2645. 🇯🇪 Jersey To Commemorate Birth Centenary Of Gerald Durrell.

 

New issues - 

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

28 January 2025 - Birth Centenary of Gerald Durrell OBE, conservationist, founder of the Jersey Zoo and writer. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -

11 January 2025 - 70th anniversary of PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) - 6 stamps issued as a block of 6 (2 rows of 3 different stamps) and 1 x Rs 100 miniature sheet.Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2229. 🇯🇪 Yet More Rabbits.

 

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

5 January 2023 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Rabbit - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Wang Huming and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- 0

🇼🇸 Samoa Post - 

28 October 2022 - Surcharges (as featured in Blog 2222) - Steven Zirinsky has kindly informed me of the date of issue of the various surcharges discussed in Blog 2222.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

4 January 2023 - 75th anniversary of Independence- 1 stamp.  Rating:- *****.

 

5 January 2023 - Endemic birds of Myanmar (4th issue of a series of 9), the Burmese bushlark - 1 stamp. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇩 Sudan postal service -

2022 - Provisional surcharges on previously issued stamps - 3 stamps.

2137. 🇺🇸 Birds, Pandas And The Queen Feature On PCI Latest Products.

 

New issues.

🇺🇸 Philatelic Collector Inc. -

Products released with the names of Commonwealth philatelic entities printed on them which it is able to issue because of its contract with the postal services of Tonga and Cook Islands -

2022 - products related to Birdpex 2022 exhibition, Gmunden in Austria - 

🇨🇰 Cook Islands Aitutaki - 1 single stamp miniature sheet depicted above. 

🇨🇰 Cook Islands - 1 single stamp miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps.

🇨🇰 Cook Islands Penrhyn - 1 single stamp miniature sheet.

🇹🇴 Tonga - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps.

🇹🇴 Tonga Niuafo’ou - 1 single stamp miniature sheet.

2022 - products related to the Chinese New Year, Year of the Tiger - 

🇨🇰 Cook Islands - 1 single stamp miniature sheet.

🇨🇰 Cook Islands Aitutaki - 1 single stamp miniature sheet.

🇨🇰 Cook Islands Penrhyn - 1 single stamp miniature sheet.

🇹🇴 Tonga - 1 single stamp miniature sheet.

Tonga Niuafo’ou - 1 single stamp miniature sheet.

2022 - Products related to the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II - 5 miniature sheets each containing 6 different stamps with the names of Tonga, Tonga Niuafo’ou, Cook Islands, Cook Islands Aitutaki and Cook Islands Penrhyn inscribed on them.

2022 - Miscellaneous other products - 

Cook Islands - various surcharges (details and illustrations awaited)

Cook Islands Aitutaki - 2022 - Famous coastlines of the world - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 6 different stamps (1 design features a beach in Aitutaki) and a single stamp miniature sheet (featuring Big Sur, California).

Tonga - The Northern Lights - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp.

Tonga - the Giant Panda - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps.

Tonga Niuafo’ou - Animals of the Amazon Rain Forest - 2 miniature sheets, 1 containing 6 different stamps and the other a single stamp.

Royal Mail (regional issues) - Wales.

11 August 2022 - Ian Billings in his extremely valuable Norvic Philatelic Blog has pointed out that the recently issued Royal Mail Welsh regional 1st Class rate barcoded stamp exists in two forms in which the font used for the stamp value (in English and Welsh (1AF/ST) from the ordinary sheet stamps is different from that on the stamps applied to the official first day covers sold by Royal Mail which were produced in coils rather than sheets. Rating:- *****.

Upper stamp - coil, lower stamp - from sheet:-