2284. 🇮🇳 Joint India-Vietnam Issue.

 

New issues.

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 October 2023 - Joint issue with the postal service of Vietnam, 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vietnam - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

16 October 2023 - 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s admission to membership of the International Civil Aviation Organisation - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed by The Security Printing (Bangladesh) Corporation Ltd Gazipur. Perforated 12.5. Rating:- ***.

16 October 2023 - ‘Smart Bangladesh’ - 1 stamp. Designed by Sanjiv Kanti Das and lithographed by The Security Printing (Bangladesh) Corporation Ltd Gazipur and perforated 12.5. Rating:- **.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

5 January 2024 - Machine dispensed stamps, Chinese New Year, Year of The Dragon - 1 stamp.

🇺🇸 Philatelic Collector Inc (USA-based producers and purveyors of philatelic items with contracts with the postal services of Tonga and Cook Islands). All items are rated 0.

🇨🇰 Items inscribed Cook Islands.

31 July 2023 - Birds of the World, Barn owl - 4 stamps, 4 ‘deluxe miniature sheets’ each containing a single stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets. 2 of the illustrations are inscribed ‘Penrhyn Cook Islands’, presumably in error.

Total face value of all the above equal to £126.10p.

4 October 2023 - Sea shells - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block.

10 October 2023 - Marine life - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block.

🇨🇰 Items inscribed Aitutaki Cook Islands.

16 August 2023 - Birds of the World, Azure kingfisher - 4 stamps, 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets.

27 September 2023 - Views of Aitutaki - 4 stamps issued in a se-tenant block.

🇨🇰 Items inscribed’’Penrhyn Cook Islands’.

16 August 2023 - Birds of the World, Striated heron - 4 stamps, 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets.

🇨🇰 Items inscribed ‘Rarotonga Cook Islands’.

31 July 2023 - Birds of the World, Rimatara lorikeet - 4 stamps, 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets.

🇹🇴 Items inscribed Tonga.

16 October 2023 - Tongan heritage sites - 4 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp.

22 September 2023 - Coastlines of Tonga - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. 

2157. 🇺🇸 Oops! Quick Change. Philatelic Collector Corrects Overprint Error.

 

New issues.

🇺🇸 Philatelic Collector Inc.

🇨🇰 🇹🇴 Products inscribed Cook Islands, Aitutaki Cook Islands, Penrhyn Cook Islands, Kingdom Of Tonga and Niuafo’ou.

2022 - Tribute to the Late Queen Elizabeth II - 1 miniature sheet each containing 6 different stamps for each of the 5 philatelic entities. The illustrations of these issues on the Philatelic Collector Inc internet site have now been changed to correct the previously shown items which had the overprint ‘In Living Memory 1926 - 1922’ so that they now read ‘In Loving Memory 1926 - 2022’. (See Blog 2156). It’s interesting to note that the overprints are now lower case rather than upper case - the new inscriptions look rather less dignified and a little scruffy - signs of a rushed job I suppose.

  I expect we shall have to wait to see if any of the incorrectly inscribed overprints were actually printed and turn up on the market. I do hope not.