Saturday, 30 November 2024

2621 . 🇴🇲🇶🇦🇯🇴 Support For Palestine Stamps From Oman, Qatar And Jordan.



New issues - 

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

29 November 2024 - ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people’, joint issue with other Arab postal administrations  - 1 stamp issued in sheetlets of 8 and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.




🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

28 November 2024 - ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’ - 1 stamp. Lithographed, probably in a miniature sheet of 4 identical stamps. Rating:- ***.



  A similar stamp has also been issued by the postal service of Jordan (the British Protectorate of Transjordan from 11 April 1921 to 17 June 1946) - 



  Other Arab postal administrations with no links to the Commonwealth or the former British Empire including Morocco, Algeria, Syria and Tunisia have also participated in this omnibus issue.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

6 January 2025 - Chinese new year - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 6 stamps. Finally, and what a relief, this tiresome 12 year series of generally unattractive and expensive stamps comes to an end with the issue commemorating the Year of the Snake. The theme has no real significance to Guernsey and I hope that Guernsey Post will not consider starting a fresh sequence of Chinese new year stamps. More details and more illustrations to follow. Rating:- 0.



🇮🇳 India Post

 2024 - My Stamp (Personalised stamp sold directly by India Post), First Foundation Day of IIM (Indian Institute of Management) Mumbai. Issued in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium) 1 stamp.




🇬🇧 British Overseas Territories -

An organisation called the Friends of the British Overseas Territories, otherwise known as FOTBOT, regularly reports news about what is happening in the remaining British territories overseas and such information may give pointers to upcoming stamp issues. A recent list of upcoming events and anniversaries in the various territories pinpoints a significant anniversary of a significant event - the 250th anniversary of the British claim by Captain James Cook in the name of King George III on the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean (he named it the ‘Island of Georgia’ after the king). I expect that the postal administration of South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands will not want to overlook the anniversary as an opportunity to release stamps to commemorate the anniversary as well as to emphasise British sovereignty over the islands.


South Georgia 1975 issue commemorating the Bicentenary of the possession of South Georgia -





King George III was depicted on a Royal Mail stamp issued in 2011 - 



🇱🇹 Stamperija (Exploitative Lithuania-based producer and purveyor of philatelic items holding contracts with various impoverished (or otherwise) African countries including Sierra Leone and Togo allowing it to release products with the names of those countries printed on them. It is highly unlikely that any such products are sold across post office counters in most or all of those countries or even arrive in those countries. Although the products often have high face values they are of no real value. These products are no better than ‘Fantasy labels’. Caveat emptor) - 

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

Stated date of issue (as shown by the cancellation of ‘first day covers’ clearly not manufactured and ‘postmarked’ in Sierra Leone). All items, of course, rated 0.

5 November 2024 (the date of the USA Presidential election, clearly it is impossible that these products were produced in Lithuania and released in Sierra Leone on that date) - Election of Donald Trump as President of the United States - 2 sheetlets each containing 8 different ‘stamps’ and one single ‘stamp’ miniature sheet previously issued in 2016 but reissued with overprint applied -







2024 - 75th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, China 2024 Asian International Stamp Exhibition - 3 miniature sheets, one containing 3 different ‘stamps’, the second containing a single ‘stamp’ and the third (described rather unfortunately as ‘Siamese’) containing 6 different ‘stamps’ - 3 inscribed ‘Sierra Leone’ and the others inscribed ‘Liberia’.





Commonwealth countries and territories which are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2024 up until the end of November -

Anguilla 

Bahamas 

Belize 

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 

Tokelau 

Tonga

Tonga Niuafo’ou

Trinidad And Tobago 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic Of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Therefore, by the end of November, 29 (32.6%) out of the 89 Commonwealth philatelic entities are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps during 2024. This contrasts with the figure of 31 (34.8%) at the end of October 2024 and the figure of 27 out of 88 (30.7%) at the end of November 2023. As the end of the year approaches there is very little evidence of a major dropping off of issuing at least one set of stamps of year by the Commonwealth group of countries although it is true the number of issues from some of them is very sparse.

Friday, 29 November 2024

2622. 🇬🇧 New definitives, Operation Tabarin And Sledge Dogs from British Antarctic Territory.



New issues -

🇬🇧 Postal service of British Antarctic Territory -

10 December 2024 - Definitives, Local seals and whales - 12stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.










15-20 December (date to be confirmed) - 80th anniversary of Operation Tabarin - 6 stamps. Designed by Bee Design from photographs of the British Antarctic Survey and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.





15-20 December 2024 - Sledge dogs - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design from photographs of the British Antarctic Survey and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- ******.





Production of all of the above issues was coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Isle Of Man Stamps and Coins for information about the above issues.

Wednesday, 27 November 2024

2620. 🇴🇲 Oman Commemorates 54th National Day.

 

New issues - 

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

28 October 2024 - 50th anniversary of the Air Force Specialised Training Centre - 1 stamp produced in sheets of 8 and 1 aircraft-shaped miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.







18 November 2024 - 54th National Day, portrait of Sultan Haitham bin Tarik - 1 miniature sheet. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.


🇮🇳 India Post -

25 November 2024 - International Year of Cooperatives - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.


26 November 2024 - 75th anniversary of the introduction of the Constitution of the Republic of India - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.



🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

2025 - Collectors of Royal Mail stamps will take note that a preorder placed with a payment of a remarkable £249.15p will secure the stamps and miniature sheets to be released by Royal Mail during 2025. Orders should be placed by 14 January 2025 which, one assumes, will be the date of issue of the first Royal Mail products of 2025. A large sum of money, methinks. 




Monday, 25 November 2024

2619. 🇿🇲 New Zambian Surcharge.

 

New issues -


🇿🇲 Zambia Postal Services Corporation -

2024 - Provisional surcharge, K10 surcharge on K2250 ‘Sister Moon’ stamp - 1 stamp. No other information is available about this item.




🇮🇳 India Post -

2024 - 55th International Film Festival of India, ‘Celebrating the birth centenaries of Cine Legends’, My Post - 4 different stamps (vertically se-tenant strips of 4), issued in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels and sold at a premium.




🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

4 December 2024 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake, gold miniature sheets. Designed by YMC Design of Wellington - 3 types of miniature sheet, each containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

Gold foiled miniature sheet sold in a Perspex frame costing NZ$188 and a limited ediyion framed and numbered version is being sold for NZ588.









Gold foiled miniature sheet with coloured stamps sold in a perspex frame for NZ$288. Limited edition numbered versions of the items are sold for NZ$1888!