, and stamp collectors.

Well, none in Styria! I've never been there. Never to Vienna either - just today I received a package from Vienna registered at the United Nations office, franked with UN stamps. Surely that must be the only example I have of UN offices in Vienna that didn't originate from the UN's philatelic service.

I've spent plenty of time in the Tyrol, though. Austria's a relatively small country and I've been there probably a dozen times but always in the same little corner, always Innsbruck or Salzburg or going back and forth from Bavaria to Switzerland or northern Italy. Winter sports, you end up always going back to the same places.

Ryan