Odd Shaped Stamps. Be Cool, Don't Be A Square.

lol very nice. where is dianne I havent seen her for weeks?

Yes thanks for the enlarged scan.

I had a feeling they were the bottles of "bitters"

from others in my collection:

ANGOSTURA BITTERS

Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies issued a set of four stamps plus miniature sheet to mark the centenary of the business of Angostura aromatic bitters in Trindidad.
Named after a town on the Orinocco, Angostura bitters was the creation of a German army surgeon and in 1875 he took his business to Port of Spain.
Designs of the stamps are by Jennifer Toombs and printing, in lithography, is by John Waddington Ltd. in sheets of 50 on CA (unspecified) watermark: 5«, Angostura Building, George Street, Port of Spain; 35c Both faces of the Medalla de New Orleans 1885-86; 45C, The Medalla de Sydney 1879; SOt, The Medalla de Bruxelles 1897.

I had just emailed her, then read your post...


You must be using your telepathic abilities again.

Woweee. Loving the incredible range of far out stamps here. Especially the Mongolian Antarctic penguin!

These are a bit bland in comparison but at least slightly odd shaped.

Aaah, the boys Alex.
Brilliant.

Showing "With the Beatles" released Nov 1963
and went straight to number 1

Had a track on it called......"Please Mr Postman" Heh!

I wouldn't say odd but Royal Mail seem to increasingly look for gimmicks to sell stamps e.g.

What do you see when you rub it?ere actually two stamps, heads and tails?

Scott description
No. 2273 has a chalky covering over the coin that can be scratched away with a coin or other metal object to reveal a "heads" (2273a) picture showing a face composed of a planet, star and crescent or a "tails" (2273b) picture, showing a shoot-ing star. The chalky covering may, like earlier British chalky paper stamps, dissolve in any fluid.

Could not resist the plane cutout that I recently picked up. Also, came across another South Africa one to go with the odd shaped collection.

first set of Hexagon shaped stamps from India - Aldabra Giant Tortoise



There are also sheetlets issued with 13 stamps in a sheet.

United Arab Emirates - New Issue - May 26, 2012

set of 2 stamps in shape of dhow

the same in form of sheet

Some more odd shapes from Portugal, Sierra Leone, Tonga

nuggethill,
They are especially attractive. Are they easy enough to get hold of?





Ironically these stamps are worth far more when rectangular, image taken from a bid sight mine are rectangular, but that's not the point of this subject,
Yuri-YSC.