Wednesday, 30 December 2020
Tuesday, 29 December 2020
Saturday, 19 December 2020
Wednesday, 16 December 2020
A Postcard from Italy
This postcard was sent from Catania, Italy on 17 August 2020. However, there is another postmark cancellation from France dated on 30 November 2020. This postcard reached me (in Malaysia on 16 December 2020). I am a bit puzzled why this postcard went to France first before arriving at Malaysia.
Saturday, 12 December 2020
Friday, 20 November 2020
Sunday, 15 November 2020
Friday, 13 November 2020
Monday, 9 November 2020
Sunday, 8 November 2020
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Friday, 16 October 2020
Friday, 9 October 2020
Saturday, 26 September 2020
Monday, 14 September 2020
Saturday, 12 September 2020
2020 - Unique Marine Life National Definitives
Pos Malaysia released a set of national definitive stamps with images of unique marine life on 18 June 2020 with denominations RM1.30, RM1.40, RM1.50, RM1.70 and RM1.90. These denominations are of use for domestic commercial mail. The stamps are printed in a format of 20-stamp sheet (original print) by Southern Colour Print, New Zealand. One the very same day the reprints of these stamps were also available at some post offices. The reprints were printed in a format of 100-stamp sheet by Percetakan Keselamatan Nasional, Malaysia.
top: original print; bottom: reprint
The original stamps and the reprints are different in many ways - watermark, size, perforation, micro-printing, colour shade and gum type.
Original Stamps
size: 28mm x 32mm (larger)
perforation: P13.5x13
watermark: no wmk
micro-printing: no micro-printing
colour shade: blue colour is dull
gum type: white gum
Reprints
size: 27mm x 32mm (smaller)
perforation: P14x13.75
watermark: SPM wmk
micro-printing: with micro-printing
colour shade: blue colour is brighter
gum type: creamy gum
Showing below is the comparison of original stamps (top) and reprints (bottom) for the five denominations on the aspects of size and micro-printing
micro-printing: POSMALAYSIAPENYUKARAH
micro-printing: POSMALAYSIALUMBALUMBAPUTIH
micro-printing: POSMALAYSIAYUPAUS
micro-printing: POSMALAYSIAKIMABESAR
micro-printing: POSMALAYSIADUGONG