1871. 🇨🇦 Canada Post Goes To The Ballet.

 🇨🇦 Canada Post issued 2 self-adhesive stamps each sold in individual booklets of 6 plus a gummed miniature sheet containing the 2 stamps on 29 April 2021 on the subject of Legends of Canadian Ballet. The designs feature the dancers Karen Kain and Fernand Nault. The issue was designed by Stéphane Huot. Rating:- ****.

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office found it necessary to issue a set of 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet on 29 April 2021 to commemorate the 10th Wedding anniversary of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The photograph used in the design of the miniature sheet stamp has to be one of the least interesting photographs of the royal couple ever taken. The set plus miniature sheet costs a remarkable total of £13.31p. The set was designed by Stephen Perera using photographs by Getty Images and the stamps were lithographed by bpost. Rating:- **.

 

As April draws to a close here is the list of Commonwealth philatelic entities not yet known to have issued, or are just about to issue, new stamps so far during 2021:-

Aitutaki Cook Islands 

Anguilla 

Belize

Brunei Darussalam 

Cameroon

Cayman Islands

Cook Islands 

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 

Dominica

eSwatini 

Ghana

Jamaica

Kenya

Lesotho

Malawi 

Maldives

Mauritius

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Niuafo’ou Tonga

Papua New Guinea

 Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Pitcairn Islands

Rarotonga Cook Islands

Ross Dependency

Rwanda

St Kitts

Saint Lucia 

Samoa

Seychelles 

Sierra Leone 

Solomon Islands

Tanzania 

Tokelau

Tonga 

Trinidad And Tobago 

Turks And Caicos Islands 

Uganda 

Vanuatu 

Zambia

  Hence the list has now shrunken to 41 entities which have not yet released any new stamps this year (the total last month was 54 - see Blog 1856).