Fan-Shaped stamps

Fan-shaped Stamps

Taiwan MSs

Today I received beautiful MSs from my dear friend Yvette from Taiwan. Thanks Yvette for the wonderful surprises. It made my day😀!!

The first MS was issued in the year 2003 and shows a beautiful bird- Blue abdomen. Blue coloured bird is male and the other brown one is female.

The second MS, issued in the year 2016 shows the painting of Shanyin city on Fan. The stamp is Fan shaped.

The below MS was issued during the World Stamp Championship Exhibition PHILATAIPEI 2016. It signifies the theme- Joining Hands to Protect the Environment.

Once again thanks a ton Yvette!!

Buddha and Birds MS from Taiwan

Today I have received a wonderful materials from Kuo of Taiwan for our swap. I am a huge fan of Taiwan stamps and MS. Thanks Kuo I like them, looking forward to more swaps.

                                                     River Birds issued in the year 1991

                                     Ancient Chinese Art Treasures released in the year 2010.

Thanks once again Kuo!!

Bamboo chips on stamp: Taiwan

Another wonder from Cartor Security Printing.  On 13th January 2016, Taiwan issued a fan shaped Miniature sheet on the theme Calligraphy and Paintings. 

Hand-held fans are still quite popular in the Far-East. These hand held fans are of two types, foldable and unfoldable.  Unfoldable fans are usually made with Palm tree leaves and foldable are made with bamboo strips.These fans are decorated with paintings and poems and indicative of culture and artistic style.

Below Taiwan Miniature sheet depicts a 7 character regulated verse written by Wen Zhengming in running cursive script.  To attract and highlight their culture to the modern generation, these scripts are printed on bamboo strips and the stamp is in the form of a fan.  

The 7 character regulated verse reminds me of our Thirukurral written by tamil poet Thiruvalluvar.  All 1330 couplets (Kurals) have 7 words, 4 in the first line and 3 in the second line. 

Thanks, Yvette Lin for sending this unique awesome miniature sheet for our swap.

Odd World - Taiwan

           My Taiwan collection of                         Odd/Unique stamps

                                                      Embossed         

       Issued on 19th September 2014, Ancient Chinese art treasure - Blue and white porcelain  

                     

Odd shaped stamps MS

2009 Butterfly shaped MS with Butterfly shaped holes in each stamps

Parallelogram shaped stamps

Circle shaped stamps

Material

Silk MS

Fan-shaped stamps

2015 - Paintings - Shanyin county

                     2016 - Calligraphy on Fans

The above stamp is issued on wood also(see below)

2016 - Calligraphy on Fans - Bamboo affixed

Wood Fan shaped stamp MS

Finding Nemo: Taiwan

I am a great fan of Pixar Animation Studios.  I have seen almost all of their movies half a dozen times. Bug's life and Finding Nemo are my favourites. When I came across the Finding Nemo Miniature Sheet, I realized that it has a circular shaped stamps too which comes under my theme Unusual/Unique stamps. So I picked up one.  I am talking about the 3rd April 2008 Taiwan Post's miniature sheet based on the movie  Finding Nemo.  They have issued two miniature sheets, I got one and am looking for the other MS.

Nemo is a small clown fish.  When it swims near the surface of the water it is caught in the fishing net and the story revolves around his father searching for Nemo and How Nemo escapes from the dentist's fish tank and reunites with his father.  Even though Nemo and his father Marlin are the key characters of the movie, I like the Dory, a blue reef fish, with short memory but with unbelievable talent ( Yes! it knows the Shark's language:-) ) and really a cool fish. I heard that they are going to release a sequential "Finding Dory" MS in 2016. Even though the turtles came for a brief part in the movie, they make a strong impression.

Below is one of the miniature sheets. Note that there are circular as well as rectangular stamps featuring the characters from Finding Nemo.