Steve Jobs On Postage Stamps

#9658; New stamp issue #8211; Hungary: In memoriam Steve Jobs

Magyar Posta is issuing a philatelic novelty in memory of Steve Jobs. The numbered commemorative sheet includes a perforated photograph and...

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"The commemorative sheet cannot be used to pay for postage." so not quite a postage stamp.

1000 hufs. Hungary is quick..

So the commemorative is valued at (US) $4.40. What I don't understand is that the stamp cannot be used for payment of postage, so it's just a profit-making venture on the part of the Hungarian postal administration, right?

In fact, if the image above is accurate, there is neither a country name nor a denomination on the stamp itself. Under these conditions, the "stamp" really falls under the category of a "cinderella". Interestingly, if someone should elect to remove the perforated "stamp" from the souvenir sheet, one doesn't even have the name of the country or even the name of the individual depicted on the "stamp" itself.

Palau, June 30th 1990. I do not have a better resolution.

Really ?

I hate to say it, but I'm already tired of hearing about Steve Jobs. Must he invade my hobby too?

Jobs was on the list for living people on US stamps. Did the word not get out that he has died?

Must be something like Canada Post 'issuing' photo prints of the old fishing lures stamps or coasters for the golf stamps or whatever that was for the hockey stamps. Anything to make a buck.

To call it a 'philatelic novelty' they must have some stamp issued before or coming up that has something to do with Steve, otherwise there is nothing really philatelic about it that I can see.

My pants get perforated when I sit on a tack but that doesn't make them philatelic.

This is like putting Gandhi on something, anything. Some people will buy it just because.

But, then again, if the personality of that person or idea or thing resonates with you and reflects who you want to be it is a good idea to have mementos and stuff around that keeps one's thoughts focused and reminds you why you are doing things the way you are.

I still have my mouse pad with Yoda, Jedi Master, from the Star Wars movies (space opera), and he was just a fictional character. Then again, I may be too. But I don't have a mouse pad.

Well, what I gotout of it was that the Hungarian currency is
Forint-Huf...Learned something..