2601. 🇧🇹 Bhutan And Its Dogs.

 New Issues -

🇧🇹 Bhutan Post -

23 June 2024 - Completion of the Nationwide Accelerated Dog Population Management and Rabies Control Programme - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Bhutan has long had a large population of free roaming dogs which have not been interefered with because of the devout Buddhist beliefs of the population. They make a remarkable sight in the streets of the capital Thimphu. Rating:- *****.

🇧🇭 Bahrain Post -

16 October 2024 - Centenary of the first municipal council elections in Bahrain - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

28 October 2024 - ‘Farmerettes and Soldiers of the Soil - 2 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets of 10 (5 of each stamp) and gummed in sheetlets of 6 (3 of each stamp). Designed by Ivan Novotny Design Inc and lithographed by Lowe Martin.

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation -

🇦🇬 Products inscribed Antigua And Barbuda -

22 August 2024 - World aviation - Switzerland. One sheetlet containing 18 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- 0.

22 August 2024 - World aviation history, 60th anniversary of Patrouille Suisse - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- 0.

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps thisyear up until the end of October.

Anguilla 

Bahamas 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Cook Islands Aitutaki 

Cook Islands Penrhyn 

Gabon

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Kenya

Lesotho 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Mozambique 

Nauru 

Niue

Rwanda 

Samoa

Solomon Islands 

The Gambia

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou 

Trinidad And Tobago 

Tuvalu

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Therefore, by the end of October, 31 (34.8%) of the 89 Commonwealth philatelic entities are not known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps in 2024. This compares with the figure of 34 at the end of September 2024 (39.2%) and the figure of 27 out of 88 (30.7%) at the end of October 2023.