2388. 🇯🇪 Jersey’s Coronation And Christmas Stamps.

 

New issues.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

20 November 2023 - Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Martin Mörck and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- ****.

11 November 2023 - Christmas, “What does Christmas mean to you?” - 8 self-adhesive stamps. Designed by various Jersey artists (Will Bertram, Dean Porter, Glen Fox, Erin Brown, Louise Ramsay, Rosemary Blackmore, Gabriella Street and Lauren Radley) and lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- **.

New issue stamp programmes 2024.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

Further to the list of the first proposed issues of 2024 (see Blog 2277), Guernsey Post has now published a more complete list to the end of the year. One is tempted to comment that the excessive release of new issues will continue and that the individual issues will very much be ‘more of the same’ though equally there are commemorations of some worthwhile anniversaries of local relevance included in the list:- 

  

The end of Pobjoy Stamps.

🇸🇭🇧🇸🇬🇧🇻🇬🇫🇰🇬🇸🇸🇭 The Pobjoy Mint and Coin-producing business, and along with it Pobjoy Stamps, will close at the end of the year and cease to publicise and distribute the stamps of Ascension, British Antarctic Territory, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tristan Da Cunha. This information recently became available in numismatic magazines and is mentioned in a tweet (X) from Linn’s Stamp News and a short article in that publication. The closure of the business will coincide with the retirement of Taya Pobjoy, the managing director of Pobjoy. Linn’s reports that Angela Warner, Pobjoy Coins and Stamps administrator, has stated that, “It is my understanding that each individual territory is now making arrangements for future sales and they will be able to share that news once everything has been finalised”.

  Hopefully this will not mean the end of the various territories’ wonderful recent record of producing high quality, well designed, reasonably priced, non-exploitative, locally relevant new issues that has been the case in the past one or two decades as the design and production of their stamps has been in the hands of the excellent Creative Direction which has used Pobjoy for marketing and distribution of the philatelic products.

  Thanks to Ian Billings of Norvic Stamps for drawing my attention to this interesting and important development in the new issue field.

2343. 🇵🇰 Pakistan Commemorates Close Links With China.

 

New issues.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post Office -

July 2023 - 10th anniversary of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, ‘From Vision to Reality’ - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

22 August 2023 - Cultural landmarks in Hong Kong - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp and 1 ‘mini-pane’ containing 2 sets of 6 stamps. Designed by Peter Ng Seung-ho and lithographed. Rating:- **.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

7 July 2023 - 10th International Island Games hosted by Guernsey, Post and Go - The  stamps reported in Blog 2340 were dispensed by machines GG02 and GG05 and examples of both are now illustrated below:-

🇮🇳 India Post -

My stamps, personalised stamps with attached labels usually sold in sheetlets of 12 at a premium -

1 July 2023 - 75th anniversary of the Association of Chartered Accountants of India - 1 stamp.

2023 - 25th anniversary of Panipat refinery and Petrochemical complex - 1 stamp.

2023 - Centenary of Sri Kaliswari group of industries - 1 stamp.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

2023 - Horizon labels. The leading Blog on British stamps, Norvic Philatelic Blog, edited by Ian Billings, has recently drawn attention to a change in the design of the counter printed Horizon labels to substitute the cameo of King Charles III to replace the silhouette of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. These are fascinating items as they may be seen as postage stamps, if one so wishes, as they are receipts indicating the prepayment of postage which are adhesive and fulfill the role by being stuck to items of mail prior to them being sent through the post. I suspect that far more of them are used on mail in Britain now than any conventional postage stamps and in particular, the vast array of ‘commemorative’ stamps. For anyone interested in the evolution of the carriage of mail, they are vital parts of the story and a section should be set aside for them, I believe, in a modern British stamp collection.

1464. 🇧🇳 Brunei Darussalam Depicts National Costume On New ASEAN Stamp.

 🇧🇳 The postal service of Brunei Darussalam has kindly supplied me with a picture of a sheet of the upcoming ‘ASEAN Post’ National Costume stamp mentioned in Blog 1463 and due for issue on 8 August 2019. An attractive and remarkably inexpensive issue. Rating:- *****.

  🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia will issue packs of personalised stamps, similar to Australia Post’s Collectors packs, from 23 July 2019 on the subject of the 80th anniversary of Marvel Comics which reflect a lot of American culture and nothing to do with Malaysian culture. The packs will contain 3 sheets, 2 of which contain 5 different stamps each of which depict a Marvel Comics character, and the third contains a single stamp. An item strictly for comic enthusiasts. Rating:- 0.

🇬🇧 As any serious collector of modern British Stamps will know there is one indispensable internet site for expert, detailed, up-to-date information about the philatelic output of Royal Mail and that is Ian Billings’ Norvic Philatelic Blog. His coverage of new Machin Head definitives and their varieties is second to none and to know just what has and hasn’t happened on the Royal Mail new issue front a very regular visit to the Norvic site is of the greatest importance.

  I thought I ought to catch up on the 2019 definitive varieties so that I could track them down for my collection now that Norvic is no longer selling those new issues from 2019 onwards but of course I needed to refer to Norvic’s information on the new varieties to know what I should be looking for. As far as I can see the 2019 varieties which have appeared so far are:-

Counter stamps M19L MAIL - 1p, 10p, 20p, 2nd, 2nd Large, 1st, 1st Large, £1, £1.35, £1.55, £1.60, £2.30, £2.80, £3.45, £3.60, 100g Special Delivery, 

Business sheets M19L MBIL - 2nd, 2nd Large, 1st,

Booklets M19L MFIL - 2nd Large, 1st Large,  

Mixed Booklets (Marvel, Birds of Prey, D Day) M19LMCIL - 1st

Prestige Booklets (Queen Victoria), gummed M19L MPIL - 2p, 50p

 🇲🇹 MaltaPost will issue a set of 3 stamps on 9 July 2019 as part of the Sepac omnibus issue which this year is on the subject of national costumes. The stamps were designed by MaltaPost plc from photographs by Heritage Malta and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- ***.