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PhlPost issues Philippine festival masks stamps
Stamp collectors, get ready: The Philippine Postal Corp. has issued another set of stamps, this time celebrating the colorful Philippine festival masks.
PHLPost launched its “Philippine Festival Masks” commemorative stamps on Saturday, during the fiesta of the famous Higantes Festival in Angono, Rizal.
"The said stamps were produced in tactile printing technology that allows a person to touch and feel the actual texture embellished in the stamps," it said.
The newest series of stamps depicts four world-famous Philippine festivals.
- Moriones Festival in Marinduque, designed by PHLPost in-house layout artist Jose Antonio Jayme, which features a mask of a biblical Roman soldier as interpreted by local folks.
- Higantes Festival in Angono, which features the traditional higantes (giants) made of bamboo and colorful cloth and a face made of paper mache. The design is by Nemesio Miranda.
- Pintados Festival in Tacloban, depicted in Festival Mask “Pintados” stamps designed by Donald Tapan.
- Masskara Festival in Bacolod City.
- Higantes Festival in Angono, which features the traditional higantes (giants) made of bamboo and colorful cloth and a face made of paper mache. The design is by Nemesio Miranda.
- Pintados Festival in Tacloban, depicted in Festival Mask “Pintados” stamps designed by Donald Tapan.
- Masskara Festival in Bacolod City.
PHLPost said it printed 120,000 copies of the three Philippine Festival Masks stamps, which will be sold in P10 denominations.
Souvenir sheets
Meanwhile, some 5,000 special limited edition Souvenir Sheets of the Philippine Festival Masks stamps designed by Antonio Carranza Jr. were printed in tactile embedded with diamond powder.
This allows people to "appreciate the look and feel of the colorful Masskara Festival Stamps, sold at P100 each." — Joel Locsin /LBG, GMA News
