Royal Mail unveiled last Friday a set of stamps marking the one year countdown to the 2012 London Olympics.
The 10 first-class stamps, entitled “Get ready for 2012″, will go on sale on July 27, exactly 12 months before the Olympics start. This is the third and final set in the series of Olympic stamps.
Greenland Post have stopped sales of two new definitives issued on 9 May 2011. According to a press release, the stamps are withdrawn because “the printed stamps did not live up to the high quality, which POST Greenland normally delivers.”
The original printings were already delivered to standing order customers. We are waiting to hear what are the differences in the two printings.
The above images are of the new printings.
A 1948 Indian 10rp stamp of Mahatma Gandhi overprinted Service was sold on 19 May 2011 at David Feldman for €120,000 versus a pre-sale estimate of €20,000 to €30,000.
This is believed to be a world record price for any modern stamp.
Only 18 of this stamp is known to exist today and this copy is described as one of the finest copy.
It was issued by the Government of India as a set of 4 commemorative stamps on August 15th, 1948 as a tribute to the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated in January of the same year.
Just days after the historic Royal Wedding of Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton, Australia Post issued a stamp featuring a scene from the wedding.
According to Australia Post, the sheetlet is able to be released within days of the wedding due to special technology that allows the image to be uploaded into a Royal Wedding stamp template, pre-approved by Buckingham Palace.
The next stamp issue will be the low value definitives titled “A Pond Life” to be released on 13 April 2011. Details in a previous post here.
Hawker Centres of Singapore will be featured in a four value stamps set to be issued 18 May 2011. This has got to be one of the worst Singapore stamp designs ever!
June 3, 2011 will see the release of an Endangered Animal issue featuring the Oriental Small-Clawed Otter.
This is a beautiful set and is sure to sure to be a winner as the designer happens to be popular local TV artiste Edmund Chen. Singapore Post seems to be cashing in on this fact and the recent hype about biodiversity.
A special serialised collector’s sheet will be sold at S$88 and those with “golden numbers” will be sold at S$168!
Thumbs up for the stamps but thumbs down for the price of the collector’s sheet.
Singapore Post’s participation in PhilaNippon 2011 in July will be commemorated with a special miniature sheet. The Japan World Stamp Exhibition, held once every 10 years, will run from 28 July 2011 to 2 August 2011.
The New Zealand Post Office is recalling the Prince William Royal Wedding stamps presentation packs which was issued 23 March 2011.
It was discovered that the text in the packs which says Prince William’s birthday is 21 May is wrong. It is actually 21 June.
This was reported by TV New Zealand and you can watch the whole news report here.
Russia issued a souvenir sheet, the first of a series of stamps, for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
The set include 4 stamps and there will be as many as 45 different postmarks available.
More and more self-adhesive stamps are being issued and collectors are in a dilemma over how they should keep them. The paper on which the majority of these stamps have been used on cannot be safely removed without damaging the stamp.
Some resort to keeping the stamps without removing the paper. This is fine if all the stamps on the page are on similar kind of paper with the same colour. Sometimes you would get a hard to find stamp used on a blue or beige coloured enevlope. That cut to piece will stand out on the page!
Over the years Peter Butler, FRPSC, have been experimenting with various techniques in the safe removal of self-adhesive stamps from the envelope paper. He wrote many articles in local newspaper and the philatelic press about his techniques and here are some of them including two videos.
Peter Butler’s October 2010 American Philatelist article:
All the above videos and files are hosted by The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada.
Spink sold the The Mizhuhara Collection of Mongolian Stamps on 23 January 2011 in Hong Kong. The top grossing item in this collection, a Mongolian 1911 cover to Tibet sold for a whopping HK$3.6 million or £252,340. This is the only recorded example of a cover from Mongolia to Tibet of this period.
Another cover, from the Russian Consulate in Urga, Mongolia to Peking dated 1878 sold for HK$2 million (£162,800).
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