New Issues -
🇮🇲 Isle of Man Post Office -
8 April 2025 - EUROPA, ‘Sea kings’ (medieval Viking rulers of the Isle of Man) - 6 stamps. The £2.26 EUROPA stamp is issued a special sheetlet of 6. Art by Juan Moore and designed by EJC Design and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. I like the stamps and I like the way the IOM Post Office values Manx history in a way that Royal Mail does not but this is another excessive issue released for no obvious reason. Rating:- *.
🇨🇦 Canada Post -
3 March 2025 - Peonies - 2 self-adhesive stamps from coils and 2 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 10:(5 of each stamp) and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing the 2 stamps. Designed by Stéphane Huot and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ***.
This year's Europa theme is 'national archeological discoveries'. Not seeing that on the IoM Europa stamp...
ReplyDeleteThe text on the sheetlet includes the words ‘National Archaeological Discoveries’ so I suppose that is their way of dealing with Europa theme,
ReplyDeleteIt is right that Isle of Man should issue a Europa stamp or even a set.
ReplyDeleteThis is a way to get Europa collectors to buy the most expensive stamp (though it may be the rate to Europe), or even better, a sheetlet.