2085 🇧🇲 Bermuda Commemorates Historical Society. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues.

🇧🇲 Bermuda Post Office -

19 May 2022 - Centenary of the St Georges Historical Society- 4 stamps. Designed by Bermuda Post Office and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ****.

🇧🇼 Botswana Post - 

18 May 2022 - International Museums Day, the reinvigoration of Botswana’s national monuments and museums - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing the 2 stamps. Further details awaited. Rating:- ****.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

1 July 2022 - 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Designed by Jason Chum. Rating:- ****.

1 July 2022 - 25th anniversary of the stationing of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in Hong Kong - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Lee Ying-chi. I bet the freedom-loving people of Hong Kong believe that this is an anniversary really worth celebrating with a stamp issue. Rating:- **.

18 August 2022 - Fruit - 6 stamps, 1 miniature sheet and 1 ‘mini-pane’. Designed by Peter Ng-Seing-ho. Rating:- ***.

2084. 🇲🇺 New Mauritius Definitives Depict Extinct Birds. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues.

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post  - 

20 May 2022 - Definitive issue, Species of extinct birds - 3 stamps. Designs depict Mauritius wood pigeon, Mauritius blue pigeon and Rodrigues parakeet. Further details awaited. Rating:- *****.

18 April 2022 - 80th anniversary of the award of the George Cross to the island of Malta. 1 ‘map’ greetings stamp with attached label.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

27 May 2022 - Art Deco architecture in Singapore -  6 stamps. Further details awaited. When available better quality illustrations will be posted. Rating:- ***.

2083. 🇨🇦 Canada Post To Issue A Stamp For Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New issues.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

7 July 2022 - Help for Ukraine - 1 self-adhesive stamp from a booklet of 10 identical stamps. Design by Isabelle Toussaint Design graphique (first used on an issue of 2010) the new booklet being designed by Hélène Heureux. Lithographed by Lowe Martin. The price of each booklet includes a donation of $1 to the Canada UKRAINE Foundation. Rating:- *****.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

3 June 2022 (until 1 July 2022) - Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Post and Go stamps (Guernsey Flag stamp with additional inscription ‘The Queen’s/Platinum Jubilee’ - 1 stamp. To be dispensed from kiosk GG02.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

3 June 2022 (until 1 July 2022) - Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Post and Go stamps, Machin Head stamp with additional inscription’The Queen’s/Platinum Jubilee’. To be dispensed at multiple museum sites, kiosks A002, A003, A004, A006, A007, A009 and A010. There will also be an item released at Kiosk A001, The Postal Museum.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

4 January 2022 - Golden Jubilee of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

12 January 2022 - 50th anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s assumption of power as prime minister of Bangladesh - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

20 January 2022 - 50th anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s homecoming to Bangladesh - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

February 2022 - 70th anniversary of Amar Ekushey and 50th anniversary of the observing of the Ekushey February in Bangladesh - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

7 March 2022 - Historic 7 March Day, 2022 - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

26 March 2022 - Salimpur Wireless Station - the receiving and transmitting station of the declaration of Bangladesh’s independence by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 26 March 1971. Rating:- ***.

8 April 2022 - Bangladesh Scouts Day - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

2082. 🇨🇦 Canada’s Latest Issue Features Whales. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

 

New Issues.

🇨🇦 Canada Post - 

20 May 2022 - Endangered whales - 5 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets of 10 (2 sets of 5). Designed by Soapbox Design from artwork by David Miller and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ******. A magnificent issue.

Stamp designers.

Those who follow Ian Billings’ indispensable blog on British stamps, Norvic Philatelic Blog, will have noticed that he has just posted a tribute to the superb ornithological artist and stamp designer Robert Gillmor who has died recently at the age of 85. The Norvic Blog recalls his delightful designs for the Royal Mail series of Post and Go stamps featuring British garden birds, water birds and sea birds which were issued in 2010. Long before that, in 1972, he designed one of my favourite modern stamp issues - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet from Seychelles depicting rare, some very rare, birds of the territory. I depict them here as a reminder of Gillmor’s contribution to stamp design and to regret that the Seychelles Post Office has for some years more or less given up issuing new postage stamps considering what exciting and interesting subjects it has, as a country, which could be featured. I think these are beautiful stamps:-

 

2081, 🇧🇹 🇸🇭 Bhutan Commemorates Year Of The Tiger, Tristan Commemorates Shackleton.

 New issues.

🇧🇹 Bhutan post - 

3 March 2022 - Lunar new year, Year of the Water male Tiger - 1 sheetlet containing 12 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇸🇭 Tristan Da Cunha postal service-

25 May 2022 - Death centenary of Sir Ernest Shackleton - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design from photographs from the Rowett-Chojecki Family Collection and the Scott Polar Research Institute and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5 x 13. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Juliet Warner of  Pobjoy Stamps for information about this issue. Rating:- ****.