1797. 🇺🇬 Uganda Commemorates The Kabaka’s 65th Birthday.

 

🇺🇬 Posta Uganda has released an issue to commemorate the 65th birthday of the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. A comment on Stamp Boards includes the above illustration of one of the stamps. Details of the issue are not yet clear but at a celebration of the release of the stamp issue the new issue was presented to the Kabaka. The issue appears to be made up of 2 stamps depicting the Kabaka in what I guess to be his coronation gown, one design in horizontal format and the other in vertical form. A separate illustration appears to show what may be a miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps depicting buildings with the sheet having perforations all around it or alternatively it may be a poster depicting the 2 buildings stamps. These photographs were posted on the internet on 12 November and so one assumes that the date of issue was some time about then. Doubtless all will become clear.

🇬🇧 Juliet Warner of Pobjoy Stamps has confirmed that the 2 new issues from British Antarctic Territory mentioned in Blog 1787 were both released on 16 December 2020.

🇺🇸 The unashamed orgy of philatelic product-issuing in which the US-based agency, IGPC, has indulged in the past few weeks made possible by its having contracts with the postal administrations of some of the least well off postal services in The Commonwealth continues, alas, unabated. Needless to say, everything listed below is rated 0.

🇦🇬 Antigua And Barbuda. 

17 November 2020 - Commemoration of Dorje Chang Buddha III - 1 miniature sheet containing 5 identical stamps.

🇬🇲 The Gambia 

23 November - The Vietnam War - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp.

🇬🇩 Grenada

28 December 2020 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Ox - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps.

🇬🇩 Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique 

23 November 2020 - 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City, Beijing - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 3 different stamps and the other a single stamp.

🇰🇳 Nevis 

2 November 2020 - Starfish - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 5 different stamps and the other a single stamp.

28 December 2020 - Chinese New Year, Year of The Ox - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps.

28 December 2020 - The Fight against COVID-19 - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps.

28 December 2020 - 75th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe at the end of the Second World War - 1 miniature sheet containing 5 different stamps.

28 December 2020 - 500th anniversary of the Death of Raphael, Italian artist - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp.

🇹🇻 Tuvalu -

30 November 2020 - 250th Birth anniversary of Ludwig Van Beethoven, German music composer - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 5 different stamps and the other a single stamp.

30 November 2020 - 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing a single stamp and the other 5 different stamps.

30 November 2020 - 75th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp.