1338. 🇺🇸 Yet More Excess From IGPC.

  And so we come to yet another deluge of new issues from IGPC:-

  🇦🇬 Antigua And Barbuda - 

  1 November 2018 - Rare Stamps of the world - 25 miniature sheets - details and illustrations awaited. Rating:- 0. Post scriptum - the description of this issue is erroneous- see Blog 1340.

  2018 - 50th anniversary of the First manned lunar landing - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 3 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

  2018 - Christmas - 4 stamps. Rating:- 0.

  2018 - Tropical flowers - 1 sheetlet containing 6 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

  🇬🇲 The Gambia - 

  19 December 2018 - Butterflies - 3 miniature sheets, each containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

19 December 2018 - Red river hog - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp. This species is found in The Gambia. Rating:- **.

  31 December 2018 - Small African mammals - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

  🇬🇩 Grenada - 5 December 2018 - Butterflies - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

  5 December 2018 - Christmas - 4 stamps. Rating;- 0.

  🇬🇩 Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique - 5 December 2018 - Butterflies - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

  🇲🇸 Montserrat - 5 December 2018 - 75th anniversary of the end of the First World War - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

  🇰🇳 Nevis - Christmas - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0. Illustrations awaited.

  🇹🇻 Tuvalu - 

  5 December 2018 - 50th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 5 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

  5 December 2018 - Nudibranchs - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0. The crested aeolis which is featured on the $5 miniature sheet is not found in the Pacific region but on the coasts of Norway, Great Britain France and in the Mediterranean.

  5 December 2018 - Nebulae - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- 0

  5 December 2018 - Tawny nurse shark - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different circular stamps and the other containing a single stamp. This is a species that is found in the waters of Tuvalu. Rating:- **.

  🇲🇹 I do not really understand why MaltaPost feels it necessary to release a joint issue with Kyrgyzstan but indeed it does so there we have it. Two stamps were issued to this end on 23 November 2018 and were designed from photographs by Paul Mizzi and Ivan Turkovskii and printed in lithography and perforated 13.5 x 14. The designs depict UNESCO  World Heritage sites in the 2 countries. Rating:- **.

  🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post issued a set of 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet on 30 October 2018 to commemorate the inauguration of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge. The issue was designed by Sun Chan and Hikoko Chan and lithographed by Enschedé and perforated 14 or 12 (miniature sheet). Rating:- **.