The next United Nations personalized stamp sheet is considered very controversial. The sheet was issued on 21 September 2006. It is estimated that 2,500 of the sheets were printed (one report says 2,000), so at most, only 25,000 of these unique stamps exist. The stamps have been given their own Scott number, 929; and their own Michel number - 1040.What is so controversial, is that the personalized sheets were at first only given out to the Japanese delegation during the 50th anniversary ceremony. Most United Nations philatelists were not even aware the stamps existed until later in the year when an editorial about them appeared in Linn's Stamp News. This caused quite a problem for UNPA, since they'd given out some very rare United Nations stamps and had never made them available to the public. Finally, on 5 February 2007, the remaining sheets were sent to UNPA's standing order customers and put on sale to the public from their website. They quickly sold out.
The stamps themselves were printed with offset lithography by Sprintpak Security Print (Australia). The perforations are different; 14.4 x 14. and the stamp size is different; 30 mm x 30.55 mm, from the standard 30 mm x 30 mm that all the other stamps exhibit. I do not have any information on the off sale date or the designer. If someone has that information, we'd be grateful if you could share it with the rest of the United Nations philatelists.
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