New issues -
🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -
Issues inscribed ‘Alderney’ -
5 September 2023 - Coronation of King Charles III - 6 stamps, 1 ‘Prestige booklet’ costing £31.60p and 1 ‘limited edition’ self-adhesive booklet pane costing £16.32p. Designed by Andrew Robinson and printed in lithography. Rating:- *****.
The ‘Local Large’ rate features the moment the present Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, places the Imperial State Crown on the King’s head and this therefore adds another Archbishop of Canterbury to the list of those primates depicted on postage stamps (see Blog 333, ‘Turbulent Priests’.
🇶🇦 Qatar Post -
25 June 2023 - 10th anniversary of the accession of Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani - revision of information given in Blog 2333. This issue seems to be made up of 2 miniature sheets each containing 3 different stamps (5000 sets produced) and 1 x ‘24 carat golden’ stamp (in an edition of 1000) plus 1 x pure gold’ stamps (edition of 3000. Rating:- ***.
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