2696. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Announces Another Flood Of New Issues.

 

New Issues -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

15 April 2025 - 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War - 6 stamps (total face value £11.31) and 1 Commemorative sheet costing £18.50. Designed by The 572 and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Rating:- *.

24 April 2025 - Harbours of the Isle Of Man - 6 stamps (cost £11.70). Designed by Isle of Man Advertising from art by Janine Shelly and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Rating:- *.

8 May 2025 - Photographs by the Manx photographer Leonard McCombe -  8 stamps (total face value £11.60p) issued as 2 setenant blocks in a sheet containing 2 complete sets (£23.20) and 1 Prestige booklet containing 4 different panes and sold for £23.20. Designed by EJC Design and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Rating:- *.

  I like the above stamps - they are interesting and attractive - but it is clear that the IOM Post Office releases far, far too many issues which are too expensive, especially for such a small territory, and therefore I rate all of its products as just *.

2529. 🇬🇬 🇯🇪 Guernsey To Issue Crytostamps; Jersey Commemorates Some Very Remarkable Women.

New issues.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

24 July 2024 - Cryptostamps - 2 stamps (2 x £10). Rating:- 0.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

6 August 2024 - Wetland birds of Jersey - 6 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *.

22 August 2024 - Women of achievement of Jersey, centenary of the death of Dr Lilian Grandin, missionary in China - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Other women included in this commemoration include the brave Louisa Gould who sheltered a Russian prisoner of war during World War 2 and was subsequently arrested by the occupying Germans and gassed to death in Ravensbrück concentration camp on 13 February 1945 and was named a British Hero of the Holocaust posthumously. There is also the actress Ivy St Helier, the politician Caroline Treachy,  Ivy Forster - who, like Louisa Gould, sheltered escaped Russian prisoners of war - and then became the first woman to be elected to Jersey’s parliament (2023 marked the 75th anniversary of women in the States of Jersey), the remarkable Orpheus Beaumont who invented the life jacket for use at sea and Marie Bartlett who founded Jersey’s General Hospital. This is issue commemorates some very remarkable Jersey women and is a thoroughly worthwhile issue.

Rating:- ******.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

July 2024 - 20th anniversary of Joaan bin Jassim Academy for Defence Studies - 2 miniature sheets, one in the form of a large single stamp and the other containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- ***.

1520.🇲🇼 Excessive Malawi Issues Are Dull And Expensive.

🇲🇼 The postal service of Malawi will issue yet another set of 6 single-stamp miniature sheets plus a sheetlet containing 6 different stamps on 8 October 2019 on the subject of Domestic birds of Malawi. This constant flow of similar, numerous and not very well designed sheets is not only far too expensive for collectors but now really quite tiresome. This latest issue is on a particularly dull subject. One of the single-stamp miniature sheets and the sheetlet of 6 are depicted below. Rating:- *. 

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post released a single stamp on 4 October 2015 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Commission On Science and Technology For Sustainable Development in Global South, otherwise known (apparently) as COMBATS. Rating:- **. 

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post issued a single stamp on 1 October 2019 to commemorate World Children’s Day. A cheerful little stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post will issue a set of 4 stamps on 8 October 2019 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Istana, the official residence of the President of Singapore. The issue was designed by Francis Theo and lithographed by Secura Singapore and perforated 13. Rating:- ****.

🇺🇬 The postal service of Uganda released a single stamp on 2 October 2019 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Birth of Mahatma Gandhi. The illustration below is what is shown on the Uganda Post Office’s Facebook page and the issued stamp does not include the red area at the lower left. Rating:- ***.

1475. 🇬🇸🇫🇯🇫🇰 Food From South Georgia, Shops In Fiji And Falklands Feathers.

  🇬🇸 The postal service of South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands will release a set of 6 stamps (as 3 se-tenant pairs) on the subject of Food in South Georgia on 15 August 2019. There is no doubt that Creative Direction which is responsible for the production of the territory’s stamps very regularly comes up with an original approach to the stamps which it prepares for the several territories which are its clients and this is an original theme for a place such as South Georgia.

  Another example, this time an issue for The Falkland Islands, of the originality of Creative Direction’s approach to its clients’ stamps, particularly in subject matter, is described below. The issue was designed by Bee Design using photographs by Gerard Baker, Andy Blake, Peter Lafite and Robert Burton and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

  🇫🇯 Fiji Post has issued a set of 5 stamps titled ‘The Legacy of Serving’ to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Morris Hedstrom Ltd. which is Fiji’s largest wholesaler and retailer. The interesting issue was designed by Pravin Sen and lithographed by Southern Colour Print. I do not yet know the date of issue. Rating:- ****.

  🇫🇰 Falklands Postal Service will issue a set of 6 stamps on 5 August 2019 on the subject of the Feathers of local birds. This is an original and unusual approach to the theme of Birds on stamps. The set was designed from photographs taken by Georgina Strange with production co-ordination by Creative Direction and lithography by Cartor. The stamps are perforated 13.5. Rating:- ****.

  Thanks to Juliet Warner of Pobjoy Stamps for information about this issue.

  Falklands Post Services also reissued the Local Rate definitive stamp on 6 August 2019 with a ‘2019’ imprint and sold in Booklets of 10. Depicting a Falkland pipit this is a very attractive stamp. Rating:- ***.