I got 3 nice stamps from Austria. One of them is first world stamp made of glass!
With this glass stamp Austrian Post is presenting a very special,
exclusive stamp and once again showing a great deal of innovative spirit
when it comes to stamp design – to date no stamp valid for franking has
ever been made out of glass anywhere in the world. The glass stamp
shows one of the famous “Sandlbilder”: a reverse glass painted Pietà
from the Upper Austrian municipality of Sandl.
There is a long tradition of reverse glass painting in Sandl. This is
because there were many glass works in the nearby Bohemian forests, from
which sheets of glass could be acquired easily and cheaply. Glass
painting provided peasant families with a welcome additional source of
income; during the winter the whole family worked together to produce
the mostly religious designs step by step, each member of the family
having his or her own particular task e.g. painting in the outlines or
filling in the coloured areas. The traditional design of the Pietà dates back to the 14th century.
This stamp comes in a protective box. Glass is really thick, so you can't put this stamp in your stamp album. Print run is 140.000. Release date is 10.06.2016.
Other two stamps are:
Gentian stamp is embroidered commemorative product of the Austrian embroiderers Hämmerle & Vogel. The threads and the colour follow the natural shape of the Clusius
gentian (gentiana clusii), discovered around 100 BC by King Gentius of
Illyria. Release date is 19.09.2008.
And last stamp is Postcrossing, dedicated to biggest website for random postcard exchange. Release date is 21.05.2016.
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