114 JANUARY 2016 w ww.stampandcoin.co.uk047 ANZAC Day. The Gallipoli Campaign,
1915 , one value in a miniature sheet
Issue date: April 25, 2015;
Design: Malta Post; Printer: Printex Ltd, Malta,
offset; Perforations:
Miniature sheet:
€3.59 – St John Ambulance Association
Malta Centre appeal poster
featuring nurses and medic
with wounded man
Notes: approximately 800 Maltese volunteers
travelled to Gallipoli, serving as muleteers,
trench diggers or stevedores. Some 588,000
wounded from the disastrous Turkish campaign
were evacuated to Malta048 175th anniversary of the Penny Black,
three values (one design) in a miniature sheet
Issue date: May 2, 2015; Printer: Printex Ltd,
Malta, offset; Perforations: 13.7 x 13.8
Miniature sheet (€3.63): contains
€1.21 x three copies – Penny Black
(impeforate) cancelled with red Maltese Cross
Border depicts the 1840 Mulready envelope049 Europa 2015. Old Toys, two values and a
stamp booklet
Issue date: May 9, 2015; Design: Joe Mark
Micallef; Printer: Printex Ltd, Malta, offset;
Perforations: 13.7 x 13.7. Watermark Maltese
Crosses, sideways
(A) sheet stamps. Sheets of eleven stamps plus
single label
€0.59 – Boys playing in street with wooden
‘go cart’
€2.19 – Girl bowling a hoop in a town street
(B) stamp booklet (€2.95): contains single pane
with margins all round
pane of €0.59 x five, boys with wooden cart050 Maltese Culture. SEPAC issue 2015,
three values
Issue date: June 16, 2015; Designs:
photographs; Printer: Printex Ltd, Malta, offset;
Perforations: 14 x 14
€0.26 – The Festa (Feast of St George) at
Victoria, Gozo
€0.59 – Regatta in Grand Harbour, Valletta
(rowers)
€1.16 – Easter Day procession of the Statue
of the Risen Christ, at Zebbug
Notes: the €0.59 is inscribed ‘SEPAC,
noting Small European Postal
Administations Cooperation051 Boat. EUROMED
(Postal Union of the Mediterranean)
Postal Cooperation, one value
Issue date: July 9, 2015; Design: Sean Ciri;
Printer: Printex Ltd, Malta, offset;Perforations: 13.7 x 13.8
€3.59 – Firilla (traditional Maltese craft which
could be rowed or sailed)052 Maritime Malta. Rescues, Storms and
Shipwrecks, three values
Issue date: July 29, 2015; Designs: after
ex-voto paintings left at the Sanctuary of the
Blessed Virgin in Mellieha; Printer: Printex Ltd,
offset; Perforations: 14 x 14
€0.51 – Brigantine Concezione during
a thunderstorm off Alexandria,
December 18, 1835
€0.82 – Barque Matautina blown on to
shallow banks at Devripul, January
17, 1839
€1.00 – Speronara (sailing coaster)
Francesca di Paula suffers broken
rudder in storm, between Linosa and
Lampedusa, December 9, 1843
Notes: ‘In all situations the crew members
aboard the ships prayed to the Madonna of
Mellieha and were saved’ (Malta Post bulletin)POLAND
(previously listed in December 2015 issue)053 Valentines Greetings,
one value in a sheetlet
Issue date: February 5, 2015;
Design: Marzanna Dabrowska; Printer: PWPW,
offset and serigraphy (screen-printing);
Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5
2.35zl – Ruby (gemstone) with overlaind
inscription Kochem Cie
Notes: stamp is perforaterd in a heart shape,
and printed in a sheetlet of six, each stamp
set within a rectangular perforated label; the
serigraphy simulates a glitter effect054 150th anniversary of the Birth of
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, 1865-1940,
Poet and Journalist, one value
Issue date: February 12, 2015;
Design: Aleksandra Pietrzak;
Printer: PWPW, offset; Perforations: 11.25 x
11.25 with elliptical cut-outs
1.75zl – Portrait drawing of the writer, seated
Notes: born in the Tatra mountain region (in
Hungary at the time); President and organiser of
the Society of Writers and Journalists055 Polish Artists. Witkacy (Stanisław
Ignacy Witkiewicz), 1885-1939,
one value in a miniature sheet
Design: Agnieszka Sanciewicz; Printer: PWPW,
offset; Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5
Miniature sheet 5.50zl – Self-portrait
(photograph) of Wilkacy, and details from his
metaphysical and surreal artworks (stamp desinis composite with border)
Notes: artist, art philosopher,
photograher and writer056 Easter 2015, two values depicting
decorated eggs
Issue date: March 6, 2015; Design: Agnieszka
Sanciewicz; Printer: PWPW, gravure;
Perforations: 11.75 x 11.5
2.35zl – Egg from Oppeln (Silesia)
5.20zl – Egg from the Kurpie region
(Masuria) and folk pattern057 Organ Transplantation, one value
Issue date: March 20, 2015; Design Maciej
Jedrysik (cartoon graphic). Printer: PWPW,
gravure; Perforations: 11.5 x 11.5
1.75zl – Human figure placing his hand
(which is heart shaped)
upon his torsoSWITZERLAND
(previously listed in September 2015 issue)058 Young Farmyard Creatures, four self-
adhesive values
Issue date: September 5, 2013; Design:
Judith Brennwald; Printer: Enschedé, offset;
Perforations: 13.75 x 14.25
85c – Hen chicks
100c – Calves
140c – Lambs
190c – Piglets059 Cities of Switzerland, second issue,
three self-adhesive values
Issue date: September 5, 2013; Designs:
artworks by Lorena Falivene (Lausanne),
Eveline Maio (Bern) and Selina Locheer
(Winterthur); Printer: Enschedé, offset, in
sheets of twenty; Perforations: 13.75 x 14.25
100c – Lausanne – row of buildings
on a hill slope
100c – Bern – the Bernese bear
100c – Winterthur – buildings, including
Foto Museum and the (un-let)
Sulzer Hochhaus of 1966060 Rehabilitation of Riverine
Environments, three values se-tenant
Issue date: September 5, 2013; Design:
Fanchon Cartier and Simon Moser; Printer:
AG Gutenberg, Schaan, Liechtenstein, offset,
in sheets of fifteen (five strips of three);
Perforations: Die-cut 13.75 x 14.25
100c – Islands in stream of river, and
peacock butterfly
100c – Bird on rock in river; human visitor
relaxing on bank
100c – Trout leaping rapids, woman in riverNew stamps
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