2282. 🇲🇾 Malaysia New Issue Features Old Coins.

New issues.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia - 

13 April 2023 - Malay Sultanate coins - 3 stamps (1 se-tenant pair and a single stamp) and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

7 April 2023 - Bicentenary of the Birth of Dayanand Saraswati, philosopher, social reformer and founder of Arya Sama - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

Fakes.

There are a very large number of fake ‘new issue stamps’ appearing on the Delcampe internet auction site at present and often at remarkably high prices. The subjects often have little relevance to the country whose name is inscribed on these illegal products. A search of products being offered on the site under ‘2023’ reveals that these fakes are mostly inscribed with the names of African countries (though the names are sometimes misspelled) and a number of Commonwealth countries have been singled out to have their names abused on these products - these include Gabon, Sierra Leone, Tanzaina (sic), Guyana, Lesotho, Namibia, Maldives and Botswana. I’m quite sure that no regular reader of this Blog would fall victim to wasting money on this scam - indeed the quality of the items betrays their dubious source to informed collectors - but it is worthwhile reminding anyone considering buying the expensive trash that these are illegal products with no value whatsoever.

1948. 🇨🇾 Cyprus Commemorates Links With China.

 

  🇨🇾 Cyprus Post issued 2 stamps on 17 September 2021 to commemorate two anniversaries of local interest. The first commemorates the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cyprus and The People’s Republic of China and the design depicts the philosophers, Confucius and Zenon of Citium. The second stamp commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Theatrical Organisation of Cyprus. Both stamps were lithographed by Baltic Banknote High Security Printing. Rating:- ****.

🇵🇰 Pakistan Post, continuing its highly conservative 2021 new issue programme, released a single stamp on 25 Seems 2021 to commemorate National Newspaper Readership Day. The interesting stamp was designed by Mughiz Khan and lithographed by National Security Printing Corporation and is perforated 13. Rating:- ****.

🇧🇩 Two previously unreported new issues from the Bangladesh postal service:-

22 February 2021 - 60th anniversary of the First people’s theatrical dramatisation of the Liberation War, Ek Nodi Rokto. - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

29 July 2021 - Stamp Day, 60th anniversary of the “Publication” of the first postage stamps of Bangladesh. - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

An illustration of one of the stamps from the Jersey Post Post and Go strip of 6 which commemorates the 21st anniversary of the visit to Jersey of the world’s largest tall ship, SV Tenacious is now shown on Jersey Post’s Stamps and Collectables internet site. See Blog 1942).

  With September in its final days it’s time to update the list of Commonwealth philatelic entities which so far in 2021 are not known to have issued, or had issued in their names, any new stamps. The list is little changed from that of  August save that the postal service of Mauritius has now issued a single stamp (see Blog 1942) and there are therefore now 25 Commonwealth philatelic entities still not known to have released any new stamps. For the sake of the mildly obsessional need to list things, here is the latest roll call of stampless philatelic entities which interestingly includes 4 of the 5 British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean (Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks And Caicos Islands) with only British Virgin Islands, served so well by the trusty Creative Direction and Pobjoy Stamps, having issued stamps this year. Who, too, would have thought that we would not have seen the dead hand of Stamporrhoea at play and Sierra Leone and Maldives having had released in their names 100s of philatelic products by now? There are still three months to go so anything could yet happen in the rest of 2021.

Anguilla 

Belize

Cameroon 

Cayman Islands 

Dominica 

eSwatini

Ghana

Jamaica 

Lesotho 

Maldives 

Montserrat 

Nauru 

Pitcairn Islands 

Rarotonga Cook Islands

Rwanda 

St Kitts

Saint Lucia 

Samoa

Sierra Leone 

Solomon Islands

Tanzania

Tokelau

Turks And Caicos Islands 

Uganda 

Zambia 

1103. 🇲🇾 Duchess Of Cornwall To Be Featured On Malaysian Royal Visit Stamps.

  🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia will issue a pair of stamps and 1 miniature sheet on 3 November 2017 to commemorate the royal visit of The Prince Of Wales and The Duchess Of Cornwall to Malaysia which will mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between The United Kingdom and Malaysia. The designs are made up from 2 charming photographs of the Royal couple. What a pleasure it is to see the dignified Duchess depicted on stamps - her philatelic appearances thus far have been far too rare. Next year will mark the 70th birthday of The Prince of Wales and one hopes that that will be an opportunity for more philatelic appearances of the Royal couple and hopefully will give us a rest, if only for a while, from the unending flow of issues featuring The Prince's first wife, Diana Princess Of Wales. Rating:- *****.

  Pos Malaysia also issued a set of 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet on 17 October 2017 which is another part of its festival food series. The issue this time features Indian food to commemorate the festival of Deepavali. An attractive and colourful set to make your mouth water. Rating:- *****.

  🇵🇰 Pakistan Post has issued 2 stamps to commemorate the late Maulana Mufti Mahmoud (1919-1980), a notable Pakistani politician, and the Bicentenary of the Birth of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, a philosopher of the 19th century. To date I have no details of these issues except that the  Mahmoud issue was released on 14 October 2017 and the Sir Syed Ahmed Khan stamp was issued on 17 October 2017 along with a miniature sheet. Rating:- **.