2540. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Bee Stamps.

 

New issues -

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

announced 31 July 2024 - Australian gold medal winners at the Olympic Games in Paris. All issued in sheetlets of 10 and designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by RA Print and perforated 13. Rating:- ***.

Stamp no. 5 - Mollie O’Callaghan, Swimming women’s 200 metre freestyle - 1 stamp - 

Stamp no. 6 - Kayley McKeown, Swimming women’s 100 metres backstroke - 1 stamp -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

12 April 2024 - 150th anniversary of the British Beekeepers Association, ‘Life of bees’ - 6 stamps and 1 self-adhesive miniature sheet.

In Blog 2534 I mentioned the new sheetlet which Isle Of Man Post Office issued on 23 July 2024 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Peel Engineering and noted the inclusion of a couple of stamps in the sheetlet which in publicity are described as postage paid labels and which do not have the royal cypher nor royal cameo printed on them. I commented that these appeared to be the first IOM postage stamps not to bear a symbol of royal approval on them but a comment posted at the end of the Blog by an anonymous commentator (to whom thanks) pointed out that the Bees set issued on 12 April 2024 had also included stamps without the royal cypher/cameo. The basic set of 6 gummed stamps do not have the royal cypher printed on them which was in error. However, the 12 stamp self-adhesive miniature sheet which is being sold for £20 includes 10 stamps from the basic set (2 x 4 and 1 each of the other 2) plus 2 other stamps with the inscription’Postage Paid’ in the spot where the royal cypher should be sited.

Hence we have 12 different stamps - the basic set of 6 (gummed) without royal cypher and the stamps from the miniature sheet (all self-adhesive) - the 6 basic stamps (with royal cypher) and the 2 ‘Postage Paid’ stamps without royal cypher.

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 July.

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 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Nauru 

Nigeria 

Niuafo’ou Tonga

Niue

Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Pitcairn Islands 

Ross Dependency 

Rwanda 

St Helena 

Saint Lucia 

Samoa

Solomon Islands 

The Gambia 

Tokelau 

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore, by the end of July, 43 out of 88 (48.9%) 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 45 (51.1%) at the end of June 2024 and the figure of 33 (35.7%) at the end of July 2023.

2539. 🇦🇺 Olympics Day 1 - Australia Gold Medals - First Stamps.

 

New issues.

🇦🇺 Australia Post - 

29 July 2024 - Australian gold medal winners at the Olympic Games in Paris (1), Grace Brown, Ariarne Titmus, Team Australia - 3 stamps ($1.50) each issued in sheetlets of 10. Designed by Jo Muré & lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 13. Rating:- ***.

Grace Brown (Cycling, women’s road time trial) -

Ariarne Titmus (Swimming, Women’s 400 metre freestyle) -

Team Australia - Mollie O’Callaghan, Emma McKeon, Shauna Jack and Meg Harris (Swimming, women’s 4 x 100 metre freestyle) - 

Day 2 - 

Jessica Fox (Kayak slalom, women’s kayak single) - 

🇮🇳 India Post -

24 July 2024 - Commemoration of Wazir Mohd Hakla Poonchi - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

26 July 2024 - 25th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation, IGPC, (USA-based company with contracts to produce philatelic products on behalf of  a number of Commonwealth postal administrations) - 

🇻🇨 Products inscribed St Vincent and The Grenadines (illustrations awaited) - 

5 April 2024 - Reptiles - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

5 April 2024 - Caribbean fish - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

5 April 2024 - 75th anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi, Indian politician - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

5 April 2024 - Crocodiles - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:-0.

5 April 2024 - Flowers - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

5 April 2024 - Monkeys - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 8 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

5 April 2024 - Coronation of Charles III, King of St Vincent and The Grenadines - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- **.

5 April 2024 - Birds of the world and Parrots - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

5 April 2024 - Insects of the Caribbean area - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0

2538. 🇨🇦 🇸🇬 Canada Commemorates Film Director Norman Jewison; Singapore’s 59th National Day.

 

New issues -

24 July 2024 - Commemoration of the late Norman Jewison (1926-2024), film director - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 6. Designed by Russell Gibb of Russell Gibbs Design and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

1 August 2024 - 59th National Day celebrations, “Together as one united people”- 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 stamps. Designed by Lim An-ling and lithographed by Secura and perforated 13. Rating:- *****.

2537. 🇯🇪 🇳🇿 Jersey Commemorates Debussy’s Visit; New Zealand’s Olympic Mascot.

 

New issues.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

25 July 2024 - 120th anniversary of Claud Dubussy’s (French music composer) visit to Jersey - 6 stamps (total cost £9.31) and 2 miniature sheets, one containing a single stamp and the other all six stamps costing £5 and £9.31 respectively - cost of all items £23.62p. Designed from illustrations by Will Bertram and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- *.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

26 July - Goldie, the New Zealand teams’s mascot at the Olympic Games hosted by Paris - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps sold for NZ$19.90. Designed by Wayne Rattray and Nick Jarvie and digitally printed by Collectables, New Zealand Post, Whanganui and perforated 14.5. Rating:- *.

2536. 🇲🇹🇵🇰 Malta Commemorates Olympic Games; Pakistan Commemorates Open University.

 

New issues.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

26 July 2024 - Malta’s participation in the Olympic Games, Paris - 3 stamps. Designed by MaltaPostplc and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- **.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

23 July 2024 - Golden jubilee of Allama Iqbal Open University - a block of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

24 July 2024 - Birth centenary of Mukesh (singer) - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing the same stamp. Designed by Sankha Samanta. Lithographed. Rating:- **.

My Stamps (personalised stamps usually issued in sheets of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium’ - 

2024 - Raigad Fort - 1 stamp.

2024 - 75th anniversary of Madras Institute of Technology - 1 stamp.

2024 - Sindhudurg Fort - 1 stamp.

2024 - Bhakti Shakti - 1 stamp.

2024 - Rajmudra - 1 stamp.