Thursday 4 December 2008

2008 - Malaysian Cartoonist

A new stamp issue was released by Pos Malaysia on 1 December, 2008 with theme on cartoon. This stamp issue was part of the annual programme Stamp Week. The stamp issue consisted of stamp set, miniature sheet and stamp booklet. The stamp set contains 4 different designs with denomination 50 sen each, the miniature sheet has denomination RM5, and the stamp booklet contains 10 stamps (2 sets with each set consists of 5 different stamp designs with denomination 30 sen each). All the cartoon images in the stamps, miniature sheet and stamp booklet are of LAT, the well known cartoonist of Malaysia who sketches life of villages so skillfully on his cartoon artwork.

stamp set

miniature sheet

stamps from booklet

the beautiful cover of the stamp booklet