2676. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Features Garden Wildlife.

 

New issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

11 March 2025 - Garden wildlife - 10 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 5 - 2nd Class domestic rate mail x 1 strip and 1st Class domestic rate mail x 1). There will also probably be a Collectors sheet containing the 10 stamps with attached labels. Further details are awaited. A tenth stamp in the set depicts a Garden snail. (illustration to be added).  This edition will be revised when more information and better illustrations are available.

  As with all the issues so far in 2025, there is no real reason why a set on this subject should be issued at this time especially against a background of monstrous excessive issuing of stamps by Royal Mail. Additionally while the United Kingdom has a fascinating population of species of wildlife this set depicts many British creatures previously featured, sometimes more than once, on stamps.The stamps are moderately attractive but excessive and even quite dull in the choice of subject. Rating:- *.

2563. 🇸🇭 Pitcairn Depicts Bounty Launch’s Artefacts.

 

New issues -

🇬🇸 Postal service of Pitcairn Islands -

9 September 2024 - Artefacts from the Bounty launch boat - 4 stamps (printed se-tenant). Designed by Dan Pickering of Pixela Design, Poole, England and lithographed by Brebner Print. Rating:- ***.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

9 September 2024 - Jurong Lake Gardens - 4 stamps Designed by Wong Wui Kong and lithographed by Secura Singapore Pte and perforated 13. Rating:- ****.

2484. 🇸🇭 🇨🇦 Garden Flowers Of Tristan Da Cunha And Frogs Of Canada.

 

New issues.

🇸🇭 Postal service of Tristan Da Cunha  -

18 April 2024 - Garden flowers in Tristan Da Cunha - 4 stamps. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

15 April 2024 - Endangered Canadian species of frog - 2 self-adhesive stamps from booklets of 10 (2 of each stamp) & 1 gummed miniature sheet containing 1 of each stamp. Designed by Jocelyle Saulnier of Joce Creative from illustrations by Emily S Damastra and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- *****.

2279. 🇲🇺 Second Part Of Mauritius Definitive Issue Depicts More Extinct Birds.

 

New issues.

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post -

9:October 2023 - Definitives, Extinct birds, second issue - 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

9 October 2023 - World Post Day - 2 stamps issued as a se-tenant pair. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

9 October 2023 - World Post Day - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

9 October 2023 - International Year of Millets - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

15 March 2023 - Expo 2023, International Horticultural Exposition, Doha - 1 sheetlet containing 9 different stamps. Lithographed. Perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

1846.🇬🇬🇯🇪🇧🇲 Guernsey Europa, Jersey Surfing And Bermuda Gardens Stamps Planned.

 🇬🇬 Two EUROPA stamps plus an accompanying miniature sheet will make up Guernsey Post’s contribution to the 2021 omnibus issue from numerous European philatelic entities which is this year on the subject of Endangered Wildlife. The stamps will be released on 7 April 2021 and are part of a larger set of 8 stamps depicting various creatures which are endangered in Guernsey. I was surprised to see the Herring gull included in the list, here in land-bound Birmingham, well over 100 miles from any coast the local herring gulls seem to be thriving perfectly adequately. The pleasant designs by Wendy Bramall, a Guernsey-born artist, cover a wide range of species. Unfortunately Guernsey Post continues to issue far too many stamps and these stamps are lost in the crowd. The issue was lithographed by Southern Colour Print and is perforated 14.5. Rating:- ***.

  🇯🇪 The never ending and seemingly constant release of stamps from the British offshore islands continues with a set of 6 stamps and 1 single stamp miniature sheet on 10 May 2021 from Jersey Post on the subject of Surfing. No apparent special reason for this particular set except I suppose to publicise tourism in the island which would be a good enough reason if Jersey Post was not such an egregious issuer of excessive numbers of stamps every year. The designs feature some striking photographs. Rating:- *.

🇧🇲 The first issue of 2021 from the postal service of Bermuda will be a set of 4 stamps which will commemorate the Centenary of the Garden Club of Bermuda. I do not know the date of issue but doubtless it will be on or close to the actual date of the centenary which will be 4 April 2021. This is an attractive issue and only 2 more issues are planned for 2021 by the Bermuda postal service - in August 2021 an issue depicting Sand sculptures and then in September 2021 a set titled ‘Bermuda greetings’ (British offshore islands, please take note of Bermuda’s admirable conservatism). There is also a set planned for May 2022 to commemorate the Centenary of the St George’s Historical Society.

Rating:- *****.

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