For the Year of the Tiger, the Singapore Post issued on 8 January 2010, a set of 3 stamps and a collector's sheet. The stamps were for 1st local, 65 cents for Asian destination (Japan excluded), and $1.10 for Japan and the rest of the world.
The collector's sheet contains 2 stamps, with face values of $5.00 and $10.00, but it is sold at the post office for $16.80. These stamps are printed with transparent holograms, the hologram on the $5.00-stamp shows the morphing of an ox into a tiger - alluding to the transition from the Year of the Ox to the Year of the Tiger, while the hologram on the $10.00-stamp shows the morphing of a tiger into a rabbit, for the transition of the current Year of Tiger to the following Year of the Rabbit.
This is the third such collector's sheet issued by the Singapore Post, the first two issued in the last two years, starting with the Year of the Rat, and then the Year of the Ox. On the top left corner of the sheet are two ancient Chinese characters representing the word for "tiger".
The holograms on the stamps show up as shadows in my scan of the sheet.
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.
