http://www.stampandcoin.co.uk APRIL 2016 117GREAT BRITAIN
(listed in every issue)001 The Imperial Trans-Antarctic
Expedition 1914-1916, eight values
Issue date: January 7, 2016; Design: Robert
Maude and Sarah Davies, from exhibition
photographs taken by Frank Hurley; Printer:
Cartor, offset. Perforations: 14 x 14½
1st (63p0 S.Y. Endurance enters the Antarctic
ice, December 1914
1st (63p) – Endurance frozen in the pack ice,
January 1915
£1.00 – Striving to free Endurance from the
ice, February 1915
£1.00 – Endurance, trapped in a pressure
crack in the ice, begins to be
crushed, October 1915
£1.33 – Expeditionaries establish Patience
Camp on an ice floe, having
evacuated Endurance (which sank
November 21, 1915)
£1.33 – Arrival at Elephant Island by one of
the three lifeboats, where they set
up a new camp (April 1916)
£1.52 - Shackleton and five men set out
from Elephant Island for South
Georgia in the lifeboat James Caird,
April 24, 1916
£1.52 – Rescue of remaining expeditionaries
from Elephant Island, August 1916,
by boat coming ashore from Chilean
steamer Yelco (which had been
commissioned by Shackleton after
his party successfully reached
Grytviken in South Georgia then
South America)ALDERNEY
(previously listed in January 2016 issue)0021 Fauna and Flora of Longis Nature
Reserve, six values and a miniature sheet
Issue date: February 17, 2016;
Design: Two Degrees North from photographs;
Printer: BDT, offset; Perforations: 13 x 13.
Sheets of ten with illustrated borders
42p – Eelgrass
56p – Glanville fritillary butterfly
57p – Yarrow broomrape
62p – Meadow pipit
68p – Sand crocus
77p – Greater white-toothed shrew
Miniature sheet: contains 42p; 56p; 57p; 62p;
68p; 77p as sheet stampsBERMUDA
(previously listed in August 2015 issue)003 Reef Fish, five values
Issue date: May 21, 2015; Design: Sheila
Semos and Keno K Simmons; Printer: BDT.
offset; Perforations: 14 x 14
35c – Bi-colour coney
70c – Blue angelfish
80c – Grey snapper
85c – Queen parrotfish
95c – Yellowhead wrasse004 Definitives. Bermuda in Bloom, part
two, six values
Issue date: July 16, 2015; Designs: after
photographs; Printer: Lowe-Martin, offset;
Watermark CASCO Crown sideways to left from
back; Perforations 12.75 x 12.75
50c – Bauhinia variegata (flowering tree)
$1.00 – Nerium oleander (flowering tree)
$1.15 – Macfadyena unguis-cati (flowers,
growing on wall)
$1.20 – Hibiscus rosa-sinensis,
on garden frame
$1.35 – Delonix regia (flowering tree)
$1.55 – Solanum wendlandii (flowers on wall
by wrought iron gate)
Notes: the first part of this series was
released on July 17, 2014. A third part is
planned for 2016005 150th anniversary of Bermuda Postage
Stamps, five values
Issue date: September 17, 2015;
Designs: stamps of Bermuda from reign of
Queen Victoria, and letter-writing; Printer: not
reported, offset; Perforations: 14 x 14
50c – Bermuda 1865 One Penny rose red
stamp, and hand writing letter
with quill pen
$1.15 – Bermuda 1877 Two Pence bright
blue stamp, and hand writing letter
with fountain pen
$1.20 – Bermuda 1873 Three Pence
orange-buff stamp, and hands using
typewriter to type letter
$1.35 – Bermuda 1865 Six Pence dull
purple stamp, and hands using PC
to compose letter
$1.65 – Bermuda 1865 One Shilling green
stamp, and hands using keyboard of
tablet / mobile phoneBRITISH ANTARCTIC
TERRITORY
(previously listed in January 2014 issue)006 Centenary of the Imperial
Trans-Antarctic Expedition, first issue,
six values in a sheetlet
Issue date: November 27, 2013;
Design: Andrew Robinson, from archive
photographs; Printer: BDT, offset;
Perforations: 14 x 14
Sheetlet: contains
(se-tenant, in three rows of two)
65p – Ernest Shackleton with his wife
Emily (née Dorman) on board SS
Endurance at Milwall Docks
65p – Expedition members and sailors
How, Barr, Irvine, Macleod and
Macaulay on board the Endurance
65p – Lt A F Macintosh, and Frank
Wild (second-in-command
of the Expedition)
75p – Departure of SS Endurance
from Millwall Docks
75p – Ernest Shackleton on
board SS Endurance
75p – SS Endurance setting sail in
the Thames Estuary
Sheetlet border: photograph of
Ernest Shackleton007 70th anniversary of Bransfield House,
at Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsula,
four values
Issue date: November 27, 2013; Design:
Andrew Robinson, from photographs; Printer:
BDT, offset; Perforations: 14 x 14.
65p – Bransfield House, general view
(with penguins)
75p – Early photograph of Bransfield
House interior, showing reference
library, scientific equipment
and lighting
85p – Present day distant view
of Bransfield House
£1.20 – Modern view of store shelves
and utensils
Notes: established as ‘Base A’ by the secret
mission Operation Tabarin, 1944, James Marr
leading the first overwintering party. Now a
Museum run by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust008 Halley VI Research Station, four values
Issue date: November 27, 2013;
Design: Andrew Robinson, from photographs;
Printer: BDT, offset; Perforations: 14 x 14New stamps
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