New issues.
🇬🇧 Royal Mail -
26 September 2024 - Spiders - 10 stamps (1 se-tenant strip of 5 x 2nd Class Domestic rate and 1 se-tenant strip of 5 x 1st Class Domestic rate), total face value £11. Designed by Richard Lewington and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- ****.
🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -
Centenary of Maha Agricultural Show - 2 stamps issued as a se-tenant pair. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.
New issues -
🇬🇸 Postal service of Pitcairn Islands -
9 September 2024 - Artefacts from the Bounty launch boat - 4 stamps (printed se-tenant). Designed by Dan Pickering of Pixela Design, Poole, England and lithographed by Brebner Print. Rating:- ***.
🇸🇬 Singapore Post -
9 September 2024 - Jurong Lake Gardens - 4 stamps Designed by Wong Wui Kong and lithographed by Secura Singapore Pte and perforated 13. Rating:- ****.
New issues -
🇦🇺 Australia Post -
September 2024 - Australia Post which has long been reasonably described as “philatelically incontinent” is now issuing stamps to commemorate the country’s Paralympics gold medal winners. So far the Australian team has won 18 gold medals. The stamps, which I assume are self-adhesive are being produced in ‘sheetlets’ of 5 and sold for $7.50 but they are only sold on the internet site as a minimum of 2 sheetlets, hence to obtain one stamp, the collector must buy 10 at $15. Therefore if there are to be 18 different sheetlets the cost of buying them from Australia Post amounts to A$270.
The first 4 stamps, which are described as ‘My Stamps’ commemorate -
Thomas Gallagher, Para swimming Men’s 50m Freestyle S10 -
Korey Boddington, Para-cylcling Track C4-5 1000 Metres Time Trial -
Emily Petricola, Para-cycling Track C4 3000 Metres Individual Pursuit-
Amanda Reid, Para-cycling Track C1-3 500 Metre Time Trial -
🇵🇰 Pakistan Post -
30 August 2024 - 75th anniversary of the Pakistan Stock Exchange - 1 stamp. Lithographed by National Security Printing Company,Karachi. Design “supplied by the customer”. Rating:- **.
New issues -
🇬🇧 Royal Mail -
1 October 2024 - King Charles III Bar code definitive to meet needs of revised international mail tariff of £2.80. Rating:- ***.
The illustration is taken from Buckingham Covers first day cover promotion of this new issue. The colour of the stamp is described as”slate blue”.
🇦🇪 Emirates Post (postal service of United Arab Emirates) -
3 September 2024 - The Emirates Haboo fruit - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Lithographed. Rating - ***.
New issues -
🇫🇰 Falkland Islands postal service -
3 October 2024 - Penguins, Macaroni penguins - 4 stamps. Designed by Bee Design using photographs by Derek Pettersson, Susan Rutherford, Graham ‘Livvy’ Livingston and Dr Narissa Bax and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.
🇬🇸 Postal service of South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands -
30 September 2024 - Stromness whaling station - 6 stamps. Designed by Bee Design and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.
30 October 2024 - Terrestrial Protected Areas - 6 stamps. Designed from art by Leigh Wolfaardt and lithographed by Cartor and perforated 13.5. Rating:- *****.
Thanks to Charlotte Ramsay of Isle Of Man Post Office for information about these stamps.
New issues -
25 July 2024 - SEPAC, Guernsey’s main tourist attractions - 4 stamps. A message has been received from Guernsey Post saying, “Dear Customer, We regret to inform you that the Guernsey SEPAC (Main Tourist Attractions) stamp issue, originally scheduled for release on July 25th, has been withdrawn due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and hope you enjoy the other issues released this July….”
Guernsey Post’s internet site also now shows that the issue was withdrawn.
I think this issue must have been withdrawn prior to issue, rather than after some had been sold, because there is no evidence of the issue being offered for sale by anyone on the usual internet auction sites even at a premium price.
🇮🇳 India Post -
30 August 2024 - 75th anniversary of the Supreme Court of India - 1 stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing the single stamp. Rating:- ****.
2024 - My Stamp, personalised stamp, 75th anniversary of Savitribi Phule Pune University, Pune - 1 stamp with attached label sold in sheetlet of 12 at a premium price.
New issues.
🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -
2024 - Bird of the Year - 1 miniature sheet. New Zealand Post has released news of a planned issue to commemorate the bird species chosen in a national online competition to pick the New Zealand ‘Bird of the Year’. When the result is known a 6 stamp sheetlet will be released with illustrations of the particular species carried out by the New Zealand artist Melissa Boardman and, presumably, printed digitally. It looks as though the total face value of the stamps in the sheet will be a hefty NZ$19.70. New Zealand Post is backing the New Zealand fantail to win and urging collectors to vote for the bird - presumably NZ Post already has a supply of illustrations from Ms Boardman available for them to get on and release the expensive sheetlet once the bird is revealed as winner. That sounds like an ideal reason to vote for another species!
🇭🇰 Hong Kong Post -
9 October 2024 - 150th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Designed by Lai Wai-ying and lithographed. Rating:- **.
🇯🇪 Jersey Post -
3 September 2024 - Construction industry vehicles (previously featured in Blog 2548 but additional information now available) - 8 stamps and 1 miniature sheet (not previously illustrated). Designed by Martin Morck.
