🇨🇳🇺🇸 The Beijing- and New York-based philatelic agency, IGPC, has announced the release of a number of philatelic products with the names of client postal services printed on them:-
🇦🇬 Antigua And Barbuda - 23 January 2018 - 75th Birthday of Muhammad Ali (American former boxer) - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 3 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.
🇲🇸 Montserrat - 6 December 2017 - The Coral reef - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.
🇰🇳 Nevis - 22 December 2017 - Beaches of Nevis - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and 1 containing 2 different stamps. Rating:- *.
🇹🇻 Tuvalu - 26 December 2017 - Beaches of Tuvalu - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and 1 containing 3 different stamps. Rating:- *.
26 December 2017 - Platinum Wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II (who of course is Queen of Tuvalu) and The Duke of Edinburgh- 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- *.
26 December 2017 - Commemoration of the late Elvis Presley, American popular singer - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps. Rating:- 0.
24 January 2018 - Visit of US President Trump to South Korea - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- 0.
I think the Muhammad Ali issue is of particular bad taste given he died in 2016 - i.e. when he was still 74. I hope Gibbons, Michel and the like consign these issues to the dustbin. Thanks for your great blog though.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind comment. IGPC has never felt the need to show good taste when there's a subject to be exploited which will garner a financial profit. Such issues do not 'honour' the featured subjects but merely cynically exploit them.
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