2767. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 King Charles Makes His First Appearance On Scottish Definitives.

 

New Issues -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail  

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Issues for Scotland -

14 August 2025 - Definitive stamps with the cameo head of  King Charles III included in the design - 2 stamps with barcodes. Self-adhesive. Designed by Tayburn from art by Anton Morris and Frank Pottinger. Lithographed by Cartor and perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

7 August 2025 - Birth centenary of MS Swaminathan, geneticist - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

5 March 2025 - Commemoration of the July Mass Uprising - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

🇨🇶 Products inscribed ‘Sark’ - 

27 August - 80th anniversary of the liberation from occupation by Nazi German forces - 1 sheetlet containing all 8 stamps included in the basic set plus labels. See Blog 2764. Designed by Sue Daly and lithographed by Brebner Print. Sold in a pack for £17.50. Rating:- ***.

2602. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail Christmas Stamps And Wales Definitives.

 

New issues - 

🇬🇧 Royal Mail - 

5 November 2024 - Christmas -  5 self-adhesive stamps from counter sheets (total face value £9.45p) and 1 miniature sheet containing all 5 stamps (£9.45p), 2 booklets (one containing 8 x 2nd stamps (£6.80) and the other containing 8 x 1st stamps (£13.20)) and 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing 20 stamps (sold for £30.95p). Designed by Design Together London Ltd from illustrations by Judy Joel and gravure printed by Cartor and perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:- ****.

14 November 2024 - Wales ‘country’ stamps - 2 self-adhesive stamps with barcodes. 2nd and 1st Class domestic rates in previous designs but with the cameo of Queen Elizabeth II replaced by that of King Charles III. The date of issue coincides with that of the King’s birthday which is apt given his previous role as Prince of Wales. Lithographed by Cartor and perforated 15 x 14.5. Rating:-*****. 

2319. 🇯🇪 Jersey To Commemorate 150th anniversary of the Société Jersiaise.

 

New issues.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

6 July 2023 - 150th anniversary of the Société Jersiaise - 8 stamps and 2 miniature sheets. Further details awaited. Rating:- ****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

19 July 2023 - 75th anniversary of regional stamps, the Channel Islands liberation issue of 1948 - 4 stamps. Further details and illustrations awaited. Rating:- *****.

13 July 2023 - SEPAC, Traditional markets - 4 stamps. Further details and illustrations awaited. Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2023 - My Stamps, personalised stamps sold at a premium usually in sheetlets of 12 with attached labels.

4 March 2023 - ‘National Water Mission - 1 stamp.

2 March 2023 - 75th anniversary of the Indian Bureau of Mines - 1 stamp.

11 May 2023 - 25th anniversary of Operation Shakil and National Technology Day - 1 stamp.

2023 - Tribes of India - 1 miniature sheet containing 6 different stamps. This is item is not freely available though some examples of it are being offered for sale on an internet auction site at a very high price. It is described by two sources as ‘withdrawn’ from sale soon after release or as ‘not issued’.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

22 June 2023 - 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush (see Blog 2318) - 8 stamps. A depiction of the presentation pack containing 4 se-tenant pairs recently appeared on an internet auction site and a rough impression of the colourful upcoming issue can be gained from the depiction.

9 June 2023 - Post and Go machine-dispensed stamps, Quatercentenary of the publication of William Shakespeare’s First Portfolio - 2 stamps, Machin Head design and Union Flag design, both with new site locator, “Shakespeare BPT” and additional inscription “First Folio 400”.

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:-