2297. 🇬🇬 Guernsey Commemorates Island Games.

 

New issues.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

24 May 2023 - Guernsey’s hosting of the Island Games 2023 - 7 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Two Degrees North and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14 x 15 and miniature sheet perforated 14. Rating:- ****.

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🇹🇷 Postal service of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus  -

3 May 2023 - EUROPA, Peace, the highest human value - 2 stamps. Designed by L. Bos and R. Egilsdottir and printed in separate sheetlet each containing 8 identical stamps by Devlet Basimevi. Rating:- ***.

Commonwealth countries and territories whose postal services are not known to have, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps so far in 2023 - 

Anguilla 

Barbados 

Belize 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

Brunei Darussalam 

Cameroon

Dominica 

eSwatini

Gabon,

Jamaica

Kenya

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Nauru

Nevis

Nigeria 

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Rwanda 

St Helena

St Kitts

Saint Lucia 

Samoa

Seychelles 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

Togo

Tokelau 

Trinidad And Tobago 

Turks And Caicos Islands 

Uganda 

United Republic Of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia.

By the end of April therefore, 38 out of 88 (43.2%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities remained on the list.  This compares with the figure of 56.3% at the same stage of the year in 2022.

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