2246. 🇹🇬 Togo Commemorates National Masonic Lodge.

 

New issues.

🇹🇬 Togo postal service.

5 December 2022 - 30th anniversary of the Togo National Masonic Grand Lodge - 1 stamp produced in sheetlets of 4, 1 miniature containing a single stamp plus the same items produced with enhanced gold printing on parts of the stamp and additionally imperforate versions of all the items. This appears to me to be from a source different from the notorious Stamperija which has a contract with the Togo postal service to produce hundreds of miniature sheets with the country’s name printed on them annually and has many of the features of stamps of other Francophone African countries in that the basic stamps are released but accompanied by limited edition extras such as an enhanced or imperforate versions which are sold at a considerable premium. The rating is for the basic stamps only though I like the enhanced versions as well but would not bother with the imperforate versions. Rating:- ****. These items are being sold on an internet auction site by e French Company, Busch Collectables.

Gold enhanced perforate - 

Non-enhanced imperforate - 

Gold enhanced imperforate - 

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -

14 February 2023 - ‘Seasonal trees’ of Hong Kong - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps. Designed by Lau Yi and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5.  

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

23 January 2023 - FIFA World Coup Finals - the first to be held in a Arab region - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.

2245. 🇳🇷 Nauru Post’s Elusive 2022 Hammer De Roburt Stamp.

 

New issues.

🇳🇷 Nauru Post -

26 October 2022 - Birth centenary of Sir Hammer De Roburt, first President of Nauru. This item has been reported previously in this Blog but no illustration has been available. The stamp can now be seen on Steven Zirinsky’s Stamp shop internet site and he is offering it for sale. Other recently issued Nauru Post stamps seem to have become more easily available recently; Mr Zirinsky has recently offered them for sale and Bombay Stamps has included them on its most recent twice monthly list of new issues. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2 February 2023 - 150th birth anniversary of Ram Chandra Maharaj (‘Lalaji’), spiritual guide - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

4 February 2023 - Commemoration of General KS Thimmaya (1906-65) -1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

25 January 2023 - 32nd Asia-Pacific and 11th National Scout Jamboree, Mouchak, Gazipur - 1 stamp. Previously item with overprint apples. Rating:- **.

2 February 2023 - Commemoration of Bangladesh Women’s football team’s victory in the SAFF Women’s Championships of 2022 - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post - 

31 January 2023 - Endemic birds of Myanmar (part 5), Ayeyarwady bulbul - 1 stamp. Rating:= *****.

2244. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Commemorates 75 Years Of Independence.

 

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

2 February 2023 - 75th of Independence - 1 stamp. Printed in lithography by Department of Government Printing. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇹 Stamperija (notorious Lithuania-based producer and seller of paraphilatelic products under contract from various foreign governments) - 

🇹🇬 Products inscribed ‘Togo’ - 

Stated ‘date of issue’ - 5 December 2023 - Products relating to the commemoration of the late Queen Elizabeth II, Head of The Commonwealth, released as part of an issue of a large number of items (2 stamps from sheetlets and 42 miniature sheets) on various subjects - 

a. Previously released products (60th anniversary of the Queen’s succession, 2012) reissued with overprint applied - 3 miniature sheets.

b. New products - 3 miniature sheets.

All rated:- 0.

  This vast list of products also includes 3 miniature sheets claiming to commemorate the succession of King Charles III. Tastelessly the set features prominently the late Diana Princess of Wales from whom the king was divorced amid much acrimony and fails to depict the King’s second wife, Queen Camilla. Interestingly, one of the ‘stamps’ in the four ‘stamp’ miniature sheet depicts the King with Rishi Sunak, the latest British prime minister (there were 3 of them in 2022) who became the first person to occupy the office who is of south Asian heritage.

2243. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail’s X Men Issue Revealed.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

16 February 2023 - X Men, American comic characters. The full panoply of products on the subject of American comic characters has now been revealed. They are a clear philatelic celebration of the United Kingdom and things British as are so many stamp products released by Royal Mail in recent years and in the coming months.

The list of products includes 12 stamps (2 se-tenant strips of 6 different stamps - the 6 x 2nd Class domestic rate stamps were depicted in the previous Blog 2242 (there is also a setenant strip of 6 x 1st Class rate), 1 miniature sheet containing 5 different stamps, 1 ‘Collectors sheet’ containing the 12 different stamps with attached labels (£10.95), 2 ‘Fan sheets’ each respectively containing 4 each of the ‘Jean Grey’ or ‘Wolverine’ stamps (each sold for £7), 1 ‘Prestige booklet’ containing 5 panes, one of which includes 4 barcode Machin Head stamps (2 x 2nd and 2 x£1) costing £19.95 or £49.95 (deluxe limited edition version). Designed by Interabang from illustrations by Mike McKone and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5. Rating:- 0.

New issue programmes 2023.

🇹🇷 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus postal service - 

16 March - ‘Works of our artists’

3 May - EUROPA, Peace the highest value of humanity 

17 October - Local species of Cyprus

14 November - Anniversaries.

2242. 🇬🇧 Royal Mail’s X Rated Issue.

 

New issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail.

16 February 2023 - X Men - details expected soon. A sheet of 6 of the stamps (2nd Class domestic rate issued as strips of 6 se-tenant stamps) is currently being offered for sale on an internet auction site. This issue features American Comic characters with no relevance to the United Kingdom. Numerous expensive paraphilatelic products are expected to accompany this issue. The designs are similar to previous issues featuring American comics characters and as such are unoriginal and very dull. Rating:- 0.

  The designs  once more include a cameo of Queen Elizabeth II.