Friday 15 January 2016

695. New Issues From Gibraltar, Canada And IGPC.

  The Gibraltar Post Office has found it necessary to release a pair of stamps to commemorate the lunar new year and this time, for the Year of the Monkey, 2 x £2 stamps seem to be necessary to do full justice to the festival. The issue was designed by Stephen Perera and lithographed by Cartor and the date of issue will be 30 January 2016. We may only wonder at what the relevance of the issue is to Gibraltar. Rating:- 0.


  Canada Post will issue a single stamp on 1 February 2016 as part of its ongoing  "Black History" series. The self-adhesive stamp, issued in booklets of 10, specifically will commemorate the centenary of the No. 2 Construction Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia.This was the only Canadian unit of black soldiers to fight in the First World War. Rating:- *****.



  Royal Mail will issue a "Generic sheet" of 20 stamps on 18 February 2016 to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Penny Red stamp. Each stamp has an attached label depicting a Penny Red or Penny Black or Twopenny Blue. 


  The latest, and enormous, list of new philatelic products from IGPC, a USA-based philatelic agency, includes numerous items which have no relevance of subject matter to the client territories whose names are printed on these items. A few actually do feature relevant subjects and even though I'm dubious that most of this stuff ever gets sold across post office counters in the various territories to their ordinary mail sending public I will add a few of them to my collection of Commonwealth stamps. 
  I particularly like the new set from Dominica which depicts a local UNESCO World Heritage site (the country's first issue for a couple of years), a set featuring Humpback whales from Tuvalu (the species does indeed appear in the seas around the country) and one or 2 sets featuring birds from St. Vincent And The Grenadines (the depicted species are actually found in the country). The rest of the stuff I shall ignore quite happily.

Antigua And Barbuda - 28 December 2015 - "Gemstones of The United States" - 1 sheetlet of 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0
  28 December 2015 - Centenary of the First World War, Poison Gas - 1 sheetlet of 6 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:-0



  Dominica - 1 December 2015 - Morne Trois Pitons National Park, Dominica (UNESCO World Heritage Site) -1 sheetlet of 6 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- ****.



 Ghana - 25 September 2015 - Lunar new year, Year of the Monkey - 1 sheetlet of 3 different stamps. Rating:- 0.


   21 December 2015 - 800th anniversary of Magna Carta - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.



  7 December 2015 - State visit of President Xi Jinping of China to The United Kingdom, the state banquet at Buckingham Palace (the stamps concentrate on portraying The Duchess of Cambridge) - 1 sheetlet of 3 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.



  31 December 2015 - 125th anniversary of the death of Vincent Van Gogh - 1 sheetlet of 11 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.



  Grenada - 21 December 2015 - Fish of the Caribbean area (part 2) - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0 (see also Blog 681)



  21 December 2015 - Owls - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. This issue appears to have very little relevance to Grenada since, according to Wikipedia, only one species of owl is found in Grenada - the Barn Owl. Rating:- 0.



 21 December 2015 - Art by Qi Bashi and Chinese art - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.



  2 February 2016 - Chinese painting of soldiers - 1 stamp issued in sheet of 25. Rating:- 0.


  21 December 2015 - Starfishes - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheets. Rating:- 0.



  Guyana - 21 December 2015 - Visit of Pope Francis to New York in The United States - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.



  21 December 2015 - 150th anniversary of the death of former US President Abraham Lincoln - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.



  31 December 2015 - Achievement of Queen Elizabeth II in becoming the longest reigning British monarch - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.



  Nevis - 7 December 2015 - Flowers of the Caribbean region - 1 sheetlet of 6 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.



  17 December 2015 - Kingfishers of Central America - 6 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. According to Wikipedia, only one species of kingfisher is found in St. Kitts-Nevis - the Belted Kingfisher, depicted on the top left hand stamp in the sheetlet and on the miniature sheet. The issue otherwise has no relevance to Nevis. Rating:- 0.



  17 December 2015 - Visit of Pope Francis to New York in The United States - 1 sheetlet of 6 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.



  St. Vincent And The Grenadines - 31 December 2015 - Ducks of the Caribbean region (part 2) - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Wikipedia lists 13 species of ducks and geese which are found in St. Vincent And The Grenadines but bizarrely none of them are featured on the stamps of this issue while none of the depicted species occur in St. Vincent. This issue therefore has absolutely no relevance whatsoever to St. Vincent And The Grenadines. Rating :- 0. (See also Blog 681).



  31 December 2015 - Birds (Part 2) - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. All of the birds featured in this issue are actually found in St. Vincent And The Grenadines and this issue is therefore of relevance to the territory. Rating:- ****. (See also Blog 681).



  31 December 2015- "World Famous Paintings" - 1 sheetlet of 3 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0.


  31 December 2015 - Coral reefs of the Caribbean region (part 2) - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0. (See also Blog 681).



  31 December 2015 - The Great Egret (part 2) - 1 sheetlet of 3 x 2 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- ***. (See also Blog 681)



  31 December 2015 - Flamingos (part 2) - 1 sheetlet of 4 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0. (See also Blog 681).



  31 December 2015 - Sharks (part 2) - 1 sheetlet of 6 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0. (See also Blog 681).



  31 December 2015 - Cape hunting dogs (part 2) - 1 sheetlet of 3 different stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- 0. (See also Blog 681).9



  2015 - Canonisation of Pope John Paul II - 1 sheetlet of 6 stamps, 1 sheetlet of 4 stamps and 2 x $10. Rating:- 0. 

  Tanzania - 2015 - Lunar new year, Year of the Monkey - 2 different stamps issued in sheets 20. Rating:- 0.


  Tuvalu - 2 November 2015 - Humpback whales (the Humpback whale is found in the Pacific Ocean around Tuvalu and so this issue has relevance to Tuvalu) - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet. Rating:- ****.




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