2576. 🇸🇬 Singapore Features Stamp Collecting As A Nostalgic Childhood Hobby.

 

New issues -

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

4 October 2024 - Nostalgic childhood hobbies - 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

9 October 2024 - 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

27 September 2024 - Commemoration of Kala Keerthi Pandit Wimal Abeyasundara - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Department of Government Printing, Sri Lanka. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post - 

9 September 2024 - Butterflies of Myanmar, the Blue Pansy - 1 stamp. Designed by Cho San Lin and lithographed by Security Printing Works, Myanmarand perforated 14. Rating:- *****.

2575. 🇮🇪 Ireland Joins The Cryptostamp Craze.

 

New Issues -

🇮🇪 An Post (postal service of the Republic of Ireland) - 

26 September 2024 - ‘Imagine Ireland’, images created by Artificial Intelligence in which “artist Kasia Osmín used AI technology to explore the intersection of traditional and modern lifestyles, envisioning new possibilities for urban and rural settlements ” - 2 self-adhesive stamps sold in booklets of 8 (domestic rate) or 4 (international rate) and 2 booklets sold for €9 each, each containing a single ‘cryptostamp’, one with the domestic rate face value and the other with the international rate. Lithographed by Enschedé. The hilarious description of the product on An Post’s internet site also states, “The generative art used in this project allows for a creative imagining of housing and transport, blending the familiar with the fantastical to suggest new ways of living in harmony with Ireland’s natural resources”.

Rating:- 0.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

1 October 2024 - New £2.80 King Charles III Barcode definitive stamp necessitated by revised international postal rate. Photogravure by Cartor. Perforated 15 x 14.5. The postal rate change will come into effect on 7 October 2024. The stamp’s colour is described somewhat imaginatively as ‘slate blue’. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2024 - My Stamps (personalised stamps usually sold in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels at a premium price - 500Rs for 12 x 5Rs stamps)

2024 - 40th anniversary of the Institutes of Neurosciences, Apollo Hospitals - 1 stamp.

2024 - Centenary of the National Institute of Secondary Agriculture - 1 stamp.

‘PM Vishwarkana - A Year of Progress’, Artisan professions - 6 stamps each issued in its own sheetlet of 12 identical stamps.

2574. 🇲🇹 More Festival Stamps From Malta.

 

New Issues -

🇲🇹 MaltaPost - 

30 September 2024 - Maltese religious festivals, eight series - 1 sheetlet containing 10 different stamps. Designed by Mark Micallef Perconte and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

27 September 2024 - Truth and reconciliation - 3 self-adhesive stamps issued booklets of 6 stamps (2 panes of 3 each containing 1 of each design). Designed by Blair Thomson of Believe In and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ***.

2573. 🇮🇲🇰🇮 Manx Crows And Kiribati Coconuts.

New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

30 September 2024 - ‘Celtic corvids’, species of crow and their names in Manx - 6 stamps. Designed by EJC Design from artwork by Julia Ashby Smyth and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Total price of the set - £11.07. Rating:- *.

🇰🇮 Kiribati postal service -

September 2024 - The coconut industry - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. This issue is currently offered sale on E Bay the Norwegian dealer, Spectre of Stamps. Rating:- ****.