One of my favourite threads on Stampboards is that which identifies which countries have or have not issued stamps during the course of the ongoing year. It's great fun seeing if one of those infrequent issuers has finally released a stamp after, in some cases, some years of philatelic abstinence.
There are 88 current Commonwealth philatelic entities, 16 of which, indicated by having a full stop after their names, are not yet known to have issued any stamps during 2018. Of course we should really list not countries but postal administrations/philatelic agencies and so on which have released stamps but for this particular exercise of identifying which Commonwealth philatelic entities have released stamps I'll make it a little simpler by just identifying country names unless they have more than one permitted issuer of postage stamps of some sort.
The country name is presented in the same way as in the Stampboards world issue thread but here
when a Commonwealth philatelic entity has been known to issue a stamp I will remove a country's name from the list and add it to a second list which will be started below the first one.
when a Commonwealth philatelic entity has been known to issue a stamp I will remove a country's name from the list and add it to a second list which will be started below the first one.
An e after an entity's name indicates that forthcoming issues have been announced but not yet released.
Commonwealth philatelic entities which have not issued stamps during 2019:-
Anguilla .
Barbados
British Antarctic Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Cameroon .
Cayman Islands
Cook Islands
Dominica .
Eswatini
Ghana .
Gibraltar (Swiss Post) .
Lesotho .
Montserrat
Niue
Penrhyn (Cook Islands)
Ross Dependency
Rwanda .
St Helena
St Kitts .
Samoa .
Seychelles . e
Solomon Islands .
Tanzania
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks And Caicos Islands .
United Kingdom Universal Mail
Vanuatu
Zambia
total - 29
Commonwealth philatelic entities which have issued stamps during 2019:-
Alderney (Guernsey)
Antigua And Barbuda
Ascension
Ascension
Australiau
Australian Antarctic Territory
Bahamas
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Belize
Belize
Bermuda
Botswana
Brunei Darussalam
Brunei Darussalam
Canada
Christmas Island (Australia)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)
Cyprus
Turkish Republic Of Northern Cyprus
Turkish Republic Of Northern Cyprus
Falkland Islands
Fiji
The Gambia
Gibraltar
Grenada
Grenada
Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique
Guernsey
Guyana
India
Isle Of Man
Jamaica
Jamaica
Jersey
Kenya
Kiribati
Kenya
Kiribati
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nevis
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Niuafo'ou (Tonga)
Norfolk Island (Australia)
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands
Saint Lucia .
St Vincent And The Grenadines
Sierra Leone
Singapore
South Africa
South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands
Sri Lanka
Tokelau
Tonga
Tristan Da Cunha
Tuvalu
Uganda .
United Kingdom
total - 57
Haha you pipped me at the post in that I was considering starting a similar thread at stampboards for 2019 (this is DJCMH on Stampboards) but have not had chance yet to set it up do to time constraints with work over the New Year Holiday (a downside with retail, you rarely get holidays off). Will be interesting to see how 2019 plays out.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year Gene W. I think my decision to do this is due to to my rather worrying pleasure in creating lists. Of course you have taken the much harder job as you are listing the whole world while I only have the Commonwealths territories to worry about. Good luck!
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