🇲🇹MaltaPost -
8 July 2024 - Euromed, Sports in the Mediterranean area - 2 stamps. Designed by Daniel Spiteri and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- ****.
🇦🇺 Australia Post -
24 June 2024 - Olympic Games, Paris - Justin, in a post on Stampboards dated 7 July 2024, has published scans of three limited edition covers marketed by Australia Post as collectibles related to the upcoming Olympic Games to be hosted on this occasion by the French. These items, released in an edition of 700 of each, take the form of three covers each bearing a different version of the basic 2024 Olympic Games commemorative stamp - one coloured ‘bronze’, one coloured ‘silver’ and the final one made of ‘99.99% pure gold’ and all of them with embossing. The covers are sold in a pack for A$50.
While these are clearly not postally valid since they are sold ‘used’ on cover and are available at a premium price enormously in excess of face value in a very limited edition I think that they are quite interesting as an Olympic Games collectible and souvenir. No doubt, in 50 years time when the use of postage stamps will be long forgotten, someone will come across one of the few remaining examples of these products and wonder what on earth they are.
Basic stamp -
🇸🇬 Singapore Post -
1 June 2024 - On 25 May 2024 Singapore Post revealed that from 1 June commemorative postage stamps would only be available from philatelic outlets (on line or philatelic outlets) and not from ordinary post offices which would sell only stamp booklets ad, I assume, definitives from sheets. One Facebook commentator revealed that he had been told that the usage commemoratives would no longer be allowed on registered post.
Singapore is not the first and will not be the last. This means the end of commemoratives on normal mail. They will be only issued for the philatelic market.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbour to the south Belgium introduced the same sales conditions (or: restrictions) a decade ago. Number of postally used commemoratives I have since: 0