2714. 🇸🇨 Seychelles Hosts Beach Football World Cup.

 

New Issues -

🇸🇨 Seychelles Postal Services -

30 April 2025 - Seychelles hosting of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, 2025 - 1 stamp. The design was used for a poster promoting the competition which itself was intended to represent a postcard with a stamp applied to it reflecting old methods of communicating. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

Publicity poster.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

2 May 2025 - Post and Go stamps, 80th anniversary of the Liberation from German occupation - 1 x Union Flag stamp with additional inscription in various values dispensed from machine JE03 in Broad Street post office. Rating:- ***.

 🇬🇧 Coronation portraits.

The coronation portraits of King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been shown at the National Gallery and are of interest because at some time or the other they may well appear as part of a stamp design of one of the Commonwealth postal administrations. The portrait of the King was painted by Peter Kuhfeld and depicts him with the Imperial state crown while the portrait of the Queen is by Paul Benny and shows her in her coronation dress.

2583 🇧🇹 Bhutan Notes Its Role In UN Peacekeeping.

 New issues -

🇧🇹 Bhutan Post - 

30 September 2024 - The role of Bhutan Armed Forces in UN Peacekeeping missions - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 9 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇰🇾 Cayman Islands postal service -

2024 - Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. The 4 stamps were depicted in Blog 2548 and the accompanying single miniature sheet is now depicted here.

 

🇧🇲 Bermuda Post Office -

19 September 2024 - Christmas - 4 stamps. Lithographed by Lowe Martin Rating:- ***.

2546 🇺🇸 IGPC’s Latest Products Inscribed St Vincent And The Grenadines.

 

New issues -

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC) -

🇻🇨 Products inscribed St Vincent And The Grenadines -

Previously detailed in Blog 2530 but illustrations now included here -

All products have a stated date of issue of 5 April 2024. Many of the subjects have little or no relevance to St Vincent (rating:- 0) though the Coronation issue is of relevance as Charles III is King of St Vincent And The Grenadines (rating:- ****).

Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp - 

Reptiles - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps (both frogs which of course are amphibians and not reptiles) - 

Monkeys - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 8 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps-

Flowers - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other containing 2 different stamps -

Crocodiles - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps -

Insects of the Caribbean area - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps -

Fish of the Caribbean region - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other 

Birds of the world and parrots - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other 2 different stamps - 

75th anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi (Indian politician) - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp - 

2493. 🇸🇨 Surprise Coronation Stamp From Seychelles.

 

New issues -

🇸🇨 Seychelles postal service -

29 February 2024 - Coronation of King Charles III, Head of The Commonwealth - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Further details awaited. Rating:- *****.

This is a somewhat surprising issue given that Seychelles has not issued any royalty-themed new stamps for a long time. It is of course a Republic and what is most surprising about the design is that features not only the coat of arms of Seychelles but also the royal cypher which we might expect to be featured on the stamps of territories ruled by the King to signify his approval of the stamp but not on a stamp issued by a republic. Very interesting and also  one of the best King Charles III coronation stamps to have been released.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

25 July 2024 - 50th anniversary of Bagpuss (children’s television programme) - details awaited. Guernsey Post has tweeted a picture of one of the expected stamps to tempt those who prefer Bagpuss to Peppa Pig (see Blog 2492).The tweet informs us that the issue will include a miniature sheet but the Guernsey Stamps internet site section ‘Stamp Programmes’ mentions that there will be just 4 stamps and the issue will be inscribed Alderney. We shall just have to wait and see.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post - 

2024 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon, Joint issue with the postal services of The People’s Republic of China and Macao - 1 miniature sheet containing a block of 4 made up of 2 x 2 China stamps and blocks of 4 different stamps from Hong Kong and Macao (the two regions’ Asia sets). Rating:- ****.

2485. 🇸🇭 Insects of Ascension.

 

New issues.

🇸🇭 Postal service of Ascension Island.

29 April 2024 - Insects of Ascension - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****. Thanks to Maxine Cannon of Isle of Man Post Office for information about this issue.

🇺🇸 Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC), United States-based producers and purveyor of philatelic items with contracts with some Commonwealth philatelic postal services to produce such products in their name - 

🇬🇲 Products inscribed The Gambia -

The items previously listed in Blog 2483 can now be illustrated. Each ‘issue’ is made up!of 2 miniature sheets as described in Blog 2483 -

10 July 2023 - Coronation of King Charles III, Head of The Commonwealth-

22 December 2023 - The Village weaver bird -

22 December 2023 - Manatees in the Gambia River -

22 December 2023 - Flycatchers -

 22 December 2023 - Ducks -

22 December 2023 - 50th anniversary of ‘Ping Pong diplomacy’ -

22 December 2022 - Animals of The Gambia -

22 December 2023 - African leopards -

17 December 2023 - 75th anniversary of the death of Mohandas Gandhi (Indian politician) -