Pos Malaysia released a stamp issue on August 10, 2010. The stamp issue on topic of traditional festive food consists of a block of 10 stamps (80s each stamp) from stamp sheet, a block of 10 stamps (60s each stamp) from stamp booklet and a miniature sheet (RM3). The design of stamps is in a format of mirror image - only for the drawing of food but the wordings are not mirror image. To get a set of stamps from stamp sheet, a set of stamps from booklet and a miniature sheet, one has to dig up RM17. So, it is one of the expensive commemorative stamp issues in Malaysia philately. Of course, many collectors grumbled on the price of this commemorative stamp issue.
As usual, the stamps from the booklet come in two types of watermark - sideway up and sideway down - due to the format/layout of the booklet stamps in the printing sheet. Nevertheless, the watermark on the miniature sheet is a bit weird. It is neither uprigth, inverted, sideway up nor sideway down. The watermark on the miniature sheet is 45 degrees inverted to the right or 45 degree sideway down!
block of 10 stamps from stamp sheet
block of 10 stamps from stamp booklet
miniature sheet
the front cover of stamp booklet
