New issues.
🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -
5 July 2023 - EUROPA, 50th anniversary of the Isle Of Man Post z office - 7 stamps. Designed by ELC Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14 x 13. The EUROPA stamp is produced in sheetlets of 6.Rating:- *****.
🇯🇪 Jersey Post -
6 July 2023 - 150th anniversary of the Société Jersiaise- see Blog 2310 - the basic set will be accompanied by a single miniature sheet containing all 8 stamps. Designed by Kevin Pallot & lithographed by Cartor.
New issues.
🇬🇧 Royal Mail -
13 July 2023 - River wildlife - 10 stamps and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 10 different stamps with attached labels and costing £10.45. Lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. See Blog 2326 - this report now includes better quality illustrations and additional information. Rating:- ****.
🇨🇦 Canada Post -
28 June 2023 - Commemoration of Denys Arnand, cinema screenwriter and director - 1 self-adhesive stamp from booklets of 6. Designed by Paprika using a photograph by Bertrand Carrière. Lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ***.
New issues.
🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -
5 September 2023 - £10 Definitive, King Charles III - 1 stamp. Further details awaited. Rating:- ****. I like the slightly rakish angle of the crown on the King’s head. Expensive but historic.
19 July 2023 - ‘Quartets’, the Little Chapel part 3 - 1 stamp. Further details awaited. Rating:- ***.
Tweets reporting Post and Go issues with additional one day only inscriptions commemorating visiting cruise ships.
22 June 2023 - Visit of Azmara Princess -
26 June 2023 - Return visit of Regal Princess -
28 June 2023 - Visit of Aurora -
🇰🇼 Kuwait Post -
26 February 2023 - 32nd anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation, Martyrs of Kuwait - 5 sheets each containing 20 different stamps making a total of 100 stamps. Rating:- ***.
Commonwealth countries and territories whose postal services are not known to have issued or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps -
Anguilla
Belize
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei Darussalam
Cameroon
Dominica
eSwatini
Gabon
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Maldives
Montserrat
Nauru
Nevis
Nigeria
Niue
Penrhyn Cook Islands
Rwanda
St Kitts
Saint Lucia
Samoa
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Tokelau
Trinidad And Tobago
Turks And Caicos Islands
Uganda
United Republic Of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Zambia
By the end of June therefore 33 out of 88 (37.5%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities had not yet issued, or were not yet known to have issued, or were not known to have had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2023. This compares with 43.8% at the end of June 2022.
New issues.
🇸🇬 Singapore Post -
30 June 2023 - National monuments - 5 stamps. Designed by Sonny Lee and lithographed by Secura and perforated 13.Rating:- *****.
🇶🇦 Qatar Post -
25 June 2023 - Tenth anniversary of the succession of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad as Emir of Qatar - 4 stamps. Rating:- ****.
