Stamp programmes for 2024 -
🇬🇧 Royal Mail -
As reported by Ian Billings’ Norvic Philatelic Blog -
11 January - Music Giants (IX), The Spice Girls (see below)
1 February - The weather, 170th anniversary of the Meteorological Office
20 February - The Vikings in Britain
12 March - Dinosaurs
16 April - Centenary of Britain’s first commemorative stamps (released to commemorate the British Empire Exhibition held in 1924)
16 May - Peppa Pig, children’s television cartoon character
6 June - Dogs
20 June - 60th anniversary of the Red Arrows (RAF flight display team)
25 July - Dungeons and Dragons (role playing game)
13 August - The Tower of London
3 September - 50th anniversary of Porridge (BBC television comedy series)
26 September - Spiders
17 October - Music Giants (X) - The Who (veteran popular music group)
5 November - Christmas
30 November - 150th Birth anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill
🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -
February - Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon
February - Birds of prey
April - 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Winston Churchill
April - EUROPA, Underwater fauna and flora
June - SEPAC, main tourist attractions
June - 60th anniversary of the Red Arrows
September - Butterflies of Gibraltar (II)
November - Christmas
New issues.
🇬🇧 Royal Mail -
11 January 2024 - ‘Music Giants IX’, The Spice Girls, a over-hyped British musical group made up of young women which enjoyed an intense, transient popularity in the 1990s - 10 stamps (see Blog 2421) (2 se-tenant strips each of 5 different stamps, total cost £12.50), 1 miniature sheet containing 5 different stamps (£6.25), 1 Prestige booklet sold for £23.70 containing 4 panes, the third being a pane with 4 definitive stamps (one each of 10p, 20p, £1 and £2), I deluxe limited edition Prestige booklet sold for £49.99, 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ (£13.70), 1 ‘Fan sheet - Brit Awards’ (£7), 1 ‘Collectors sheet Miniature sheet’ (£13.70), 1 ‘Spice Girls Gold Stamps set’ (£149.99) and 1 ‘Spice Girls Platinum miniature sheet’ (£199.99).
These products were desIgned by Supple Studio’ and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- 0.
🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -
25 January 2024 - Chinese new year, Year of the Dragon - 6 stamps, 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps (see Blogs 2412 and 2419) and 1 gold miniature sheet (“souvenir sheet gold replica”) sold for £95 in a perspex box & in a limited edition of 100. Rating:- 0.
I often wonder if the perspex boxes in which such items are usually sold are in real terms more valuable than the sheets themselves.
Issue inscribed ‘Alderney’ -
14 February 2024 - Postboxes of Alderney - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Nicky Shales and lithographed. Illustrations awaited.
I used to envy the Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection, but now I suspect that no salary would be sufficient to tempt me to take on the task of adding, cataloguing, etc., the dross issued by Royal Mail.
ReplyDelete(Maybe others are of the same view, and that explains why the role has remained unfilled since 2019?)
WK replying - Who could argue with your comments? There is much repetitive rubbish in the 2024 RM programme. But profit is easily made when little strips of sticky paper are sold for more than £12, especially as they are unlikely to be used to pay for the carriage & delivery (sometimes & then not timely) of mail. Under the present show biz-style management I see little prospect of any change in the foreseeable future.
DeleteI think that few emissions here will interest me this year. The Spice Girls emission was actually pretty. Not that I was a fan, but I know how to appreciate a beautiful broadcast. Anyway, they didn't include American "comics" but they did include two "Music Giants".
ReplyDeleteDungeons and Dragons will at least serve my theme of "Myths and legends", as the dragon is a legendary animal. The Vikings in Britain, The Tower of London and spiders can be interesting, it will depend on the treatment given to the themes.