New issues -
🇧🇸 Bahamas postal service -
10 January 2023 - 56th anniversary of the achievement of Majority Rule in the Bahamas Parliament - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5 x 13. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Angela Warner of Pobjoy Stamps for information about this issue. Rating:- ****.
🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands postal service -
10 January 2023 - 20th anniversary of British Virgin Islands office in London - 1 stamp. Pobjoy Stamps has confirmed the date of issue of this stamp. See Blog 2213.
2023 Stamp Programmes.
🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Republic Of Ireland)
5 January - 50th anniversary of The Irish Republic’s membership of the European Union - 1 stamp
23 February - ‘Stamp for Ireland’, the Book of Kells - 2 stamps
2 March - Women in public life - 4 stamps
23 March - Irish country music - 5 stamps
6 April - Sean O’Casey’s three Dublin plays - 3 stamps
27 April - Birth centenary of President Hillery - 1 stamp
4 May - ‘Junk Kouture’ - 4 stamps
9 May - EUROPA, ‘Peace, the highest value of humanity’ - 2 stamps
10 August - Bicentenary of the founding of the Royal Hibernian Society - 2 stamps
7 September - Centenary of the admission of the Irish Free State to the League of Nations - 1 stamp
21 September - Cancer awareness and research - 2 stamps
19 October - 50th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House - 1 stamp
2 November - Christmas - 5 stamps (to be confirmed)
23 November - Centenary of the death of James Gandon - 2 stamps
Date to be advised - “10th definitive series”, Art on stamps (part 2) - 12 stamps.
Whether the stamps turn out to be good, bad or indifferent, it is interesting to note that (excluding the definitives) An Post's full year programme amounts to just 35 stamps, and to contrast that modest and reasonable number with Royal Mail's 2023 offering which is likely to surpass that figure by Easter on the way to yet another 100+ tally of stamps.
ReplyDeleteSurprised to see An Post issuing a stamp for the Opening of the Sydney Opera House, but the I read about how Irish engineer Peter Rice was instrumental in developing the structure. That's what make collecting interesting - when you learn something new.
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