A vinyl postage stamp plays
music: Stamp collectors may
want to know about the 1967
Dutch issued postage stamp
commemorating a popular
Dutch singer that actually plays
music; or, the country of Bhutan’s “talking postage stamps”
that double as playable vinyl records. Created in the early 70s,
the stamps could be stuck on a
letter and then later played on a
turntable. One stamp plays the
Bhutanese national anthem, and
another delivers a “very concise” history of Bhutan. Clips of
the Bhutan stamps can be heard
on radio--- Thanks to WFMU .
More recently, the Swiss postal
service issued a vinyl stamp
that can be played on a smart
phone. The 5fr stamp is designed to look like a vinyl record. A sheet of the stamps
printed by offset using a special
varnish on wood-free cardboard
can be played on a turntable set
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to 33 rpm. It plays the Swiss national anthem. Even the individual stamps, if removed from the
sheet, can be played. (Ask your
grand or great-grandpar V