2205. 🇲🇺 Mauritius Post Commemorates Important Local Anniversaries.

 

New issues.

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post -

November 2022 - Anniversaries - 3 stamps. This issue notes the Bicentenary of Port Louis Municipal Theatre (Rs2), the Centenary of Victoria Hospital (Rs41) and the 25th anniversary of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (RS50). Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

29 November 2022 - Endemic birds of Myanmar, third issue, the Jerdon’s minivet - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇦🇪 Emirates Post (postal service of United Arab Emirates) - 

1 November 2022 - Summit meeting of the Arab Postal Union held in Algiers - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 identical circular stamps. This is a joint issue with a number of other Arab postal administrations. Rating:- ***.

2204. 🇲🇹 Colourful Malta Issue Features Father Christmas’ Workshop.

 

New issues.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

29 November 2022 - Christmas, ‘Santa’s workshop’ - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing the 2 stamps. Designed by Fabio Agius and lithographed by Printex. Perforated 14. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post - 

25 November 2022 - 175th anniversary of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

Commonwealth entities whose postal services are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps so far during 2022 - 

Anguilla 

Belize 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon 

Cook Islands Rarotonga 

Dominica 

eSwatini

Gabon 

Lesotho 

Montserrat 

Niue

Rwanda 

St Kitts 

Saint Lucia 

Seychelles 

Solomon Islands 

Tokelau 

Uganda 

Vanuatu 

At the end of November 2022 therefore 20 entities remain on the list, two fewer than at the end of October. Therefore 22.5% of Commonwealth philatelic entities are not yet known to have issued (or had issued on their behalf any legitimate postage stamps so far in 2022. This compares with 24.7% at the end of October, 31.5% at the end of September, 33.1% at the end of August and 42.3% at the end of July. At the end of November 2021, 20 entities also had not issued any postage stamps.

2203. 🇵🇰 Pakistan Commemorates Services To Blind And Deaf Children.

 

New issues -

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

23 November 2022 - Centenary of the Ida Rieu for service schools for blind and deaf children. Designed by Mumtaz Khan and lithographed by National Security Printing Company, Karachi and perforated 13. Rating:- **.

🇧🇧 Barbados postal service -

2022 - Definitive, reprinted value with new date imprint - 10c depicting Sir Grantley Adam’s with ‘2022’ imprint. Rating:- **.

🇲🇲 

Myanmar Post -

18 November 2022 - Endemic bird species of Myanmar, second issue - the Hooded treepie - 1 stamp. Rating:- *****.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

25 November 2022 - State Vesak Festival - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

23 November 2022 - Vesak - stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 3 stamps. Rating:- ****.

🇦🇪 Emirates Post -

22 November 2022 - 25th anniversary of the Dubai International Quran Award - 1 miniature sheet containing 8 different stamps. Rating:- ***.

Revenue stamps -

🇧🇲 Bermuda Government.

2022 - Revenue stamps - 4 stamps

2202. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail 2023 New Issues Will Cost £195.40p.

 

New issues -

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

22 November 2022 - FIFA World Cup football competition held in Qatar - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing the same stamp. Rating:- ***.

Oman Post -

18 November 2022 - 52nd National Day - 1 sheetlet of 16 different stamps making up a composite picture. Rating:- ****.

New issue programmes 2023.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

While the detailed new issue programme has not yet been announced, Royal Mail is offering a pre-release annual subscription for all 2023 issues (stamps and miniature sheets and including any extra issues announced during the course of the year) at a price of £195.40p. The offer closes on 12 January 2023 which presumably will be the day of issue of the first release of the year.

Royal Mail states that, “Our 2023 Special Stamps will cover a huge range of topics covering British culture, history, music, film and more …” and elsewhere it also states that the subjects covered will include British television.

An annual subscription for presentation packs is £208.95p and the price is £249.80p for first day covers.

Those responsible for planning Royal Mail new stamp issues are clearly responding to the ‘Cost of living crisis’ by encouraging the pensioners who for decades have collected their products and find it hard to give up, to spend the winter fuel allowance which the British government has distributed to them, on numerous expensive items to mount in their albums rather than to pay to keep their homes warm.

2201. 🇳🇬 New Nigerian Issue.

 

New issues - 

🇳🇬 NiPost, postal service of Nigeria -

24 October 2022 - Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones, the African Development Bank - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Republic of Ireland) -

17 November 2022 - Centenary of the Execution of Erskine Childers (author of The Riddle of the Sands) by the Dáil Éireann during the Irish Civil War - 1 stamp. The design by Ger Garland depicts the painting ‘The Intelligence Man’ by Mick O’Dea and the stamp was lithographed by Enschedé and is perforated 14 x 13.5. Rating:- ****.

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

18 November 2022 - Christmas- 5 stamps (including 2 se-tenant pairs).Printed by Baltic Banknote High Security Printing. Rating:- *.

18 November 2022 - FIFA World Cup Football Championships, Qatar - 1 stamp. Printed by Baltic Banknote High Security Printing. Rating:- ***.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

15 November 2022 - FIFA World Cup Football Championships, Qatar (8th issue) - the Official Match Ball - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Issue sponsored by Adidas. Rating:- **.

20 November 2022 - Opening game of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Football Championships, Qatar v Ecuador - 1 miniature sheet containing a single gold stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post 

2023 - Guernsey Post has tweeted that it will issue a set of 6 stamps to commemorate Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rabbit. The items were designed by Chrissy Lau. The tweet included a picture of one of the stamps. Note the CIIIR Royal cypher. Rating:- *.

2200. 🇬🇧 Carter’s Discovery Of The Tomb Of Tutankhamun.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

24 November 2022 - Centenary of the discovery of the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt by the English archaeologist Howard Carter  - 8 stamps, 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps and I Prestige booklet made up from 4 panes including one pane of 5 Machin Head with barcode stamps sold for £21.95p. Designed by Andy Altman and lithographed by  Cartor and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- ****** (six stars! - a superb collection of designs on a subject of major historical importance commemorating the achievement of an important Briton). I assume this is also an historically notable issue as I expect it will be the last to feature the cameo of the late Queen Elizabeth II. This was certainly a case of leaving the best till last.

🇪🇬 Egypt Post -

13 November 2022 - Centenary of the discovery of the Pharoah Tutankhamun - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

15 November 2022 - 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and Singapore, Joint issue depicting birds - 2 stamps issued as a se-tenant pair. Designed by Teo Nam Siang and lithographed by Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Gazipur. Perforated 12.5. Rating:- ****.

🇦🇪 Emirates Post (postal service of United Arab Emirates) -

16 November 2022 - 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Hamdan bin Hamad bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps, 3 of which depict three generations of the rulers of Dubai. Rating:- ****.