2523. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Commemorates Buddhist Youth Meeting.

 

New issues - 

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

22 June 2024 - 20th General Conference of World Buddhist Sangha Youth - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***

30 June 2024 - Commemoration of the Most Venerable Gangodawila Soma Thero - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:-***.

🇵🇬 Post PNG (postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

The Post PNG internet site lists 7 new issues said to have been released during 2023 and 14 new issues  planned for release during 2014. Although details of the issues are given no illustrations of the various stamps, miniature sheets and sheetlets are published. In previous years the Post PNG internet site has listed stamps which subsequent to their appearance on the site were never actually issued or if they were then they often appeared at a much later date. There is little reason to believe therefore that all the featured 2023 and 2024 issues were released on the stated dates of issue or have so far been issued at all. One issue featured on the 2023 page but probably, according to a Facebook posting, issued in January 2024, was featured in Blog 2522.

The Pacific area expert and stamp dealer Steven Zirinsky has recently put on sale on his shop internet site some covers bearing one stamp from some of the other sets mentioned but not illustrated, on the Post PNG  internet site. I therefore now mention the sets and stated date of issue (according to the Post PNG site) as these issues have clearly been released. Mr Zirinsky’s covers are all dated 17 May 2024 though there is no mention of that being the date of issue.

  Stated date of issues - 28 July 2023 - Canoe splashboards - 4 stamps (1.60, 3.00, 5.00 and 6.90), 1 sheetlet costing 20.00 and 1 miniature sheet costing 20.00). Designed by Banian Masiboda and lithographed. 

Illustration from Mr Zirinsky’s shop internet site -

Stated date of issue 28 July 2023 - Traditional war shields - 4 stamps (1.60, 3.00, 5.00 and 6.90), Designed by Banian Masiboda and lithographed.

Illustration from Mr Zirinsky’s shop internet site -

Original stated date of issue - November 2022 - Freshwater fish - no further details.

Illustration from Mr Zirinsky’s internet shop site - 

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not yet known to have issued or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps this year up until the end of June,

Aitutaki Cook Islands

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda 

Bahamas 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon 

Cayman Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga

Dominica 

Gabon

Grenada 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Jamaica 

Kenya 

Kingdom of eSwatini

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Nauru

Nigeria 

Niaufo’ou Tonga

Niue 

Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Pitcairn Islands 

Ross Dependency 

Rwanda 

St Helena 

Saint Lucia 

St Vincent and The Grenadines 

Samoa 

Solomon Islands 

The Gambia

Tokelau 

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, by the end of June, 45 out of 88 (51.1%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps in 2024. This compares with the figure of 49 (55.7%) at the end of May 2024 and the figure of 33 (37.5%) at the end of June 2023.

2522. 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea Celebrates Japanese Cooperation In Redeveloping Airport.

New issues -

🇵🇬 PNG Post (postal service of Papua New Guinea) -

2 October 2023 - Nadzab Tamadachi International Airport - 4 stamps, 1 sheetlet containing 4 stamps and 2 miniature sheets, one containing 2 stamps and the other a single stamp. Designed by Yang Hu’eng Yansom and lithographed. Gene (DJCMH) of  Colnect has kindly supplied the above illustration of a used example of one of these values which he was contacted about by a Colnect user. Thanks to Gene and the Colnect user for the illustration which confirms that at least one of these stamps has been put on sale.

  Thanks to this information I have been able to track down a posting on the Facebook page of JICA Papua New Guinea (JICA stands for Japan International Co-operation Agency) which provides illustrations of all the items included in the issue. The accompanying text describes 29 January 2024 as the date of launching of this issue which means that the date given on the PNG Post internet site may be incorrect and that this is a 2024 rather than a 2023 new issue. This may be an issue sponsored by the Japanese government via JICA and donated to PNG Post. The total face value is currently equal to £11.51p.

Rating:- ***.

2521. 🇳🇿 New Zealand To Issue Postcrossing Stamp.

 

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post - 

7 August 2024 - Postcrossing - 1 gummed stamp from sheets of sheets of 20. A maximum card is also being sold with the issue. Designed by Sumin Ha and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 15. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

26 June 2024 -Centenary of the Causeway, linking Malaysia to Singapore - 4 stamps printed in sheets of 20 as 5 se-tenant strips of 4. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇧🇲 Bermuda postal service -

26 June 2024 - Commemoration of Mary Prince, former slave who wrote “The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself”, published 1831 - 4 stamps. Lithographed.Rating:- *****.

2520. 🇸🇭 Tristan Lifeboat Issue.

 

New issues -

🇸🇭 Tristan Da Cunha postal service - 

Bicentenary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution - 2 issues each of 4 stamps and both issued on -

1 July 2024 - Part 1 - Lifeboats and Part 2 - Tristan rescue boats. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Rating:- ******.

Thanks for information about this issue to Maxine Cannon of Isle Of Man Post Office Stamps and Coins.

Part 2 -

🇹🇷 Postal Service of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -

24 June 2024 - European Football Championships - 2 stamps and Olympic Games, Paris - 2 stamps issued as a vertical se-tenant pair. Designed by GK Sönmezer and printed by Denker Basimevi. Rating:- **.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

Charlies (definitive stamps depicting King Charles III) - 2024 codes issued so far -

The following have appeared so far -

1. Stamps produced in sheets for sale at post office counters - 

2nd  M24L MAIL

1st  M24L MAIL

£2.50  M24L MAIL (new value)

2. Stamps from booklets -

2nd Class from booklets of 8   M24L MEIL

3. Stamps from Prestige booklets -

£2 from Red Arrows booklet   M24L MPIL

4. Stamps from Business sheets -

2nd Class   M24L MBIL

5. Other items - 

Charlies imprinted on pre-paid envelopes (postage paid impressions - PPIs) -

As can be seen from these two examples I received recently the shades of the ‘Holly green’ of these items appear to vary quite markedly. 

2519. 🇨🇦 Canada Commemorates Métis Artist.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

21 June 2024 - Indigenous leaders, Christi Belcourt, Métis artist and environmentalist - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 6 and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing 1 each of the 3 2024 Indigenous leaders stamps. Designed by Andrew Perro from an illustration by Christi Belcourt. Lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- *****.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

20 June 2024 - Endemic butterflies of Myanmar (5th issue), the Common Rose - 1 stamp. Designed by Cho San Lin and lithographed by Security Printing Works and perforated 14. Rating:- *****.

 

🇱🇹 Stamperija (Private company located in Lithuania selling and producing philatelic products stated to be under contract with certain African postal authorities or governments).

2024 - “The first Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie enters public domain” (in other words, Stamperija seizes the first moment possible to produce and sell items depicting Disney characters without having to pay a licence fee). While not usually publicising the range of exploitative products emanating from the notorious Stamperija, these items are noted here to illustrate just how those who run Stamperija have an eye to the main chance and will exploit every single opportunity that arises to screw money out of hapless stamp collectors. As usual, caveat emptor.  Rating:- 0.

Apart from the names of the two Commonwealth countries illustrated below, products on the same subject have been put on the market with the names of Djibouti, Liberia, Central African Republic, Guinea Bissau and Guinea printed on them. All issued in perforated and imperforate versions.

🇸🇱 Items with the name Sierra Leone printed on them -

🇹🇬 Items with the name Togo printed on them -