2147. 🇮🇪 An Post EUROPA Issue Depicts Poisonous Giant Eye.

 

New issues.

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

8 September 2022 - EUROPA, Myths and stories, the legend of Balor and his poisonous eye and the Poison Glen - 2 stamps. Designed by Design HQ from illustrations by Aideen Barry and lithographed by Enschedé and perforated 13.5 x 14. Rating:- ***.

🇺🇸 IGPC (NewYork-based philatelic agency contracted by some Commonwealth postal services to produce and release stamps on their behalf) - 

🇬🇲 The Gambia - 

29 August 2022 - ‘Elvis Presley 45th anniversary tribute’ - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing a single stamp and the other 5 stamps. Rating:- 0.

5 September 2022 - ‘Giraffes of the world’ - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

🇬🇩 Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique  - 

29 August 2022 - Hermit crabs - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

29 August 2022 - Orcas - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

🇬🇾 Guyana - 

29 August 2022 - ‘Elvis Presley 45th anniversary tribute’ - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing a single stamp and the other 5 stamps. Rating:- 0.

29 August 2022 - 10th anniversary of the death of Neil Armstrong, American astronaut - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0. 

🇻🇨 St Vincent And The Grenadines -

29 August 2022 - ‘Elvis Presley 45th anniversary tribute’ - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

🇹🇨 Turks And Caicos Islands - 

15 August 2022 - Definitives - 2 stamps, depicting the marlin and the mutton snapper. Rating:- *****. 

🇹🇻 Tuvalu -

5 September 2022 - ‘Elvis Presley 45th anniversary tribute’ - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

5 September 2022 - Commemoration of Muhammad Ali, former American  boxer - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

5 September 2022 - 10th death anniversary of Neil Armstrong, American astronaut - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 stamps and the other a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

12 September 2022 - SEPAC, Local beverages - 4 stamps Designed by Daniel Spitari and lithographed by Printex. Rating:- ***.

Illustrations awaited.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

10 September 2022 - Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup, 7th issue - the competing teams - 4 sheetlets each containing 8 different stamps making a total of 32 different stamps. Rating:- ***.

2118. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Garish Designs Commemorate Commonwealth Games.

 

New issues

  Royal Mail -

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 28 July 2022 - After the ‘Pride’ set of products, for the second consecutive time Royal Mail will release a set of stamps with unpleasantly garish designs, this time to commemorate the Commonwealth Games being hosted in England. The designs feature various sports and make no effort to feature the host city of Birmingham, a large post-industrial conurbation in the English Midlands, or even the Games’ emblem. Although Birmingham is named as hosting the athletics and some of the minor sports, many other sports are taking place elsewhere - the track cycling is to be in London, bowls in Leamington Spa, the swimming in Sandwell and the shooting in, er, India.

  The set of 8 stamps (2 se-tenant pairs of four) was designed by Charis Tsevis who lives and works in Cyprus and lithographed by Cartor and the stamps are perforated 14.5. Perhaps Royal Mail might more appropriately have employed a talented Birmingham-based artist of which there are many. Rating:- **.

  See also Blogs 397, 1007 and 1208.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

Products inscribed Alderney -

24 August 2022 - 175th anniversary of the Alderney breakwater - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Further details awaited. Rating:- ***.

2087. 🇺🇸 IGPC Cashes In On Diana Memorial Issues. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

27 May 2022 - Art Deco architecture in Singapore - 6 stamps (previously reported in Blog 2084, now reported again with more details and better quality illustrations). Designed by Lim Wenbin and Leeyau Chun Chuan of Pinch Design and lithographed by Secura and perforated 13.

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation - All products are rated 0.

🇦🇬 Products inscribed ‘Antigua And Barbuda’ -

2022 - no stated dates of issue - 

Aircraft of World War 2 - 2 miniature sheets 

Commemoration of the late Diana Princess of Wales (25th death anniversary)  - 2 miniature sheets 

🇬🇲 Products inscribed ’The Gambia’ -

14 March 2022 - Commemoration of the late Diana Princess of Wales (25th death anniversary) - 2 miniature sheets.

14 March 2022 - Aircraft of World War 2 - 2 miniature sheets.

All products stated date of issue - 18 April 2022 -

125th anniversary of  the Spanish-American War - 2 miniature sheets 

Baboons - 2 miniature sheets 

Commemoration of Muhammad Ali (United States boxer) - 2 miniature sheets.

🇬🇩 Products inscribed’Grenada’

14 March 2022 - Commemoration of the late Diana Princess of Wales (25th death anniversary) - 2 miniature sheets.

14 March 2022 - Aircraft of World War 2 - 2 miniature sheets.

🇬🇩 Products inscribed ‘Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique’ -

18 April 2022 - West Indian manatee - 2 miniature sheets.

🇻🇨 Products inscribed ‘St Vincent And The Grenadines’ -

All products - stated date of issue - 30 May 2022 -

Aircraft of World War 2 - 2 miniature sheets 

Insects of the Caribbean - 2 miniature sheets

Commemoration of Muhammad Ali (United States boxer) - 2 miniature sheets 

Commemoration of the late Diana Princess of Wales (25th death anniversary) - 2 miniature sheets.

