Tuesday 22 March 2011

Collecting Stamp Sheets

The printing number of current stamps by Pos Malaysia is roughly 200,000-400,000 per single stamp design, and the current stamps are normally printed in sheet-of-20. This may imply that 10,000-20,000 stamp sheets are produced for each stamp design.
This number is definitely small for stamp sheets. At least half of the number of sheets produced would be ended up in FDCs, and many sheets would be torn into formats of single, pair or block kept in the albums of many stamp collectors. So, the number of stamp sheets survived is definitely very small. Collecting stamp sheets is surely a very interesting way of pursuing stamp collecting in Malaysia. Actually, Pos Malaysia started to produce stamps in format of small stamp sheets in 2000. At the beginning a stamp sheet normally contained 25 stamps. However, the number of stamps for a sheet has been reduced to 20 since year 2002. Below are the stamp sheets of Batam stamp released in year 2001. The stamp sheets contain 25 stamps. The stamps in format of sheet look very attractive, don't they? Have you thought of collecting Malaysia recent stamps in format of sheet?