New issues.
🇨🇦 Canada Post
29 September 2022 - Truth and reconciliation - 4 different self-adhesive stamps issued as 2 blocks of 4 in booklets of 8. Designed by Blair Thomson of Believe In and lithograph printed. Art by Jackie Traverse, Gayle Uyagagi Kabloona and Kim Guillon Stewart. Rating:- *****.
New issues.
🇸🇬 Singapore Post -
29 September 2022 - 50th anniversary of the National Wages Council - 4 stamps. Designed by Andy Koh and lithographed by Secura Singapore. Perforated 13. Rating:- ***.
New issue programmes.
🇨🇦 Canada Post -
2022
29 September - ‘Truth and reconciliation’
6 October - Diwali
17 October - ‘Canadians in flight’
28 October - Remembrance Day
Commonwealth entities whose postal services are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps so far in 2022 -
Anguilla
Barbados
Belize
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Cameroon
Cook Islands Rarotonga
Dominica
eSwatini
Gabon
Ghana
Kenya
Lesotho
Montserrat
Nauru
Nigeria
Niue
Ross Dependency
Rwanda
St Kitts
Saint Lucia
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Tokelau
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Vanuatu
At the end of September therefore 28 entities remain on the list, just two less than at the end of July. Hence 31.5% of Commonwealth philatelic entities are not yet known to have issued (or had issued on their behalf) legitimate postage stamps so far this year. This compares with 33.7% at the end of August and 42.3% at the end of July.
New issues.
🇬🇧 Royal Mail
10 November 2022
Commemoration of the late Queen Elizabeth II - 4 stamps. Designed by Kate Stephens and lithographed by Cartor. Perforated 14.5 x 14. Depicted photographs are by Dorthy Wilding (2nd Class) (1952), Sir Cecil Beaton (1st Class) (1968), Yousuf Karsh (£1.85) (1984) and Tim Graham (£2.55) (1996).
These are pleasing, dignified and respectful stamps celebrating the late Queen Elizabeth. The designs of 4 of the five stamps issued in 2002 to commemorate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee have been reused with the addition of the years of the Queen’s birth and death and a black border. A fifth stamp in the 2002 set depicted a photographic portrait by the late Lord Snowden. Interestingly the stamps do not include a portrait/cameo or royal cipher of the new King Charles III.
Rating:- *****.
🇰🇼 Kuwait Post -
2022 - Diamond jubilee of the establishment of the Kuwait Fund for Economic Development - 1 stamp. Designed by Khaled Zein Al-Abdeen. Printed in lithography in sheets of 20 stamps. Rating:- **.
See Blog 2160.
Australia Post 🇦🇺
13 September 2022
Australian-bred roses (CSO 2134)
Designed by Sonia Young and lithographed by EGO. Perforated 14 x 14.5.
Gummed stamps
1 - 4. 4 x $1.10c - Lorraine Lee, Dusky Moon, Lady of Australia, Governor Marie Bashir
Self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 20 (5 x 4 of each design)
5 - 8. 4 x $1.10c - designs as 1 - 4.
9. Miniature sheet containing 1 of each gummed stamp.
20 September 2022
Rock art of Kimberley (CSO 2134)
Designed by Sonia Young and lithographed by RA Print. Perforated 14.5 x 14.
Gummed stamps
10 - 11 Art from the Wanjina Wunggura Community Kimberley various figures, crocodiles
12 Miniature sheet containing 1 of each stamp
Australia Post issues inscribed Norfolk Island 🇳🇫
13 September 2022
George Raper on Norfolk Island 1790 - 91 (CSO 2134)
Designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by RA Printing. Perforated 14 x 14.5.
1 $1.10c Map of Norfolk Island
2 $2.20c Fish
3 Miniature sheet containing 1 of each stamp
Canada Post 🇨🇦
19 September 2022
Canada Post Community Foundation (CSO 2153)
1 self-adhesive stamp issued in a booklet of 10. Designed by Chad Roberts Design Ltd from a design by Joanne Todd. Lithographed.
1. ‘P’ value with 10c charity surcharge
21 September 2022
50th anniversary of the ‘Summit series’ (ice hockey game between Canada and the Soviet Union)
1 self-adhesive stamp produced in booklets of 10. Designed by Jim Ryce from an illustration by Gary Alphonso. Lithographed by Lowe Martin. (CSO 2162)
2. ‘P’ value. Canadian and Russian ice hockey players.
Cyprus Post 🇨🇾
16 September 2022
The Twelve Gods of Mount Olympus
12 different stamps issued in a sheetlet of 12 (CSO 2154). Printed by Baltijas Banknote Latvia.
1. 34c Zeus
2. 34c Hera
3. 34c Dionysius
4. 34c Athena
5. 34c Ares
6. 34c Demeter
7. 34c Hephaestus
8. 34c Aphrodite
9. 34c Hermes
10. 34c Hestia
11. 34c Poseidon
12. 34c Artemis
16 September 2022
Centenary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe (CSO 2154)
13. €1. Miniature sheet containing a single stamp.
