2420. 🇮🇳🇴🇲 India-Oman Joint Issue; Unknown Mozambique Stamp Discovered.

 

New issues.

🇮🇳 India Post -

15 December 2023 - Joint issue with Oman, State visit of the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tarik to India, designs feature folk dances of the two countries - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Rating:- *****.

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

15 December 2023 - Joint issue with India, State Visit of Sultan Haitham to India, folk dancing - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

Photographs of the original artwork and a presentation of the stamp in sheetlet, miniature sheet and on first day cover between the Sultan and the President of India, Draupadi Murmu are also included below.

🇲🇿 Correios de Moçambique -

September (?) 2019 - Visit of Pope Francis to Mozambique in September 2019 - 1 stamp. Stewie1980, to whom thanks, has kindly drawn my attention to a posting dated 17 December 2023 on Stampboards by Aerogi in which attention is drawn to a previously unreported issue by Correios de Moçambique which commemorated the papal visit to Mozambique. This is the first known sighting of this stamp and is clearly a local production available for local use unlike the flood of items being produced in the country’s name at that time by the notorious ‘philatelic agency’, Stamperija. Rating:- ******.

It seems highly likely that there are still more of these as yet unreported stamps from Mozambique and news of fresh discoveries is always welcome.