2340. 🇸🇬 Singapore’s Horoscope Issue - Part Two.

 

New issues.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

21 July 2023 - Horosopes, second issue - 4 stamps. Designed by An ling and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 13 x 14. Rating:- ***.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

7 July 2023 - 19th International Island Games hosted by Guernsey, Post and Go - 12 Guernsey flag stamps dispensed by kiosks GG02 and GG05 (Market Street post office) - 2 strips of 6 stamps on sale from 7-14 July with additional inscription ‘Guernsey Island/Games July 2023’.

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

4 July 2023 - EUROPA, Post and Go, (see Blog 2338) - 12 stamps, design used for 2023 ‘Peace, the highest value of humanity’. The stamps dispensed from machine GI05 as well as GI04 are now depicted below - 

🇮🇳 India Post -

4 July 2023 - Commemoration of Sardar Antaji Mankeshwar Gandhe (1695-1761) - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

🇦🇪 Emirates Post (postal service of United Arab Emirates) -

6 July 2023 - Al Zoraida City Nature Reserve, Ajman - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:- ****. Reported by Kenneth Sequeira on Stampboards. 

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

18 June 2023 - Joint issue, 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Qatar and Georgia - 1 stamp. A similar stamp was also released by the postal service of Georgia. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇭 Bahrain Post -

16 December 2022 - National Day, Bahrain National Action Charter monument - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- ****.

1989. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates Commemorates 50 Years Of Independence.

 

🇦🇪 The postal service of The United Arab Emirates, Emirates Post, issued a se-tenant pair of 1 AED face value stamps  (=2 x 21p in pounds Sterling) and 8 miniature sheets each with a face value of 7 AED (=£1.44p) on 2 December 2021 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the granting of independence by The United Kingdom, after the expiration of the treaty between the various parties, to the seven Gulf emirates which had previously been known as The Trucial States over which it had held protectorates and the combination of six of the territories (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain) to form The United Arab Emirates (Ras al-Khaimah joined on 10 January 1972). United Arab Emirates (UAE) was admitted to membership of The United Nations on 9 December 1971 but, like Britain’s other Gulf state former protectorates (Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar), it did not seek membership of The Commonwealth.

  The miniature sheets show all the rulers of each emirate together with individual portraits of each ruler on a miniature sheet of their own. The total face value of the issue is AED58 (=£11.92p).

   If all that were not enough, rather alarmingly Emirates Post also released another issue to commemorate its golden jubilee in the form of 4 stamp cards which are physical postage stamps which have a “digital twin that can be collected in a digital crypto wallet”. Emirates Post also states that the highest value (AED 2021 face value = £415.81p which, without looking back on old blogs, makes it, I think, the postage stamp with the highest ever face value) depicts the “UAE desert landscape and invokes the journey of the founding fathers, starting from meetings in the desert to forming the country of the future”. The publicity for the issue goes on to say, “The stamp contains a one gram gold bar minted with the “Spirit of the Union” Year of the 50th logo”. 

  The publicity also tells us that “the NFT stamp card is a high quality credit card-sized plastic card comprised of 5 PVC layers and the gold bar is laminated into the card itself. The golden NFT stamp pack also includes a physical stamp of the same design without the gold bar. There are 2021 NFT stamps issued in this design”. By which I presume it means the other three ‘stamps’ in the set which all have a face value of AED250 (=£51.44p) - one depicts the ‘Spirit of the Union’ logo, the second depicts the ‘Year of the 50th’ logo and the third depicts the ‘Projects of the 50’ in the form of a space theme. The set therefore has a total face value of £570.13p. Probably not something for my collection then, I should think.

  🇧🇲 Depicted below are the two previously reported stamps (see Blog 1969) from the postal service of Bermuda issued on 18 October 2021 which commemorate Bermuda’s first Olympic Games gold medallist,  Flora Duffy.