2602. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Christmas Stamps And Wales Definitives.

 

New issues - 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

5 November 2024 - Christmas -  5 self-adhesive stamps from counter sheets (total face value £9.45p) and 1 miniature sheet containing all 5 stamps (£9.45p), 2 booklets (one containing 8 x 2nd stamps (£6.80) and the other containing 8 x 1st stamps (£13.20)) and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 20 stamps (sold for £30.95p). Designed by Design Together London Ltd from illustrations by Judy Joel and gravure printed by Cartor and perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:- ****.

14 November 2024 - Wales ‘country’ stamps - 2 self-adhesive stamps with barcodes. 2nd and 1st Class domestic rates in previous designs but with the cameo of Queen Elizabeth II replaced by that of King Charles III. The date of issue coincides with that of the King’s birthday which is apt given his previous role as Prince of Wales. Lithographed by Cartor and perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:-*****. 

2598. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Will Depict Cathedrals On 2024 Christmas Stamps.

 New Issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

5 November 2024 - Christmas, UK cathedrals in winter - 5 self-adhesive stamps. 2nd Class domestic rate - St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, 2nd Class Large - Cathedral Church of Christ, Liverpool (Anglican), 1st Class - St Patrick’s Cathedral Armagh; Ist Class Large - St Deiniol’s Cathedral, Bangor, £2.80 - Metropolitan Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood, Westminster (Roman Catholic). Various items expected. Further details and illustrations to follow.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

25 October 2024 - Philex 2024 Philatelic, Coin and Banknote Show - 1 stamp. Previously issued stamp reissued with overprint applied. Rating:- ***.

2025 New Issue Programmes -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

Issues inscribed Guernsey -

6 January 2025 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake.

6 January 2025 - The Royal Golden Guernsey Goat

19 February 2025 - 250th anniversary of Nicolas Blondel, clockmaker

19 February 2025 - Post and Go stamps, The Bailiwick seashore

23 April 2025 - EUROPA, National archaeological discoveries 

23 April 2025 - 250th birth anniversary of JMW Turner, English artist

23 April 2023 - 80th anniversary of the liberation from German occupation, first issue

14 July 2025 - 80th anniversary of the liberation from German occupation, second issue

14 July 2025 - Main tourist attractions of Guernsey (delayed from 2024)

Issues inscribed Alderney -

6 January 2025 - Alderney blue plaque tour

23 April 2025 - The Wombles Trail

14 July 2025 - 20 years of Postcrossing.