2284. 🇮🇳 Joint India-Vietnam Issue.

 

New issues.

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 October 2023 - Joint issue with the postal service of Vietnam, 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vietnam - 1 miniature sheet containing 2 different stamps. Rating:- ***.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

16 October 2023 - 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s admission to membership of the International Civil Aviation Organisation - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed by The Security Printing (Bangladesh) Corporation Ltd Gazipur. Perforated 12.5. Rating:- ***.

16 October 2023 - ‘Smart Bangladesh’ - 1 stamp. Designed by Sanjiv Kanti Das and lithographed by The Security Printing (Bangladesh) Corporation Ltd Gazipur and perforated 12.5. Rating:- **.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

5 January 2024 - Machine dispensed stamps, Chinese New Year, Year of The Dragon - 1 stamp.

🇺🇸 Philatelic Collector Inc (USA-based producers and purveyors of philatelic items with contracts with the postal services of Tonga and Cook Islands). All items are rated 0.

🇨🇰 Items inscribed Cook Islands.

31 July 2023 - Birds of the World, Barn owl - 4 stamps, 4 ‘deluxe miniature sheets’ each containing a single stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets. 2 of the illustrations are inscribed ‘Penrhyn Cook Islands’, presumably in error.

Total face value of all the above equal to £126.10p.

4 October 2023 - Sea shells - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block.

10 October 2023 - Marine life - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block.

🇨🇰 Items inscribed Aitutaki Cook Islands.

16 August 2023 - Birds of the World, Azure kingfisher - 4 stamps, 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets.

27 September 2023 - Views of Aitutaki - 4 stamps issued in a se-tenant block.

🇨🇰 Items inscribed’’Penrhyn Cook Islands’.

16 August 2023 - Birds of the World, Striated heron - 4 stamps, 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets.

🇨🇰 Items inscribed ‘Rarotonga Cook Islands’.

31 July 2023 - Birds of the World, Rimatara lorikeet - 4 stamps, 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp and 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets.

🇹🇴 Items inscribed Tonga.

16 October 2023 - Tongan heritage sites - 4 miniature sheets each containing a single stamp.

22 September 2023 - Coastlines of Tonga - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. 

2272. 🇨🇰🇹🇴 Cook Islands And Tonga Commemorate Queen Elizabeth II.

 

New issues.

🇨🇰 Cook Islands postal service -

16 January 2023 - Commemoration of the late Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the Cook Islands - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- ***.

13 February 2023 - 4 stamps in se-tenant blocks of 4. Rating:- ***.

20 February 2023 - Stop plastic ocean pollution - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block of 4. Rating:- ***.

6 March 2023 - Cook Islands national symbols - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Rating:-  ***.

20 March 2023 - Churches of the Cook Islands - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- ***.

🇨🇰 Issues inscribed Aitutaki Cook Islands -

10 February 2023 - The Giant Clam - 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp.Rating:- *.

🇹🇴 Tonga postal service -

26 January 2023 - Commemoration of the late Queen Elizabeth II - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- ***.

23 February 2023 - Birds of the world, the red shining parrot - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block, 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets of 4 and 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.

15 March 2023 - The James Webb Telescope - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block. Rating:- *.

🇹🇴 Issues inscribed Niuafo’ou -

23 February 2023 - Birds of the world, the collared kingfisher - 4 stamps in a se-tenant block, 1 miniature sheet containing 2 sets of 4 and 4 ‘deluxe’ miniature sheets each containing a single stamp. Rating:- *.

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 March 2023 - International Year of Millets  - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

19 March 2023 - Commemoration of Pashuram (‘warrior sage’ of Jaipur) - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇳🇦 Namibia Post -

2022 - 75th anniversary of the Independence of India - 1 miniature sheet containing 5 different imperforate personalised stamps sold by Namibia Post. This is in addition to a similar perforated miniature sheet reported in Blog 2130. Rating:- ****.

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone postal service -

2022 - Masonic District Grand Lodge of Sierra Leone and The Gambia - 1 miniature sheet containing 4 identical stamps. Lithographed. Rating:- ***. It seems possible that this item is not a product emanating from the philatelic agency’ Stamperija.

🇧🇲 Bermuda Post Office -

16 March 2023 - Express Post, King Charles III - 1 stamp issued in sheetlets of 8. This issue has been reported here previously but better illustrations are now shown here. 

🇴🇲 Oman Post -

March 2023 - The ancient Omani alphabet - 1 miniature sheet containing 11 different stamps. Rating:- ****.