2563. 🇸🇭 Pitcairn Depicts Bounty Launch’s Artefacts.

 

New issues -

🇬🇸 Postal service of Pitcairn Islands -

9 September 2024 - Artefacts from the Bounty launch boat - 4 stamps (printed se-tenant). Designed by Dan Pickering of Pixela Design, Poole, England and lithographed by Brebner Print. Rating:- ***.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

9 September 2024 - Jurong Lake Gardens - 4 stamps Designed by Wong Wui Kong and lithographed by Secura Singapore Pte and perforated 13. Rating:- ****.

2541. 🇸🇬🇬🇩🇲🇼Singapore New Issues; Grenada-Korea Joint Issue, New Malawi Surcharges..

 

New Issues.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

29 July 2024 - My Stamp issue - 1 miniature sheet containing 5 identical stamps (1 each of 5 different values with attached much larger labels. Lithographed by Secura. Rating:- ***.

Thanks to Anonymous  for pointing out that the sheet contains 5 different values in the comment below. I have corrected the above to avoid confusion.

8 August 2024 - Joint issue of the 10 ASEAN postal administrations. Lithographed by Secura. Perforated 13. Rating:- ***.

9 September 2024 - Jurong Lake Gardens - 4 stamps. Designed by Wong Wui Kong and lithographed by Secura and perforated 13. Rating:- ****.

 20 September 2024 - Peranakan Museum - 10 stamps (5 vertically se-tenant pairs). Designed by Hazel Lee and printed by lithography. Rating:- ****.

🇬🇩 Grenada Postal Corporation -

1 August 2024 - Joint issue with the Republic of Korea - 2 stamps. The Korean and Grenada postal service both issued a se-tenant pair of stamps to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and Grenada as a joint issue. Rating:- *****.

Korean issue - 

28 to 30 July 2024 - CARICOM 47th Heads of Government Meeting hosted by the government of Grenada in the Grenada capital of St George’s. It is quite possible that the Grenadan postal service will issue stamps to commemorate the meeting but no announcement about any such issue is yet known to have been made.

🇲🇼 Malawi postal service - 

5 July 2024 - Previously issued definitive stamps reissued with surcharges applied to produce new values -  4 stamps. Rating:-*****. These stamps are reported in a communication by Steven Zirinsky of Zirinsky Stamps and on the Zirinsky Stamps internet site.

2328. 🇯🇲 Jamaica Commemorates 150th Anniversary Of Botanical Gardens.

 

New issues.

🇯🇲 Jamaica Post - 

29 May 2023 - 150th anniversary of Hope Botanical Gardens - 6 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:- ****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

Tweets reporting Post and Go issues with additional one day inscriptions commemorating visiting cruise ships. 

20 June 2023 - Visits of the Silver Moon and Silver Shadow -

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

15 June 2023 - Fruits of Sri Lanka - in addition to the sheet of 20 different stamps depicted in Blog 2324 this issue was also released in a format of 2 sheetlets each containing 10 different stamps.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2023 - My Stamps personalised stamps issued in sheets of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium.

?3 June 2023 - 25th anniversary of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik - 1 stamp.

2023 - 350th anniversary of the coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj - 1 stamp.

2023 - 20th anniversary of the Universal Service Obligation Fund - 1 stamp.

2155. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Depicts Botanic Gardens On Latest New Issue.

 

New issues.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

12 September 2022 - Bicentenary of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya - 4 stamps and 4 single stamp miniature sheets. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

2127. 🇲🇺 50th Anniversary of Mauritius’ Relations With China.

 

New issues.

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post -

?25 July 2022 - 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Mauritius and The Peoples Republic of China - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps. Thanks to super for drawing attention to this issue. The information accompanying the illustration was unfortunately all in Mandarin but I glean that this is another one of those issues which is a gift from the Chinese Peoples Republic to a partner country, in this case Mauritius.

   It’s a very unusual item for Mauritius Post to put on sale and some of these items are easily accessible and others are excruciatingly difficult to track down. As I wrote in Blog 2078 a similar gift item from China to Vanuatu took several years to appear on the market and then only from a dealer in China and another one dating back to 13 September 2018 and shown on the Facebook page of Maldives Post at that time and commemorating the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Maldives has never been offered by any dealer up to yet as far as I know. Any information about this issue would be welcomed. 

  The Maldives 3 sheetlets and 1 miniature sheet were publicised very shortly before the pro-China Maldivian president Abdulla Yameen lost power on 16 November 2018 to President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih whose government was far less sympathetic to the Chinese Peoples’ Republic and this antipathy towards China may have affected the release of these items.

The Maldives sheets - 

  The China-Mauritius item is particularly surprising as a single stamp has already appeared from Mauritius Post commemorating the anniversary although I still do not know the precise date of issue of the stamp.

Collecting new issues remains interesting and sometimes very challenging.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

July 2022 (precise date to be confirmed) - Heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Rating:- ***.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

8 August 2022 - ‘Building a Green and Resilient Singapore’ - 5 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 5 stamps. Designed by Pinch Design Pte Ltd and lithographed by Secura rating:- ***.

🇳🇦 Nampost, Namibia postal service -

22 July 2022 - The Sandhof lily - 3 stamps. Designed by Helge Denker and printed in lithography. Rating:- *****.