Costmes ~ Amarapura

The fifth set of costume series was issued on 29 Apr 2022.  The set includes two stamps depicting man and woman in Amarapura era costumes.  No official FDCs and folding cards were sold.  Collectors made their own FDCs and maxicards.

Technical Details of Stamps

Date of Issue : 29 April 2022

Printer : Security Printing Works (Myanmar)

Printing Process : Offset

Stamp Size and Format : 30 mm x 42 mm (Horizontal)

Color : 4

Perforation : 14

Denomination : K200 two designs

Sheet Composition :  50 Stamps per Sheet

Quantity : 300,000 pc per design

Stamp Designers : U Aung Than Htay, Prof Myat Tun Aung

FDCs

FDC produced by Ko Sein Min, cancelled at Mandalay.

FDC by Ko Aung Kyaw Tun, cancelled at Yangon.

FDC by Ko Chan Myae Aung, cancelled at Mandalay

Maxicards

Maxicard set by Ko Thein Tun Kyaw

The Burma StaMPS Volume 1

Myanmar Philatelic Society initiated publishing the brand new "The Burma StaMPS" journal quarterly.  It is also the newsletter of the society.  Each issue has 20 pages and published in full color.  Ko Toe is the editor of the journal.  The editor hopes Burmese language journal can attract new collectors to philately, and keep the society active. 

 

In 2022, four issues for Jan, Apr, Jul and Oct were published.  The digital copies of the journal is distributed to MPS members.  In Mandalay, Ko Sein Min kindly printed every issues in color and distributed to Mandalay members at no charge.  The editor compiled four issues, together with the contents, author index, subject index and post office index, and produced the softbound printed book.  The whole volume includes 92 pages.