Falklands Post Service Ltd. 🇫🇰
20 September 2022
25th anniversary of the Lighthouse Seafarers Mission (CSO 2142)
Designed by Bee Design from photographs by Penguin News, Jo Summers and Ian France and lithographed by Cartor. Perforated 13.5.
1. 33p Mission building
2. 80p Mission building and anchor
3. £1.10 Dog
4. £1.45 Aerial view of Mission building
India Post 🇮🇳
Personalised stamps sold by India Post ‘My Stamps’
75th anniversary of the PSG College of Science and Arts. (CSO 2162)
P1 Rs5 college entrance (with attached label).
Isle Of Man Post Office 🇮🇲
Footnote
12 September 2022 (CSO 2146)
75th anniversary of the birth of the late David Bowie (British popular musician with no association with the Isle Of Man apart from acting in a film which was filmed in the island), EUROPA (1 stamp (‘Legend’) from the set).
1 sheetlet of 9 different stamps sold for £9.80 (perforated) or £17.50 (imperforate).
1 booklet sold for £19.60 (4 panes) and separate 2 panes each of 4 stamps sold for £9.80.
1 sheetlet of 9 of the EUROPA stamps sold for £9.36.
MaltaPost 🇲🇹
13 September 2022
Local beverages, SEPAC (37c) (CSO 2150)
Designed by Daniel Spiteri and lithographed by Printex.
1. 37c Kinnie
2. 57c local wine
3. €1.40 Bajitra
4. €3 local beer
19 September 2022.
In memory of Queen Elizabeth II. (CSO 2152)
5. €5. Miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by MaltaPost, lithographed by Printex.
Sri Lanka Post 🇱🇰
12 September 2022
Bicentenary of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. (CSO 2155)
Lithographed.
1. Rs50. Gardner Memorial
2. Rs50. Scenic landscape of a pond and a border
3. Rs60. Ribbon border, Christmas cake and tree
4. Rs60. Umbrella tree and National Herbarium
5 - 8 4 x Rs50 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp, one each of the basic stamp designs with extended borders
Part 2 - Former Members of The Commonwealth
An Post (Republic of Ireland) 🇮🇪
8 September 2022
EUROPA, Myths and stories - Balor and his poisonous eye and the Poisoned Glen. (CSO 2147)
Designed by Design HQ from art by Aideen Barry and lithographed by Enschedé. Perforated 13.5 x 13.
1. N (domestic) rate. Balor’s Eye.
2. W (international) rate. The Poison Glen.
Now that the remarkable state funeral of, and the period of mourning for, the late HM Queen Elizabeth II are passed and her reign of more than 70 years steps into history where she herself may become known as Elizabeth The Great, the Elizabethan philatelic era is also ended and the Carolean philatelic age begun.
The Commonwealth, founded in 1949 with just a handful of members - United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and India - has now evolved into a unique international association of 56 countries, some of which were never linked historically to the old British Empire from which The Commonwealth was born.
For many years the veteran stamp dealers, Stanley Gibbons, produced a catalogue, The Elizabethan, which included all the stamps issued by the various countries and territories of The Commonwealth during the reign of Queen Elizabeth as it proceeded down the years. Publication continued until, I think, the 1985 edition by which time, being entirely printed in book form and not available digitally - we were still of course in the pre-digital age - there were so many stamps to include that it was not feasible to feature all of them in an affordable single volume and publication of The Elizabethan ceased.
So let us start the new Carolean philatelic era with a new catalogue of Commonwealth stamps attempting to do what Gibbons’ Elizabethan did in the past - that is - to include in it all the postage stamps issued by the Commonwealth postage stamp entities during the reign of King Charles III which we date from 8 September 2022 when he succeeded to the throne. I will try to produce a list of stamps known to have been issued with a numbering system every couple of weeks or so. There will be some illustrations but many of the stamps will already have been featured in Commonwealth Stamps Opinion and so reference will be made to the edition of CSO in which the stamps were first announced and where they were illustrated to avoid repeating illustrating large numbers of stamps
The issues originating from exploitative philatelic agencies will not be included unless there is good reason to believe that they were sold freely to the particular philatelic entities’ general mail-sending public across ordinary local post office counters. The issues originating from IGPC will generally be mentioned in a footnote only as will those produced and sold by Philatelic Collector Inc. Products released by Stamperija will not be included nor mentioned in footnotes unless there is good reason to believe that they were issued to address postal needs in the countries whose names are printed on them.
Generally now, ‘countries’ do NOT issue stamps - they have them produced and sold on their behalf by governmental departments, private businesses or private philatelic agencies - and therefore it is more appropriate to include the issued stamps in the listing under headings which name the department or business or agency which release them rather than the country name; hence the stamps of Australia appear under the heading Australia Post and those of The United Kingdom under Royal Mail.
These lists will include all present Commonwealth philatelic entities as well as those countries and territories with former, and often continuing, close links with Commonwealth countries, which made an appearance in the former Elizabethan Catalogue.
So let the new Carolean philatelic adventure begin. See Blog 2161.
