2281. 🇯🇪 Natty Knitting In Jersey.

 

New issues -

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post - issues inscribed ‘Alderney’ -

1 November 2023 - Christmas - 8 self-adhesive stamps. Designed by Martin Hargreaves and lithographed by Bpost. Rating:- ***.

🇯🇪 Jersey Post -

2 November 2023 - ‘The history of knitting in Jersey’ (Jersey industries, part 2) - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Chris Wormell. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2280. 🇳🇬 🇦🇺 Nigeria Commemorates Inauguration of PAPU Tower; Australia Commemorates Sydney Opera House.

 

New issues.

🇳🇬 NIPost, Postal service of Nigeria -

2 September 2023 - Inauguration of the PAPU (Pan-African Postal Union) Tower in Arusha, Tanzania - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 identical stamps. Lithographed by NSPM plc. Rating:- *****.

🇮🇳 India Post -

8 October 2023 - Commemoration of Samrat Hemachandra Vikramaditya, former emperor of India, defeated by Akbar - 1 stamp. Rating:- ****.

🇦🇺 Australia Post-

10 October 2023 - 50th anniversary of Sydney Opera House - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing both stamps and 1 x $3  self-adhesive stamp from booklets of 5. Designed by Jason Watts and lithographed by RA Printing and perforated 14.4 x 14. Rating:- ***.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

18 October 2023 - Post and Go stamps, The Postal Museum - Temporary exhibition. ‘Dressed to Deliver’ (postal service uniforms) - 6 previously issued stamps with additional inscription, ‘The Postal Museum/Dressed to Deliver’. To be dispensed by kiosk A001 and also sold in limited number of presentation packs dispensed from Back Office machine.

2279. 🇲🇺 Second Part Of Mauritius Definitive Issue Depicts More Extinct Birds.

 

New issues.

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post -

9:October 2023 - Definitives, Extinct birds, second issue - 3 stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

9 October 2023 - World Post Day - 2 stamps issued as a se-tenant pair. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

9 October 2023 - World Post Day - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

9 October 2023 - International Year of Millets - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

15 March 2023 - Expo 2023, International Horticultural Exposition, Doha - 1 sheetlet containing 9 different stamps. Lithographed. Perforated 14. Rating:- ***.

2278. 🇱🇰🇺🇬 Sri Lanka Children’s Day; Uganda Day Of Family Remittances.

 

New issues.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

1 October 2023 - World Children’s Day - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇺🇬 Posta Uganda -

29 June 2023 - International Day of Family Remittances - 4 single stamp miniature sheets. The illustrations here are the best presently available and are taken from photographs taken at the launch of this issue. As usual in many of these countries, the photographs taken at these launches give publicity more to the politicians and officials involved in them than to the stamps themselves. Rating:- *****.

  Better illustrations and more information will be published when they become available.

  It is possible that there are 2 other miniature sheets in this issue, as illustrated below, though these may only be posters promoting the single stamp miniature sheets - 

2277. 🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Winter Stamps.

New issues.

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

26 October 2023 - ‘Manx winter wildlife by Rowan Corlett’ - 6 gummed stamps & 6 ‘Variable value’ self-adhesive stamps from sheets. Designed by Isle Of Man Advertising using art by Rowan Corlett and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Rating:- **.

🇮🇳 India Post -

2023 - 250th anniversary of Mazagon Dock Ship Builders Ltd, My Stamp - 1 stamp with attached label sold in sheetlets of 12 at a premium.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

1 November 2023 - Christmas - 8 stamps. Designed by Alexandra Ball and printed in lithography. Rating:- **.

3 November 2023 - ‘Joint issue with Alderney’ (Guernsey Post of course issues both the stamps inscribed ‘Guernsey’ and those inscribed ‘Alderney’), 75th anniversary of the 1948 Agreement - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps (1 inscribed ‘Guernsey’ and the other, ‘Alderney’). Designed by Martin Mörck and printed in lithography. Rating:- ***.

3 November 2023 - Centenary of the Little Chapel, part 4 - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps (3 previous issues and final issue of series). Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

Issues inscribed ‘Alderney’ -

3 November 2023 - Christmas - 8 stamps. Illustrations awaited. Designed by Martin Hargreaves.

Guernsey Post new issue programme for early 2024 -

24 January 2024 - Chinese New Year - Year of the Dragon 

14 February 2024 - 150th anniversary of the Guernsey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

14 February 2024 - Post and Go stamps, the Guernsey Arms

4 March 2024 Bicentenary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution 

Inscribed ‘Alderney’ -

14 February 2023 - Alderney post boxes.