2520. 🇸🇭 Tristan Lifeboat Issue.

 

New issues -

🇸🇭 Tristan Da Cunha postal service - 

Bicentenary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution - 2 issues each of 4 stamps and both issued on -

1 July 2024 - Part 1 - Lifeboats and Part 2 - Tristan rescue boats. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Rating:- ******.

Thanks for information about this issue to Maxine Cannon of Isle Of Man Post Office Stamps and Coins.

Part 2 -

🇹🇷 Postal Service of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus -

24 June 2024 - European Football Championships - 2 stamps and Olympic Games, Paris - 2 stamps issued as a vertical se-tenant pair. Designed by GK Sönmezer and printed by Denker Basimevi. Rating:- **.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

Charlies (definitive stamps depicting King Charles III) - 2024 codes issued so far -

The following have appeared so far -

1. Stamps produced in sheets for sale at post office counters - 

2nd  M24L MAIL

1st  M24L MAIL

£2.50  M24L MAIL (new value)

2. Stamps from booklets -

2nd Class from booklets of 8   M24L MEIL

3. Stamps from Prestige booklets -

£2 from Red Arrows booklet   M24L MPIL

4. Stamps from Business sheets -

2nd Class   M24L MBIL

5. Other items - 

Charlies imprinted on pre-paid envelopes (postage paid impressions - PPIs) -

As can be seen from these two examples I received recently the shades of the ‘Holly green’ of these items appear to vary quite markedly. 

2512 🇬🇧 Yet More Royal Mail Red Arrows Stamps.

 

New issues - 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

20 June 2024 - Red Arrows 60th season - 8 stamps (2 se-tenant pairs of 1st Class stamps and 2 x setenant pairs of £2 stamps) (total face value £13.40),1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps (cost £7.70)  and 1 ‘Prestige booklet’ sold for £26.75p containing 4 panes, one of which reproduces the miniature sheet (pane 4) but with different values from the basic miniature sheet and another made up of King Charles III definitives - 2 x £2 plus 4 non-postally valid labels, pane 3). Designed by Interabang and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.. Rating:- **.

Illustrations - the miniature sheet values seem to have been a problem for Royal Mail with the recent change of the £2.20 value to £2.50 & three illustrations can be found - £2.20, £2.50 and no value at all on the Pyramids stamp. The £2.20 value appears to be that included in the Prestige booklet pane 4, the miniature sheet includes the £2.50 values but one of the website illustrations shows the miniature sheet as having no value - presumably a presale publicity version mock-ups.

2495. 🇲🇹 Malta’s 2024 EUROPA Set.

New issues.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost - 

9 May 2024 - EUROPA, Underwater flora and fauna - 2 stamps and1 booklet containing 5 x €1.50 stamps. Designed from photographs by Professor Alan Deidun and Pedja Meletic and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- **.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

2023 - Horizon postal labels, redesigned to feature King Charles III. An item was first described, to the best of my knowledge, by Ian Billings in the 13 July 2023 edition of his Norvic Stamps Blog. The particular item he showed in that edition depicted a label dated 11 July 2023. I have delayed mentioning these items in this Blog until I received my first example of a King Charles III Horizon label which arrived on 7 May 2024 (the label itself being dated 1 May 2024 - 6 days to deliver a 2nd Class Large ‘signed for’ packet which is a good example of the failing service Royal Mail is now giving to its customers). 

  For anyone interested in the evolving story of the post here in the United Kingdom they should, I feel, include examples of these labels in their collection preferably, I would have thought on cover especially when the label is accompanied by a ‘signed for’ label.

  This version is different from that featured in the Norvic Stamps Blog which has a data matrix printed on it - 

🇧🇲 Bermuda Post Office - 

4 April 2024 - Fruits of Bermuda - 6 stamps. See Blog 2477. Illustrations of the actual stamps are now depicted here.

2471. 🇲🇹 Trains In Malta.

 

New issues.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

21 March 2024 - The Malta Railway - 4 stamps. Designed by Edgar Vella Photography courtesy of The Malta Railway Foundation and lithographed by Printex. Perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

Issues inscribed Alderney -

14 May 2024 - Tercentenary of Les Casquets Lighthouse - 6 stamps and 1 Prestige booklet. Further details and illustrations awaited.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

4 April 2024 - Bar coded Definitive, new value for International rate (letters worldwide), £2.50 ‘gooseberry green’ - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

My Stamps, personalised stamps with attached labels usually produced in sheetlets of 12 and sold at a premium-

2024 - Promotion of ESAF Small Finance Bank - 1 stamp.

2024 - Commemoration of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj - 1 stamp.

2024 - 50th anniversary of Karnataka Sabhrama - 1 stamp.

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

April 2024 - Pre-release promotion of upcoming EUROPA issue on the theme of Underwater fauna and flora - further details awaited.