The next United Nations personalized stamp sheet was issued for the Internationalen Briefmarken-Börse (International Stamp Show) on 21 September 2006, and went off sale on 21 May 2007. This was quite a long period of availability considering only 4,500 sheets were produced. What's more, the stamps in the sheet are actually different than those in S11 and S13, and have been given their own Scott and Michel numbers. The reason for this difference is the perforations are very different. On S11 and S13, the perforations are 13.2 x 13.2. For S14 the perforations are 14.4 x 14. Considering there are only two stamps of each design on each sheet, the 9,000 stamps for each Scott #903a-907b and Michel 1010B-1014B rank as some of the rarest in all of United Nations philately. Whenever someone asks me, I tell them to buy this sheet immediately, no United Nations collection can be complete without the five rare stamps. Compare this with the 250,000 Scott #38 sheets and you can see how rare these stamps are, and that demand will dictate continued price increases.
For the sheet itself, we know the design is based on an Edward Hardam photograph. Mr. Hardam has a photography business in the Netherlands called HeR design. Here is the original photograph taken by Mr. Hardam:
The colors of the German flag have been overlaid on this photograph, along with the stamps and other printing for the 2006 Internationalen Briefmarken-Börse.
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