2207. 🇱🇰 Butterflies Of Sri Lanka.

New issues.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post  -

1 December 2022 - Endemic butterflies of Sri Lanka, definitives  - 10 stamps and 3 miniature sheets each containing 4 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

8 December 2022 - Singapore Children’s Museum - 5 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single large stamp. Designed by Lim Wenbin of Pinch Design Pte Ltd and lithographed and screen printed (to give glow in the dark effect) on $1.50c value by Enschedé and perforated 14 x 13.5. Rating:- ****.

1267. 🇯🇪 Birds Link Jersey With China.

  🇯🇪 Jersey Post will issue a set of 6 stamps and 2 miniature sheets on 3 September 2018 as part of its ongoing series of issues on the subject of 'Links with China' this time depicting Birdlife found in both territories. The issue was designed by Wang Huming and Martin Môrck and lithographed by Cartor. This is an attractive set though the subject is rather obtuse. Rating:- ***.

  Jersey Post will issue 6 new Post And Go stamps on 12 September 2018 which feature nautical knots, a quite original theme. The issue was designed by Martin Mörck and digitally printed by Walsall Security Printers. Rating:- ***.

  🇵🇳 Bounty Post, the postal service of Pitcairn, issued a miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps on 18 July 2018 on the subject of 'Colours of Paradise' featuring colourful flowers of Pitcairn. The issue was designed by Rachel Walker and lithographed by Southern Colour Print. This is a very attractive item. Rating:- *****.

  🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia released a set of 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet on 23 July on the subject of Historic museums of Malaysia. The issue was designed by Shahrul Izrah of World Communications and lithographed. Rating:- ***.

  🇸🇬 Another botanical issue - this time from Singapore Post, which will release a set of 4 stamps on 24 July 2018 on the subject of native gingers of Singapore. The set was designed by Ivory Seah and lithographed by Secura Singapore and perforated 13. An attractive set. Rating:- ****.

1247. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh Flags Muddle.

  🇧🇩 Two new issues are being offered for sale currently on an internet auction site which have been released by Bangladesh Post. The first is a single stamp which commemorates Bangladesh's graduation from the status of being a Least Developed Country to that of a Developed Country. I like the clever design which features a pattern of different coloured cogwheels in the shape of the country itself. Clearly, also, this stamp celebrates an important event in the history of Bangladesh. Rating:- *****.

  The second issue being offered for sale is very interesting and once more underlines a philatelic designer's golden rule - DON'T depict flags on your stamps - they're a minefield. The miniature sheet commemorates the 30th anniversary of the involvement of Bangladeshi forces in United Nations Peacekeeping operations. The sheet depicts Sheikh Mujibur Rahman speaking at The United Nations and flags of the territories in which UN forces have carried out their peacekeeping missions.

  The featured flags are Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Croatia, Cyprus, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Timor Leste, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Côte D'Ivoire, Kenya, Kosovo (bizarrely the map depicted on the flag seems to be that of Australia and not of Kosovo!), Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone (with a central golden emblem which the flag of Sierra Leone has never included), Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan (a flag which looks like the one flown by the country since 1970 but with the colours in the wrong order - white, green, black instead of the correct red, white, black), Syria, Uganda, United States Of America (when did the United Nations ever send a peacekeeping mission to The USA? - perhaps it's prophetic or just plain crass or mischievous), Western Sahara and the now extinct Yugoslavia. Phew! There's enough errors in this sheet to furnish the material for a whole evening's pub quiz.

  Was the designer taking the mickey?

  🇨🇦 Canada Post has announced 3 new stamp issues for release in the coming weeks. I like them all:-

  29 June 2018 - Astronomy - 2 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 10 (5 x2) and 1 gummed miniature sheet. Designed by Parcel Design from illustrations by Irene Laschi. Rating:- *****.

  13 July 2018 - Sharks - 5 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 10 (2 x 5) and 1 gummed miniature sheet. Designed by Andrew Perro from illustrations by Julius Csotonyi. Rating:- *****.

  26 July 2018 - 'Weather wonders' - 5 self-adhesive stamps sold in booklets of 10 (2 x 5) and 1 gummed miniature sheet. Designed by Entro Communications. Rating:- *****.

  🇬🇬 Guernsey Stamps tweeted on 22 June 2018 that on that day it's GG03 kiosk had dispensed Post and Go stamps (flowers) to welcome the passengers from the cruise ships Oriana and the Zuiderdam which were in port.

  🇬🇧 The Postal Museum in London has announced that its use of 50th anniversary of Machin Head Post and Go stamps in kiosk A001will cease on 1 July 2018. The design will be replaced by the classic Machin Head design from 2 July 2018 and this will be the first time that the design has received the additional inscription 'The Postal Museum'.

  In Blog 1246 I did not mention that the Hampton Court Palace issue from Royal Mail will also include a £4.02 retail booklet of 6 x 1st Class domestic rate stamps - there being 2 different stamps taken from the miniature sheet (Great Hall and King's Great Bedchamber designs) and 4 x Machin Head stamps.