2208.. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Commemorates Cultural Organisation.

 

New issues.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Officc -

4 July 2022 - 40th anniversary of Culture Vannin, Manx cultural organisation - 6 stamps. Designed by Jay Cover and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14. Rating:- *.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

21 June 2022 - Leaders of indigenous communities - 1 miniature sheet containing 3 different stamps. Gummed. Designed by Lime Design and Andrew Perro and lithographed by Lowe Martin. See also Blogs 2098 and 2100. Rating:- *****.

News.

  At the end of the Kigali CHOGM it was confirmed that the next Commonwealth summit meeting will be held in Samoa. As the country’s postal service service has only released occasional surcharges in recent years after it fell out with Philatelic Collector Inc it seems unlikely that there will be any philatelic items released to commemorate the meeting. 

  The next big Commonwealth event which will definitely receive philatelic recognition with the release of a set of 8 stamps (see Blog 1204) will be The Commonwealth Games which will open in Birmingham in the English West Midlands on 28 July 2022. More news of the stamp issue is awaited.

Commonwealth philatelic entities whose postal services are not yet known to have issued, or have had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps so far in 2022 (or in the case of new Commonwealth members Gabon and Togo since 25 June 2022, the date on which they joined):-

Anguilla

Barbados 

Belize 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon 

Cook Islands 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn

Cook Islands Rarotonga 

Dominica 

eSwatini

Gabon

Ghana

Kenya

Lesotho

Montserrat 

Nauru

Nigeria 

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Ross Dependency

Rwanda

St Helena

St Kitts

Saint Lucia

Seychelles

Solomon Islands 

South Africa

Tanzania

Togo

Tokelau

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou

Trinidad And Tobago 

Turks And Caicos Islands 

Uganda

Vanuatu

Zambia

  With the addition of Togo and Gabon the total number of philatelic entities on this list is now 89. As we approach the end of June, with half the year gone, 39 of those entities now appear on the list of those who are not known to have so far issued (or had issued in their name) legitimate new postage stamps during 2022 or since they joined The Commonwealth. This compares with 41 at the end of May, 46 at the end of April, 49 at the end of March, 54 at the end of February and 65 at the end of January. At the end of June 2021, 30 entities remained on the list.