2490. 🇨🇦 Canada’s Animals In A Basket.

 

New issues.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

29 April 2024 - Canada Post Community Foundation, charity stamp - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in booklets of 10. A donation of $1 to ‘local and national non-profit groups that assist Canadian children and youth’ is made from the sale of each booklet. Designed by Seing Jai Peak and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

21 April 2024 - Baghwan Mahaveer 2550th Nirvana Kalyanak - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇰  Sri Lanka Post -

29 April 2024 - 150th Birth anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Sulakshika Rathnayake. Lithographed. 

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their birth, any postage stamps up to the end of April 2024 - 

Aitutaki Cook Islands 

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon 

Cayman Islands 

Cocos (Keeling) Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Ghana 

Grenada 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Jamaica 

Kenya 

Kingdom of eSwatini

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Namibia

Nauru 

Nevis

Nigeria 

Niuafo’ou Tonga

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Pitcairn Islands 

Ross Dependency 

Rwanda 

St Helena 

St Kitts

Saint Lucia 

St Vincent and The Grenadines 

Samoa

Seychelles 

Sierra Leone 

Solomon Islands 

The Gambia

Togo

Tokelau 

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago 

Tristan Da Cunha 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore by the end of April, 55 out of 88 (62.5%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps. This compares with the figure of 56 (63.7%) at the end of March 2024 and with the figure of 38 (43.2 %) at the end of April 2023.