2342. 🇬🇧🇨🇦 Royal Mail’s Pratchett’s Discworld Issue; Canada Celebrates Its Ferries.

 

New Issues.

🇬🇧 Royal Mail -

10  August 2023 - Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books - 8 stamps in 4 horizontally se-tenant pairs. Designed by So design consultants from illustrations by Paul Kidby. Lithographed by Cartor and perforated 14.5 x 14. Rating:- **. When available better quality illustrations will be posted in a future Blog.

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

12 July 2023 - Ferries in Canada - 5 self-adhesive stamps issued in booklets of 10 (2 of each stamp) and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing all 5 stamps). Designed by Context Creative and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ****.

2341. 🇳🇿 New Zealand Features Pet Photographs On Latest Issue.

 

🇳🇿 New Zealand Post -

2 August 2023 - Pets of New Zealand - 4 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing all 4 stamps - designed by Hannah Fortune from photographs submitted by members of the New Zealand public and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14 x 14.5. Rating:- ***.

🇨🇾 Cyprus Post - 

10 July 2023 - Euromed, Mediterranean festivals - 1 stamp. Lithographed in sheetlets of 8 by Baltic Banknote High Security Printing. Rating:- *****.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

6 July 2023 - Postage stamp for the use of Members of Parliament - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

2340. 🇸🇬 Singapore’s Horoscope Issue - Part Two.

 

New issues.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

21 July 2023 - Horosopes, second issue - 4 stamps. Designed by An ling and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 13 x 14. Rating:- ***.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

7 July 2023 - 19th International Island Games hosted by Guernsey, Post and Go - 12 Guernsey flag stamps dispensed by kiosks GG02 and GG05 (Market Street post office) - 2 strips of 6 stamps on sale from 7-14 July with additional inscription ‘Guernsey Island/Games July 2023’.

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

4 July 2023 - EUROPA, Post and Go, (see Blog 2338) - 12 stamps, design used for 2023 ‘Peace, the highest value of humanity’. The stamps dispensed from machine GI05 as well as GI04 are now depicted below - 

🇮🇳 India Post -

4 July 2023 - Commemoration of Sardar Antaji Mankeshwar Gandhe (1695-1761) - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

🇦🇪 Emirates Post (postal service of United Arab Emirates) -

6 July 2023 - Al Zoraida City Nature Reserve, Ajman - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:- ****. Reported by Kenneth Sequeira on Stampboards. 

🇶🇦 Qatar Post -

18 June 2023 - Joint issue, 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Qatar and Georgia - 1 stamp. A similar stamp was also released by the postal service of Georgia. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇭 Bahrain Post -

16 December 2022 - National Day, Bahrain National Action Charter monument - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 different stamps. Rating:- ****.

2339. 🇸🇭 Tristan Da Cunha Commemorates Local Church Centenary.

 

New issues.

🇸🇭 Tristan Da Cunha postal service - 

7 July 2023 -Centenary of St Mary’s Church. Designed by Andrew Robinson and lithographed by Cartor  perforated 13 x 13.5. Production coordinated by Creative Direction. Thanks to Juliet Warner of Pobjoy Stamps for information about this issue. Rating:- *****.

🇲🇹 MaltaPost -

10 July 2023 - Euromed, Mediterranean festivals - 2 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Designed by MaltaPost from photographs by Sebio Aquilina and Michele Agius and lithographed by Printex and perforated 14. Rating:- ****.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

25 March 2023 - Four Nation philatelic exhibition, Thailand - 1 stamp. Previously issued stamp with overprint applied. Rating:- **.

2338. 🇬🇮 New Gibraltar Post And Go EUROPA Stamps

 

New issues -

🇬🇮 Royal Gibraltar Post Office -

4 July 2023 - Post and Go (machine-vended) stamps - EUROPA, ‘Peace, the highest value of humanity’ - 6 self-adhesive stamps. Designed by Stephen Perera and lithographed by Cartor.

🇲🇾 Pos Malaysia -

4 August 2022 - Indonesia 2022 philatelic exhibition - 1 miniature sheet. Previously issued item with overprint applied. Rating:- ***.

4 August 2022 - MAHA 2022 exhibition - 2 miniature sheets - previously issued items reissued with overprints applied. Rating:- ***.