110 JANUARY 2016 w ww.stampandcoin.co.uk€1.20 x 3 Molle, a Norwegian
Elkhound from Jomala
€1.20 x 3 Kia, a wire-haired
Dachshund from Jomala
Booklet cover depicts Elkhound
following trail in now
Notes: a set of four maximum cards with postal
stationery imprint was also issued010 Traditional Silver Jewellery, two values
Issue date: September 3, 2015;
Design: Cecilia Mattson;
Printer: Cartor, offset; Perforations: 14 x 14- (€1.20) Åland folk dress style women’s scarf
buckle, from the Viking Sundberg
collection. Non-denominated,
inscribed ‘Europa’ - €2.00 Swiss folk dress brooch, for securing
yoke worn over shoulder, in style of
nineteenth century Canton Bern
Non-denominated, inscribed ‘Europa
Notes: both values printed in sheets of thirty
(two panes of fifteen) diamond format stamps.
Joint issue with Swiss Post; a joint Folder
containing sets from both countries was released
ALDERNEY
(previously listed in December 2015 issue)011 Christmas 2015. Stained Glass Window
dedicated to Anne French, in St Anne’s
Church, seven values
Issue date: November 6, 2015; Design: two
degrees north; Printer: Southern Colour Print,
NZ, offset; Perforations: 14.6 x 14.5
37p – Window showing heads of
two girls and a boy
42p – Window showing Jesus with
children, and exterior of
St Anne’s Church
56p – Window showing three
different girls
57p – Window showing boy and
girl on a jungle path
62p – Window showing boy in blue
beret, girl in red hat and boy in
multicoloured cap
68p – Window showing two Burmese girls
and temples
77p – Window showing heads of European,
Asian and African women
Notes: Anne French worked with children’s
charities in Africa and in Burma012 70th anniversary of Homecoming, one
value in a miniature sheet
Issue date: November 10, 2015;
Design: Robin Carter; Printing: Cartor, offset;
Perforations: 13.3 x 13.3
Miniature sheet £3 – the ship Autocarrieroffshore from Alderney, bringing returnees from
mainland Britain
Notes: Alderney residents were evacuated to
Britain in June 1940; German occupation and
fortification of the island followed. The first
group of Homecomers arrived in Alderney on
December 15, 1945BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
(previously listed in February 2015 issue)013 800th anniverary of the Magna Carta,
four values
Issue date: June 15, 2015; Design: Derek Miller.
Printer: Cartor, offset; Perforations 13.3 x 13.5
15c – King John of England meets with
Barons at Runnymede
20c – Blindfolded figure of justice,
and quotation ‘except by lawful
judgement of his equals or by the
law of the land’
25c – Magna Carta document, field flowers
and quotation ‘to no one will we
deny or delay right or justice’
$2.35 – Medals or commemorative coins
depicting coat of arms of BVI and
King John on throneGUERNSEY
(previously listed in October 2015 issue)014 Christmas 2015. Stained Glass Window
in St Stephen’s Church, Les Gravées, seven
self-adhesive values
Issue date: November 6, 2015; Design: two
degrees north, based on William Morris
Workshop windows from 1865. Printer: Cartor,
offset; Perforations: 14.4 x 14.4
37p – The Annunciation
42p – Visit of The Magi
56p – Choir of angels with harps
57p – Angels and Christ crucified
62p – Mary and Joseph
68p – Church
77p – Crowned Christ giving blessing015 Stories of the Great War, second issue,
six values and a booklet
Issue date: November 11, 2015; Design:
Charlotte Barnes; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations: 14.1 x 14.65
42p – Philip Carre, Sark postman, in
uniform of Royal Guernsey Light
Infantry, and Christmas greeting
card sent by Guernsey Post Office to
serving soldiers
56p – SS Vera, steamer and mailboat
serving Guernsey from mainland
Britain throughout the Great War
57p – Christmas card sent to Guernseyfrom the front
(1915, by Lieutanant Peter Page)
62p – Men of Guernsey serving in Post
Office Rifles (1915), and Army Post
Office postmark of 1915
68p – Field Service Postcard with pre-
printed phrases, which has been
filled in and sent back to Guernsey
by Private Yves Cataroche
77p – Photograph of Robert Bynam,
Guernsey postman, and his
sweetheart Ethel (whom he married
after the war), and Edward VII
penny stamp affixed to cover at a
slant (coded message), with
1915 postmark
Prestige Booklet (£14.48): contains four panes,
of 4 x 42p, of 4 x 56p, of 4 x 57p, of 4 x
62p; of 4 x 68p and of x 77p, all with border
illustrations or background information
Cover has map of western front from Belgian
coast to Metz
Notes: the 62p depicts Privates JG Fowler, AW
Smith, LW Burridge, HF Taylor and RF de Garris.
All stamps carry a miniature remembrance
poppy as part of the designISRAEL
(previously listed in August 2015 issue)016 Winter Flowers, three values
Issue date: February 10, 2015; Design: Tuvia
Kurz and Ronen Goldberg; Printer: Cartor, offset;
Perforations: 13.3 x 12.9. Sheets of fifteen +
five tabs (composite with stamp)
1.80sh – Coast False Chamomile, Anthemis
leucanthemifolia
2.10sh – Dyer’s Alkanet, Alkanna tinctoria
2.70sh – Crown Anemone, Anemone
coronaria (pink and red varieties)017 Chess. European Individual Chess
Championship, Israel, one value
Issue date: February 10, 2015; Design: David
Ben-Hador; Printer: Cartor, offset; Perforations:
13.3 x 12.9; Sheets of 15 + 5 tabs
4.10sh – Strips of chequers from chessboard,
chesspieces in situ, twisted to form
a Star of David
Tab: chesspieces and chessboard018 International Year of Light, one value
Issue date: February 10, 2015; Design: David
Ben-Hador; Printer: Cartor, offset; Perforations:
13.3 x 12.9; Sheets of fifteen + five tabs
11.80sh – Diagrams of the protein Rhodopsin
(‘seven helices connected by peptide
loops’), and of the Schroeder
equation (shows colours of spectrum
entering eye)013016New stamps
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