2436. 🇭🇰 Corruption In Hong Kong.

 

New issues.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

15 February 2024 - Anti-corruption campaign in Hong Kong - 6 stamps and 2 miniature sheets (one containing a single stamp and the other described as a ‘mini-pane’ containing 2 of each value). Designed by Hikoko Ito. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

Events - Royal Visit to St Helena.

🇸🇭 St Helena -

23 - 26 January 2024 - The Duke of Edinburgh, youngest brother of King Charles III, will visit St Helena to open officially the new St Helena Airport (among other duties there) and it seems likely that stamps to commemorate the visit will be issued, probably after the event. This will be the first royal visit to the island since the visit of the Princess Royal in 2002. Six stamps and 1 miniature sheet were issued by the St Helena postal service on 1 December 2022 to commemorate the anniversaries of previous royal visits to St Helena - the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Bowes-Lyon) with their two daughters, the then Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose in1947, the visit of the present king’s father, Philip Duke of Edinburgh in 1957 and the 2002 visit of the Princess Royal. The island was also visited by one of the son’s of Queen Victoria, Alfred the first Duke of Edinburgh.

  One royal visit to St Helena which was not featured on the 2022 issue was that of the third sibling of King Charles III, Prince Andrew Duke Of York, whose visit to St Helena in 1984 was commemorated by a set of 2 stamps issued on 4 April 1984. Presently of course the Prince is a virtual persona non grata due to his alleged links with the Jeffrey Epstein case.

  The first Duke of Edinburgh, Alfred, was depicted on a set of four stamps issued by Tristan Da Cunha, a dependency of St Helena, in 1967 to commemorate the centenary of his visit to Tristan. On the stamps he is shown with Tristan’s volcano in the background as well as portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the second Duke of Edinburgh. On the death of Prince Philip, Tristan also issued a set of four stamps released on 23 September 2021to commemorate his life of service and one stamp was illustrated by a photograph of him during his own visit to Tristan with the first day cover showing the then bearded prince at the tiller of a local boat

  Now we await an issue from St Helena to commemorate the visit of the Third Duke of Edinburgh.

2097. 🇮🇳 India Post My Stamps.

 

New issues.

India Post -

There appears to be a new vertical format for India Post My Stamps which also seem to no longer have non-valued labels attached to them. It is becoming increasingly easy to overlook some of these products but those of which I am aware and not previously reported are highlighted below:-

2022 - My Stamp, CSIR - Central Leather Research Institute of India - 1 stamp with attached label.

2022 - My Stamp Birth centenary of the late Sardar Jodh Singh, founder of the jIS Group - 1 stamp with attached label.

2022 - My Stamp - 25th anniversary of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India - 1 stamp with attached label.

2022 - My Stamp 25th anniversary of National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) - 1 stamp with attached label.

2022 - My Stamp The Investor Education and Protection Fund - 1 stamp.

11 June 2022 - My Stamp, ‘Central Budget Travel @ 75’ - 1 sheetlet containing 9 different stamps. 

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

10 June 2022 - Paralympians of 2020 and 2022, Madison De Rozario and Ben Tudhope - 2 stamps sold in sheetlets of 10. Designed by Sharon Rodziewicz and Jason Watts and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 13.rating:- **.

1990. 🇲🇺 Mauritius Anti-Corruption Campaign.

 

 

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post will issue a single stamp on 9 December 2021 to commemorate International Anti-Corruption Day. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post issued a pair of stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing the two stamps on 1 December 2021 to commemorate Christmas. Rating:- ****.

  🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office will issue a set of 4 stamps on 13 January 2022 to commemorate the Chinese New Year, Year Of The Tiger, which is of no direct relevance to the island. The issue was designed by Ana Jaks and lithographed by bPost and the stamps are perforated 11.5. Rating:- *.