Special Stamp Issue - "Creative Industries"
Mint Stamps
The key to Hong Kong's success is its ability to reinvent itself
in tune with the times. From its humble beginning as a fishing village,
Hong Kong blossomed into a manufacturing hub. As we advance into
the 21st Century, Hong Kong has moved to embrace and nurture creative
industries as the new millennium's dynamic growth sector. Customarily,
the creative industries involve economic activities that make use
of creativity, skill and intellectual property to produce and distribute
products and services of social and cultural meaning, thus helping
to realize the potential for wealth generation and job creation.
A set of four Special Stamps of "Creative Industries" will be
issued on 21 July 2005 (Thursday). The dynamics of creative
industries in Hong Kong are featured with unique and representing
graphics in this set of stamps. The set comprises four stamps featuring
the elements of 11 domains of creative industries in inspiring graphics
and bold abstracts including: "Advertising, Architecture
and Design Industries"($1.4), '"Digital Entertainment, Publishing,
Software and Computing Industries"($2.4), '"Film and Video, Music,
Television and Radio Industries"($3) and "Arts, Antiques
and Crafts and Performing Arts Industries"($5).
Such a representing stamp set of this lovely city - Hong Kong where
you have close linkage with, why miss the chance keeping it as part
of your memory?
Information about philatelic products associated with this issue
and the sales restriction per queuing customer starting from
21 July 2005 are as follows:
| Products |
Descriptions |
Selling Price (HKD) |
Sales Restriction per queuing customer |
| Mint stamps |
Available in 4 denominations of $1.4, $2.4, $3 and $5 |
$11.80 per set |
10 sheets of stamps of each denomination(each sheet contains
25 stamps) |
| Presentation Pack |
Each containing a set of 4 stamps |
$20.00 per pack |
5 packs |
| Prestige Stamp Booklet |
Each comprising 4 sets of stamps in 4 different blocks |
$47.20 per booklet |
5 booklets |
| Serviced First Day Cover affixed with a set of 4 Stamps |
Affixed with a full set of 4 stamps and datestamped with the
special postmark (available at 39 philatelic offices on 21
July 2005 only) |
$15.30 per cover |
5 covers |
| Serviced First Day Cover affixed with a Stamp Sheetlet |
Affixed with a stamp sheetlet which embedded with a block
of 4 stamps, total of a set of 4 covers each with a different
block of stamps and datestamped with the special postmark
(available at 39 philatelic offices on 21 July 2005 only) |
$61.20 per set |
5 sets |
Remarks: The above philatelic products have been included
in the 2005 Local Standing Order Service.
The stamps will be displayed at the General Post Office, Tsim Sha
Tsui Post Office, Tsuen Wan Post Office and Sha Tin Central Post
Office from 30 June 2005. Official First Day Covers at HK$1
each will be put on sale at all post offices on the same day. Advance
orders for servicing self-provided souvenir covers will be accepted
at 39 philatelic offices from 30 June to 6 July 2005.
Hand-back datestamping service will be provided at all post offices
on 21 July 2005 for official and privately-made covers, bearing
the first day of issue indication and a local address. A special
postmark will also be introduced and available for hand-back service
at all post offices. In addition, the "GPO-1" postmark, the "Philatelic
Bureau" pictorial postmark and the philatelic office pictorial postmark
will be available for hand-back datestamping service at 39 philatelic
offices on that day.
Also on 21 July 2005, the public hall of the Hongkong Post
Philatelic Bureau on 1/F., Trade Square, 681 Cheung Sha Wan Road,
Kowloon, will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for datestamping
covers with the "Philatelic Bureau" pictorial postmark, the "GPO-1"
postmark and the special postmark.
Stamp Printing Details
| Design: |
Mr. Arde LAM |
| Printer: |
Cartor Security Printing, France |
| Process: |
Lithography |
| Stamp Size: |
40 mm x 25 mm |
| Stamp Layout: |
Pane of 25 stamps |
| Perforation: |
14 x 14.41 (one elliptical perforation on each vertical) |
| Paper: |
Paper with security fibres |
| Date of Issue: |
21 July 2005 |
Stamp Sheetlet Printing Details
| Design: |
Mr. Arde LAM |
| Printer: |
Cartor Security Printing, France |
| Process: |
Lithography |
| Stamp Sheetlet Size: |
90 mm x 137 mm |
| Stamp Size: |
40 mm x 25 mm |
| Perforation: |
14 x 14.41 (one elliptical perforation on each vertical) |
| Paper: |
Paper with security fibres |
| Date of Issue: |
21 July 2005 |
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| Presentation Pack
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Prestige Stamp Booklet
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Serviced First Day Cover affixed with a set of 4 Stamps
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Serviced First Day Cover affixed with a Stamp Sheetlet
(Set of 4 Covers)
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| Special Postmark |
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