112 JANUARY 2016 w ww.stampandcoin.co.ukArmy and Turkish train in Beer Sheva
station (opened October 1915)
Tab: Turkish military uniform belt buckle
Notes: the railway was constructed from
Nablus to Beer Sheva in 1915, and on
towards Sinai in 1916031 Friendship with Vatican City.
Israel-Vatican joint issue,
one value in a miniature sheet
Issue date: September 2, 2015; Designed from
photographs; Printer: Joh. Enschedé, offset;
Perforations: 14 x 13.25
Miniature sheet 7sh – Church of the Holy
Sepulchre in East Jerusalem
Border depicts walls of Old City of Jerusalem
on the east side, with Church of Dormition of
the Virgin Mary, and has quotation from Pope
Francis (Papal Visit, May 2015)JERSEY
(previously listed in July 2015 issue)032 XVI Natwest Island Games, Jersey- Flag of Jersey and ‘I’m A Winner’
labels, sheetlet
Issue date (initial release): June 27, 2015;
Printed digitally;
Perforations: die-cut 14.5 x 14.5; Self-adhesive
sheetlet: contains twenty copies of a non-
denominated stamp
UK Letter (57p) – Jersey flag in wind
Labels all bear the Natwest Island Games logo
and inscription ‘I’m A Winner’
The sheetlet was sold in a protective mount,
at £17.50. They were donated to winning
competitors / teams in the Games, and also
available philatelically
033 XVI Natwest Island Games, Jersey- Crest of Jersey, and Sports labels,
sheetlets
Issue date (initial release): June 27, 2015;
Design of stamp (non-denominated) shows
Jersey crest, adapated from gummed definitive
issue of February 18, 2015. Printed digitally;
Perforations: die-cut 14.5 x 14.5
Self-adhesive sheetlet: contains twenty copies of
a non-denominated stamp
Local Letter – Crest of Jersey
(three golden lions)
Labels depict sports photographs
taken by Andy Le Gresley
Each sheetlet contains twenty identical stamps,
and four columns of five labels. Fourteen
different sheetlets were available at £15.00
(plus any VAT), each sheetlet having a different
sport depicted by the photograph on the labels –
the sports shown are as on the gummed stamp
set of fourteen (listed in October 2015 Stamp &
Coin Mart) but have a different view of the action034 70th anniversary of the Battle of
Britain, six values and a miniature sheet
Issue date: July 10, 2015; Design: hat-trick
Design; Printer: Cartor, offset, or by unreported
printer, recess and offset
(Churchill miniature sheet)
47p – Spitfire MkII in silhouette,
seen from below
57p – Radar towers (1940 type), and
formation of German bombers
64p – RAF pilot’s wings (badge), and list of
countries whose personnel fought
in Battle of Britain
73p – RAF roundel and stylised
German cross insignia
85p – Blimp in searchlights, and St
Paul’s Cathedral (London)
95p – Hawker Hurricane, and map
of English Channel
Miniature sheet: contains 46p; 57p; 64p; 73p;
85p; 95p as sheet stamps, but se-tenant
Miniature sheet: £3 portrait of Winston Churchill,
engraved by Martin Mörck after the Yousuf
Karsh portrait of 1941, and printed in indigo.
Border depicts RAF Roundel, and
quotation from Churchill035 Centenary of the Great War (second
issue), six values and a miniature sheet
Issue date: August 4, 2015; Design: Chris Ede;
Printer: Cartor, offset; Perforations: 13.25 x 13
(A) sheet stamps. Innovations and Changes
to the Conduct of Warfare implemented
1914-1918
47p – Mechanisation: cavalryman, and
tank crossing trenches
54p – Communication: signalman with
semaphore flags, and use of
field telephone
64p – Camouflage: warship at sea, which
has part camouflage livery
73p – Uniforms: old outdated uniform,
and Great War field uniform with
webbing and pockets
85p – Observation: observers in balloon,
and bi-plane used by front
line observers
95p – Tactics of war: free movement of
forces arrowed indictated on battle
plan map (as experienced only
in opening months of war), and
soldier’s helmet, and fixed front line
(trenches with barbed wire), noting
degeneration of conflict to
trenched stalemate(B) Miniature sheet £1 – Sea plane (a bi-plane
fitted with a float)Border depicts Jersey war hero Ft Lt Charles
Stanley Mossop DFC in flying uniform036 450 Years of Sark (island) as a Fief to
the Crown, one value in a miniature sheet
Issue date: August 6, 2015;
Design: Nick Shewring; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations 13.9 x 14.7
Miniature sheet £1.50 – De Cateret family coat
of arms
Border: Manor of St Ouen, in Jersey, seat of
Helier de Cateret, who was granted Fief of Sark
by Queen Elizabeth, August 6, 1565037 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, Longest
Reigning Monarch, four values and two
miniature sheets
Issue date: September 9, 2015; Design: after
photographs, or painting (£3); Printer: Cartor,
offset; Perforations: 13.3 x 12.9 (sheet stamps)
47p – Queen Elizabeth II wearing
coronation robes and Imperial
State Crown, with orb and mace
(photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1953)
57p – Silver Jubilee portrait of Queen,
wearing the Imperial State Crown,
by Peter Gudgeon
71p -– Golden Jubilee portrait by John
Swannell, 2002
£1.25 – Diamond Jubilee portrait by John
Swannell, 2012 of Queen inside
Buckingham Palace, Victoria
Memorial seen through window
Miniature sheet: four separately spaced stamps
47p; 57p; 71p; £1.25, designs as sheet stamps
but perforations 13.1 x 12.9
Miniature sheet £3 – The Coronation Theatre,
Westminster Abbey: A Portrait of Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II, painting by Ralph Heimans,
Australia, 2012. Perforation 13.5 x 13.2038 Flowers (Links with China), six values,
and a miniature sheet
Issue date: September 23, 2015;
Design: from drawings by Martin Mörck,
painted by Wang Huming; Printer: Cartor, offset;
Perforations: 12.9 x 13.1
47p – Magnolia
47p – Camellia
47p – Azalea
47p – Hydrangea
47p – Chrysanthemum
47p – Peony
Miniature sheet, contains
47p – Chrysanthemum
47p – Peony039 Seasons in Jersey. Autumn, six values
Issue date: October 15, 2015; Designed from
photographs by Andy Le Gresley; Printer:034035New stamps
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