2389. 🇰🇼 Kuwait Commemorates Centenary Of Its First Stamp.

 

New issues.

🇰🇼 Kuwait Post -

October 2023 - Centenary of the first stamp to be issued with the name of Kuwait printed on it - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Perforated 14 Rating:- *****.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

22 October 2023 - National Meelad Un Nabi - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

27 October 2023 - 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with France - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Further details and illustrations awaited.

🇮🇳 India Post - 

21 October 2023 - 125th anniversary of the Scindia School (see Blog 2286).This single stamp issue was accompanied by a miniature sheet containing a single stamp.

27 October 2023 - Commemoration of Arvind N Mafatial, industrialist and philanthropist - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

2023 - My Post stamps, personalised stamps usually issued in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium.

2023 - Indian railways, 135th anniversary of the South eastern railway - 1 stamp with attached label.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

30 October 2023 - Commemoration of Willie O’Ree, the first black (ice) hockey player in the National Hockey League - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in booklets of 6. Designed by Underline from an illustration by Mike McQuade and lithographed. Rating:- ***.

Commonwealth countries and territories whose postal administrations are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2023 up until the end of October.

Anguilla

Belize 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

Brunei Darussalam 

Cameroon 

Dominica 

eSwatini

Gabon

Kenya

Malawi 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Nauru

Nevis

Niue

Rwanda

St Kitts 

Saint Lucia 

Samoa 

Seychelles 

Solomon Islands 

South Africa 

Tokelau 

Trinidad And Tobago 

Turks And Caicos Islands 

Vanuatu 

Zambia

Therefore at the end of October, 27 Commonwealth philatelic entities are not yet known to have issued, or have had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2023. This represents 30.7% of the existing philatelic entities (down from 31.8% at the end of September 2023) and compares with the figure of 24.7% at the end of October 2022. However there are still a number of issues from some countries about which we may not yet be aware such as the proposed Eastern Caribbean Bank 40th anniversary minibus in which St Kitts, Nevis, Saint Lucia and Montserrat may have participated; the PAPU Tower African omnibus - may Kenya have participated in that joint issue? - and issues from British Overseas territories including Anguilla, Turks And Caicos Islands and Montserrat linked to the succession of King Charles III.