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:- ****.