2071. 🇬🇮 Year Of Tiger Post And Go Stamps From Gibraltar. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

New issues.

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

25 April 2022 - Post and Go stamps, Year of the Tiger - 1 stamp sold to collectors in strips of 6 different values (cost - £7.95p). Self-adhesive. Designed by Stephen Perera from illustrations by Bajena and Siewhoong at istockphoto..com. Lithographed by Cartor. Rating:- 0.

🇮🇳 India Post - 

My Stamp issues -

22 March 2022 - 50th anniversary of IndianOil R & D - 1 stamp with attached label sold in sheetlets at a premium price.

23 March 2022 - 20th anniversary of the founding of Idraprastha Gas Ltd - 1 stamp with attached label.

24 March 2022 - Tree plantation programme 2019, Maharashta - 1 stamp with attached label.

25 March 2022 - Centenary of Dental education in India - 1 stamp with attached label.

26 March 2022 - 20th anniversary of Pepsico- 1 stamp with attached label.

27 March 2022 - Centenary of the Shikshayatan Foundation - 1 stamp with attached label.

28 March 2022 - Environment and Climate Change Department, GOM - 1 stamp with attached label.

29 March 2022 - SRM Institute of Science and Technology - 1 stamp with attached label.

30 March 2022 - Vasanth & Co. - 1 stamp with attached label.

31 March 2022 - 512th anniversary of the birth of Nadaprabhu Kempigowda - 1 stamp with attached label.

1 April 2022 - Golden Jubilee of Lokmat Nagpur edition - 1 stamp with attached label.

2070. 🇨🇦 Canada Commemorates Blues Singer 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

New issues.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

22 April 2022 - Commemoration of Salome Bey, Blues singer, who died in 2020 - 1 self-adhesive stamp sold in booklets of 6. Designed by Paprika from an illustration by Dabid Belliveau based on a photograph by Doug Griffin. Lithographed by Lowe Martin. The back cover gives details of the singer’s life. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇲 Isle of Man Post Office -

5 May 2022 - Local buses, second issue - 6 stamps. Designed by ELC Design from illustrations by Peter Hearsey and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. A remarkably unnecessary and dull issue. Rating:- *.

2069. 🇳🇷 Nauru Commemorates The Islanders’ Return From Truk. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues.

🇳🇷 Nauru Post -

10 July 2021 - 75th anniversary of the islanders’ return from the island of Truk (now also called Chuuk or Ruk) after the end of the Second World War - 1 stamp. Rating:- *****.

  Thanks to Anonymous who kindly drew my attention to this issue in a comment in a previous Blog. The issue is mentioned and illustrated in the Nauru Bulletin issue 4 - 2021 published on 21 July 2021. The article includes no other details of the stamp itself but mentions that a first day cover was also released.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post - 

10 May 2022 - 150th anniversary of the FA Cup - see Blog 2064. Illustrations of two of the accompanying miniature sheets are now depicted below:-

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

25 April 2022 - 20th anniversary of the Gibraltar International Chess Festival - 6 stamps. Designed by Stephen Perera and lithographed by Bpost Security Printers. A subject of local relevance but desperately dull designs. Rating:- **.

2068. 🇺🇸 Numerous Personalised Stamps On Market Noting Ukraine’s Struggle 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦.

New issues.

🇮🇳 India Post -

21 April 2022 - Quatercentenary of Prakash Parab Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji who was executed in the orders of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb “while supporting the religious freedom of Kashmiri pandits” - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

Paraphilatelic products.

🇺🇸 Someone has been busy trying to cash in on the international sympathy for Ukraine by using the  personalised stamp sheetlets of various IGPC client or former client territories to produce, quickly and easily, ‘stamps’ demonstrating a pro-Ukraine theme. Collectors will ask themselves if these products are official stamp issues of the various client territories. Items have appeared on internet sites using the personalised sheetlets of the following philatelic entities:- 

Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique:-

 

Fiji - 

Guyana -

Ghana -

  Similar products but commemorating Mahatma Gandhi and using personalised sheets with the names of the following countries printed on them:- Grenada Carriacou And Petite Martinique (in the form of 6 se-tenant strips of 5 different ‘stamps’), Fiji (7 se-tenant strips of 5 se-tenant strips), Guyana (1 in the same format as Fiji and another in the format of 4 se-tenant strips of 3 different ‘stamps’, the second and third stamps being separated from each other by labels), Dominica (in the same format as the second Guyana sheetlet), and Ghana (5 se-tenant strips of 5 different ‘stamps’) are also for sale on an internet auction site. Rating:- 0.

 🇱🇹 Meanwhile the name of Sierra Leone is reappearing on paraphilatelic items, almost certainly produced and marketed by Stamperija, in designs similar to those already used on products from various other territories which have been, and still appear to be, clients of the Lithuania-based ‘stamp agency’. Many of these products are ridiculously expensive and the wise collector may wish to spend their money on less dubious items for their collection.

25 March 2022 (stated date of issue though whether the items are actually on sale at post office counters in Sierra Leone is another question altogether) - Football World Cup Qualifiers, 2022 and postponement of African Cup of Nations because of the COVID-19 pandemic - 2 ‘stamps’ issued in sheetlets of 10 (5 vertically se-tenant pairs) and 2 single stamp miniature sheets. Rating:- 0.

25 March 2022 - Fight against COVID-19 and vaccination campaign - various products as illustrated below (including 2 booklets with Salpost logo). Rating:- 0.