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I am by no means a stamp collector, but I'm well aware that there are some seriously weird stamps out there. Luckily, if you're a stamp collector who has a major Austrian soccer jones, you're now in luck.Yes, that annoyingly repetitive moving image on your right is an actual stamp. It shows three different perspectives of the winning soccer goal scored by Andreas "Andi" Herzog for Austria in 1997. This goal provided a sense of strong national pride for Austria as their team defeated Sweden 1-0 en route to their 1998 World Cup appearance.
But you're probably wondering, wait, what the hell? The stamp is a video?
Yes it is. Or sort of. The Austrian Postal Service has used what's called lenticular printing to make a series of images continuously repeat on the stamp. Basically, it's 48 images you're seeing on a continuous loop.
Lenticular printing has actually been around for about 60 years, but this is the most comprehensive stamp ever produced.
The only bad news is it's not exactly all that cheap. It costs $8.50, and it's huge for a stamp, so I wouldn't exactly put this thing on a postcard during your next vacation. But then again, if you actually buy this stamp, you're probably not on vacation. You're probably holed up in a cave like most stamp collectors.
[Austrian Postal Service]
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