2594. 🇶🇦🇯🇪 Qatar UPU issue., Jersey’s Dairy Industry.

New issues -

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

9 October 2024 - 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union - 1 stamp printed in sheetlets of 8=and 2 miniature sheets (1 perforated and 1 imperforate). Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

15 August 2024 - 55th anniversary of CICO Consulting Engineers - 1 miniature sheet containing 8 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

 1 October 2024 - 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Qatari Armed Forces - 6 stamps probably produced as a miniature sheet. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

24 October 2024 - The Jersey dairy industry - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Chris Wormald and lithographed by bpost. Rating:- *. Charming designs but set against the huge new issue programme, just another excessive issue.

2558. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Post Planning Bird Of The Year Issue.

 

New issues.

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

2024 - Bird of the Year - 1 miniature sheet. New Zealand Post has released news of a planned issue to commemorate the bird species chosen in a national online competition to pick the New Zealand ‘Bird of the Year’. When the result is known a 6 stamp sheetlet will be released with illustrations of the particular species carried out by the New Zealand artist Melissa Boardman and, presumably, printed digitally. It looks as though the total face value of the stamps in the sheet will be a hefty NZ$19.70. New Zealand Post is backing the New Zealand fantail to win and urging collectors to vote for the bird - presumably NZ Post already has a supply of illustrations from Ms Boardman available for them to get on and release the expensive sheetlet once the bird is revealed as winner. That sounds like an ideal reason to vote for another species!

post scriptum - I voted for the charming Rock wren.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

9 October 2024 - 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Lai Wai-ying and lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

3 September 2024 - Construction industry vehicles (previously featured in Blog 2548 but additional information now available) - 8 stamps and 1 miniature sheet (not previously illustrated). Designed by Martin Morck.

2548. 🇰🇾🇯🇲 New Issues From Cayman Islands And Jamaica.

 

New issues - 

🇰🇾 Cayman Islands postal service -

2024 - Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla - 4 stamps. Lithographed. Further details awaited. Rating:- ****.. 

2024 - 120th anniversary of the Cayman Islands Shipping Registry - 5 stamps. Lithographed. Further details awaited. Rating:- ****.

🇯🇲 Jamaica Post -

24 July 2024 - Bicentenary of the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands- 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. Further details and better quality illustrations awaited. Rating:+ ***.

3 September 2024 - Construction vehicles in Jersey - 8 stamps. Lithographed. There may be additional items such as a miniature sheet accompanying the basic stamps but this is not known at present.

I suppose that there must be someone who will find the subject of this issue to be interesting. Rating:- *.

🇦🇺 Australia Post -

announced 9 August 2024 - Australian gold medal winners at the Olympic Games 2024 hosted by Paris, (number 17) - Athletics, Women’s pole vault - Nina Kennedy. Printed in sheetlets of 10 identical stamps. Designed by Jo Muré and lithographed by RA Print. Rating:- ***.

1364. 🇧🇲 Excellent Bermuda New Issue Commemorates RAF Centenary.

  🇧🇲 The Bermuda Post Office issued an excellent set of 4 stamps on 20 December 2018 which commemorated the Centenary of the Royal Air Force and which depicted  Bermudan Air Force veterans who had taken part in the First World War (Rowe Spurling) and the Second World War (Geoffrey Osborn, Hugh Watlington and Alan 'Smokey' Wingood). This is an interesting set which relates an international anniversary to local people in Bermuda. Rating:- *****.

  Thanks to Gene W who drew my attention to this issue.

  🇮🇲 It is very regrettable to me that the postal services of the British offshore islands plus Gibraltar have chosen to release patently excessive numbers of new issues in recent years though I understand that they are almost certainly under pressure from their organisations to maximise financial profits as much as possible and therefore contribute their share to the postal administrations' budgets. Some of the stamps they issue are excellent and many designs are highly praiseworthy but sadly I do not wish to buy most of them because there is little reason for them to be issued and some at least have subjects with little or no relevance to the territories themselves. Thus we ask ourselves, "What is the connection between The Isle Of Man and Chinese New Year?" The answer is that I don't believe there is any. And yet the Isle Of Man Post Office intends to issue 4 stamps on 22 January 2019 to commemorate the Chinese New Year which will be, as we all know by now, the Year of The Pig.

  Infact the new stamp designs are really rather nice pictures of pigs by Zhang Yong with the text being added by The Naughton Group and the overall design being claimed by EJC Design (with so many designers/artists claiming credit, and no doubt a fee as well, there's no surprise that the total face value of the set is as high as £7.91p) and the issue was lithographed by Lowe Martin and perforated 13.5. Rating:- 0.

  Then, just 7 days later, on 29 January 2019, there will be another issue made up of 6 stamps with a total face value of £7.89p on the subject of Buses of The Isle Of Man, issued again for no particular good reason other than to try to screw another £7.89p out of collectors' pockets. The tragedy is that it is yet another well designed and attractive set, this time by Peter Hearsey with EJC Design and Richard Davis also getting in on the design credits and (no doubt) fees but it's just yet another issue from a postal administration desperate for cash. The stamps were lithographed by Lowe Martin and are perforated 13. Rating:- 0.