A discussion of themes found in Singapore postage stamps.

2011-01-07

Armenia 2010 SYOG

The Armenian Post released the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games on 26 November 2010. The stamp features representative icons for 3 sports - weightlifting, wrestling and boxing. The icons on the stamp are not the official ones for the Youth Olympics, however, the official icons are printed on the sheet margins. The stamp is issued in sheets of 2 x 5 stamps, so there are 14 different icons on a sheet.

2011 Year of Rabbit

The first stamp issue for 2011 rightly gives us the Year of Rabbit stamps. The set follows the general design theme for this 2nd cycle of the Chinese Zodiac, with 3 stamps - 1st Local NVI, 65c and $1.10. However, the collector's sheet is slightly different from the previously 3 for the Years of Rat, Ox & Tiger. The collector's sheets for those 3 years contain real holographic transitions of the animals of preceding, current and following years, for 2011, the collector's sheet is coated with a UV sensitive layer, which supposedly brings out the tiger in the $5-stamp and the dragon in the $10.00 stamp.