Stamp Poll - Favourite Stamp Sets of Malaysia Issued in 2009

I put up a poll roughly one and a half months ago on the most favourite stamp sets of Malaysia issued in year 2009. Visitors to the blog were asked to choose three most favourite stamp sets. After one and a half long months of polling, 37 times of vote casting had been recorded. I noted that not all vote casting followed strictly the instruction (some only chose one stamp set). Nevertheless, I thank all of you who had taken part in the poll. Here is the result:




The Spider (Arachnid) stamp set is at the top of the ranking (17 votes), this followed closely by Unique Birds (15 votes) and the Traditional Houses (11 votes). The most unfavourite stamp set is the Installation of Yang Dipertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan (0 vote). The stamp set on Silver Jubilee of Sultan of Perak is also not doing well with only 1 vote. The other not popular stamp sets are Tuber Plants, Submarine and Zero Energy Building (2 votes each).

The Spider stamp set tops the list may due to the hexagon shaped of miniature sheet and the nice design of the stamps. The stamp set was the last issue of year 2009, and the collectors (strictly speaking the visitors who had taken part in the poll) have fresh memory of the stamp set. I would not be surprised to see the Unique Bird stamp set is also in the top list. The "error" miniature sheet must still have the effect on the mind of the vote casters! 1-Malaysia stamp set is attractive, and the stamps are just cute and the die-cut "1" shaped of miniature sheet tends to attract attention.

I shall conduct similar stamp poll for year 2010. I sincerely urge those who had taken part in this poll to continue doing so in the coming stamp poll (most likely I will put up the poll in the end of December 2010). Those who has not taken part are encouraged to do so for the next poll as well.

Happy collecting.......

Currency Stamps of Singapore

The currency stamps of Malaysia released early of this year are just not appealing to eyes for some reason. I looked through my stamp album and I found this block-of-4 currency stamps of Singapre sitting at one corner of the album. These beautiful stamps were issued on October 2, 1992. They are so appealing eventhough the shape of the stamps is square (not round). To be honest, this set of Singapore currency stamps is actually one of my favourite stamp sets!

An ATM Cover from Portugal

Amadora 2700; date: January 16, 2010

A Cover from Singapore

The Singapore cover below contains a slogan postmark. The slogan postmark reads as "Lunar New Year; Please Post Early". Date: January 21, 2010.

2005 Bird Definitive 30 sen - 2009/9

The serial number for 30 sen bird defintive is now 2009/9............

2005 Bird Definitive 30 sen - 2009/8

An ATM Cover from Taiwan

Taipei; date: January 11, 2010
three ATMs valued at $5 each are printed in different colours of print

Currency Stamps and MS - Fluorescent Mark

The currency stamps and miniature sheet issued on January 18, 2010 were printed by Joh. Enschede. These stamps and miniature sheet do not have watermark. Instead, they have fluorescent mark. The fluorescent mark on these stamps and miniature sheet has songket motif image.


stamps viewed under normal light
stamps viewed under ultra violet light

miniature sheet viewed under normal light
miniature sheet viewed under ultra violet light