5306. 🇬🇧🇫🇰🇬🇸 South Atlantic Endurance Issues At Last.

 

New Issues -

British South Atlantic and Antarctic Territories -

5 November 2024 - Joint issue to commemorate the discovery of the wreck Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. Designed by Abé Design using photographs taken by Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic and Scott Polar Research Institute, Lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇧 Postal service of British Antarctic Territory - 2 staamos and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp.

🇫🇰 Postal service of the Falkland Islands - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single.

🇬🇸 Postal service of South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp.

  Thanks to Isle of Man stamps and Coins for information about these issues.

  Information about these issues was delayed until the day of issue at the request of the copyright holders of the images featured in the designs.

5305. 🇨🇦 Canada’s Christmas Issue.

 

New Issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

4 November 2024 - Christmas - 3 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets - 1 Domestic rate ‘religious’ design from booklets of 12, designed by Underline Studio using an illustration by Amanda Arlotta, 3 ‘secular’ stamps (1 Domestic rate from booklets of 12 and $1,40 and $2.92 values each from booklets of 6, designed by Katina Constantinou of Sugar), and 1 gummed miniature sheet contains all 3 secular designs. Lithographed by Lowe Martin.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

20 September 2024 - Peranakan Museum - 12 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Previously featured in Blog 2541 but the miniature sheet is now depicted below.

5304. 🇮🇪 Irish Republic’s Christmas Stamps.

 New Issues - 

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

31 October 2024 - Christmas 6 self adhesive stamps (4 x National Domestic rate issued in booklets of 17 and 2 x Worldwide rate issued in booklets of 5). Designed by Boys And Girls from illustrations by Faye Larkin and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- **.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

31 October 2024 - Deepavali (Hindu religious festival) - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

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

1 November 2024 - The King fish - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

5303. 🇲🇹 🇧🇼 Malta And Botswana Note UPU Anniversary.

 

New Issues -

🇲🇹 Malta Post -

31 October 2024 - 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union - 1 stamp. Designed by MaltaPost plc and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇼 Botswana Post -

9 October 2024 - 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp (the contemporaneous ‘Zebra ’ miniature sheet with additional inscription - see below). Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

9 October 2024 - Zebras in Botswana - 4 stamps and 2 miniature sheets (one containing a single stamp and the other the set of four). Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

5301. 🇧🇹 Bhutan And Its Dogs.

 New Issues -

🇧🇹 Bhutan Post -

23 June 2024 - Completion of the Nationwide Accelerated Dog Population Management and Rabies Control Programme - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Bhutan has long had a large population of free roaming dogs which have not been interefered with because of the devout Buddhist beliefs of the population. They make a remarkable sight in the streets of the capital Thimphu. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇭 Bahrain Post -

16 October 2024 - Centenary of the first municipal council elections in Bahrain - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

28 October 2024 - ‘Farmerettes and Soldiers of the Soil - 2 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets of 10 (5 of each stamp) and gummed in sheetlets of 6 (3 of each stamp). Designed by Ivan Novotny Design Inc and lithographed by Lowe Martin.

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation -

🇦🇬 Products inscribed Antigua And Barbuda -

22 August 2024 - World aviation - Switzerland. One sheetlet containing 18 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- 0.

22 August 2024 - World aviation history, 60th anniversary of Patrouille Suisse - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- 0.

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps thisyear up until the end of October.

Anguilla 

Bahamas 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Gabon

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Kenya

Lesotho 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Niue

Rwanda 

Samoa

Solomon Islands 

The Gambia

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Trinidad And Tobago 

Tuvalu

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Therefore, by the end of October, 31 (34.8%) of the 89 Commonwealth philatelic entities are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps in 2024. This compares with the figure of 34 at the end of September 2024 (39.2%) and the figure of 27 out of 88 (30.7%) at the end of October 2023.