Thursday 24 December 2009

Taiwan - Ferns

Postal authority of Taiwan released a set of fern stamps on November 26, 2009. The stamps are just beautiful, and the thing I like them because part of the printing of the stamps is recess printing. The recess printing appears on the black colour outline of the fern images, the name of the country and the names of fern species. Four fern species are depicted on the stamps, i.e. Aplenium nidus ($5), Cyathea spinulosa ($9), Cyathea lepifera ($12) and Cibotium taiwanense ($25). Pos Malaysia will also be issuing fern stamp in June 2010. I am looking forward for the fern stamps of Malaysia.