Stamp Week 2008

Pos Malaysia was holding the Stamp Week 2008 on 1-7 December, 2008 at Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur. Stamp Week is an annual event organised by Pos Malaysia. I went to the event on the last day (7 December, 2008). There were still plenty of people flocking to the venue of the event. Two things/items from the event impressed me are the sticker (cinderella) and the stamp & philatelic passport. The sticker containing 7 cartoon drawings of LAT and the Pos Malaysia new logo is definitely attractive. The sticker is given as part of the purchase of the stamp & philatelic passport. The idea of having stamp & philatelic passport for the stamp event is innovative. I quite like this idea. It is the second passport released by Pos Malaysia. The first passport was released for the Stamp Week 2007. I bought myself two stamp & philatelic passports (2008). The price for a stamp & philatelic passport (without stamps) is RM5.50.

There was a quiz open to public (correct answers will be rewarded with some goodies). I finished stamping the passports and some covers, and therefore, I took part in the quiz. I got myself some answers correct (got some goodies)...... and I wanted to answer more questions but the staff refused to let me answer because she said that I had already grabbed too many goodies :)

cinderella given as part of the purchase of stamp & philatelic passposrt
the cover of the passport
pages 6 and 7 of the passport
pages 8 and 9 of the passport
pages 10 and 11 of the passport
pages 12 and 13 of the passport

Malaysia Revenue Stamps

The revenue stamps of Malaysia normally carry the word "HASIL". Below are the currently used low value revenue stamps. 10c, 50c, $1 and $5 were released on 2 April, 1990; 15c and $2 were released later (I do not have the exact date of their release). These stamps were printed by Perum Percetakan Uang R1, Indonesia. The quality of printing is substandard.

Hornbill Stamps - North Borneo

I flipped through my album and noted some hornbill stamps from North Borneo. I feel like displaying them in my blog. I wrote something on the hornbill stamps of Malaysia some time ago, and it is just good to add on these hornbill stamps in this entry to supplement the previous one because North Borneo is now known as Sabah, is part of Malaysia. All the three hornbill stamps shown below portray rhinoceros hornbill.

Favourite Stamp Set - North Borneo

One of my favourite stamp sets....... the below stamp set of North Borneo was issued on 1 November, 1956.

Agro Based Product Definitive - Logo Pos Malaysia

The printing of defintive sheet (since 2002) alway includes the logo of Pos Malaysia at the top margin of the sheet. There is variation on the printing of the logo on the sheet margin involving the word "(229990-M)" below the Pos Malaysia logo.

left: the earlier version without "(229990-M)" below the logo; right: newer version with "(229990-M) below the logo

Malaysia - Slogan Postmark

Below is a slogan postmark read as:


MAHA 2000
22-30-JULAI

The postmark is a advertisment postmark to inform public about MAHA (Malaysia Agriculture, Horticulture and Agrotourism Show) 2000 held on 22-30 July, 2000. The MAHA 2000 was held at Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.

Kuching, Sarawak; Date: 20 July, 2000

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Sebuyau, Sarawak; Date: 28 November, 2008
Siburan, Sarawak; Date: 4 August, 2008
Ampang Point K4, Selangor; Date: 1 December, 2008

2008 - Malaysian Cartoonist

A new stamp issue was released by Pos Malaysia on 1 December, 2008 with theme on cartoon. This stamp issue was part of the annual programme Stamp Week. The stamp issue consisted of stamp set, miniature sheet and stamp booklet. The stamp set contains 4 different designs with denomination 50 sen each, the miniature sheet has denomination RM5, and the stamp booklet contains 10 stamps (2 sets with each set consists of 5 different stamp designs with denomination 30 sen each). All the cartoon images in the stamps, miniature sheet and stamp booklet are of LAT, the well known cartoonist of Malaysia who sketches life of villages so skillfully on his cartoon artwork.

stamp set
miniature sheet
stamps from booklet
the beautiful cover (front view) of the stamp booklet