KKSP (Koleksi Kad dan Sampul Perayaa) was one of the exhibitors at the 6th Hobby Expo held at MAEPS Serdang, Selangor on 30 November - 1 December 2024.
Saturday, 30 November 2024
Friday, 29 November 2024
Thursday, 28 November 2024
Keeping Stamp Sheets
I like to collect stamp sheets of Malaysian modern stamps. For the past 20 years, Malaysian stamps have been printed normally in the format of small sized stamp sheets - normally 20 stamps in a sheet. I keep the stamp sheets separately in OPP plastic sleeves and seal the plastic sleeves completely. I use a soldering iron to do the sealing. I do the soldering work on a piece of ceramic tile and with the help of a metal ruler.
a ceramic tile and a soldering iron
I have a few different sizes of OPP plastic sleeves to be used according to the stamp sheet size. Normally I do not use self-adhesive type of sleeves because I seal the stamp sheets completely.
a piece of OPP plastic sleeve for a stamp sheet
Before putting a stamp sheet into an OPP plastic sleeve, the stamp sheet will be put (at least for overnight) in a airtight plastic container with silica gel to absorb moist from the stamp sheet. I make sure the the OPP plastic sleeve is larger than the stamp sheet so that I can trim off the extra edges with soldering iron. The soldering work is done on a ceramic tile with the help of metal ruler. I must say that the soldering work is tedious, and experience will help in the good soldering work.
a stamp sheet is placed into an OPP plastic sleeve.
the OPP plastic sleeve with the stamp sheet inside is completely sealed off
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Large Sized Airmail Labels of Malaysia
The size of the below large airmail labels from Malaysia is roughly 10 cm x 8 cm. Therefore, these airmail labels are mainly for sending large sized mail. I have there types of these large sized airmail labels with different Pos Malaysia logos. You may click here to read a bit about the different Pos Malaysia logos
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
A Slogan Postmark from Malaysia
Slogan Postmark
SPORTS TOTO MALAYSIA
HADIAH2 BESAR
PADA TIAP2 MINGGU
BIG PRIZES EVERY WEEK
Kuala Lumpur; 14 November 1973
Sunday, 24 November 2024
Thursday, 21 November 2024
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Special Cover 11.11.11
I used 1-Malaysia stamps and 1-Malaysia first day cover to make this special cover. The cover was postmarked at PP UKM Bangi Post Office on 11.11.11 using K1 counter cancellation.
Sunday, 17 November 2024
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Sticker by Pos Malaysia
The below sticker was given by Pos Malaysia as a gift to costumer spending over RM100 on stamp purchase.
Monday, 11 November 2024
2024 - Hornbills
Date of Issue: 10 November 2024
Some notes:
Malaysia has 10 hornbill species (click here to see the hornbill species). Up to date, seven hornbill species have appeared on the stamps of Malaysia. They are Rhinoceros Hornbill, Great Hornbill, Helmeted Hornbill, White-crowned Hornbill, Plain-pouched Hornbill, Wrinkled Hornbill and Wreathed Hornbill (click here, here and here to see these hornbill stamps). However, there hornbill species has yet appeared on the stamps of Malaysia - Bushy-crested Hornbill, Oriental Pied Hornbill and Black Hornbill. I hope these three hornbill species will appear on the stamps of Malaysia in the near future.
Friday, 8 November 2024
A Cover from Australia with Special Airmail Labels
I received the below cover in 2015 sent from Bright (Victoria; Australia) on 21 January 2015. I like this cover because the postmark is clear, and more importantly it has two special airmail labels (one is small size and the other one is large size) commemorating 100 Years of Air Mail in Australia.
cover
airmail labels
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
China Train Postmark
Qiqihar-Gulian train (齐古火车) is a train service from Qiqihar (齐齐哈尔) to Gulian (古莲). The train journey takes 20 hours and 45 minutes. This postmark (see below) is a train postmark available on the Qiqihar-Gulian train.
齐古火车
13. 07. 2009
齐齐哈尔 (13)
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Monday, 4 November 2024
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