2825. 🇱🇷🇬🇧🇬🇸 Malaysia Stamp Week, BAT Huts And South Georgia Marine Science Issues.

 

New issues -

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia - 

13 November 2025 - Stamp Week, Classic animations - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇬🇧 Postal service of British Antarctic Territory -

late November 2025 - Historic Antarctic huts and bases, part 1 - 6 stamps (3 se-tenant pairs). Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5 x 13. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇸 Postal service of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands -

18 December 2025 - Discovery investigations - the centenary of marine science- 4 stamps ( 2 se-tenant pairs). Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by by Cartor and perforated 13.5 x 13. Rating:- *****.

Production of the 2 above issues was coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Isle Of Man Stamps & Coins for information about these stamps.

One that got away -

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

10 November 2025 - Centenary of the birth of the extremely important stage and screen actor, the Welshman Richard Burton CBE. Preferring to issue a set celebrating the role of ducks in the history of Britain and a set commemorating the invention in the United States of a board game, Royal Mail missed the opportunity to commemorate the birth centenary of Sir Richard Burton, one of Britain’s greatest actors, a notable figure in modern Welsh history and famous for his relationship with Elizabeth Taylor.

  True, Royal Mail did feature Burton in his role as Henry V on a stamp as part of an issue released in 2018 to commemorate the bicentenary of the Old Vic but it does seem that he is a figure worthy of commemoration on the centenary of his birth and a stamp issue intended to do that also of course gives the opportunity to highlight Wales, one of the countries of the United Kingdom.

  This is another example of a stamp issue that got away though the Ducks issue may be relevant as Burton starred in the movie The Wild Geese. See also Blogs 2781 and 2805.

993. Canada 150 Series Begins; Malta Europa; Shakespeare Goes Floral.

   🇨🇦 Canada Post launched the first of the 10 maple leaf-shaped stamps that it will issue on 1 June 2017 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the British  North America Act which brought Canada into existence. The subject of the stamp is "Expo'67" which was held in Montreal and the design depicts Habitat 67, a futuristic modular housing complex designed by the architect Moshe Safdie who was present in Montreal for the launch of the stamp.

  I can see the point of the subject matter but in truth a picture of 1960s-chic apartments is hardly the most exciting prospect to start this series off. I hope that things improve with the remaining 9 designs. Rating:- **.

   🇲🇹 Malta Post will issue a pair of stamps on 9 May 2017 on the subject of Catles of Malta as its contribution to this year's Europa omnibus series. The stamps were designed by Cedric Galea Pirotta and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- ****.

   🇬🇧 The latest Royal Mail Post and Go stamps were introduced at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust gift shop in Stratford upon Avon on 1 May 2017. Strips of 6 all in the same value are being sold and the stamps take the form of the Birthplace Trust logo as previously used on the Machin Head and Union Jack stamps inscribed on the 6 Symbolic Flowers stamps which have been reprinted digitally with code MA17. The Union Jack stamps with the Shakespeare centre logo were withdrawn on the introduction of the new labels. These are pretty stamps and the logo fits quite nicely on them and as they represent a new printing of the Flowers stamps are quite interesting. Rating:- ***.

  

  🇮🇳 India Post issued a single stamp on 1 May 2017 to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of the Birth of Sri Ramanujacharya in Tamil Nadu. Ramanujacharya was a Hindu theologian and philosopher. Rating:- **.