2492.🇬🇧 Royal Mail Plumbs New Depths And Commemorates A Cartoon Pig.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

16 May 2024 - 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Peppa Pig, a children’s television cartoon programme featuring an anthropomorphic pig - 8 stamps (2 strips each of 4 different stamps - 4 x 1st and 4 x £2 - cost of set - £13.40p, 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps (sold for £6.70) and 2 ‘Fan sheets’ each containing 4 identical stamps & each sold for £7.50p) Designed by Michael O’Shea and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Total cost of these items - £35.10p! Expensive philatelic drivel. Rating:- 0.

2491. 🇨🇾 Cyprus Olympics And EUROPA Stamps.

 

New issues -

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post -

2 May 2024 - Olympic Games to be hosted by Paris - 4 stamps each issued in sheetlets of 8. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2 May 2024 - EUROPA, Underwater flora and fauna - 2 stamps each issued in sheetlets of 8 and 1 booklet contains 8 stamps (4 se-tenant pairs). Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

4 May 2024 - Emergency rescue vehicles - 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

 

2490. 🇨🇦 Canada’s Animals In A Basket.

 

New issues.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

29 April 2024 - Canada Post Community Foundation, charity stamp - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in booklets of 10. A donation of $1 to ‘local and national non-profit groups that assist Canadian children and youth’ is made from the sale of each booklet. Designed by Seing Jai Peak and lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

21 April 2024 - Baghwan Mahaveer 2550th Nirvana Kalyanak - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇰  Sri Lanka Post -

29 April 2024 - 150th Birth anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Sulakshika Rathnayake. Lithographed. 

Commonwealth countries and territories which are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their birth, any postage stamps up to the end of April 2024 - 

Aitutaki Cook Islands 

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas 

Belize 

British Antarctic Territory 

British Indian Ocean Territory 

British Virgin Islands 

Cameroon 

Cayman Islands 

Cocos (Keeling) Islands 

Cook Islands including Rarotonga 

Dominica 

Gabon 

Ghana 

Grenada 

Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique 

Jamaica 

Kenya 

Kingdom of eSwatini

Kiribati 

Lesotho 

Malawi 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Namibia

Nauru 

Nevis

Nigeria 

Niuafo’ou Tonga

Niue

Papua New Guinea 

Penrhyn Cook Islands 

Pitcairn Islands 

Ross Dependency 

Rwanda 

St Helena 

St Kitts

Saint Lucia 

St Vincent and The Grenadines 

Samoa

Seychelles 

Sierra Leone 

Solomon Islands 

The Gambia

Togo

Tokelau 

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago 

Tristan Da Cunha 

Tuvalu 

Uganda 

United Republic of Tanzania 

Vanuatu 

Zambia 

Therefore by the end of April, 55 out of 88 (62.5%) of Commonwealth philatelic entities are not yet known to have issued, or had issued on their behalf, any legitimate postage stamps. This compares with the figure of 56 (63.7%) at the end of March 2024 and with the figure of 38 (43.2 %) at the end of April 2023.

2489. 🇬🇮 Gibraltar Commemorates Churchill’s 150th Birth Anniversary.

 

New issues.

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

25 April 2024 - 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Winston Churchill - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Stephen Perera and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

20 April 2024 - 160th Birth anniversary of Lala Hansraj, educationalist - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

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

25 April 2024 - Centenary of the publication of the final edition of The Freeman’s Journal - 1 self-adhesive stamp printed in sheets of 8. Designed by Zinc Design and lithographed by Enschedé. Rating:- ****.

2488. 🇮🇲 Churchill In Paris - IOM Commemorates The Liberation Of Paris. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

New issues.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

29 April 2024 - 80th anniversary of the liberation of Europe from Nazi occupation - 10 stamps (5 stamps commemorate the D Day Allied landings and 5 stamps commemorate Operation Market Landing including the depiction of Manxmen involved in the operation, cost of set £15.50) and 1 Prestige booklet costing £23.50; 2 panes from the booklet - 1 commemorating D Day and the other Operation Market Garden are also sold separately. Designed by Isle Of Man Advertising and lithographed by bpost and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *.

The £2.31 value of the D Day quintet depicts Sir Winston Churchill in Paris after its liberation by Allied forces. He is shown waving to celebrating crowds alongside the French leader De Gaulle who had fled to England when the Germans occupied France. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Winston Churchill and a number of Commonwealth territories will release stamps to commemorate the significant anniversary.

 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 23 April 2024 - Happy St George’s Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Born on St George’s Day - 

And the important English artist, JMW Turner -

And Prince Louis of Cambridge -