2274. 🇧🇼 Important Bird Areas Of Botswana.

 

New issues -

🇧🇼 Botswana Post -

23 March 2023 - Important bird areas of Botswana - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Shatgani Basupi from art by Keitshupile Tshiba and lithographed by Southern Colour Print. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office - 

12 April 2023 - Manx waterfalls - 6 stamps. Designed by Tracey Dean and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Another reasonably attractive but wholly unnecessary issue released against a background of ridiculously excessive stamp issuing. Programme - *.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

4 May 2023 - ‘24 Solar Terms - Summer’ - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

2273. 🇬🇸 New Pitcairn Issue Features Old Postcards.

 

New issues.

🇵🇳 Pitcairn Islands postal service -

27 March 2023 - Old postcards of Pitcairn from the 1920s - 6 stamps issued in se-tenant pairs. Designed by Pixe18 and lithographed by Breber Print. How pleasing to finally have stamps from Pitcairn which feature a local subject rather than endless royal commemorations, the first time since Tower Mint took over control of Pitcairn’s new issues. Rating:- ****.

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

21 March 2023  - Sean O’Casey’s three Dublin plays (Centenary of the first performance of The Shadow of a Gunman) - 3 self-adhesive stamps issued as se-tenant strips of 3 in sheetlets of nine stamps (3 of each stamp). Designed by Design HQ and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post  -

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

2023- Commemoration of DK Jain, founder of the Luxor Group - 1 stamp.

2023 - Aero-India biennial air show and aviation exposition, 13 - 17 February 2023 - 1 stamp.

2023 - New Delhi World Bank Fair - 1 stamp.

2272. 🇨🇰🇹🇴 Cook Islands And Tonga Commemorate Queen Elizabeth II.

 

New issues.

🇨🇰 Cook Islands postal service -

16 January 2023 - Commemoration of the late Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the Cook Islands - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- ***.

13 February 2023 - 4 stamps in se-tenant blocks of 4. Rating:- ***.

20 February 2023 - Stop plastic ocean pollution - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block of 4. Rating:- ***.

6 March 2023 - Cook Islands national symbols - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:-  ***.

20 March 2023 - Churches of the Cook Islands - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- ***.

🇨🇰 Issues inscribed Aitutaki Cook Islands -

10 February 2023 - The Giant Clam - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp.Rating:- *.

🇹🇴 Tonga postal service -

26 January 2023 - Commemoration of the late Queen Elizabeth II - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- ***.

23 February 2023 - Birds of the world, the red shining parrot - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block, 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets of 4 and 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.

15 March 2023 - The James Webb Telescope - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- *.

🇹🇴 Issues inscribed Niuafo’ou -

23 February 2023 - Birds of the world, the collared kingfisher - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block, 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets of 4 and 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 March 2023 - International Year of Millets  - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

19 March 2023 - Commemoration of Pashuram (‘warrior sage’ of Jaipur) - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇳🇦 Namibia Post -

2022 - 75th anniversary of the Independence of India - 1 miniature sheet containing 5 different imperforate personalised stamps sold by Namibia Post. This is in addition to a similar perforated miniature sheet reported in Blog 2130. Rating:- ****.

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone postal service -

2022 - Masonic District Grand Lodge of Sierra Leone and The Gambia - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 identical stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***. It seems possible that this item is not a product emanating from the philatelic agency’ Stamperija.

🇧🇲 Bermuda Post Office -

16 March 2023 - Express Post, King Charles III - 1 stamp issued in sheetlets of 8. This issue has been reported here previously but better illustrations are now shown here. 

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

March 2023 - The ancient Omani alphabet - 1 miniature sheet containing 11 different stamps. Rating:- ****.