🇹🇻 Products inscribed’Tuvalu’ - 

4 April 2022 - Commemoration of the late Diana Princess of Wales (25th death anniversary) - 2 miniature sheets.

4 April 2022 - World War 2 aircraft - 2 miniature sheets.

🇰🇮 Kiribati postal service - 

12 October 2020 - 75th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation - 4 stamps. Designed by Derek Miller. Rating:- ***.  Regrettably I have overlooked this issue until now but I now record it here for completeness.

1561. 🇬🇭 Gibbons Catalogue Editor’s Problem Solved.

🇬🇭 In the new edition of Gibbons Stamp Monthly (January 2020) the editor of the Stanley Gibbons Catalogue raises a question about a pair of stamps from Ghana featuring the US boxer Muhammad Ali (see below). The stamps are used on a commercial cover from Ghana dated 7 August 2017 and the editor confesses that the stamps are unknown to him. My Commonwealth new issue note books used for this Blog reveal that the question is easily answered - the stamps are part of a 4 stamp miniature sheet issued on 30 October 2012.
   For several years the Ghana postal service had been issuing its own stamps printed locally but unfortunately the printers failed financially and the postal service consequently resumed allowing the notorious New York-based philatelic agency, IGPC, to issue stamps on its behalf and this issue was one of 13 sets with Ghana’s name printed on them to pour out of the New York agency after 9 July 2012 during that year. 
  There - mystery solved. I hope the Catalogue editor reads this.

🇮🇳 India Post issued a single stamp on 14 December 2019 commemorating the ‘Force Multiplier’ which I believe is the Indian Armed Forces Veterinary Service (certainly the design would bear that out). The issue was lithographed by Security Printing Press, Hyderabad. A grand little stamp for animal lovers. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇲 Regrettably the Isle Of Man Post Office intends to issue yet another 8 ‘Space’ stamps as part of its 2020 new issue programme and will commemorate the Apollo 13 lunar mission, the Space Shuttle, the Space Station and the Spacelab. Isle Of Man Post Office describes the issue as “phenomenal”. Ho hum.

1169. 🇰🇳🇹🇻 Nevis And Tuvalu - A Trip To The Beach.

   🇨🇳🇺🇸 The Beijing- and New York-based philatelic agency, IGPC, has announced the release of a number of philatelic products with the names of client postal services printed on them:-

  🇦🇬 Antigua And Barbuda - 23 January 2018 - 75th Birthday of Muhammad Ali (American former boxer) - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 3 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

  🇲🇸 Montserrat - 6 December 2017 - The Coral reef - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.

  🇰🇳 Nevis - 22 December 2017 - Beaches of Nevis - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and 1 containing 2 different stamps. Rating:- *.

   🇹🇻 Tuvalu - 26 December 2017 - Beaches of Tuvalu - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and 1 containing 3 different stamps. Rating:- *.

  26 December 2017 - Platinum Wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II (who of course is Queen of Tuvalu) and The Duke of Edinburgh- 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- *.

  26 December 2017 - Commemoration of the late Elvis Presley, American popular singer - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

  24 January 2018 - Visit of US President Trump to South Korea - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

1126. 🇮🇴 BIOT Commemorates Women's Naval Service Centenary.

 🇮🇴 The postal service of the British Indian Ocean Territory will issue 6 stamps (as 3 se-tenant pairs) on 28 November 2017 to commemorate the Centenary of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS). This is a highly appropriate issue for the territory to release as it serves almost entirely as a giant naval base. A very interesting and excellent issue. Rating:- *****.

  It's that time of the month when the Beijing- and New York-based philatelic agency, IGPC, releases details of the latest gems it is unloading on the philatelic market. So, here we go:- 

🇬🇭 Ghana - 26 October 2017 - Butterflies of Africa - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0 

  26 October 2017 - Death centenary of Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps and one containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

   🇬🇩 Grenada - 26 October 2017 - 75th birthday of Muhammad Ali, former US boxer- 1 miniature sheet containing 3 different stamps and one containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

  26 October 2017 - Elvis Presley (deceased US singer) commemoration - 3 miniature sheets. Rating:- 0.

   🇬🇩 Grenada Grenadines Carriacou and Petite Martinique - 26 October 2017 - 75th Birthday of Muhammad Ali, a former boxer - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 3 stamps and the other containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

  26 October 2017 - Elvis Presley commemoration - 4 single stamp miniature sheets. Rating:- 0.

  🇻🇨 St Vincent And The Grenadines-- 17 December 2017 - Christmas (local subjects depicted) - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Rating:- ***.

  26 October 2017 - Elvis Presley commemoration - 4 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

  🇹🇻 Tuvalu - 4 December 2017 - Butterflies - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Non of the depicted species are found in Tuvalu. Rating:- 0

  4 December 2017 - Bottlenose dolphin - a species found in Tuvaluan waters - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps and 1 containing 2 different stamps. Rating:- *.

  26 October 2017 - Deep spacecraft - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:- 0.

  26 October 2017 - Saltwater rays - 1 miniature sheet containing 5 different stamps and one containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.

  4 December 2017 - Underwater caves (none of them located in Tuvalu) - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps and 1 containing 2 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

  26 October 2017 - 75th anniversary of the Second World War - 2 miniature sheets, each containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- 0.

  🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post issued a single stamp on 8 November 2017 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sri Lanka Philatelic Bureau. The circular stamp was designed by P Isuru Chaturanga and printed in lithography. Rating:- **.

  A pair of stamps and 1 miniature sheet were also issued on 14 November 2017 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and South Korea. This colourful and attractive pair depict dancers from each country.