Stamp of Argentina shows 3-D effect
By Denise McCarty
The stamp pictures the 37-ton meteorite fragment at the Campo del Cielo site near Chaco.
Page 22 A new souvenir sheet from Argentina comes packaged with a pair of 3-D glasses to better view the specially printed sheet. Figure 1 depicts the sheet
and the glasses. Issued July 28, the sheet features the Campo del Cielo meteorites. The meteorites are believed to have fallen to Earth about 4,000 to 6,000 years ago.
The 6-peso stamp in the sheet shows El Chaco, a 37-ton fragment of a meteorite. This huge fragment was discovered in 1980.
The stamp appears blurry when viewed with the unaided eye. Viewing the stamp with the 3-D glasses, produces a simple 3-D effect.
The glasses, made of white cardboard, have one plastic blue lens and one plastic red lens. The site www.3 dglasses.online.com explains why the different colored lenses are needed: "A 3-D film viewed without glasses is a very strange sight and may appear to be out of focus, fuzzy or out of register. The same scene is projected simultaneously from two different angles
in two different colors, red and cyan (or blue or green). Here’s where those cool glasses come in — the colored filters separate the two different images so each image only enters one eye. Your brain puts the two pictures back together and now you’re dodging a flying meteor!"
The logo of Argentina’s post office, Correo Argentino, is included on the glasses to the left of the blue lens.
A symbolic depiction of the glasses, plus "3D," is
included in the lower left border of the sheet.
The border area also features an illustration of a small asteroid entering Earth’s atmosphere and a diagram showing craters produced by meteors at Campo del Cielo.
The area, located in the province of Chaco near the town of Gancedo, includes more than 30 craters, along with iron and nickel fragments resulting from the collision of a large meteor with Earth.
Mosca Ochenta designed the souvenir sheet, using 3-D photographs taken by Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolas Goldberg.
Letra Viva printed the sheet by offset in a quantity of 100,000.
The address of Argentina’s bureau is Correo Argentino, Departamento de Filatelia, C.C. 4224 Correo Central, 1000, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Slovenia
A Slovenian stamp honoring the country’s largest summer festival glows in the dark.
The Slovenian post office, Posta Slovenije, issued the 1-euro stamp June 22, the opening day of the Maribor Lent Festival. The festival, which ran through July 7, included approximately 400 musical, theatrical and other performances by 3,900 participants from 36 countries, according to the cultural profiles section of the Visiting Arts web site.
The festival is named after Lent, the old-town section of Maribor by the Drava River.
On the stamp, the word "Lent" in the lower left glows in the dark.
The stamp shows a bridge and a building, representing a floating stage on the river. Three ducks are visible floating in the water. Symbolic suns and moons are pictured below the bridge.
Bozo Kos designed the stamp. Joh. Enschede printed it in a quantity of 120,000. The stamp is in a pane of six with three labels.
The addresses of Slovenia’s bureau is Posta Slovenije, Sektor za posto, P.P. 500, SI-2001 Maribor, Slovenia.
Italy
A 2.80-euro Italian stamp shown in Figure 2 is printed on wood.
The stamp, issued July 2 as part of the Italian Artistic and Cultural Patrimony series, depicts the Basilica of San Vincenzo in Galliano, Cantu, Italy. The church was consecrated 1,000 years ago in 1007.
Thenew-issueannouncement from the Italian post office, Poste Italiane, describes the stamp as "selfadhesive and printed on a wooden sheet with birch measuring 0.33 millimeters in thickness."
The birch is backed with a nonwoven paper and vinyl glue, according to the new-issue announcement. The stamp is imperforate.
Antonio Ciaburro designed the stamp. The Italian State Polygraphic Institute printed 1.5 million stamps by one-color offset in panes of 15.
The addresses of Italy’s bureau is Ente Poste Italiane, Servizi Postali E.P.E. Filatelia, Via Mario de’ Fiori, 103/A, 00187 Rome, Italy.
Figure 1. Argentina’s souvenir sheet featuring Campo del Cielo meteorites comes with 3-D glasses, shown here on top of the sheet.
Figure 2. This Italian self-adhesive stamp is printed on wood. It was issued July 2.