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Friday, 16 September 2022
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Saturday, 3 September 2022
[News] News of August
Here are the News of August and the first days of September:
- The Lord of the Rings set from New Zealand finally has a new release date, which will be the 7th September. Like for last year's set there will be six stamps issued both as single stamps and in souvenir sheets. In the meantime the Portuguese set was issued according to plan on 2nd September. There are four stamps in it plus an additional souvenir sheet.
- The Slovak Post revealed its stamp programme for 2023 and there are three stamps about childhood themes planned. As every other year there will be a stamp for the Bratislava Biennial of Illustrations. The other two stamps honour authoress Krista Bendová and cartoonist Viktor Kubal for their birth centenaries.
- The British Transformers set was revealed during a thematic fan event. It comprises of eight stamps plus a souvenir sheet with five Dinobots. By now they have already been issued. Surprisingly the set is not aimed at the toys or movies, but depicts comic characters. Most of them are unknown to me, but Optimus Prime, Megatron and Bumblebee are at least among them. Those three also got special fan sheets.
- Images of the Chinese set about Black Cat Detective can now be found on the Internet.
- Hungary once again issued on 2nd September a souvenir sheet about Hungarian children's characters. The theme of this year is Mazsola és Tádé, a puppet series running from 1969 to 1973.
The only new issue of August were the Buzz Lightyear stamps from the USA. That however is just the calm before the September storm.
To my own collection I added in August a Sleeping Beauty postmark from Germany, but by now I also already have the new German "Helden der Kindheit".
Friday, 2 September 2022
Thursday, 1 September 2022
Germany: Childhood Heroes (2022)
This is the fourth set in the series "Helden der Kindheit" (Childhood Heroes). They show the Smurfs and Pumuckl.
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Monday, 8 August 2022
[News] News of July
Another month is over so here are some belated News:
- San Marino issued on 12th July a sheet of four stamps about the 60th anniversary of the Italian comic character Diabolik.
- During the French Japan Expo on 15th July it was revealed that the theme of this year's French Jeunesse issue will be Naruto. A few day earlier it was revealed on Twitter that it will be an anime-themed stamp. The issue date of the single stamp will be the 10th October. It seems like this year there will not be an additional booklet. On another note it was already announced that in 2024 there will be an issue about the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême.
- The image of the Austrian Lego stamp can now be seen on the Internet. It shows the Ferriswheel of Vienna as Lego model. Switzerland has now also announced a Lego issue for November consisting of two stamps.
- On WOPA you can now buy Armenia's latest cartoon stamp. It was issued on 29th July and shows Vin the Penguin.
- Still no news about the Lord of the Rings issue from New Zealand, but as was recently made public New Zealand Post had to withdraw an issue about the Maori Language Petition before the release (see Commonwealth Stamp Opinion #2128). I doubt that there is a similar reason for the LOTR issue. As a reminder last year's set was also postponed. I guess that someone at New Zealand Post decided that it would be better to coincide the issue with the upcoming Amazon series The Rings of Powers just like Portugal's issue.
The New Issues of the month were Vin the Penguin from Armenia, Spider-Man from Germany, Toy Story from Japan, Diabolik from San Marino and by now also Buzz Lightyear from the USA was already issued.
To my own collection I added this month the new Mascots from Singapore, the two Polish issues of this year, Spider-Man (only the mint stamp is yet uploaded), a new Pokemon stamp from Japan and one of the Japanese Toy Story stamps.
Saturday, 30 July 2022
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Thursday, 7 July 2022
Sunday, 3 July 2022
[News] News of June
June brought some interesting News and I could not wait to write about them, so here they are:
- I have seen the Polish stamp programme for 2023 and it includes a stamp about Koziołek Matołek in June. This popular Polish comic was first published in 1933, so it celebrates its 90th anniversary next year.
- This year's Dutch Kinderpostzegels can be seen online. They feature Donald Duck together with other popular characters from the franchise like Scrooge McDuck, Chip, Dale, Huey, Dewey and Louie.
- The issue date of the US Peanuts stamps was announced to be the 30th September. In addition also a set of four Buzz Lightyear stamps was revealed with a release date on 3rd August.
- The Lego stamp returned to the Austrian stamp programme. Issue date is now the 16th September and it will be a single national letter rate stamp.
- The Lord of the Rings stamps that were supposed to be released by New Zealand Post on 1st June were not issued yet. Last year the set was announced for 2nd June and released on 1st September, so we might expect the same again, but there are no official news yet.
The only thematic issue of June were the Singapore Mascots.
I have not added much to my collection this month, but I finally uploaded most of the additions of the last months.
Friday, 17 June 2022
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
[News] News of April and May
Well, once again I have not posted in late April, so I guess every other month will be the new rhythm for my updates. These are the News I have collected since the last update:
- The Portuguese Lord of the Rings now has an issue date. It will be released on 2nd September. I guess like usual there will not be shown anything before the issue date.
- The Lego stamp that appeared in the Austrian stamp programme has now disappeared again.
- USPS will issue a sheet about the Birth Centenary of Charles M. Schulz later this year. The issue consists of a sheet of twenty stamps with ten designs of popular Peanuts characters and a big vignette of Schulz himself. No issue date is known yet.
- The second World Tales stamp from Latvia was not issued as planned on 16th May, but was already issued on 29th April. After the Rundale Castle Rose Ghost in 2021, this one shows Alice in Wonderland. A wonderful issue!
- The French stamp programme for 2023 includes a stamp about Pief le Chien, the programme for 2022 includes another Jeunesse issue, but without further details.
- Two sheets with ten stamps each about Toy Story will be issued in Japan on 13th July.
- After changing the rhythm from odd to even years the Finnish Post announced a new Moomin set for the 7th September. There will be six stamps like usual and the theme is Moomin ABC to promote reading and writing.
- The Post of the Isle of Man issued a set about the BBC Centenary of 19th May. There are twelve stamps in total of which Blue Peter and BBC Bitsize can be counted among the children's stamps. Nothing I will add to my collection.
- On 6th December a set of six stamps about the comic character Miss 13 Dots will a issued in Hong Kong.
- An image of the German Spider Man stamp appeared online. It shows the comic character, which actually celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, and not one of the recent movie versions.
- The Polish Kajko and Kokosz issue was released today as planned and is indeed a souvenir sheet.
As mentioned above April and May saw the stamps from Isle of Man, Latvia and Poland, but also Klára Jarunková from Slovakia and Shel Silverstein from the USA.
To my own collection I added a Lotte from Gadgetville stamp from Estonia, Shel Silverstein from the USA and Alice from Latvia. The latter two are however not yet scanned and added to the blog.
Friday, 27 May 2022
Thursday, 5 May 2022
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