Tuesday 2 June 2009

Malaysia Stamps - New Security Feature

Someone from the forum of Philatelic Society of Malaysia reported the new security feature on Malaysia commemorative stamps. The new security feature is the fluorescent mark which is incorparated into the latest (released on May 19, 2009) stamp issue - Palm Trees. One has to use uv light to view the flourescent mark.

What I have to say is that the fluorescent mark is absolutely fabulous. The whole sheet-of-20 is covered with images of small flying bird. However, not all the flying birds have word SPM beneath. The flying birds with SPM are arranged in such a way that SPM appears once in every 6 birds in a column and every 3 birds in a row. This makes only one SPM appearing in every single stamp. One more interesting thing is none of the flying birds on the sheet margins to have SPM! Fantastic!

On the MS, the flying birds are also covering the whole MS. However, only one SPM is present in the whole MS. The word SPM is located at the left bottom of the stamp. It is rather between birds than beneath bird.


50 sen stamp viewed under day light


50 sen stamp viewed under uv light